a sort of corollary to this, because i’m obsessed with comparing things to food and cooking, is that i think one of the most rewarding things in cooking is learning to quickly or at least comfortably prepare your own comfort foods. chicken fingers, karaage, mac n cheese, hamburgers, burritos, rice balls, french fries. there’s a lot of stuff out there that’s highly convenient to acquire prefab as it were, but few things compare to making your own fast food imo, or like, having that fluency with it to know what it is you love about it and to feel some agency over it. doesn’t take anything away from going out for it either, just makes it a more nuanced thing.

@bryanjclark didn't realize bumble had a webapp

i understand that this is a recurring trope for computer folks that came up in the basic->dos->win era, but there's a definite analog to me between the era of cuisine where people stopped making their own mayo or bought tv dinners and the current era of computing where making your own exe is prohibitive and inconvenient

fun seeing favicons changing overnight

@heybenji i feel like i’ve gone down this path a bunch of times but i think what we want are just better open formats. rtf sucks, but draftjs has a pretty compelling json serialization imo. that said i think html is probably the thing i gravitate to more than markdown, which is limiting in its own frustrating ways. we need some way to give arbitrary attribution to runs and blocks of text, html i think is the best because you can go full DTP with it but there’s probably a good serialized format that’s mostly wysiwyg too (probably some postscript/pdf…). i mean, digital files are great, but the printed page - what will compare with it???

are you looking to implement passkeys in a small hobby project in node/js, learn small gotchas that you might run into via this hilariously documented gist i wrote up last year that will answer questions you may have like "how do i import an spki key in nodejs" https://gist.github.com/nsfmc/d74993d49126fdfc5f8c51a012126675

@bryanjclark it's all so grim even before you get to the "deposition left unresolved with whistleblower found dead" angle. oof.

this is the most michael claytonish thing i've read recently https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/john-barnett-boeing-whistleblower-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE0.WyME.LTftu29E0-x-&smid=url-share

a big refrain from me is often "machines should work; people should think" which is shorthand for "be pragmatic, the computer can do it fast enough" most of the time but also "if the computer is being comically slow, it's because we haven't thought through what's happening" the two can exist side by side in any case.

the answer is that you can do this in a reasonable timeframe if you don't ask your extremely tired primary db/server cluster to do this massive data ingestion and processing work and can then gradually fold normalized data back into your cluster in a bunch of more trivial operations, but i still think that "is this on par with what i'd expect to see on a Pentium data sheet" can reveal unexplored perf or platform arch issues.

i don't usually talk about tech gripes, but i think occasionally about the time somebody told me a few years ago it would take upwards of five hours for a job to process a million database entities and i responded, without thinking, "on what, a pentium?"

did enough with electron to sour on it (good) but also i appreciate that i have a reference implementation that is quite easy to iterate on that i can use to validate my swiftui implementation (surprisingly less troublesome than i expected)

everything i’ve read/heard about rebirth makes me think that this sort of theme park experience is extremely central to the way rebirth is structured and designed: everything after midgar in the original was always a bunch of more vignette like experiences, slice of life moments that are sort of structured and directed but mostly feel like moments to sample and occasionally give yourself to for a little while and my read is that is like 100% what a theme park is and why Videogames like Yakuza are as much About a Place as they are about their characters.

@jeremyosborn i really miss seeing those looping still lifes all over the place.

@pamelafox pamela i just went through all of this (still going through it tbh). if the panel is fine you likely don’t need to upgrade but it’s possible that your neighbor was suggesting that a 110 plug (regular outlet) wouldn’t be suitable for fast L2 charging and that you’d want something like a dryer outlet either at 24/36/48A. if you have short like <20mi/day commutes you can absolutely get by on a 110 plug charging overnight. you would only need to upgrade your panel if it’s actually a dangerous model or if you’ve reached capacity (ie you can’t add anymore breakers). we also had an interior sub panel in a closet that nobody would touch because of code, but everyone just pretends it doesn’t exist because the main is outside. our main panel upgrade cost like $6k iirc and it mostly got us the ability to put a large sub panel in our garage for solar etc. i like our ioniq 5 but i considered the ioniq6 also, its smaller and more sedan like and honestly would have worked just as fine for our purposes, lots of good options nowadays, happy to chat more if you have any other qs.

@gedeonm yeah, similar wfh deal here. in practice i’ve been ok with the number of chargers out in the wild (which have increased _a lot_ since i got it), but i think i would be less stoked on the car during this “commute era” if i had to spend more than 30 mins charging to get back to 80/90%. like i said, big fan of the ioniq5, in this specific “months of commuting” scenario im mostly glad i didn’t get a slower charging car like the id4 i briefly considered (im sure its a great car but seeing it plugged into a 350 charger makes me die a little each time). glad to add color to any decision you make!

@gedeonm you’ve gotten a ton of responses but i’ll add: i thought fast charging was a sales gimmick after i bought mine last april because 150kw chargers were rare in san diego and 350kw nonexistent and also i charged at home for the first three months and could get by on 110. when i had to move and had a significantly larger commute(50-100mi/day depending) i ended up seeking out every 350kw charger because after a long day the ~20min 12-80% charge was nice and i appreciated being able to peace out quickly and get back home. if you can L2 charge at home it doesn’t really make a difference but if you’re using electrify america or whatever and there’s a wait, it’s nice to not spend more time there than you need. oh also, the michelin tires that came with mine had this noise insulating foam that detached at 12k miles causing the wheel to wobble unsettlingly and various speeds. it can be removed but it really is a weird failure. beyond that i love the car, just wanted to share

my name is kublai khan and i'm here to say
i'm decreeing pleasure domes in a major way

So, @rek drew a flying Potato, in the style of Afterdark, that wipes the screen for Potato OS.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/potato

this really is shaping up to be the year i Become Handy.