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Mine was using VScode with copilot. Previously I had used tab completion and thought it was pretty neat. This time I began with the comment for a function I wanted to write. And the entire function just appeared below the comment. Written probably better than I would have. I remember saying, “uh-oh” out loud.

1Password has shared vaults, 1Password for Business has the concept of groups.

Elon goes off on government subsidies, just not his.

Oh, look who has a fancy cable modem! Back in my day, we had to do it with 14.4 kbaud modems (really) after walking to school, uphill both ways in the snow (not really).

Further, apparently it's going to start up whenever I log in. Why?

Looks cool. I downloaded it, moved it to the applications directory and opened it. It's asking for Administrator access to install the command line. Why?

Went and checked my 1Password. Apparently, I have nearly 1,800! My oldest remaining password was created in 2010, so I've been using it for a while.

I have the same thing. However, my office is in my garage and it's quite cold in the winter. I have my smart plug set to start it up at 4:00 AM to warm it up for me.

I've bought a Kinesis Advantage about every three years since 2003 (I think). Still the best keyboard out there despite being USB-A and the lack of bluetooth. I really want to like the Kinesis 360, but the lack of a function key row keeps me from buying one.

This is a market I wish I understood better.

If I understand this correctly, the target market is airlines that need to sell flights online and that don't have (or don't want) the staff to do it in house. According to Wikipedia, there are about 5,000 airlines currently. Large airlines seem unlikely to want to outsource this, but I'm guessing there aren't too many airlines that size (only about 300 use Sabre).

I wouldn't have thought there would be a market big enough for a startup like this, but I appear to be wrong. I'm guessing their biggest challenge will be customer acquisition. But as I said, this is a market I wish I understood better.

I'm assuming that the cost of building and launching these balloons is lower that launching fighter aircraft to shoot them down with missiles. I wonder if we're about to see thousands.

You can find devices like this online by googling "670 nm led"

AWS is the 800 pound gorilla in the cloud space. Are any of the other cloud providers better with customer honesty?

Doors. Get doors on the racks and screen print them with the company logo. It looks sharp, doesn't cost much, and hides a multitude of sins.

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I don't miss it. I still use my iPhone 8. When it dies, I'll get an iPhone SE. I will keep TouchID until they pry it out from under my cold dead thumb.

Pretty much anything by Neal Stephenson but especially:

The Baroque Cycle trilogy

Anathem

My local pizza place in Seattle has moved the technology the other way. Here’s the dialog when I call. “Pagliacci Pizza, how can I help you?” “I’d like to order a pizza” “Sure thing. Is this John Smith?” “Yes” “Do you still live at 1234 Main Street” “Yes” “Would you like to order the same thing you did last time?” “Yes” “Ok, it’ll be there in 20 minutes”

Even better, while you talk to the store you called, the order goes into some sort of pizza load balancer and gives the order to the least busy store with a good drive time to your house.

I’d seriously like to buy/have a beer for/with whoever designed it.

I mostly don't use Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit. I have reason to log into my Facebook account a few times a year. The only reason I log into Twitter is when I get a link to a Twitter thread, same with Reddit. I'm no paragon of restraint, I had to delete Universal Paperclip from my phone to quit playing it. I guess the easiest way to deal with any addiction is not to become addicted in the first place. Not great advice for people who are already addicted. . .

Fast, excellent customer support.

My Dacor oven goes down to 100 F.

I was quite happy for a time helping my mom by using GoToMyPC. Then they got purchased by private equity (I think) and tripled their prices while adding spammy offers every time you logged in.

Now I use Splashtop.

At a previous employer they wanted me to install some work software on my iPhone. Nothing particularly invasive as far as I could tell, just Okta, gmail, etc. I told them up front that it violated my personal security policy to install any work software on my personal devices. I told them this was for their protection as much as my own. This brought my boss up short and he wondered aloud why this wasn’t already company policy. Fast forward two months and it became company policy. So it’s my fault that everyone that needs to use company software on their phone has to carry a separate company phone.

I have been waiting for this keyboard for 20 years

I remember the sense of deep satisfaction and virtue when I defragged my hard drive. Then I learned FreeBSD. I kept trying to figure out how to defrag the partitions. When I learned that the filesystem took care of it continuously my mind was blown.

I have been using Kinesis Advantage keyboards for close to two decades now. The keyboard wells and the placement of the space, enter, delete, backspace, and modifier keys I find amazing. I haven't been able to find anything else nearly as good. So I keep using them even though they only have USB interfaces.

I've been using them so long I have a few lying around. I've gotten two set up as described by ruffrey. Oh. My. God. I've been typing for less than an hour on this new setup and already my shoulders feel way better.

Candide by Voltaire

It was the first book I read for school that made me laugh out loud and realize that some of these old boring books were actually pretty awesome (which is why people are still reading them centuries later)

I got a few Aeron chairs in the dot bomb from friends who helped clear out offices of failed companies. This was in about 2002-2003. I've used one every day since and it is both perfectly comfortable for full day sitting and has held up beautifully.

Windows XP. I still miss XP.

Microsoft MapPoint. This was a phenomenal piece of mapping software and had features I haven’t been able to find in any of the online map replacements.

When getting directions, you could designate a number of areas on the map as “avoid area”.

You could map all sorts of census data. Want to colorize the map based on crime rate divided by median home price? No problem.

You could import lots of data from a spreadsheet and do useful things with it. I used this when looking for my first house. I scraped the data from realtor.com and made maps where the icon changed on the number of bedrooms and the color changed based on the price.

You could make drivetime zones. Want to see how far you can drive in 30 minutes from your office? No problem.

You can probably do a lot of this with ArcGIS, but I don’t know since its way out of my price range.

I keep hoping that Microsoft will bring some of this to Bing Maps. I would pay to use these features again and adding them to Azure would definitely differentiate them from Google Maps.