dfee
Joined 9 years ago
Karma
2,956
Submissions
1,105
Member since
Jun 14
Recent submissions
Comment · 1 month ago
> I'm biased but I wouldn't call it misleading
- @CompleteSkeptic
Very strange.
Comment · 1 month ago
when i was in the 5th grade (give or take a couple years), there was an innovation project where we were to bring in and present to the class an invention.
i remember a girl inventing what i now know to be a "flexible weighted dip tube" – think of it as a shampoo bottle that you can pump upside down – and was amazed.
like this submission, the flexible straw wasn't really invented by the student. at best it was independently discovered, but this patent was from at least twenty five years before: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3547296A/en
to that end, i wonder what the point of presenting these inventions as your own are – especially in the time of the internet when prior art is so easily discovered. or, did i miss the point?
Comment · 1 month ago
i've been telling people it's "imagination".
Comment · 2 months ago
> I really like htmx
> Full Disclosure, I am CEO of HTMX
i think you've found a good job!
Comment · 2 months ago
N+1 is at best two queries, right? I always interpreted it as:
query 0 = list
query 1_0 = getItem(0)
...
guest 1_n = getItem(n)
query 0 = list
query 1 = getItems(0..n)Comment · 2 months ago
> It's only recently that we had space for completely retarded ideas like "staying in the sun doesn't hurt you" or "sunscreen causes cancer"
but, what if staying in the sun isn't binary?
and, what if everyday products did cause cancer? https://www.health.harvard.edu/cancer/cancer-concerns-from-e...
Comment · 2 months ago
i have and continue to build a ton of automations against my life. my goal is to offload more and more of my "life" to it.
- bills? bookkeeping? reading DMARC emails? yeah, i want to do none of it, but i desperately want these chores done.
- spend time with kids? study interesting topics? eat and drink interesting things? i want more of this.
Comment · 2 months ago
but, you're going to pay either way (assuming you have a custom domain).
Comment · 2 months ago
that's fine. doesn't absolve you from responsibilities of recipientship - as you'll inevitably find out (if you haven't already).
Comment · 2 months ago
keep going – i was in your shoes 24mo ago.
Comment · 2 months ago
irs.gov is without a doubt the SOT ;)
Comment · 2 months ago
makes it doubly hard when you can't trust a media bias website, either.
solving for "trust" is one of the hardest problems out there in 2026.
Comment · 2 months ago
admittedly, i don't know anything about this case, but the person at the center of it seems to be Carlitos Ricardo Parias.
the intercept (source link) was rated far left by AllSides (https://www.allsides.com/news-source/intercept-media-bias) and the press release from justice.gov has a very different perspective (https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/illegal-alien-mexico-ch...).
it's very unclear what can be taken at face value.
Comment · 2 months ago
i was wondering recently if i could ditch my iPhone for (just) an Apple Watch. i know i can't fully ditch it (an Apple Watch needs an iPhone for management). but, i'm curious about the concept nonetheless: what would it be like to ditch a smartphone for a smartwatch?
https://github.com/dfee
devin[@]devinfee.com