ericrallen

Been a few years since I had to get a new one, but I booted mine up, switched to the HDMI input for my AppleTV, and never looked back. Just boots straight into the AppleTV input when you use the AppleTV remote to wake it up.

We have to use the actual TV remote to debug some audio issues or disable the motion blur stuff again every once in awhile, but otherwise it might as well just be a display for the AppleTV. I’ve only seen the actual home screen of the TV a handful of times.

I guess it’s probably still spying on us somehow, and it seems like different models make using the AppleTV remote and booting right into the AppleTV harder than others, so your mileage may vary.

I may be a biased Genesis Kid, but SEGA was always ahead of its time.

Blocking Pinterest and those ad-riddled Stack Overflow clones that were everywhere has been a game changer.

Only seeing the `old.reddit.com` domain is also much more pleasant.

The search results page no longer feels adversarial.

The rate of Issues opened on a popular repo is at least one order of magnitude beyond the number of Issues whoever is able to deal with them can handle.

Just trying to triage and tag all of them can still be a full-time job’s worth of work in a popular repo.

ISPs also have different levels of service for different entities, and seem to just barely care about you as a customer.

An ISP (like one that starts with the first letter of the alphabet and ends with a common abbreviation for an explosive compound) might not think it’s worth coming out and marking their fiber lines when you call the city’s 811 number to mark utilities before digging for a project, like a fence.

If that fence ends up cutting the fiber line when digging a post, the company installing the fence can submit a ticket through a different portal than you as an actual residential customer of the ISP can, and that ticket probably gets responded to well before your attempts to contact them and request a call back because they are always experiencing a high volume of calls.

They’ll never admit any negligence on their part for refusing to mark utility lines, and you just have to remember where they buried the new ones, if they ever came back out to bury them instead of just leaving them aboive ground and flailing around.

Sometimes they even try to charge you for fixing the fiber line.

Not another one.

The bears broke my brain enough the first time I encountered that “stain” where my memory clearly had it labeled “stein.”

I hate in-app browsers, too, but there is a Slack setting that will let you open in Chrome or Safari (choosing Safari opens whatever your default iOS browser is).

You can change the Browser Application setting under Preferences after tapping on your Avatar in the Slack app.

This seems to completely ignore, and maybe even dismiss, the lived experience of all the kids who weren’t diagnosed or treated but who developed coping mechanisms to survive school and adolescent life, then found those mechanisms incapable of dealing with the ever-increasing burdens of adult life and finally sought diagnosis as adults after years of struggling to understand things that have been complicating their lives all along.

This kind of dismissive rhetoric increases the stigma around seeking a diagnosis as an adult, which is already hard enough because an entire system of caregivers, teachers, and institutions already failed the undiagnosed person throughout their life and navigating the health care system, especially for mental health, is extremely frustrating - and challenging from an executive function perspective.

Switching search engines is a pretty low lift, especially if the one you are switching from is an ad-riddled mess where you can’t actually find what you’re looking for.

Switched to Kagi awhile back and 10/10 would recommend. The cost is easily worth having a good, useful web search experience again.

Swapping out mail and other service providers is definitely a bigger undertaking, though.

There are some pretty awesome small, unique bars in Boston, but there could be so, so many more if the liquor license laws and rent prices were more reasonable, though.

We’ll just have an LLM write the tests.

Now we can work on our passion projects and everything will just be LLMs talking to LLMs.

Maybe there is some optimization logic that only appends tool details that are required for the user’s query?

I’m sure they are trying to slash tokens where they can, and removing potentially irrelevant tool descriptors seems like low-hanging fruit to reduce token consumption.

Do the project a favor and remove the sticky nav bar on mobile.

It takes up almost half the screen and makes the content nearly impossible to digest.