jtbarrett

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Comment · 2 years ago

Interesting that the port side is unfinished; I didn’t realize that we never saw it!

Comment · 2 years ago

Hmm maybe not, this is still happening for me.

Comment · 2 years ago

Neat! Bug report: on my iPhone when I quickly double-tap the backspace button it zooms on that element, which is pretty distracting.

Comment · 2 years ago

That place was casual but not cheap; ~$30 for a lobster roll. It’s out of business now.

Comment · 3 years ago

I spent some time with my kid trying to get ChatGPT 4 to write bedtime stories. We found that it kept devolving into the pattern of a generic but acceptable setup followed by something like "and then the heroes solved a variety of challenges, learning together and having fun all the way" that completely skips the meat of the story. We also noticed that it was difficult to goad the AI into adding any quotations; the characters rarely _say_ anything.

We only tried StoryBee once but unfortunately got a very similar result; judge for yourself: https://storybee.app/story/the-purple-mystery-654fbfe43da40f....

We did have fun with ChatGPT getting ideas for specific plot turns and generating illustrations (e.g. https://photos.app.goo.gl/coonT1bT7BLRqXeu8).

Comment · 3 years ago

> Now only if I could find the name of this historian.

Is it Hieronymus Wolf? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Wolf

Comment · 3 years ago

Thank you! This version is much better than that Instagram edit.

Comment · 3 years ago

The displays can show black, white and red. He picked a good image for that palette. Still, the dithering was surprisingly effective.

Comment · 5 years ago

If this really needs to happen then I like .GetAwaiter().GetResult() instead of .Result to get the same exception behavior as await rather than the wrapped AggregateException that .Result throws. This is especially helpful if DoSomethingAsync sometimes throws synchronously rather than returning a task.

Comment · 6 years ago

I’m not the parent but I built something similar in the Fractal Node 304 which supports six 2.5” drives. Mine’s been going strong for 7 years now.

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-304

Comment · 6 years ago

One thing that frustrates me is that as far as I'm aware none of the delivery apps provide an option for me to tip the restaurant. Especially in these times I want to give some extra support to the workers preparing my meal. The lack of that option is one of the main reasons I usually pick up myself; if any of the delivery apps added the feature I would immediately switch to it!

Comment · 10 years ago

You could also consider the Precision 5510 [1] if a Quadro GPU works for you. Essentially an XPS 15 but it includes Intel wifi. Recently got one from work and I've been pretty happy with it.

[1] http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-m5510-workstatio...

Comment · 11 years ago

If you're tying to follow along in calc.exe but the percent key is disabled, switch to Standard mode. It's not on in the other modes.

Comment · 14 years ago

I have a free Google Apps account mostly so that I can have a custom domain for my small (free) App Engine site: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/domain

It's sad that now attaching a custom domain will cost a lot more than the domain itself.

Comment · 15 years ago

Just FYI, Skype proper (but not on facebook) does support group video chats as a paid extra feature now: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/allfeatures/group-v...