locofocos

Oh yeah, n-gate.com, "we can't both be right"

Can you pitch me on why I would want to use this, instead of Rails.cache.fetch (which supports TTL) powered by redis (with the "allkeys-lru" config option)?

It's nice being able to toggle flags immediately, without waiting for a deploy. Having near-instant rollback is reassuring for launching new features.

TIL there's a name for this! (Chargie)

I have an old Mac multiport adapter (USB C / USB A / VGA) that I use only to limit the current going into my smartphone, for the sake of battery health. It effectively downgrades any fast charger to a slow charger. This looks nicer, thanks for sharing.

That's so wild. Many small businesses in my area give you a discount for paying with cash. They pass the card fee onto the consumer, but it's baked into the menu prices.

I do this! My personal computers run Windows. I have an iPod touch that I use for listening to music on a stereo in my living room. I use iTunes to manage my music library. When I want more music, I buy CDs (or mp3s if those aren't available).

It's nice owning things. It has no ads, unlimited skips, and music doesn't sporadically disappear.

It's not exactly what you have in mind, but my friend walked into local small businesses saying "Hey, can I make you a website?". Then he googled "how to make a website" and figured out how to drag and drop with WordPress. Literally no tech experience, just a few business cards, and it went uphill from there.

He gradually moved into SEO and marketing as his customers wanted that. Right now he has about 40 customers that give him consistent work.

To this day, he's still amazed that I can code and write CSS.

Precisely. I'm trying to understand the resistance in good faith, but the article didn't explain their position very clearly.

"It's already prohibited" - so why the fierce opposition?

"Passing a law against discrimination of X will stigmatize X" - Imagine someone was making this argument for an existing federally protected class.

I used this when modeling a shed-to-house I built. Like most open source software, it's not SUPER polished but it's useful. Making basic walls, doors, windows, and placing furniture is fairly easy. It gets very complicated using their workaround for things like ceilings, roofs, and such but it's doable.

One great feature is being able to export a 1:12 scale reference for my shed builder. It took some very careful toying with background layers, but I was eventually able to get a large-scale Kinko's printout from a PDF where 1 inch on the printout = 1 foot in the real world.

Today I learned that certificates getting revoked/expired can break existing locally installed applications on my Mac.