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I have now turned on, then off, the iOS 18.1 Apple Intelligence features. The summaries were, at best, more work since I had to read stuff twice. Priority Inbox was also garbage but I tightly manage my...
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Here's a United Healthcare story. Was working at a health care startup doing integration with insurance. Money starts coming in from the various big name insurance providers. Except UHC. Instead, they...
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This was before direct deposit was setup. The other carriers just sent checks. Told this story to a friend who was starting his own medical practice and they did the same thing to him.[ related: Blue...
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Meanwhile, in a tech leadership slack I'm in, CTOs and VPs in charge of hundreds of engineers continue to rely on ChatGPT for important things and can't get enough AI for whatever fucking reason I...
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The pathology I see over and over (not just on tech leadership slacks) is:Person: Anyone have experience with X?Jackass: I asked ChatGPT and this is what it said: «nonsense»Me: «reports Jackass'...
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How accessible does a sidewalk need to be to accommodate America and their cars?
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I can't stop thinking about how during most of The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce Wayne is probably slumped over the Bat Computer, breathing in that dank cave air, sitting on a damp desk fresh out of that...
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Finally installed Sequoia. Because my dev environments are all Docker-based, everything just works exactly the same as before.https://devbox.computer/This book will teach you about Docker/Bash; make a...
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I know this will never be fixed, but Ruby's usage of the class Time to represent a timestamp, and thus having no data type for storing time (e.g. time of day) is extremely unfortunate and...
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Old job, we did code reviews often, but not always. We did them on a projector with the entire team. First one we did, I would summarize as "an hour of talking about the location of commas". We setup a...
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Doing it in the group allows us to align culturally on what the point of them was and how to do them. You were also giving your feedback to the person directly, in front of their peers. This forced...
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With the advent of remote work and GitHub plus company growth, I think this process got worse - I can't remember as it was a while ago. But for a while, I think it added a lot of value all around and...
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It will never cease to amaze me that a website that just shows a bunch of boxes of text a) cannot reliably update its UI and b) constantly uses so much memory that Safari has to reload it.
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Mozi seems like a solution to a problem only had by wealthy people who travel and view themselves as a character in a Malcom Gladwell book.Why on earth would anyone upload their contacts to a VC-funded...
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Does anyone know if there are downsides to WSL2 that would make RubyInstaller a better option, at least for modern-ish Windows boxes?https://ruby.social/@rubycentral/113681349344359186
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Life Goals:• Delete Slack• Delete LinkedIn• Check email once per week• All phone calls go straight to voicemailhttps://ruby.social/@jayroh/113681729390330952
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My wife - who doesn’t use Mastodon - is now saying that when I send her links it’s requiring login. Is that a per instance thing?
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Try explaining how an Apple TV app works to someone. “Do you see how one rectangle is very slightly larger than the others? If you hit the big button it will go into that. What’s ’go into’? Uh, well,...
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