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Richard Scarry/Busytown fans. Wife got a cat during COVID and named her Sally Cat.

Remember to break this news gently to your elderly parents.

Best recipe I had contained fresh sprigs of dill. Could also experiment with small crunchy veggies (carrots, cauliflower, etc).

Can't someone come up with a browser that just randomly lies when asked about the characteristics that could be used for fingerprinting?

Except for trusted, whitelisted sites.

That seems like it would be a pretty good privacy enhancer.

Software sucks, but they're reasonably decent EVs. You get a few years of deeply discounted fast-charging, and they still qualify for the tax breaks. Plus, their TN workers voted to unionize last year.

Oh yeah, they're also not the-car-that-shall-not-be-named.

BP brought on Bernard Looney as CEO to help steer the company from oil to 'energy' and renewables. By all accounts he did a bang-up job of it, but was forced to resign after a messy scandal involving relationships with coworkers.

The replacement CEO promptly undid all the work and did a hard U-turn back into hydrocarbons.

So all these museums that thought they were accepting funds from a renewable energy champion are now stuck holding the bag for a good old 'Drill Baby Drill' company.

I saw the security article, but that sounds like it needs to be tackled by MSFT, the way Google has to handle Chrome extensions.

Have been a paid Jetbrains user for years, especially PyCharm. But recently, I had to do some front-end web development with ionic/Capacitor and Vue, and ionic only had a VsCode plugin. A few weeks later, came across Cursor which is a fork of VsCode with LLM support, and all the same plugins worked.

Still keeping my PyCharm subscription, but am wobbly on whether I'll re-up next year.

Predicting Barbara Lee by a wide margin, to her own peril.

You all realize pretty soon no human is going to update an existing code-base?

Who wants to spend their time understanding 10 year old legacy code? They'll just feed it into an AI and tell it to add or fix a feature, then generate tests, and file a PR.

If it ends up having an airplane do a loop on take-off or sending your paycheck to Antarctica 🤷🏻‍♂️

Pretty funny seeing what is after all, a 'romantic' venture (dating apps) broken down in a completely utilitarian analysis. Also helps to have a brook-no-shit writing style.

Years ago, was asked to do dev work on a clone of a dating app. Ended up looking at all the things these kinds of apps did to get people to pay. Two features I remember were giving new users option to buy top profile placement for a limited time, so they showed up as a first choice for everyone for the next hour.

Another was sending paid 'virtual' gifts, which turned out were badly ripped off clipart of flowers and jewelry. This was when Tinder was first starting so none of the fancy retention methods described here or AI filters.

I passed on working on the app, but made sure my wife knew exactly why I had installed all those dating apps on my phone. It really was for research.

Tried it in Cursor (paying for both). 3/4 of the time get an error that says 3.7 is overloaded. Toggling back to 3.5 works. Will wait till the novelty wears off.

I once saw pool fencing where the base was weighed down with water or sand, like those 'children playing' signs. Easy to move out of the way when not needed.