“So what was the problem in the end?”

“Man, I don’t fucking know.”

• me, every goddamn time

I wonder what they spent paying people to implement and communicate this change.

At 600k for a company that size this cost them more money than just paying the extra 4 cents.

It’s like when they say “we have apps for your phone” when they mean “we have an app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store”.

I’m sitting here clutching my Nokia Lumia 640 yelling at them.

I’m not sure if it automatically does the metadata lookup or if it just reads embedded metadata from the epubs I’ve downloaded. It for sure does a poor job of setting up the series name and book number fields if you read a lot of series.

I use a combination of calibre-web-automated for metadata management and calibre-web-automated-book-downloader for downloading from Anna’s Archive. Book read progress and status is synced from my Kobo.

It works really well but you need to manually request books one at a time. The readarr feature I miss was the ability to subscribe to a GoodReads list.

I’m pretty sure it’s just a bunch of guys each awkwardly holding like 40 of those green laser pointers off AliExpress. They all wave them around vaguely in the direction of the aircraft and figure one of them is gonna hit.

Then how can you even tell if your toilet is online?!

Polite: “Thanks.”

Less polite: “Thank you for your feedback.”

My fave: “UNSUBSCRIBE”

I have 2-4 of these preinstalled on all my pants.

Also, did this start when someone made an iPurse joke and someone didn’t let it go?

Wandering the desert?

Nay, vibe travelling.

They didn’t release their methods, so I can’t be sure that most of those aren’t just frustrated users telling the LLM to go kill itself.

Replaced by AI, ironically.

Why does Doug have to do anything? Donny is an autocrat, right? Can’t he just phone the American broadcaster airing the ads and demand they stop airing it.

Big Strong Men shouldn’t just go crying on their pet social network when another country is being mean. They should be Big enough and Strong enough to deal with it themselves.

I feel like admitting that would have led to him getting a bullet in the head.

The machines obviously aren’t interested in reconnecting him - they grow humans by the thousand in their facilities. Like you’re not going to hike for a day to pick up lost carrot when you have them growing in your garden.

The only way the machines would consider reconnecting him would be as part of a deal for something significantly more valuable than one human. If Morpheus is on the table? Sure, now that’s worth it. Which isn’t to say they wouldn’t have betrayed and killed him once they had Morpheus anyway. Our only assurance that they would honour an agreement is a throwaway line from the Architect at the end of Reloaded.

And if there’s no going back, what does a terrified resistance do when one of their fighters starts talking about joining the enemy? He’s too dangerous - he’s gotta go.

That game is too memorable. I tried replaying it a while back after not touching it in 15 years.

Five minutes in and nope, this whole story is seared into my long term memory and there’s nothing fresh yet.

I’ll try again when I’m 80.

Half my visits to Wikipedia are because I need to copy and paste a Unicode character and that’s always the highest search result with a page I can easily copy and paste the exact character from.

They have (had?) a fairly generous free tier that works well for people starting out.

I ended up buying a license after evaluation because the UI provides everything I reasonably want to do, it’s fundamentally a Linux server so I can change things I need, and it requires virtually zero fucking around to get started and keep running.

I guess the short answer is: it ticks a lot of boxes.

The advice I’ve seen is to back up your phone (iCloud or iTunes), factory reset, then restore your backup.

These things get bigger and bigger the older your phone is, because OS updates seem to always leave more and more shit laying around (probably for disaster recovery in case the update goes sideways).

Windows has a command you can run to purge all the old update shit to free up space. I wish Apple would get off their ass and implement the same.

You can’t do much preparation since you don’t know what they’re going to ask. You can assume there will be some “basic” programming questions, but that’s really as far as you can take it in advance.

My advice here is for during the interview: keep talking. You should always be talking. That’s how the interviewer assesses you. They want to know how you are deconstructing a problem and how you want to solve it. Sitting there silent for 5 minutes and then banging out some code isn’t giving them anything.

“Ok, I need to modify this array and I should try to do that in place. I need to look up the syntax for that because i rarely need to do this…”

“I don’t remember what a splurgenarf is. Can you give me a quick definition before I get started?”

“I’m going to just slop this incomplete code in and run it once to see the output. It won’t work but I want to see if the first part is on the right track.”

“I think you’re asking me to write a wrapper around a basic network call so that it will _______. Is that right?”

Oh, and you’ll always home your first interview if it’s been a few years. Don’t sweat it, and don’t make your first interview at a place you really really want to work because of that. You need to go through a couple of interviews before your brain remembers how to function in a coding interview because it’s so far divorced from how a developer usually works.

I tried them for a few months and cancelled.

For me, the quality of the recipes was poor. It was the kind of stuff I’d make when i’d just moved out from home and was learning to cook for the first time. Boring. Simplistic.

There’s also way too much trash. There’s a big cardboard box, a few ice packs, and a mound of pre-portioned ingredients each in little plastic bags. They cheerfully say you can keep the ice packs and reuse them! How many fucking ice packs can one person use?? Anybody can use a couple of ice packs. No one alive needs 2 new ice packs a week.

If you aren’t a confident cook and/or you need some inspiration for new things to make, it’s totally worth it for a few weeks or months. After that, though, I think most people will outgrow it.