uv has a super power that it doesn't much talk about - seamlessly managing monorepos. I'd been using pants before, but it's such a pain to setup and maintain. uv just kinda works like you'd hope.
Readit NewsSlippery_John commented on The uv build back end is now stable docs.astral.sh/uv/concept... · Posted by u/NeutralForest
Slippery_John commented on The Last of Us Part II – Seattle Locations Tour docs.google.com/document/... · Posted by u/lenocinor
I live in Seattle and adored playing TLOU2 in my home city. Was a total trip playing set pieces in areas where I used to work downtown.
I could get nitpicky about a few areas that didn’t really make sense (and I’m still not really sure where the Seraphite camp was in act three given geography or what our actual aquarium looks like inside) but given how much I enjoyed the game I didn’t really care.
The Seattle Aquarium is amazing, you should definitely give it a visit. It's not even that expensive. They have a little tide pool "petting zoo" with all sorts of cool critters with interesting bodies. I moved out of Seattle and I definitely miss the aquarium.
They also do this thing in the summers where they send folks out to the local beaches to educate people about all the stuff you can find there. It's really cool! Going on until the end of July!
I wish there was a reader app that was serious about text speech. This is not it, unfortunately. Reader apps need to focus on a text to speech experience that is identical to a music player so that you can use the app while in hands free situations. The app is also hard to use as a “read it later” tool on iOS.
I was really hoping they would fix these issues by now because it was promising. This app truly does feel like a portfolio demo app for a text to speech engine company rather than an actual reader app.
UPDATE: yes, I have actually used the app, no it does not work well. See replies for details.
Speechify is pretty good. You gotta pay to get the most out of it, but I use it enough to justify it. (Mostly for an egregiously long serial novel.) Sometimes there's jank, but the support and dev teams are super responsive.
Maybe the pop culture obsession is new, but the snarky, reluctant protagonist is something I have seen enough to be kind of tired of. Off the top of my head, Murderbot also reminds me of the protagonist of Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City which I recently read.
If you enjoyed Murderbot, take that as a recommendation, although it is less sci-fi and more historical fiction.
Orhan is quite different though - he's a braggart unreliably narrating his own story after most of the events have transpired. You can't believe his reluctance, it's a show he's putting on to make himself look better. The entire story feels like it too, credit to the author.
Murderbot is not that. What you see of them is as genuine as their perspective can be. Murderbot may be snarky, but it doesn't have the same braggadocious air, and I do think that changes the character and story significantly. And if you're a similar kind of neuro-atypical then it can be a refreshing bit of heroic representation.
I will give Sixteen Ways some credit though - at least it ended. I don't particularly like the ending, but it is one. Murderbot falls off hard by the time the series gets to full length novels.
Slippery_John commented on Ask HN: Have you migrated to Proton mail/calendar/pass/etc.? How was it? · Posted by u/blackhaj7
I got hit by some privacy gamma radiation I wanna say 5 or 6 years ago. Did some research and they seemed like a good fit. I really liked the idea of being able write my own filters in script form rather than via some horrid form like what Google had at the time.
I've mostly been happy. There was a bug at one point where the iOS app couldn't delete more than 10 emails at a time, which may still be there. I haven't had to do a purge for a long time so I've not checked.
Otherwise, pretty great. I don't care about having a desktop client - never did with gmail and never have with proton. Aside from the aforementioned bug the iOS app has been good enough. The filtering features worked just like I hoped, and with catchall addressing I've been able to detect a few data breaches, on a few occasions before the company in question did.
VPN works well. I wish I could just pin my favorite connnection on the desktop app since I only ever use the one. I've got it set up on my router as a toggle, but I don't usually want my whole network switching.
I don't use the calendar, I've got a paper calendar instead because I like the art and having it in my face makes me actually look at it.
I also don't use drive. I really don't have much data honestly outside of my media collection which is too big for such storage services, and backed up with the physical media anyway. I pay for iCloud for easy backup and photo storage, and so I just put the handful of docs I need to sync there. And none of that is stuff I'd care much if it leaked. No nudes, no tax documents.
Pass is pretty great. I'd been using LastPass for ages and eventually migrated to BitWarden after being unhappy with the offering for a while. Then recently I switched to Pass since I was already paying for it essentially. I really like the email aliasing feature, since that's something I was already doing manually via catch-alls. My only complaint is that it's not obvious that I can just respond to emails sent to that alias without compromising my actual address. I'd really like for it to be part of the mail UI. With my hand-crafted aliases I always just created a new user whenever I needed to respond, and it'd be great if I didn't have to do that and could just use the same system as protonpass. Because it's so much nicer.
For reference, I'm on a (legacy) Visionary plan that gives me access to everything, which is very similar to the current family plan.
Slippery_John commented on Travel across Germany with the 49 Euro ticket 49travel.vercel.app/... · Posted by u/whinvik
The ticket is digital-only (smartphone or smartcard), there is no paper version, and it's coupled to your personal identity (name etc.).
So some people have voiced concerns about that being used to profile the movement of Germany's citizens.
IIRC the tracking is being justified by the government "to gather statistics so we can improve the service", or something like that.
Disclaimer: I don't live there, I don't know the details.
It's not digital only, I have a physical version. Whether or not you can get a card depends on your locality. Nevertheless, I don't understand why it's so much more inconvenient to understand and purchase compared to the 9 euro ticket. With that you could get a paper ticket or buy on app and the rules for what it did were consistent everywhere.
Slippery_John commented on Nintendo sued for “immoral” Mario Kart lootboxes axios.com/2023/05/22/nint... · Posted by u/croes
> Sad that I had hoped some exec at Nintendo would veto this approach as "Not Nintendo"
I'm guessing it happened to a point. King with their Candy Crush saga had higher revenue and profits than Blizzard [1] for a while now. The amount of money mobile gaming pulls is insane. It's hard to leave that on the table.
Luckily this didn't spread beyond their mobile apps, unlike other game developers that push to replicate the model on desktop and consoles.
[1] https://www.tweaktown.com/news/84423/king-has-made-more-mone...
Does the switch even have the capability to support a mictrotransaction focused shell game? The store is incredibly slow and obtuse, where these things rely a lot on smooth, fast transactions to get it over with before people can think too hard.
Using the Jitsi website has worked well enough for me for years, and the calls are P2P as far as I'm aware. What's the advantage of hosting your own? Just preventing jitsi.org from seeing call metadata?
I wonder if you could get more reliable performance by planning a more centralized location. My book club uses the main jitsi site and it works well all things considered, but it's not perfect by any means. We've got people in several US and EU time zones showing up with varying internet connection qualities, so it's a difficult case.
But hey, it's free. And it hits the most important consideration: it could not be easier to use. That's pretty critical since my club mates don't have much capacity for troubleshooting.
Slippery_John commented on The beginner's guide to overcomplicating coffee tylercipriani.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/xrayarx
Not my experience at all, at least with pourovers. Others have done blind taste tastes with beans upto 6 months out from the roast date (light roasts), which seem indistinguishable on pourovers and immersion brewing. The taste tests suggest that peak flavor develops at about a week out from roasting, and degrades very slowly - much more slowly than conventional wisdom suggests. The norm has been that beans are essentially stale 2 weeks out from roasting. These tests suggest that as long as you store your beans reasonably well, they're good for several months. Depending on your technique, the loss of the bloom might require modifications, but they're still good beans.
I can imagine that the same probably doesn't hold true for espresso, since the back pressure from out gassing is crucial to extraction.
Yeah I typically buy 3 months worth of coffee at a time. I can barely tell the difference with my various pour overs.
Slippery_John commented on The beginner's guide to overcomplicating coffee tylercipriani.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/xrayarx
I agree that coffee prep is over-fetishized, but going to instant coffee seems extreme. At least to me, it's pretty disgusting. But spend like $800-$1600 on a nice grinder and espresso machine that lasts a decade or more, buy whatever brand of beans they have this week at Costco, and you can have really nice coffee without any futzing or making a deal of it.
You can also save like half the money by making that a hand grinder, and there's fewer parts to break. 30 seconds of mindless spinning really isn't much.