klabetron (u/klabetron)

klabetron commented on Bad Dye Job daringfireball.net/2025/1... · Posted by u/mpweiher

philistine · 3 months ago

His Something rotten in the state of Cupertino piece earlier this year broke his relationship with the upper echelons of Apple, and to be frank he's no longer inevitable as an Apple commenter. He cannot understand the European Union at all, so he devolves into saying they're idiots. Really? The EU, the whole thing, idiots? Really?

klabetron · 3 months ago

I don’t think we should conclude that a tech columnist who regularly shits on EU tech policy really intends to attack the EU writ large. If he sounds like he’s generalising to the “whole thing,” I’m pretty sure he understands most readers know he’s not talking about the entire EU experiment. Just the backward tech regulation.

klabetron commented on We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs lalitm.com/fixits-are-goo... · Posted by u/lalitmaganti

klabetron · 4 months ago

I introduced this to my old company years ago and called it Big Block of Cheese Day after the West Wing episode [1]. We mostly focused on very minor bugs that affected a tiny bit of our user base in edgey edge cases but littered our error logs. (This was years ago at a, back then, relatively immature tech company.)

It had the same spirit as a hackathon.

[1] https://westwing.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Block_of_Cheese_Day

klabetron commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro

jdlyga · 5 months ago

Alexa is super buggy now anyway. I switched my Echo Dot to Alexa+, and it fails turning on and off my Samsung TV all the time now. You usually have to do it twice.

klabetron · 5 months ago

Ugh. Reminds me that some time ago Siri stopped responding to “turn off my TV.” Now I have to remember to say “turn off my Apple TV.” (Which with the magic of HDMI CEC turns off my entire system.) Given how groggy I am when I want to turn off the TV, I often forget.

klabetron commented on The World's 2.75B Buildings tech.marksblogg.com/build... · Posted by u/marklit

klabetron · 5 months ago

Meta note: don’t see many blog posts as detailed as OP with seemingly mundane details. It assumes almost nothing of the user. So many posts would just say “install this QGIS plugin” with no mention of the pip calls, etc.

Not sure if this comes from search engine optimisation or years of experience consulting to clients that know nothing :)

Anyway, good work Mark. Another of your posts I’ll bookmark.

klabetron commented on How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap nymag.com/intelligencer/a... · Posted by u/trevortheblack

djtango · 5 months ago

Kyoto is one of my favourite places in the world. Besides the obvious "Kyoto" being on your doorstep, you only need to jump on a train for 15 minutes to arrive at Lake Biwa. Amazing to think that so much beautiful nature is a stone's throw away from such a lovely city. Itself only a bullet train away from Tokyo

klabetron · 5 months ago

This.

Went to Japan for the first time in August (…don’t recommend…the heat is intense…) and instead of spending days in Kyoto and Osaka, we spent a few days in Otsu on Lake Biwa.

Highlights:

- The freshwater beach was delightful (Biwako Omi-Maiko Nakahama) - There’s a public onsen that’s not listed on the official onsen association’s site (which only lists resorts you have to book long in advance and pay lots for): Spa Resort Ogoto Agaryanse. It has strip mall vibes from the outside but is a great local onsen on the inside. - If you’re an American and want to experience cultural appropriation: take a cruise on the Michigan paddle boat

And, of course, it’s close enough to Kyoto that you can bop in and out.

klabetron commented on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? · Posted by u/ofalkaed

klabetron · 5 months ago

Gawker.

klabetron commented on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? · Posted by u/ofalkaed

ugh123 · 5 months ago

Did Silverlight have the same security issues as Flash?

klabetron · 5 months ago

Probably didn’t have the level of adoption needed for the nefarious types to justify spending time finding Silverlight exploits.

klabetron commented on Pdoc – Generate API documentation for Python projects pdoc.dev/... · Posted by u/joshdavham

darkamaul · 5 months ago

pdoc is my go-to documentation tool for small Python projects.

However, when they start to grow, MkDocs and the Material for MkDocs theme make the most sense — they’re easy to install and deploy, and they offer a ton of features for writing engaging documentation.

[0] https://www.mkdocs.org/ [1] https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/

klabetron · 5 months ago

Love MkDocs* even for non-Python. But, wasn’t aware it could auto-generate from code comments like pdoc? I’d assume one would use pdoc for the API section of a hot mkdocs layout.

*not just because my initials are MK

klabetron commented on Structured Procrastination (1995) structuredprocrastination... · Posted by u/ipnon

codesnik · 5 months ago

I'm doing the same, or at least trying to do it.

Worst periods for me were when I had one clear, important goal, not particularly hard but hairy, and nothing else to do, sometimes because I myself cleared it up. I could spend months doing nothing useful, and end up very, very tired and burnt up.

I also several times had a conversation with managers, whom I told that I'd rather work on something very urgent, or otherwise give me something NOT (really) urgent and a big murky area of things to clear out which no one else knows how to deal with. That something won't probably be done, but that area will be improved a lot in creative ways. Typical managers' responses have been trying to micromanage my time up to personal hourly schedules, morning and evening personal reports, and scold me if I did anything out of the order of the list of priorities they imposed on me. Exactly the opposite of what's needed for me to be productive. And of course "let's just try that, and I'm not asking."

Next time I'll see such a response, I probably will quit on the spot; this is unbelievably cruel.

But it looks like the secret of the author is: just work in academia.

klabetron · 5 months ago

> Next time I'll see such a response, I probably will quit on the spot; this is unbelievably cruel.

Let me guess: you’d quit but your résumé’s out of date because you, like me, procrastinate updating it?

(Sounds like a manager trying to manage you out; make things miserable enough for you that you’ll quit without having to go through the redundancy process…)

klabetron commented on Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe avarayr.github.io/shamele... · Posted by u/mikamika83

whatever1 · 5 months ago

No F shared libraries. Seriously.

Memory and storage is cheap enough nowadays to not have to deal with the insanity that shared libraries cause. I don’t care if I use 30gb of memory to run a browser and a note taking app.

klabetron · 5 months ago

omg remember when we all had to install Java separately at the system level?