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memco commented on Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks   zenobiapay.com/blog/open-... · Posted by u/pranay01
vasco · 14 days ago
> Secondly it costs the consumer nothing. The cost goes to the merchant. If anything the customer gets rewards.

Sellers increase the price by the fee amount, savvy consumers with rewards cards can get back around 80% of that price increase, and regular non-credit-card-with-rewards holding consumers just subsidize the whole thing by paying the extra. It's a tax on people without rewards cards.

memco · 14 days ago
Not sure how prevalent this is now, but a few years back I was seeing a lot of "cash price" advertised for stuff that was lower by whatever the merchant didn't have to pay in fees so sometimes cash may not be subsidizing the credit industry.
memco commented on Kiro: A new agentic IDE   kiro.dev/blog/introducing... · Posted by u/QuinnyPig
MuffinFlavored · a month ago
I have a question. I do not like the concept of "agent mode" for AI. I'm a control freak and I want to control every line that gets committed because I am responsible for it and need to understand/visualize/memorize every part of codebases I work on.

Is Claude Code good for the "ask" flow? No, right?

The old flow before agent mode got added. Select some code, ask questions about it or give an instruction on editing it and then choose to accept the change.

As I understand (I could be wrong), with agent mode, it edits the file for you, no way for you to accept before it does, so you have to manually check the diff, roll back parts you don't want, etc.

Am I right?

memco · a month ago
> As I understand (I could be wrong), with agent mode, it edits the file for you, no way for you to accept before it does, so you have to manually check the diff, roll back parts you don't want, etc.

> Am I right?

With cursor you get reasonably flexible control at many levels. You can have it only suggest changes that you have to apply manually or you can have it make automatic changes with various ways to review, change, reject or accept. I usually have the changes made automatically but don’t accept the changes automatically. Cursor has a UI that lets you review each edit individually, for the whole file or all files. Depending on the situation I will use whichever level is appropriate. The UI also allows you to revert changes or you can ask the AI to undo or rework a change that you just approved so there’s plenty of ways to do large changes without giving up control. There’s also a stop button you can use to interrupt mid-stream if the work it’s doing isn’t what you want. It isn’t flawless but I haven’t found myself in a corner where I couldn’t get back to a happy path.

memco commented on Demystifying Debuggers   rfleury.com/p/demystifyin... · Posted by u/ibobev
brettermeier · 3 months ago
Article doesn't mentoin what RAD actually means, does someone know?
memco · 3 months ago
I think it’s referring to this: https://www.radgametools.com/
memco commented on WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History   512pixels.net/2025/06/wwd... · Posted by u/syx
memco · 3 months ago
I think the article kind of tramples on its own point by showing a very long history of the changes to the Finder’s icon over the years, but I think what it’s trying to say is that it has been mostly unchanged for many years so it shouldn’t change now. It now has a gray box all the way around instead of two blue faces that go all the way to the edge. However, it simultaneously showed that it has been redesigned several times to match the aesthetic of the OS and while this is a larger change than most is still within the same design space.
memco commented on Coffee for people who don't like coffee   ostwilkens.se/blog/coffee... · Posted by u/ostwilkens
owlninja · 3 months ago
I like coffee, but many years ago I realized I don't like drinking hot liquids. Anyone else like this? I live in North Texas where it's uncomfortably hot most of the year. It used to boggle my mind playing golf with my Grandpa who would grab a coffee at the turn just as temperatures were cracking 90F.
memco · 3 months ago
Iced coffee or cold brew might work for you.

I used to do aeropress or pour over coffee every morning but now I brew a large batch of hot coffee in a jar and then leave it on the counter overnight. The next day I remove the grinds and put the coffee in the fridge. Then on weekdays I just pour some over ice. It’s barely more work than making one pour over and I get 7 days of coffee with no prep work in the morning: delayed instant gratification all in one.

memco commented on Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools   theorthagonist.substack.c... · Posted by u/ZeroTalent
bdelmas · 4 months ago
Yep I think people just want the fast track to being rich and are not interested into putting the hours and the grind for it. There are amazing books out there but they are textbooks. 1000 pages long on a single subject, and people don't want that. But for the most part, that's where the real knowledge is.

They would rather read 10-15 books on marketing rather than study and master a single textbook about marketing. Even when they don't have to master all of it and that would still give them more value and professional knowledge than reading all of these other books.

I read my far share of business books and at some points I was seeing the edutainment behind it and the lack of value that from now on every time I search for a book I start by searching in the textbook section on Amazon not the book section.

memco · 4 months ago
> There are amazing books out there but they are textbooks. 1000 pages long on a single subject, and people don't want that.

I would recommend to you, the author of the OP and others in this thread read “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman. It is old but it has had amazing sticking powe in my idea of what is entertainment and what is informational. He argues that many things are made to be entertainment (even some books that are thousands of pages) and challenges readers to consider this when deciding what to invest into. We can’t all be experts on everything so we make decisions, consciously and unconsciously about when and where to draw the line based on what information is available, how it’s presented and how much the value/work tradeoff is to study/consume it in that format.

I think the sting comes when we see people ignore low hanging fruit especially willfully but we would be less critical of someone saying that the task at hand is beyond their current capacity that someone else might be better suited to a particular task or topic.

memco commented on Kermit: A typeface for kids   microsoft.design/articles... · Posted by u/nmcfarl
bjourne · 4 months ago
It's a very beautiful font. I'd love to use a monospace variant of the font for coding.
memco · 4 months ago
Jury is out for me on the style appeal but I too would like to try this in an IDE or terminal that supports tbe animation.
memco commented on The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters   utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/NGRhodes
egberts1 · 5 months ago
For those that are exploring software-based public certificate and OpenSSH, Ive broken down the settings for most PKI handlers.

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/openssh-file-authorized_key...

memco · 5 months ago
Thanks for sharing this! I think I may now have what I need to set up a system with multi-user shared keys that only work for a given set of users.
memco commented on Actually drawing some ovals – that are not ellipses (2017)   medium.com/@brunopostle/a... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
memco · 5 months ago
Did I miss where an actual oval is explained in this method? I assume it is just drawing the same arc upside down but wanted to be sure there isn’t a follow up post or something.
memco commented on Understanding Smallpond and 3FS   definite.app/blog/smallpo... · Posted by u/mritchie712
memco · 6 months ago
Love this straightforward analysis of use cases:

> Using smallpond and 3FS depends largely on your data size and infrastructure:

> Under 10TB: smallpond is likely unnecessary unless you have very specific distributed computing needs. A single-node DuckDB instance or simpler storage solutions will be simpler and possibly more performant.

> 10TB to 1PB: smallpond begins to shine. You'd set up a cluster with several nodes, leveraging 3FS or another fast storage backend to achieve rapid parallel processing.

> Over 1PB (Petabyte-Scale): smallpond and 3FS were explicitly designed to handle massive datasets. At this scale, you'd need to deploy a larger cluster with substantial infrastructure investments.

Makes it very easy to determine if this would be useful for me and how much work I would expect to do to use it.

u/memco

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