johnnydecimal, 11 days ago to random

Yeah ha ha that Google’s AI tells you to eat rocks sometimes but y’all have heard of olives right? The food served with a tiny rock in the middle?

The reason I have a molar implant that cost me about ten grand?

Imagine if they sold pies with rocks in them. I’d be able to sue Big Pie. But olives, sure, they’re ‘natural’, great, ship ‘em.

johnnydecimal, 12 days ago to random

A curious incident. Can anyone offer pointers?

Wednesday night we stayed in a motor lodge. Lucy booked it via Booking.com.

Thursday 16:00 she got an email from Booking.com saying ‘your review is live!’. She had written no such review, whose title was ‘Godd’, had no content, and was a 10 rating.

(This motor lodge was okay. A ten it was not.)

Thursday 21:00 she got an email from Booking.com asking her to review the property.

WTF. She’s contacting Booking.com now.

johnnydecimal, 14 days ago to random

Independent of each other, Lucy and I discovered Hans Rosling. Me via @sarajw I believe?

Anyway, she currently has his book ‘Factfulness’ on loan from the library.

And I just got a notification from the library that my reservation of ‘Factfulness’ is now available and is ready for collection.

We had no idea. Totally independent lines of thought.

(We’ve already both read his bio, ‘How I Learned to Understand the World’. A delight.)

adam, 15 days ago to random

Have a quick chat and then see if you can guess whether you chatted with a person or an AI.

https://app.humanornot.ai

I’ve done two so far, and was wrong both times. 💀

johnnydecimal, 16 days ago to random

The newspaper used to cost money.

I'd buy the Independent for my train ride to London. Back in the early 2000s I guess it was about a pound. Every day I'd spend a pound to read the news.

Hundreds of thousands of people would do the same. That money went to the newspaper, who used it to sustain their business; to pay their rent.

And to pay the journalists that wrote all the content. Who then used that money to pay their rent, and to eat.

Doesn't seem that difficult a concept to grasp?

johnnydecimal, 17 days ago to random

My sister was rescued today by a man from Kettering.

She got a flat tyre. Cars these days don’t come with a spare. (Who knew?) The inflate-with-foam can from the service station didn’t work.

It’s Sunday morning in the UK. She’d been at a service station for 3 hours. Everything’s closed.

Then a random man noticed, and offered to help.

“Drive my car home”, he said. So she’s on her way back to Bristol in his Mercedes.

Most people are amazing.

Very, very few aren’t. Don’t let them ruin it.

santiago, 18 days ago to random

So as (someone?) recommended, I installed Keka instead of the Unarchiver and it looks nice but I am sure the next time I need to know what’s it called I will have no idea.

Please name your apps like “Keka archiver” or something old people with defective memory chips may find by searching. “Made a zip in keka. Attached it to a mail I wrote in Groumpf to a contact I had stored in Yoplà based on a note from Joplin” (at least one of these is an actual app).

johnnydecimal, 18 days ago to CSS

Any #CSS gurus want to help me solve a puzzle? Maybe @robb? Honestly I don't know where to start.

The 'Location' box at the top of my page works great. Except on landscape mobile, where the corners are all janky as the lines don't line up: see screenshot.

But if I take my desktop browser, pop it in responsive mode, and shrink the window: it's A-OK!

WTF?

A screenshot of Safari in responsive mode. The window is 591px wide and the lines look great!

robb, 20 days ago to random

Trying Raycast: Part Two https://rknight.me/blog/trying-raycast-part-two/

In this second part I dig into extensions including building some of my own.

Part one: https://rknight.me/blog/trying-raycast-part-one/
My Raycast extensions and scripts: https://github.com/stars/rknightuk/lists/raycast-extensions

#WeblogPoMo2024

robb, 22 days ago to random

📺 Watched: Clarkson's Farm Season 3 https://rknight.me/almanac/tv/2024-05-21-clarksons-farm/

I love this show so much.

vwbusguy, 22 days ago to ChatGPT

#ChatGPT failed hard on this one.

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johnnydecimal, 23 days ago to random

“Are you also neat in real life?”, people sometimes ask.

Well, I just folded the socks.

#WeblogPoMo2024

https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0051-socks/

johnnydecimal, 23 days ago to random

By the way, follow @alt_text and it’ll follow you back and then when you forget to alt-text your images, it’ll send you a little toot!

Terrific service.

johnnydecimal, 25 days ago to random

Which apps do I use?

#WeblogPoMo2024

https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0049-which-apps-do-i-use/

johnnydecimal, 27 days ago to random

Absolutely perfect.

> Once you sign into the email, it’ll ask you to create a Microsoft Teams account. You’ll find the link to the document in the Teams channel called “NO DOCUMENTS LINKS!!!” From there, you’ll find a link to a couple of WeTransfers of the current .docs. Every WeTransfer link is expired. To find the non-expired link, you’ll have to look through the email thread I forwarded you saying, “FYI.”

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-comments-are-in-the-google-doc-linked-in-the-dropbox-i-sent-in-the-slack

johnnydecimal, 27 days ago to random

Request for help: how do I learn Mac software development?

I’m looking for is a list of the best resources. Including but not limited to:

• YouTube channels.
• Courses, paid included.
• Blogs or other personal sites that will tell me what to do.
• Podcasts? Though I don’t see audio as the ideal medium here.

Who’s the Wes Bos of Swift? Who will mainline me information as fast as I can absorb it?

#WeblogPoMo2024

https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0047-mac-software-dev-help/

robb, 1 month ago to random

I have a parcel arriving to today. No idea what it is or who it’s from. Proper exciting.

johnnydecimal, 1 month ago to random

How I feel about AI.

> The phone rings.
“Hello, this is John Noble from the late 1980s.”

#WeblogPoMo2024

https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0041-how-i-feel-about-ai/

MLE_online, 1 month ago to random

There aren't enough corned beef recipes. It's basically just corned beef and cabbage, corned beef hash, reubens or make it into pastrami

robb, 1 month ago to random

7622 https://rknight.me/blog/7622/

Wanna know the ridiculous reason I spell my name with 2 Bs? You got it.

#WeblogPoMo2024

matt, 1 month ago to random

The average iPhone user has a Windows computer, not a Mac. I feel like this is something we in the Apple enthusiast space forget like…all the time.

sarajw, 1 month ago to CSS

Hopefully quick CSS question:

If you declare layers in one stylesheet, do you have to have the styles associated with those layers within or imported into the same stylesheet, or can they exist in completely different files, as long as they're all linked into the same html via the head?

Thank you!

#CSS

robb, 1 month ago to random

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