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New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "The Classic American Diner"

TrueSlacker0 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:22:52 +0000

Insurance is not a fixed cost. Property and auto insurance are, but liability is a percentage of sales, its fixed for a year then adjusted for next years planned sales.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

TrueSlacker0 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:21:03 +0000

I personally i am in the other camp and think they got the language change absolutley wrong. I already have php installed on my server why do i need to install TypeScript? The easiest website to run is in php. All other languages add a barrier.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

TrueSlacker0 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:33:50 +0000

I am no longer in software as a day job so i am not sure of my input applys. I traded that world for opening a small brewery back in 2013. So I am a bit outdated on many modern trends but I still enjoy programming. In the last fee months using both gemeni and now movong over to claude, I have created at least 5 (and growing) small apps that have radically transformed what i am able to do at the business. I totally improved automation of my bookkeeping (~16hrs a month categorizing everything down to 3ish), created an immense amount of better reports on production, sales and predictions from a system i had already been slowly writing all these years, I created a run club rewards tracking app instead of relying on our paper method, improved upon a previously written full tv menu display system that syncs with our website and on premis tvs and now i am working on a full productive maintenance trigger system and a personal phone app to trigger each of these more easily. Its been a game changer for me. I have so many more ideas planned and each one frees up more of my waste time to create more.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

TrueSlacker0 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:48:35 +0000

A lot of those pros apply to c# as well. Which claude and gemeni both do very well with.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta"

TrueSlacker0 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:24:38 +0000

"Right now if you have a full screen app on your main screen you can't even see what time it is."

This drives me crazy. I'm in a flow, distraction free via the full screen and break it to see what date or time it is. Even on a multi monitor setup. Which usually ends up meaning I get pulled out of that flow because I see a new notification on some other app or because I grabbed my phone to check that info.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

TrueSlacker0 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:44:17 +0000

*for now

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "iPhone Air"

TrueSlacker0 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:39:40 +0000

"iPhone Air will be available in four gorgeous finishes"

Didn't the hype train around the word "gorgeous" for software run its course? To me its an immediate turn.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "Everything I know about good API design"

TrueSlacker0 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:40:09 +0000

There is always an outlier, but Quickbooks is currently on minor version 75.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation"

TrueSlacker0 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:38:52 +0000

I'm sitting here in Texas paying apg&e an average rate last month of .141. And I thought that was high because a while back it was .11. And its probably mostly all renewable energy since we have windmills as far as the eye can see all around us and wind that never seems to stop.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

TrueSlacker0 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:01:13 +0000

You can run .net without azure very easily. I personally have 4x web apps written in .net 8, razor. They used to be on a aws windows instance years ago but it was overly expensive for what I needed. Then I switched them to a small digital ocean server running ubuntu. When I started these apps I wrote them on windows 7 for windows server. I switched the server probably 2 years ago. I recently made the switch off of windows to ubuntu as my daily driver, instead of going to 11. Everything still works great. I do miss visual studio, but I am getting used to linux and its tools now. Point is, server is running and there is zero azure involved.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "Where's Firefox going next?"

TrueSlacker0 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 02:08:01 +0000

I just made the switch to ubuntu as my main os from windows. Firefox on windows never seemed to have any problems. Now I keep getting the same problem as your computer a. It doesnt happen every time, and i havent figured out the pattern. But clicking the x to close a tab does nothing, middle clicking the tab still closes it. Any time this problem starts I also have issues using the mouse middle button to scroll (on all apps, not just ff) Very, very annoying. Since these issues seem linked it seems bigger than just ff.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "I made a chair"

TrueSlacker0 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 02:53:23 +0000

Use the ones with ht stamped on them. They are very common now. They are heat treated instead of extra chems.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal"

TrueSlacker0 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:11:37 +0000

If the network comes back up within 24hrs.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "What makes a great mocktail? (2018)"

TrueSlacker0 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:31:19 +0000

You don't have to ferment it to get a rich flavor. You just have to use fresh ginger instead of dried or powdered. We make it with Fresh Ginger, Lemon juice, orange juice, cane sugar and molasses. Then force carb.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "Books I Loved Reading in 2024"

TrueSlacker0 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:04:02 +0000

100% this. Sometimes it's audio books, sometimes it's long form podcasts. But usually I "find" about 20hrs a week for this and its been a great way to learn.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day"

TrueSlacker0 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:12:31 +0000

Seems odd to be one of the most blocked with zero posts

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "All the electricity you'll need for 40 years"

TrueSlacker0 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:58:30 +0000

I also thought this was an odd statement to see. Electric cars really haven't been around long enough to give that kind of respect to time. A few brands have but the newer models are totally different beasts.

Vs ice which easily last long, long past 200k. I'm at 240k right now and it still performs perfectly.

As a side note on the newer ice vehicles I don't see how those terrible tablets that control everything will last long enough for the other mechanical problems in the cars to show up.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs"

TrueSlacker0 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 23:33:41 +0000

"where I live the actual plumbers get licensed, not the plumbing company."

Which then leads to plumbing shops were the licensed plumber doesn't even work there and just rents out the license to the business so it can operate. Plumbing certs are a complete pyramid scheme.

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "California bans sell-by dates"

TrueSlacker0 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:39:42 +0000

Looking at TTB's mandatory items on labeling [1] there is nothing about any dates. Some states have different requirements, and I don't know California's, but many states do not require any kind of date coding.

[1] https://www.ttb.gov/regulated-commodities/beverage-alcohol/b...

New comment by TrueSlacker0 in "California bans sell-by dates"

TrueSlacker0 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:36:52 +0000

undesirable yes, but it wont be life threatening.

Also as you probably already know brett, lacto and pedio are desirable sometimes.