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I wonder why we don’t use them to build shade structures instead.

I like to create little businesses. Most of them are unsuccessful.

I tried to get a bit of business liability insurance, including E&O for this, but it’s proven to be somewhat difficult:

I do too many things.

I design and sell 3D printed plastic parts, write books, publish a blog, and publish software.

I’ve tried this like three times (it’s time consuming).

Last time I decided to stick with just digital assets and I put “software development” but listed my blog and books, figuring most software companies run forums, publish guides, and blog.

They declined because they don’t cover “publishers”.

I guess you need to buy insurance for each division or something.

I was just looking for some general business liability and E&O while I figure out what works.

I wrote How to Lose Money with 25-Years of Failed Businesses about some of my tries over the years.

https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...

I like to create little business try’s. Most of them are wildly unsuccessful. I tried to get a bit of business liability insurance, including E&O for this.

Why?

Because I do too many things.

I design and sell 3D printed plastic parts, write books, publish a blog, and publish software.

I’ve tried this like three times (it’s time consuming).

Last time I decided to stick with just digital assets and I put “software development” but listed my blog and books, figuring most software companies run forums, publish guides, and blog.

They declined because they don’t cover “publishers”.

I guess you need to buy insurance for each division or something.

I’d just like some general business liability and E&O while I figure out what works.

> they’re hamstrung by the terminal itself, which is almost always monospaced and thus fatiguing to read.

I recently re-built Blue, a minimalist text editor inspired by the Turbo Pascal and Turbo Basic editors of the late 1990's. It uses a fixed width font, because I prefer it.

https://github.com/codazoda/blue

Ender 3 V2 that I paid <$250 for about 5 years ago. It paid for itself on the first print job where I repaired some Samsung stove knobs where replacements were $400 a set.

I'm now considering an upgrade and I'll likely just go with the Ender 3 V3 Plus (bigger bed, auto leveling, still an offline printer) and < $450 for cost.

It's been a fantastic printer for me.

I use Cura, stick with standard settings, use Sun PLA+ for all my prints, and the only thing I really need to do is level the bed sometimes.

I went to work at a BBB office once. They turned all their computers off at night and every morning they were back on. It was just "normal" for them.

I can't even remember what problem I was troubleshooting. At the time I was working on IVR systems.

Anwayz, I was working late in their office. Everyone had turned off their computers and went home. At exactly Midnight, every computer in the office turned back on.

I walked around the office looking at desks wondering what had happened. On one persons desk was an alarm clock with a very quiet alarm buzzing. I checked the clock and it was set for midnight (probably a default). About two minutes later it turned off automatically.

I turned off computers and re-set the alarm to go off a few minutes later.

When that alarm clock went off it somehow caused either draw or feedback in the wiring that caused all the computers to turn back on. At the time I wondered if it had something to do with wake on lan.

In any case, I suggested that person take their alarm clock home.

At a global level the water stays around but at a local level it "vanishes into thin air".

I also hope that the fact I had OpenClaw in my sandbox once is not why I hit these limits so damn fast. I don't use it anymore and I've tried to rid my sandbox of anything "openclaw" but it is in my git history in various places on various projects. Claude doesn't seem to be transparent about this limitation.

Edit: I eventually recovered most of the cost via a settlement court.

Yes, the (senior) product and design people are part of the problem too.

We need to build simpler software that works.