my favorite that I have set up is a tag in my bathroom that shows me today’s weather and chance of rain when im brushing my teeth - I haven’t been caught by surprise in the rain since :)

it’s not an actual limitation on the harness.

cognitive debt is a real problem in my domain (embedded software) because AI simply can’t debug the symptom when the reasons for the bug aren’t in code, and a stack trace may not exist. finding the REALLY hard bugs requires in depth systems understanding and the ability to connect things you’ve seen around the codebase together - and the fix usually isn’t adding code, which means the patchwork fixes Claude likes to do only makes things worse.

that said, it’s made writing harnesses and supporting tools WAY easier and faster, and my workflow is better for it. Searching the git history for the why of things is also made way easier; helping me to reason more effectively

For determining the number of balls, i had an idea but not sure of how well it’d fit in. Could you feed the listing title, unit count, and description into an LLM with a basic “figure out how many balls are in this listing and make sure that number makes sense with the price” prefix prompt and then store that number with the ASIN? One LLM call per product should be pretty low cost, and it could automate a bunch of repetitive manual work

Does anyone know of alternatives with 1) decent discovery for new music 2) preferably not self hosted 3) a functional Linux desktop app 4) allows downloading playlists for offline listening

getting all of these in one place and having them work well is why I’ve been stuck with Spotify for so long :/

My favorite is still Mar’s law:

> Mar's Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.

I have the SS-02, and I like it - I had one of the cheap blue ones first, but the pliable rubber tip really makes a difference. If you’re soldering smd by hand, it’s more than worth the $20

the complexity is high, but how else can you tell a cable that supports USB4 (40GBps) from one that’s only good for charging your phone (and everything in between)? users aren’t going to be able to tell the difference (using a cable with no data lines is already a super common issue with people getting into MCUs) so the device needs to be able to tell how much data and power the connected cable can distribute automatically.

this also why usb-c extension cables (M-F) aren’t spec complaint

it’s a real cool port, but the complexity demon is definitely present in the spec :)

real

compared to every exception-based language I’ve used, rust error handling is a dream. my one complaint is async, but tbh I don’t think exceptions would fare much better since things like the actor model just don’t really support error propagation in any meaningful way

if you think recreation.gov is bad, wait until you see the sites state parks use for reservations - especially those ran by usedirect

example: https://www.reservecalifornia.com/Web/

Something I’ve been looking for for a while is an interactive view of SF from above - I think it’d be cool to experience the verticality of SF and see how all the different hills relate to each other (and gmaps/earth just isn't cutting it).

this is actually pretty good for around the panhandle, but if anyone is aware of something like that for the whole city please let me know!

honestly, I like articles that are “a list of vim tips”. I can usually find some really good ideas that I didn’t consider. The tip about remapping copy to system clipboard to something easier than ‘“+y’ is genius, definitely using that.