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New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "John C. Dvorak has died"

rhymeswithjazz — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:53:39 +0000

I clicked on this link with my 'experimental pointing device called a mouse'. Rest in peace from all the ships at sea.

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams"

rhymeswithjazz — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:30:41 +0000

I can't remember if it was specifically about Shwe Kokko but Search Engine did an episode about a city with compounds like these.

https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/whos-behind-these-scammy-text-...

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "Tesla Cybertruck No Match for Car Wash"

rhymeswithjazz — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:44:32 +0000

Appropriate dystopia for a dystopian vehicle.

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website"

rhymeswithjazz — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 23:27:25 +0000

There are three links at the bottom of that page that all still work. I'm a little surprised that link rot hasn't caught up to them.

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "Poll: Do you get along with your parents?"

rhymeswithjazz — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:45:12 +0000

My mom is basically an invalid at 65. She has supranuclear palsy. There’s just nothing there to get along with. It’s sad. My dad, I get along with okay, unless we talk politics. He thinks he knows everything from exclusively watching one news source. I’ve tried to get him to broaden his horizons, but he’s not interested. I wish he and I could talk about politics but it’s just not good for either of us.

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?"

rhymeswithjazz — Mon, 15 May 2023 10:38:47 +0000

Yeah, just finished it. It's a funny thing. My kids haven't watched a ton of Peppa Pig, but they all have managed to pickup what I'd call 'different' pronunciations and vocabulary than a lot of their peers.

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?"

rhymeswithjazz — Mon, 15 May 2023 10:27:25 +0000

I thought this was going to be another article about kids watching Peppa Pig. My three year old has a sort of mixed vocabulary, but mostly from watching Matilda, the Musical on repeat.

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "The networkQuality tool on macOS"

rhymeswithjazz — Sun, 14 May 2023 13:42:39 +0000

It's okay to be wrong.

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "The Epic Stack"

rhymeswithjazz — Fri, 12 May 2023 14:15:54 +0000

I thought I'd run through this just because I like Remix. It confirmed my prejudices against Fly. I've never gotten an app to deploy on Fly on the first try. There's always some error that I've got to debug and fix. I can't imagine recommending Fly as easy. Contrast to Vercel where everything just seems to work on the first try.

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "Incident with Issues and Pull Requests"

rhymeswithjazz — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:37:21 +0000

Another day, another outage. I'm getting 500 for any repo.

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "Honestly, It's Probably the Phones"

rhymeswithjazz — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:38:30 +0000

I did a two week experiment where I carried a small notebook and a phone with almost every app disabled. Whenever I would find myself wanting the answer to some question and couldn't just look it I would write it down in my notebook and then look the answers up later, if at all. It was sort of fun, maybe I should revisit it.

New comment by rhymeswithjazz in "Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls"

rhymeswithjazz — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:04:54 +0000

I've been using Vimium for years and while I don't use every feature that it has I feel completely lost on a machine that doesn't have it installed. Just the ability to scroll pages without having to take my hands off the keyboard is worth it for me.