Tim Mattison

Building software and riding EUCs - - only tech

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I'd certainly say that finding the number 45 in the number 1284 is a false positive...

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Did gas prices come down on day 1? Is he technically correct because he didn’t say they’d stay down?

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Airport security thought his hot chocolate powder could have been plastic explosives.

Powder.

Plastic.

Then they just pivoted and said it must be drugs.

They said he was uncooperative. Why would you just trust what someone says is in their luggage?

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@chrismunns I said the same thing the second I saw this

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I rarely use Windows but nothing makes me feel worse when I use it than watching InstallShield drop 14 years of VCredist garbage all over the machine

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Yeah, I guess that last post somehow decided it wasn't multiple posts...

Anyway, these coding tools are trying to be clever managing their state and failing spectacularly.

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Let's try again, post 2.

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I should just stop now. I posted two messages just now and only the last one showed up on X.

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I've seen tabs disappear. I've seen tabs rename themselves after I've renamed them. I've seen tabs show me just part of a conversation making it look like the work is complete.

Stop getting clever and make the backend simple.

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OK, I tried Nimbalyst and I think I'm done. The number of tabs that just randomly disappear, rename themselves, or move so you think they're gone is giving me PTSD.

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I tried to upload a video about shitty UX and the shitty UX of X prevented me from doing it

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The only people working are the ones who immediately notice Claude's partial outages

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Beware of the latest IRS scam.

File your taxes with the same address, same information, same tax provider, same bank account for years. And then? Poof! The IRS needs to verify your identity to hold onto your refund for an another 11 weeks (2 to mail the letter, 9 to process)

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Wonder if this bug report will ever get looked at https://t.co/0KAVjfs5c2

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Is this how it's supposed to work? @theo

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I really was planning on going for the Mac Studio with 512 GB of RAM. But apparently Apple's not doing that anymore. Maybe that's better for my wallet.

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TSA not paid for a month now. Ouch

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Who is making gas prices high now?

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Eventual consistency

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Changing our clocks rules. Didn’t Windows 95 have a bug like this?