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Apple Bugs

The days of quality apple products and support are long gone, if they ever did exist and weren't just a marketing illusion, and you if you need reliability go elsewhere. Post all the bugs and customer service issues you have run into.

Past and Current Generation Issues:

• iPhone 16e bluetooth audio stuttering
  • upon return of the devices at 14 days of receipt, apple store employee acted as if he was doing us a favour, as he believes the 2 week return period is from the time the (pre)order is placed, and not when the customer receives the order - this is not the case under australia consumer law, and in any practical sense, especially for pre-orders
• If you get an AirPods Pro 2 replaced under AppleCare+ they will not transfer the AppleCare+ to the new unit, and instead will require over 5 calls over 5 hours to them days appart to try and resolve
• App Store Review developer responses will send a notification every few hours, requiring you to disable it

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Modern Web Stack

Find the list of projects here: https://github.com/stars/balupton/lists/modern-web-stack

All choices are made to set you on the best path from the start, without learning any unnecessary complexity or skills. All technologies are highly internationally employable. Things like Amazon AWS may be more employable, but it is an inferior offering compared to the Cloudflare stack and AWS's domination is only maintained by usage inertia and enterprise promotions. Cloudflare has caching, threat protection, and unlimited scale for everything you could ever want to do, with a superior underlying tech stack.

Code everything in TypeScript, now you have one language for the server and the client, that ensures you have written correct code. If you are coding in PHP, like it is the 00s, then you must learn PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, in a fragile stack that does not scale. If you are coding in Node.js or Deno, you are coding in a complicated stack that requries so m

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

cache_validity_seconds=600 # six hundred seconds in ten minutes
cache_checksum_tool='/opt/homebrew/bin/xxhsum' # xxhsum and b2sum are equivalent in speed, then openssl sha256, then b3sum
if [[ -n "$cache_validity_seconds" && -x "$cache_checksum_tool" ]]; then
	ppid=$$
	now_env="$(env -u TERM_SESSION_ID | sort)"
	context_id="$shell-$("$cache_checksum_tool" <<<"$now_env" | cut -f1 -d ' ')"
	lock_file="$XDG_CACHE_HOME/dorothy-environment-$context_id.lock" # this file is the process id that has the lock
	result_file="$XDG_CACHE_HOME/dorothy-environment-$context_id.result" # this file is the environment modifications for the environment vars we are valid for

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

out="$(mktemp)"
rm -f "$out"
clear

# results in jumbled lines: printf '%s\n' "stdout" > >(cat >> "$out"; echo a >> "$out") > >(cat >> "$out"; echo b >> "$out")

# this works, from rightmost to leftmost, >>/dev/tty has no effect
echo "=== $LINENO ==="

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Given the following code:

out="$(mktemp)"
rm -f "$out"
clear

printf '%s\n' 0 >"$out"
{
	printf '%s\n' '1' >/dev/stdout

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All Things Added, James Allen
https://james-allen.in1woord.nl/?text=all-these-things-added

9. Greatness And Goodness

GOODNESS, simplicity, greatness — these three are one, and this trinity of perfection cannot be separated. All greatness springs from goodness, and all goodness is profoundly simple, Without goodness there is no greatness. Some men pass through the world as destructive forces, like the tornado or the avalanche, but they are not great; they are to greatness as the avalanche is to the mountain. The work of greatness is enduring and preservative, and not violent and destructive. The greatest souls are the most gentle.

Greatness is never obtrusive. It works in silence, seeking no recognition. This is why it is not easily perceived and recognized. Like the mountain, it towers up in its vastness, so that those in its immediate vicinity, who receive its shelter and shade, do not see it. Its sublime grandeur is only beheld as they recede from it. The great man is not seen by his contemporaries; the 

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Posted on https://www.last.fm/music/Bloc+Party/Another+Weekend+In+The+City/+shoutbox?sort=popular

I was an original compiler of this, though track listing changed.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100914172131/https://www.last.fm/user/balupton links a 2017 journal entry where I shared my track listing (the actual entry was not archived, my llast.fm account was deleted when last.fm was acquired by CBS, and the computer with the full track listing crashed) 

From fragments of various backups, I compiled two albums

My incomplete track listing for "Another Weekend in the City”
01 England
02 Emma Kate's Accident

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<link rel="preconnect" href="https://rsms.me/" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://rsms.me/inter/inter.css" />
<style>
  :root,
  html,
  body
  article,
  p,
  h1,
  h2,

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Upload a File to Cloudflare R2 Instructions

The instructions are multifold, before we begin, consider what you will call the bucket for your files. E.g. my-storage-bucket.

Cloudflare R2 is free for the first 10GB of storage, then is $0.015/GB-month of storage. R2 uniquely does not charge for transfers, for uploading and downloading.

References used to construct this guide:

• https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/#class-a-operations
• https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/api/s3/tokens/

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# test input/output availability, accurately but noisely
(: </dev/stdin || printf '%s\n' 'cannot read stdin') || :
(: >/dev/stdin || printf '%s\n' 'cannot write stdin') || :
(: </dev/stdout || printf '%s\n' 'cannot read stdout') || :
(: >/dev/stdout || printf '%s\n' 'cannot write stdout') || :
(: </dev/stderr || printf '%s\n' 'cannot read stderr') || :
(: >/dev/stderr || printf '%s\n' 'cannot write stderr') || :
(: </dev/tty || printf '%s\n' 'cannot read tty') || :
(: >/dev/tty || printf '%s\n' 'cannot write tty') || :