I used to upgrade every 2 years until I got an iPhone 15 Pro. I was going to ride or die with my 13 mini but I really wanted to get all my devices on usb-c. I splurged on my current phone with the intention to keep it for a long time. Going on 3 years now.
I used to go hard on the androids with rooting and customizing. I’ve since resigned myself to wanting a phone that “just works.”
I’ve been in a similar situation, and what I wound up doing was what you describe as a “catch up” job. I do as much work as I can before I can’t anymore, store the result, and then continue from the failure point at a later time. It does feel a bit disgusting with a lot more moving parts but you gotta get a little creative with unreliable APIs. Gotta be careful with this though, because if you try and run this catchup at the start of every new run of the job then you can see how the backlog could quickly grow impossibly large if you don’t allow requests to ultimately fail and drop out of the queue entirely.
Also there’s not really anything you can do if the pagination methodology of the API is changed without warning. If the provider has some way to subscribe to API changes, like a newsletter, then you could get on that. Otherwise all you can really do is set up some alerting if you can reliably recognize when you’re only getting a partial data set.
This would have been excellent at around ~$600USD
I was a little miffed when I finally convinced my parents to get me a used GameCube for $100, only for the retail price to drop to $100 a couple months later.
Yeah, I follow a few YouTube channels with it. I also use the “random Wikipedia article” feature. I used to also track a couple subreddits but I think that broke lately with one of Reddit’s updates.
On iOS this is my favorite RSS reader: feeeed
Free, really nice interface, and lots of really useful features.
That’s nuts!
I was getting annoyed when they had a brief period where it seemed like every new feature was AI-related but they’ve calmed down on it a bit, thankfully. Just flip the no-AI toggle and still enjoy everything else they’ve done lately, like better HDR support, YouTube improvements, pdf tools, vertical tabs, containers, etc.
I constantly see these devices recommended in my NextDoor feed (it’s like Facebook but for your neighborhood.) I always intervene and point out these devices are really insecure and nobody should be using them, but old people just love the convenience it advertises.
Someone needs to write an article for old people to explain in the simplest terms why these devices are bad.
This was actually tested in 2001 and found to be effective method to launch a crew into space
Have you never been to a school before
You’re upset a popular movie is getting another run in the theaters?
I’m not gonna judge the series before any footage is filmed. I like RoboCop, and I look forward to seeing if this is good.
I beat this game with some friends over two days. It’s really fun and worth the price in my opinion. I have some doubts about nerfing the pufferfish and whale though. We struggled with the pufferfish for a while until we finally got a good strategy down, so it felt really rewarding. And the whale we killed second try, we just all needed max damage assault rifles.
If anything, I think the third boss:
the giant seagull
would be the one that needs a slight nerf, or at least some way to stun it. Because you’re pretty fucked if you can’t twitch aim. Granted, we did not try using the smg for that boss, we all used sniper rifles.
It’s a really good show so far
squeeze your meat
Jackbox games of course. There’s also Genital Jousting.
That is an awesome dad
The lack of 4k 60fps video recording is a bummer for me personally.
Placing a new sticker on your family member’s gravestone is the modern fresh flowers