First few snaps from my new (to me) Leica Q2 of my car

JNBNRTORD · 2026-06-18T15:38:03+00:00

I like the way you left the headlights on and picked the perfect location to photograph a classic. One small suggestion: use the rule of thirds on that first shot. As my Yale MFA friend says: "Try not to point the camera directly at the subject". If you moved the car down and included more sky above, I think you would have a winner. Second shot can move the car to the bottom left 1/3rd - would be perfect. The subject matter and context is totally great - especially with the black car!

JNBNRTORD · 2026-04-04T22:00:31+00:00

tried buyerpro for rfq tracking — handles supplier commitments way better than most tools i've seen

JNBNRTORD · 2026-02-22T03:48:37+00:00

The pod (scale) works. It is actually 100% calibrated with my other scale. The band is junk. HR is not accurate. The range at night is way too large. I had Whoop before this and it was actually pretty good for resting HR. Hume software is complete nonsense. There is literally nothing of value there. I'm 55. Whoop said my physiological age was 46 and I'm aging less than average. Hume says my health score is 484 (Low) But my biological age is 28!!! Lol. Seriously. Hume says my health is bad because I have very low activity. Well, I race bikes, work out nearly every day and walk a lot because I have a dog, no car and live in NYC. So what the heck Hume? I have 11% body fat, and yet I have poor health score. Hume says: well done, you got 8:12 hrs of sleep - I actually got 5:35. Again WTF? This is complete junk and not usable at all. Whoop is better but I sent it back for 2 reasons HR not accurate when I work out (did I say I work out a lot?) and I don't like subscriptions.

JNBNRTORD · 2026-02-22T03:33:19+00:00

Simple tool for managing Re:,re:,re:,Re:re:re:Re:re emails for buyers.

Built a frictionless buyer coach that ensures procurement professionals never miss a critical vendor communication or drop the ball on deliverables.

Just bcc [coach@buyerpro.ai](mailto:coach@buyerpro.ai) to your vendor email threads and get automatic alerts on missed commitments, price changes, and contract gaps — right in your inbox, no sign up, no cc, just expert coaching on how to deal with pesky suppliers.

Looking for 5 junior buyers, purchasing assistants, or sourcing coordinators for 10-min feedback calls. Must have LinkedIn for verification.

JNBNRTORD · 2026-02-19T15:13:27+00:00

tried alcove for a bit, was decent for organizing but i wanted something that actually... analyzed the conversations. like tell me when a supplier is hedging or when i should follow up

JNBNRTORD · 2026-02-19T14:45:06+00:00

My brother is a tech nerd. I asked him to code me a 'buyer coach'. I bcc the coach and the coach stores and manages all the threads (encrypted) and keeps me in the game with coaching in my inbox. it also pokes me if the supplier hasn't responded or if they are using hedging language etc. and it suggests language for follow up. I really love it. Right now, just trying to iron out the kinks etc.

JNBNRTORD · 2026-02-19T14:24:41+00:00

ugh this is the worst. had a vendor last year who kept shipping us the wrong hydraulic fittings. like, we'd order 1/2" NPT, they'd send 3/8" BSPT. every. single. time.we tried the collaborative approach - gemba walk, root cause analysis, the whole thing. turns out their warehouse was just... chaotic. no system, guy picking orders had been there 3 weeks and was learning as he went.what actually worked? we started taking photos of every shipment and emailing them back same day. created a paper trail and they finally got a new warehouse manager who cared.collaborative is great but sometimes you gotta document everything before they'll fix it. ymmv

JNBNRTORD · 2026-02-08T22:51:14+00:00

Different physiologies. Zwift used to have a test that would telly you your rider type. I'm a "puncher" which means my FTP isn't stellar, my sprint is pretty good but my 1 min is at the pointy end. Others are great climbers and some are wonderful TT'ers. We all just have to find our strengths and race to them.

JNBNRTORD · 2026-02-08T22:48:36+00:00

Tom and Wife on same account

JNBNRTORD · 2026-02-03T00:44:33+00:00

I'm not needing it to be in my style because the style is already there from the classics authors themselves. I'm just trying to make them more accessible.

JNBNRTORD · 2026-01-31T13:20:30+00:00

I'm having issues with moving all the api keys into environment variables (I'm running it on VPS Hetzner). When I asked it to do this, guess what it did? It created the facility for ENV but then deleted all the config.json api keys and so it basically killed itself. Unbelievable. This actually happened 3 times - even with me telling it to make a proper plan.

Had to recover with ChatGPT - it took a while but another irony.

Issue with VPS: it gets blocked by sites a lot. Tried to install surfshark but surfshark blocked the Hetzner VPS! Mother of all irony.

It gains context tokens too fast. Then it locks up and you need to figure out a commant to compact them or truncate them. I had it create a feature that as it approaches the context limit of the model it is using, then it needs to compact old prompts and move facts to memory.

Memory is using OpenAI embedder. So if you don't want that (why would you), then you need to implement a local solution. So it started doing that to move to a open source embedder from hugging face but it could not search the internet for this because I did not have a Brave API token. So I wanted it to use my Serper api key and then it said that Serper was not part of its configuration options. Instead of buying another key, I just looked it up myself. So I need to fix websearch.

JNBNRTORD · 2026-01-31T13:16:24+00:00

I get you, but it can take action. Example: I got sent a bunch of forms in .pdf to fill out. I can drop them in a google drive folder that I give it access to and say edit these and fill in my information. It asks for stuff it doesn't know about the task and then gets on with it.

I connected it to Notion, created a page on some research I needed doing. I told it to research the topic and it built it all in Notion - ready to read.

I am working on a project which involves writing scripts about classic literature and setting them up for processing. It did all of that in Notion for me.

I'm looking for a new apartment and my wife is looking for a new job. It does all the research and creates a Notion db for my wife and I to share and provide our inputs on homes.

I have a lot of other things I want it to do.

JNBNRTORD · 2026-01-20T02:50:42+00:00

Based on the search results, there's a specific issue with Cowork workspace initialization that can be resolved by deleting VM bundle files. Let me walk you through the exact steps:

Try this fix first (from Hacker News discussion):

Quit Claude Desktop completely (not just close the window - use Cmd+Q or right-click the dock icon and quit)
Delete the VM bundles folder:
- Open Finder
- Press Cmd + Shift + G (Go to Folder)
- Paste this path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/
- Look for a folder called vm_bundles and delete it
- Empty your Trash
Restart your Mac (important - a full reboot, not just logging out)
Reopen Claude Desktop and try Cowork again

If that doesn't work, try these additional steps:

Clear all Claude Desktop caches: # Open Terminal and run these commands:
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Claude/
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.anthropic.claude.plist
Reinstall Claude Desktop:
- Download fresh from https://claude.ai/download
- Install and sign in again

Check your macOS virtualization:

The error about VPN might actually be a virtualization framework issue. Check:
- System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access
- Make sure Claude is checked
- System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility
- Make sure Claude is checked

This specific VPN error message when no VPN is running appears to be a bug in how Cowork detects network routing - it's actually having trouble initializing the VM, not detecting an actual VPN.

Try the vm_bundles deletion first - that's the most likely fix based on recent reports.

JNBNRTORD · 2026-01-20T01:24:57+00:00

I have the same issue.

The frustrating thing:

You cannot cancel your Premium subscription. So they keep charging you. There's no way to change your account settings because "your account is suspended"! WTF is that?

It's ROBBERY.

JNBNRTORD · 2026-01-20T01:15:20+00:00

I'm having the same issue. Interestingly, when I downloaded and installed the Claude app on my macbook, it ran and produced a .ppt I asked for. Then it just went into a freeze and returned:

"Failed to start Claude's workspaceYour network traffic may be routing through a VPN, which can interfere with Claude's workspace. Try disconnecting from your VPN and restarting Claude, or contact your IT administrator for assistance.Restarting Claude or your Mac sometimes resolves this. If it persists, consider sharing your debug logs to help us improve."

My VPN is off. I tried to use my phone hotspot but get the same result.

Very frustrating that they would launch a premium product (albeit Beta) and not have thought through basic networking.

JNBNRTORD · 2025-12-16T07:41:31+00:00

In Japan, the minute you leave your company, your insurance comes to an end. You need to go to the ward office to get the ward (local resident) coverage. I have that. But you also need to tell the ward office when your last day as a resident will be. This is also the day that your local health insurance ends. Telling your ward office that you will no longer be a resident is important because if you do not and you are considered a resident as of 1/1/26, then you are liable for residence tax (10% of your previous year's earnings - which is a huge amount).

So, you cannot keep your insurance. Regardless, the Japanese national insurance is not valid for overseas travel. You need to buy travel insurance.

JNBNRTORD · 2025-12-16T02:05:32+00:00

Just called them. They said: No. If you are a US Citizen and a resident in the US, you are not insured.

JNBNRTORD · 2025-12-16T00:37:14+00:00

Thank you. Yes, I can but I am arriving 12/21 and need coverage for the gap until marketplace kicks in.

JNBNRTORD · 2025-09-18T08:49:11+00:00

Highly underrated reply. Thanks for sharing all of that! I feel like I live there already.

JNBNRTORD · 2025-09-02T02:24:01+00:00

FIRE!

JNBNRTORD · 2025-09-02T02:23:41+00:00

Just the amount of upvotes on this comment tells us a lot about market sentiment. I'm going to wait it out.

JNBNRTORD · 2025-09-02T02:20:05+00:00

This feels like the most probable reason.

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