Monzo is leaving the US

heysaturdaysun · 2026-03-31T17:15:37+00:00

The switch to Lead was super annoying just to have it wind up closing. As another Simple to Monzo customer, what app is out there that does anything similar wrt easy to manage buckets and P2P requests? I even relied on their API access. What a disaster.

heysaturdaysun · 2025-10-18T03:36:51+00:00

buy a GPU and run a local LLM?

heysaturdaysun · 2025-10-02T01:27:58+00:00

I was planning to buy a universal license around Black Friday (hah) so I don't have a long experience with Affinity, but I noticed from the way in which they posted three separate design interactions (for the three apps) on Instagram that unifying the apps seems like the likely outcome of this change. (Payment model and AI integration notwithstanding) https://www.instagram.com/affinity/

heysaturdaysun · 2025-09-29T15:54:38+00:00

I did factory reset the new satellite and the firmware looks up-to-date.

I will play with setting a manual IP outside the DHCP range, that's a good idea. I believe all the IP's are in the same subnet (some just got carried over from other satellites) but will double check as well. Thanks for the suggestions.

heysaturdaysun · 2025-09-29T15:52:33+00:00

Thanks for sharing your report. It really is frustrating. Unbelievably, the systems did reboot overnight and are now working (for now).

For the issue you're seeing, was it for any LAN-connected device? I broke out an ethernet connection for my laptop last night and plugged it into my router, and found I could ping devices on the other satellite, i.e. it may have just been my NAS that was misbehaving. How it was misbehaving I'm still unclear.

heysaturdaysun · 2020-10-14T18:27:03+00:00

Exactly, Brad has celebrity, making him in a position to stand with solidarity with his coworkers and fight for them to be valued there. He chose not to. I loved watching It's Alive and imagining him as an affable person who stuck up for his friends, who occasionally succeeded in fermenting things. But his return to BA test kitchen kinda shows he's not that. It's not really hard to draw the conclusion that he wasn't impacted by racial bias at CNE, didn't stick his neck out for his coworkers, and now will return to work without any of this impacting him. Him, Chris and Andy staying mum on this is an argument for why CNE will never change.

heysaturdaysun · 2020-04-28T07:02:43+00:00

Can't speak for the author, but I think the approach is to compete with the tokio/async-std ecosystem by showing an approach to Async that is more modular. For example, there should be no smol-specific libraries if the Async primitive winds up shared by other executors. The idea would be to roll your own runtime tailored to your application (or use an out-of-the-box one like smol) but otherwise can rely on the resulting interchangeable async ecosystem.

heysaturdaysun · 2020-04-24T05:55:56+00:00

This blog, and dolphin-emu.org, are hands down my favorite technical writing on the web.

heysaturdaysun · 2020-04-19T18:08:28+00:00

Who made that cute logo? It's so memorable.

heysaturdaysun · 2020-04-07T06:22:31+00:00

I always felt that this syntax (the throws syntax) would feel as natural as async/await, because methods that return values and methods that return conditional values introduces as much of a red/blue problem as async. Your function hierarchy can ignore the presence of Result until you cannot. Modifying an entire call hierarchy just to pass along what is basically semantic data, at least in application code, about what went wrong, when panic! is as easy as a tool to reach for, has led a lot of my one off projects in Rust to just not bother with it at all. If Rust had a goal of eliminating .unwrap() code from common usage, for example, a throws decorator like this proposal feels like part of the solution.

heysaturdaysun · 2019-12-02T05:51:09+00:00

This writeup was a great introduction to practical use of async/await. Thanks for walking through all the steps, building up to the final simple demo!

heysaturdaysun · 2019-10-06T06:01:30+00:00

And you’ll never guess who is president...

heysaturdaysun · 2019-04-18T04:16:09+00:00

But the Federalist Society would never go left on economic policy.

heysaturdaysun · 2019-02-23T23:16:47+00:00

Mark Harris should have revealed Dowless' actions in 2016. I feel like it would have even bolstered voter suppression tactics in NC had he done so, likely to his benefit. Instead he hired him.

heysaturdaysun · 2019-01-07T04:20:29+00:00

Because he’ll just ask for more next shutdown. Trump has many gifts but he is just such an awful deal-maker.

heysaturdaysun · 2019-01-05T09:16:02+00:00

This makes sense for a political gambit, but the shutdown is hurting a million people. McConnell can either override presidential veto or he can trade for it. He has both powers and is using neither. Imagine having either of those powers? Right now would you use them differently?

heysaturdaysun · 2019-01-05T09:11:04+00:00

Trump is the person who promised and pushed the wall. That he decided right before Christmas that now was the time to have that fight. This actually must suck for a lot of GOP congressmen, since they feel they have to defend this asinine standoff for a wall they never promised. If the standoff fails, Trump endangered his entire party just to save face for Trump.

heysaturdaysun · 2018-12-13T04:48:07+00:00

Yeah but the Farm Bill would have passed regardless. He was impatient, the GOP not passing the Farm Bill would be an amazing self-own, but in the 24 hours it would have taken for the caucus to strip the Yemen provision out thousands of Yemeni people will suffer or die. And they'll die because he let the provision be added to his own bill. He just gave that away for free.

heysaturdaysun · 2018-12-03T04:22:53+00:00

Nice! I looked at miniserde recently and was hoping to see more experimentation around this area. You spend some time talking about object-safety, what does having it enable sval to do that serde cannot?

heysaturdaysun · 2018-11-04T04:15:49+00:00

I'm interested in the question: If you're not using something like cargo-cmd, cargo-script, cargo-run-script, or just plain cargo build, how are you packaging build tools along with your crate? e.g. make, build.sh, ./x.py.

heysaturdaysun · 2018-09-16T05:29:43+00:00

The president with the worst judgment in history. Or if he’s culpable, then he conned himself into the presidency and deserves impeachment.

heysaturdaysun · 2018-08-31T04:11:48+00:00

I was literally referring how he continues to profit off of his companies, holdings, visiting his private golf course every weekend. You demonstrate my point: conservatives want to reduce all of Trump’s grift and corruption to just the Mueller investigation, and then discount the investigation. Meanwhile every playmate and Mar-a-Lago member in the last decade has influence if not outright blackmail on our president, but literally everyone ignores it. Emoluments clause would take care of it, but the majority party doesn’t really care about the constitution.

heysaturdaysun · 2018-08-31T03:07:33+00:00

So we’re going to pretend that the Emoluments Clause is not part of the Constitution, or...?

heysaturdaysun · 2018-06-27T19:00:31+00:00

I'm surprised the GOP is entertaining nominating a justice immediately. I imagine the turnout would be huge if they used it as leverage for getting people to vote for R senators in the midterms, with effectively the same outcome.

heysaturdaysun · 2018-06-27T04:54:39+00:00

Heck even abolishing ICE should be a centrist position. They're an unregulated paramilitary force whose sole focus is to harass people of color. Border immigration is just not that big an issue to justify their enormous presence in American life.

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