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Rycaut

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Entrepreneur & Product Manager - currently looking for new opportunities. Likely starting a Fediverse related business to host, manage and extend instances for businesses and organizations. Writer and GM

https://calendly.com/rycaut to schedule meetings with me

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mwichary, to random
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In Gmail, searching for…

label:keyboard-secrets label:inbox

…doesn’t find all the relevant emails. I can see them in my inbox with the label as I navigate using < > buttons, but they aren’t all found when searching.

I thought this might have to do with the fact that perhaps not all the emails in threads get the right metadata, but even turning off “Conversation view” (threading) doesn’t solve the issue.

Is there a secret to making it happen? I’ve been googling and experimenting for a while.

Rycaut,
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@mwichary I use in:inbox not label:inbox not sure if that makes a difference.

(And since most emails I attach labels to I also remove from my inbox that might also be your problem? Messages showing in the label view that have been removed from your inbox?)

Rycaut,
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@mwichary I need to go edit my (eh too many) filters but I think there is an option with filters to have them automatically archive/remove messages that met the filter condition from the inbox. You might check if you have such a filter active.

Threaded view also has a bad habit of marking every email read even if you didn’t actually scroll down to every email in the “thread” something that has bitten me a few times (along with gmail shortening messages causing me to miss other key details)

Rycaut,
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@mwichary they are there in the “all messages” view which I usually default to anyway because I don’t trust gmail’s automatic filters. But yes gmail is bad at what should be basic stuff (like seeing the size of messages - not just attachments)

Rycaut,
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@katzenschiff @mwichary indeed just encountered this "fun" feature from gmail.

Did a search of my inbox for receipts (subject: receipt) as I periodically label and archive such emails.

Found them, archived then, then gmail decided to be "smart" and without telling me it had done this instead of showing 0 messages showed "many" matching on stuff like "invoice" or "recipe" in the subject OR in the body of the email.

Extremely annoying as emails with recipes are eh not receipts

TonyStark, to random
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This will invest in school facilities that demonstrate the need for both energy improvements and financing, with a focus on supporting districts that qualify as disadvantaged.

Quite different from the Republican plan, which is essentially “close America’s schools” or “turn them all right wing Christian Nationalist.”

Biden–Harris Administration Announces $180 Million Investment in School Energy Infrastructure as Part of Investing in America Agenda-
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/20/biden-harris-administration-announces-180-million-investment-in-school-energy-infrastructure-as-part-of-investing-in-america-agenda/

Rycaut,
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@TonyStark some of that money is going to my old high school! They are installing a geothermal system as part of an expansion. Estimated cost is $10M+ with $7.3M of that coming from the Federal Government Inflation Reduction act. (A friend of mine now serves on the school board that approved this). They estimate that it will save some $6M in energy costs over the next 30 years. Since the school recently celebrated 150 years long term planning makes sense)

See https://www.oakpark.com/2024/01/30/oprf-school-board-approves-geothermal-for-project-2/

Rycaut,
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@TonyStark indeed. But also notable that while OPRFHS serves a truly diverse community (indeed there was a tv show about the school a few years ago) it’s also a fairly well funded school serving two fairly affluent communities (Oak Park however is a rare village that has economic as well as racial diversity along with mixed housing stock from apartments to high rises to mid rises to small homes all the way to mansions (and Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes etc)

So could manage the upfront costs

Rycaut,
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@TonyStark I grew up there and my mom still lives there (and a very close friend from college is raising her family there - she serves on the school board for the high school that her children attend!) it’s a great village. But also a (somewhat unfortunately I’d argue) a pretty unique place - passed one of the first fair housing laws in the country to (successfully) prevent white flight and has been a broadly progressive community (albeit with some pockets of conservatism) and is adding density

Rycaut, to random
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If you or the company you work for have any scheduled posts or email blasts or advertising scheduled to start in the next 48-72hrs consider pausing it and review it. World events likely mean you either don’t want to send it/schedule it or you want to change your tone and message.

(This isn’t just true when a war is about to break out - you should do the same pause and rethink when natural disasters happen/or are ongoing or when big news breaks in your specific industry or location)

jchyip, to random
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Some corrections about the early days of https://jchyip.medium.com/some-corrections-about-the-early-days-of-continuous-integration-36dc5bab5a06

Rycaut,
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@jchyip it was not at a public facing company but I did version control and build management at a very large financial firm in the late 1990’s. We had some applications that were built and deployed daily (built on a dedicated build platform and then deployed) most other apps had a slower build/release cycle but we were definitely using a build/test/prod model for apps back in a 1997-1999 timeframe. Wasn’t continuous integration for most.

(For context this firm had 1000 devs and 1200+ apps)

Rycaut, to random
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Seattle trip update - highly recommend the Burke for anyone but especially parents. It’s a truly fantastic museum of natura history and culture. And really shows how the science happens (literally). Truly awesome. And the frybreads and other food at their cafe (Native owned and run) are a perfect tasty lunch.

Rycaut, to random
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Tonight got to see a view of Seattle most tourists never get to see from the 41st floor of a family friend’s apartment building

Better I think that had we gone up the Space Needle earlier in the day was this view (we also got amazing views of downtown and of Lake Union and it was a clear day so we could see the mountains on either side. Spectacular and great company as well.

Rycaut, to random
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So in Seattle for my son’s spring break and it is hard to decide which cafe to try first. Suggestions for which to try near Pioneer Square? (Seems like it may be hard to go wrong)

Rycaut,
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@zigguratmonk yeah I can totally see that. The space was definitely the type of place I often hang out at or have over the years. But my coffee from there this afternoon was a bit disappointing (been spoiled by Bay Area coffee options I guess). Anyway will be fun exploring the options while we are in town.

Rycaut,
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@zigguratmonk today we tried Hood Famous Cafe and Bar - best coffee drink I’ve had in Seattle so far this trip (pandan latte) Hope to go back for another and perhaps breakfast or lunch.

Rycaut,
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@zigguratmonk cool. Might check that out tomorrow though it’s a bit farther for us (been walking everywhere, tomorrow we’ll probably take the light rail to u Washington but still making our plans. This afternoon we found 203 Fahrenheit coffee in south lake Union which also has excellent coffee

Rycaut,
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@zigguratmonk thanks! We’ll keep an eye out for them. 203 is in what I think is one of Google’s buildings. Nice space.

Rycaut,
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@zigguratmonk ended up checking out Bulldog - haven’t been a to real newsstand in years nice to see one still around.

jkunkee, to random

@Rycaut Quite fair! In that case (and depending on interests!) the Chihuly museum, the aquarium, Underground Tour, the Seattle Public Library, Pike's Place market, and the Pacific Coast science center all get my recommendations.

More obscure and niche bits are there too, like the Death Museum, the Gates Foundation visitors center, or the toy store.

MoPop has some less-pop-culture sections like the top floor of instruments and recording studios and a fantasy section focused primal on book 1/

Rycaut,
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@jkunkee we’ve ended up at the Burke by University of Washington which is excellent and I’d highly recommend. Did the pacific science center yesterday which also was good

kaleb, to books
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Parents of teens, I need a book recommendation!

This is to appease some well-meaning but overtly Christian and out-of-touch family members. Something for a 12yo who reads well above his age, along the lines of inspiration/motivation for teens to be good humans and members of society

Rather than have them pushing propaganda on my son I’d like to find a worthwhile read they will feel addresses the insufficient Christian influence in his life

1/2

Rycaut,
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@kaleb not precisely this but Philip Pullman’s His Dark Marerials series (and heck most of his books) are excellent, have a solid morality without being Christian and likely will be fun for your teen to read. Similarly every single book by Terry Pratchett is excellent and have incredibly good lessons for life mixed into extremely funny fantasy stories.

As a non-Christian myself I generally find fiction that shows how to live a good life (even when it is hard) more compelling than self help

Rycaut,
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@kaleb another book I highly recommend though it is a bit older is The Stone and The Flute by Hans Bemmann (written in German, English translation by Anthea Bell). It is a fantasy story (though more akin to fairytales than epic fantasy) about an entire life - from birth to old age. And while it has some tough sections where the main character makes major mistakes ultimately it has a lot of deep moral lessons. It’s a massive book and the middle chapters are tough but it has stayed with me

mhoye, to random
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Weird idea for a live streaming app that isn’t actually live streaming but instead lets someone grab a snapshot from your camera on demand and they get what they get.

Rycaut,
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@mhoye that’s kinda like the premise of BeReal

Rycaut,
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@mhoye indeed. They have already gone thru the hype cycle and are supposedly on the down trend. But it was and is surprisingly massive (75M active users at its peak in 2022 now down to supposedly 23M. And they raised about $100M. Paris based company but I think most popular with teens in the US and UK

Rycaut, to random
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Thinking about one proxy I use to identify businesses I feel generally good about frequenting - if they retain workers year over year whatever the business - whether a gardener, a coffee shop (including big chains), a school or a big service provider employee retention is a strong signal of a company doing many things well.

  • paying workers decently and offering a good work environment are usually requirements for retention (whatever the business)

  • long term workers know their regulars

Rycaut,
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And there are many others. It’s not always a perfect proxy but even when a small business is run mostly by the owners and their family, just surviving for years is, broadly speaking, a sign of a business that has figured out how to make things work. When I’m given a choice between similar businesses - one where the staff turns over so every time I go there I don’t recognize anyone or a business where I see mostly the same people working there every time the later is where I usually go

Rycaut,
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I do make an exception for new businesses - always happy to try and support a new local business. But then I’ll observe that business for a while - if they manage to retain staff I take that as a sign that they generally aren’t abusing their workers or running a business with a poor working environment and I’m more likely to return, to refer business to them, and probably spend more on subsequent visits (whether a restaurant/cafe or a retail store or a service)

rebeccawatson, to random
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been riding a bike around towns for 20 years and everywhere I go I find that rich white people spend an absolutely incredible amount of time, money, and energy designing ways to keep everyone else away from the waterfront.

Rycaut,
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@rebeccawatson one of the things Chicago got right many many decades ago (over a hundred I think) was making all beaches public as well as stopping nearly all construction adjacent to the lakefront (Lake Point Tower where famously Oprah used to live is the exception that luckily was well designed and then the loop hole it used closed)

As a result the entire lakefront of Chicago is open to the public (though in places erroding and needing repair) even in the most expensive neighborhoods

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