clumsysmurf

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by clumsysmurf 10d ago
One thing I would like is a tree-like chat structure like reddit / HN. Many times I abandon the direction things have gone but would like to resume at some ancestor or sibling response.
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by clumsysmurf 11d ago
I was on Sequoia as well, and just updated ... first thing I noticed is LaunchPad is gone. The Tahoe Dock "App View" / Spotlight just lists my 30 installed apps intermingled with Apple System Apps, which I hardly ever use. Ha
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by clumsysmurf 13d ago
I don't know anything about homebrew, but have a question ... I see some parallels between homebrew and Gradle ... for the longest time Gradle was using Groovy for build scripts. The Gradle / Groovy build script DSL was a little t
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by clumsysmurf 15d ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for a dumb watch (<$100 USD) that has good programmability (flexible alarms) for a HIIT protocol? It would be nice if it had HRM but at that price point, maybe not feasible. I don't want the fuss or
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by clumsysmurf 18d ago
> The DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows that Border Patrol is analyzing the financial activity of Americans to find people to pull over... > It is not clear how exactly Border Patrol is monitoring Americans’ financial activity.
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by clumsysmurf 18d ago
Same here, if its raining Windy.com radar will always show it, but often Google Weather does not show it, despite saying its updated "now". Sometimes it seems to be a tiling issue, where there will be a blob of rain on the map but
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by clumsysmurf 20d ago
> We now add Lysol laundry sanitizer I do as well for super stinky clothes (usually trail running stuff), but I am not sure how worried we should be about the active ingredients (quats). Since I can smell Lysol's fragrance, I assume
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by clumsysmurf 21d ago
Buckle up, the second Trump administration / Lee Zeldin's EPA approved 5 new PFAS / "forever chemicals" for use as pesticides to be sprayed on crops https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/10/heal
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by clumsysmurf 23d ago
Speaking of engineering outcomes, today I read: “He had told me [before the election] he was going to unleash the ‘anomaly in the matrix,’ ” St. Clair says in championed documentarist Alex Gibney’s film, Musk"
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by clumsysmurf 25d ago
Not just their coding products. Compare Claude Desktop / ChatGPT Classic to Gemini Desktop... Gemini desktop is barbaric with less usability / polish and more UI bugs than its online web counterpart. I wasn't able to give the
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Smartphone Shipments Set for Record 16.7% Drop in 2026, as Memory Crisis Hits(idc.com)
2 points by clumsysmurf 28d ago|0 comments
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by clumsysmurf 29d ago
Ya, I noticed that with the CoreS3-SE being incompatible with the "Extension Port Module for Core2" (M123). I don't see a version compatible with the CoreS3.
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by clumsysmurf 1mo ago
"Taylor Farms’ massive operations depend on thousands of workers who process, package, and move its produce. Its workplace safety record includes serious violations and worker complaints." According to https://futurism.
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by clumsysmurf 1mo ago
I wish there was a way to put another phone number under Account / Notifications / Shipping and delivery. Without adding somebody to a "household" or installing apps, I just want someone else to know a package was delive
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by clumsysmurf 2mo ago
I agree, the first section "Data Flow" reflects my concern with Compose as well: > Data flow in SwiftUI is indeed reactive—but sometimes I wish it wasn’t, because it’s reactive in all the wrong ways. It often reacts to changes
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by clumsysmurf 2mo ago
Too bad Android doesn't have JDBC APIs. Getting the native binaries compiled on Android is the easy part, but there is no straightforward way to access it from Java. The Room APIs are tied to SQLite as well.
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Nema Nodes: They Turn Streetlights into a Surveillance Network(gadgetreview.com)
3 points by clumsysmurf 2mo ago|0 comments
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by clumsysmurf 3mo ago
Its very obvious once you know what to look for, they are identical to the simulation at the top of the page below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare Evenly spaced, every 20-30 seconds. Very, very bright at
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by clumsysmurf 3mo ago
I'd like to hear more about Odin + STM32 MCU firmware, do you have any good resources? I'm also curious how difficult it may be to using it with ESP32 (ESP-IDF) / RP2350.
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by clumsysmurf 3mo ago
I'm in a heavily light polluted city (Phoenix) and even with all the air and light pollution, can still see satellites every moment past 2AM to the east. At least this time of year.
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by clumsysmurf 3mo ago
> theoretically, it would be possible to run the main process separated from the renderer process on a different machine, with an appropriate IPC transport. Is this really possible? If Electron apps could do this, and we could run them o
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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression'(businessinsider.com)
9 points by clumsysmurf 3mo ago|2 comments
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by clumsysmurf 3mo ago
Compose and AOT compiled binaries would be amazing (GraalVM Native Image kinda thing) but it doesn't look very easy at the moment. Leyden with a regular JVM might be the best we get.
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Soot from rocket launches is polluting Earth's upper atmosphere(physicsworld.com)
8 points by clumsysmurf 3mo ago|0 comments
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Zelle Heads to India, Unveils ZelleUSD Stablecoin for Other Markets(earlywarning.com)
5 points by clumsysmurf 4mo ago|1 comments
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by clumsysmurf 4mo ago
> 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN > Bluetooth 4.2, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), onboard antenna Oof ... BLE 5 has some huge improvements over 4.2. BLE 5 stuff has been on sale for almost 10 years now ... Hopefully this gets
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by clumsysmurf 4mo ago
I had an appliance delivered from Home Depot, and after it was installed, the person mentioned he had Meta glasses on. I didn't realize the whole time he was wearing them in my home, because I didn't know what they looked like. I
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by clumsysmurf 4mo ago
> the bluetooth libraries across different devices (particularly in Android land) has me concerned At Google IO 2026 there little discussion of core improvements to Android as a platform. It was mostly AI related, nothing about Gabeldors
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by clumsysmurf 4mo ago
Another part of the problem is our lax regulatory "anything goes" environment which puts no guardrails on how AI can be used / abused. For example, eventually nearly everyone needs healthcare, and the idea you might be denied
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by clumsysmurf 4mo ago
Not much, it seems https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentime...

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