davidee

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by davidee 6d ago
Tech has always been breaking social contracts. It’s how we roll. We did the same thing with taxis and travel accommodations to name a few. We hid our “we know better” hubris under the term “disruption” because the reality (breaking everyth
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by davidee 10d ago
Please take this in good faith, as I hope your own post is, but I interpret the thread you're replying to as focusing on the "everyday' part. Share knowledge? I don't think anyone here is arguing against that in any way
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by davidee 11d ago
This made me chuckle. Aside: Scala dev here - but I only talk about how wonderful it is with people I trust (mostly Go and Rust developers I used to work with). Also, Scala Native means I don’t always have to worry about the JVM depending o
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by davidee 11d ago
I realise this is a joke, but I have to pile on. Even weather was/is comically bad. Ask it anything specific and it would fall over, repeating the broadest, least helpful version of weather data, even if all that data is clearly availa
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by davidee 15d ago
Wouldn't most users considering or using Forgejo also have considered (or used) self-hosted Gitlab which would have the same opex / security costs (and much higher hardware requirements)?
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by davidee 20d ago
Finder is indeed frustrating. "Recent" seems like an attempt to fix this without the need to use some giant camera roll? The (hard) problem is that almost every finder alternative/add-on I've tried is someone else's
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by davidee 20d ago
High quality 500-600w bifacial n panels are between $200-300 in Canada at normal install sizes (12-32). We do lag behind the costs elsewhere, but still nowhere close to $1000 per panel.
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by davidee 20d ago
If you're building out, say 12kw of PV, that's about 24 panels for a modern install (500w bifacial n panels). So a $336 premium, or roughly 1.3 additional panels in terms of cost. While sure, that's not nothing, it's ~$6
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by davidee 2mo ago
Citation required. One monitor for nvim/zellij, one for browser & devtools. My __third__ monitor is for YouTube, thankyouverymuch.
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by davidee 3mo ago
This should be front page material if it hasn’t been already. On top of it being thorough and illustrative, it’s surprisingly engaging. Also: I had no idea.
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by davidee 3mo ago
To further back this up, just because OSM might be a map's data source, it doesn't mean they use the same rendered vectors or images for the tiles. I make changes to OSM so they can be propagated to a cycling-specific mapping tool
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by davidee 3mo ago
Completely agree with you. That said, Car Play isn't a panacea for keeping me off my phone though, because some manufacturers have the ability to LIMIT what Car Play can show you. Example - we have two vehicles for our 3 person househo
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by davidee 3mo ago
You mean the person who wrote the author request the change right? Right? PS - it's knickers
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by davidee 3mo ago
I didn't read it that way (but I can see multiple possible readings). Here's my interpretation: When someone has a shitty public opionion, we force others to MAKE PUBLIC their opinions. And because our society is so polarized, we
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by davidee 3mo ago
Good faith question: would it? Wouldn't most large codebases with poor abstractions just have engineers engineer around them with their own solutions? In a large enough codebase you'd have both the bad abstractions and all the not
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by davidee 3mo ago
Missing the splitting axe getting a little jammed at a knot. Otherwise excellent.
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by davidee 4mo ago
I had trouble getting through this one, but I think it's worth digging in a bit. > In just a few short years, Slack has gone on to become an indispensable work tool in our always-on often mobile work life. For you maybe? For many co
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by davidee 4mo ago
Turns out the ideal corporate structure is making everyone front-line or middle managers.
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by davidee 4mo ago
We have a rather large number of Blue Jays that frequent our backyard. The smartest among them can weigh opportunity costs or count, or both. Most of the jays will take two peanuts in the shell, go crack the shell open (sounds like they&#x2
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by davidee 4mo ago
I think one of the big disconnects here are the competing views about "what it achieves" means on a fundamental level. There's the "what it achieves" today; software x works as intended as of right now. And then the
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by davidee 5mo ago
This isn't defending Bambu, and it's not an ELI5 because, whether you meant it sarcastically or not, the easy answer to your question is "you do not need to connect to a cloud service to use a 3D printer". Bambu Labs how
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by davidee 5mo ago
TLDR; don't use their SaaS offering, but probably better, yes, though who knows for how long. I don't use their SaaS offering, but I've been using the self-hosted versions (mostly in CE flavours, but occasionally paid) since
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by davidee 5mo ago
Thanks for sharing. Former alcoholic, I got similar advice early on. It was life changing. Blocking social media is no different from existing laws for cigarettes, alcohol and various other substances. Nothing wrong with using them, but we
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by davidee 5mo ago
Ark Nova. It's not Agricola-scale, but it has some similar "move maximization" vibes. You can also play it on Steam if you can't find a crop of folks to sit down for three hours with you (though you can run through a ful
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by davidee 5mo ago
If anyone's looking for a good, quick, 2 player game, Sky Team was a lot of fun. My partner and I are always on the lookout for quick, but strategic 2 player games and this hit the spot. It's cooperative and has enough variety to
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by davidee 7mo ago
Like most things in music there's a real distinction between technical perfection (tuning is one, rhythm another) and music feeling alive. It's why perfectly quantized rhythms and music sound lifeless. Our perception of these thin
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by davidee 7mo ago
I have very fond memories of my first dual-cpu Athlon machine. It was the workstation on which I learned Logic Audio before, you know, Apple bought Emagic. I took that machine, running very low latency Reason to live gigs with my band. Cart
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by davidee 7mo ago
I think you've touched on it, but I'm going try to take it one step further into explicitness. Just over a year ago I decided to switch to Neovim. The reason for switching was personal; I was struggling with what I'll call &q
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by davidee 7mo ago
My thoughts: - Did someone really make a VC-backed "Rent-a-swag"? - Did they also go full Saperstein? Yep. They did.
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by davidee 7mo ago
That tracks for me; longtime claude, claude code pro subscriber (not all of it has been good - but that's neither here nor there). Over the last few iterations of Sonnet and Opus, anthropic has definitely trained me to ask it to explai

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