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by heeton 1y ago
I understand it’s poorly promoted by the biggest users. But more of the web and world infrastructure runs on it than you realise. Here’s an old post with some examples - https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/which-compa
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by heeton 2y ago
I wouldn’t call it a scene, but there’s a small handful of people and the occasional meet-up or event. I’m near Exeter after working in London for ~10 years. Hi to anyone else who’s down in Devon :) (Hit me up via my profile if you’d like t
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by heeton 2y ago
I still can’t tell if this is an April Fool’s joke or not.
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by heeton 2y ago
You need zero water to brush your teeth with toothpaste. Many dentists even say it’s preferable to not rinse your brush before and not rinse your mouth after.
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by heeton 2y ago
Same here. Both products are actually better than the ad-supported versions. Fastmail masked-addresses are great.
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by heeton 2y ago
For AI workflows that's quite a lot cheaper than the alternative in GPUs.
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by heeton 2y ago
Right? If you don't like the tool, turn it off. I find autocomplete _exceptionally_ useful. It's right in most of the simple tasks I'm trying to do and speeds me up a lot.
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by heeton 2y ago
No, just computer notes. Currently on llama3.2 text-only 3B, running on an M3 Macbook Pro. Accuracy is good for my limited use case (extracting context, giving me links and reminders). It's not yet good enough (for me) at summarising l
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by heeton 2y ago
My comment was that BPA is not used in thermal paper as a plasticizer, which that linked study was examining.
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by heeton 2y ago
(I meant for the Pi software) Edit: had a look at the firmware and it's not Nerves - but that's fine! I was just curious :)
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by heeton 2y ago
Buy from a reputable seller for anything important, instead of amazon. Or, there are apparently at-home testing chemicals that look simple to use. I haven't done it myself though.
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by heeton 2y ago
That study looked at 6 similar plasticizers. The alternative chemicals for thermal paper are totally different. That's not to say that they are guaranteed safe, but that study is inapplicable. E.g. one type of paper claims to use Ascor
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by heeton 2y ago
Extremely shortsighted take. I currently use a local LLM to scan my notes, meeting transcripts, todo list and calendar. I currently have an iPad that displays some items (e.g. if I have important personal tasks to do today that I might have
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by heeton 2y ago
This is awesome! I have a very hacky prototype doing something similar, you've put way more effort into PrinterCow and it looks great. What's the tech? (I'm crossing my fingers for Elixir/Nerves but I suspect that's
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by heeton 2y ago
Same. I'm in the UK, I've been a software dev for a long time (with forays into physical consumer products, not electronics/hardware). I tinker with robotics, rpis, embedded tools, and the potential _power_ there is huge. But
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by heeton 2y ago
It allows updating the original data - https://postgresql-anonymizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/stati... > These methods will destroy the original data. Use with care.
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by heeton 2y ago
> The thing is, most non-Americans dont connect master with slavery at all
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by heeton 2y ago
I agree.
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by heeton 2y ago
I personally thought it because of some exposure to that industry / video / AV over the years. But then I looked for some examples to confirm and easily found many. Some decent examples here - https://news.ycombinator.c
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by heeton 2y ago
I'd wager good money that if you did a rapid-fire word association test on a spread of non-us english speakers, over half would say "slave" after master.
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by heeton 2y ago
> distracted us from dealing with the real issues Strongly agree with this. (And this kind of moral licensing in general. Ooh, well done for switching your toilet paper to an eco friendly version you were marketed on instagram, but why
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by heeton 2y ago
I get that the core issue was frustrating for some and I agree it felt a bit performative, but: I’m always amazed when someone tries to claim that this incredibly thin step away via a music term _with the same originating meaning_ somehow c
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by heeton 2y ago
The article uses “Internal Quality” which has a specific definition for them. And their definition of agility is not derived from the manifesto or Agile. Indeed, they list Quality immediately followed by customer happiness (“loveability”) w
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by heeton 2y ago
It's pretty much impossible to say without observing you. This isn't a technical question that can be answered over text (as much as everyone here will try). Ask this question to some people you trust and simulate a conversation _
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by heeton 2y ago
I personally love Cursor but never using prompts. I just use it's auto-complete and smart-tab features it saves me a tonne of manual typing. (I type fast, yet now find switching to a "manual" editor annoyingly slow). I don&#x
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by heeton 2y ago
Lispaña is a really excellent name for a lisp country :)
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by heeton 2y ago
Woah, your comment is actually the decryption key for Blu-Ray disks. (When combined with this one time pad over here...)
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by heeton 2y ago
I agree. Writing well is _highly_ technical.
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Factorio 2.0 & Space Age DLC (releasing at 12:00 UTC)(store.steampowered.com)
12 points by heeton 2y ago|3 comments
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by heeton 2y ago
I feel it's harder for a tesla to capture footage of a teenager reading a pamphlet on a plane, but who knows what Elon's plans are.

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