jon-wood

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by jon-wood 4mo ago
It varies, culturally and based on what the group is. In the UK if I'm out for a meal with family or close friends then one of us will probably pay the bill and then people will offer to transfer their share to the person who did (whic
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Oh he's hard into the world of Java edition mods, my point was more that they're adding combat options to the core game because there's a huge audience demanding more combat options.
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
I think the problem is that Minecraft caters to a huge range of tastes. I fully agree with you, I’d much rather have more options for automation and building fun machinery but my son is deeply into the PvP side of things where the new comba
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Heh, there’s a blast from the past. I was doing Ruby professionally from 2005 to 2024 or so, I’m primarily using Python now because that’s what the business I’m working for was built on but I’ll always have a soft spot for Ruby.
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Supreme Commander was that follow up. Basically the same team as worked on TA, making more or less the same game but with larger maps and higher unit counts.
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
When hosting a server IPv6 doesn't make a huge difference beyond your logs will probably be a bit more accurate, people behind CGNAT where an ISP has multiple customers sharing a block of IPv4 will show up with their actual IPv6 addres
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
$ curl -v https://news.ycombinator.com * Host news.ycombinator.com:443 was resolved. * IPv6: 2606:7100:1:67::26 * IPv4: 209.216.230.207 * Trying [2606:7100:1:67::26]:443... * ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1 *
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
It is indeed nice to be able to access local things while away from home but a VPN isn’t making you meaningfully safer on public WiFi networks. They’re all using proper encryption over the air now, I can count on one hand how many coffee sh
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
They definitely started in the turnkey SME/consumer space, and still do a lot that's relevant there, but they've got a ton of very enterprise hardware targeted at large offices/campuses/stadiums and the like. There&
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Unifi gateways run the management software now, typically they'll also be your networks router and so something you'll need to buy anyway, but if you just want to use the security/wifi elements then you can either run it in a
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Given Valve's past history in this regard I'm inclined to believe it'll be possible to install whatever you like on the thing, and that there'll be a reasonably well documented way of integrating with the sensors/di
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
The backpressure on x-rays is because dosing yourself with radiation on a regular basis is a really great way to generate health problems in the course of trying to find some. There's a reason x-ray operators and anyone in the room wit
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Yeah, I want something which is optimized for getting me actionable and more importantly accurate information, preferably without flagging every outlier as the harbinger of a disease that'll kill me within the next six weeks.
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Only if you don't want to use Steam. I'm not really sure what point you think you're making here by constantly asking whether you can use SteamOS without logging in to Steam. You can however install literally anything you lik
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
The escalation path is always too arduous though, because most people still prefer to talk to a human when they’ve got to the point of opening a chat window. You’ve always got to jump through a bunch of hoops which are basically answering y
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
This is primarily going to be targeted at Unreal Engine users, for whom the source control tooling they use is the smallest of concerns when it comes to being tied to Epic Games.
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
This is definitely a bit snarky but you read any of the documentation at all, and therefore know more than a large percentage of git users about what it’s actually doing. Most people seem to treat git like some sort of mysterious orb which
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
In one case I was the only full time technical person in the company. This was a very early stage startup that had literally nobody else who would know how to even start reading the code, never mind find the particularly gnarly bug that was
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Was that out of choice or because all the men were at the front, far from the people they might otherwise have been having kids with?
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
I generally work for small companies, and while I'll do something very similar when taking leave (or just at the weekend) I do also make sure someone has contact details for me in the case of anything that truly can't wait until I
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Carbon is fungible right up until you make something out of it, at which point it’s really not without a significant effort. We can’t just take a mobile phone and decompose it back to its component atoms for reuse as something else, recycli
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
They cover this in the article, they’re just running motherboards removed from the other components specifically because no one wants exploding phone batteries in their data centre.
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
I feel like a lot of this could be solved by having a mode somewhere between Plan Mode and Execute Mode in Claude Code. Quite frequently I'll fire up Claude Code in the context of some checked out code because I want to ask some questi
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Why are you deploying a bleeding edge, incredibly expensive, model to do the simplest things? Use Sonnet, hell, use Haiku, they'll get the job done and won't set fire to several rainforests in order to achieve the task.
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
I'm sure its technically possible, you might need to provide a bit more context if you expect anyone to change course here and port it to a programming language approximately no one has heard of rather than Rust though. What makes you
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Home Assistant automations for me are rarely about saving time, they're about saving mental energy. I no longer need to think about turning off the bathroom lights, my coffee machine is already warm when I go to make my morning coffee
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
I get where you're coming from but at least for me you appear to be looking to automate away the interesting bits while being left with the tedious ones. What I want is the opposite to what you're asking for - let me dump a rough
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
It took the collapse of my marriage for me to finally do something about the rampant ADHD that has been a feature of my life for 40 years, and yes, part of that collapse was when someone from the gas company showed up to turn off the supply
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Yes. I could do that. I could also hook something up to the debug serial port and reverse engineer that, or use HDMI-CEC, or make a tiny robot that pushes the buttons on the back of the TV. I'm using the API though, because I already h
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by jon-wood 4mo ago
Frustratingly I do want some of the functionality that comes with connecting my TV to the network - specifically the ability to control things like turning it on and choosing which input its set to via an API it exposes. That's managea

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