jonathanlydall

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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
It's not an open server that anyone can just connect to, only specific Plex accounts that you invite. They also don't need to know anything about how to connect to your server, it simply shows up as a server name in the list on th
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
They were likely saying that 8K displays are way out of budget for most consumers.
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
I too find "looks written by AI" comments tedious. I feel that the following guideline [0] actually covers this, perhaps it should be updated to also specifically mention "AI written": > Please don't complain abo
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
> Actual muscles need exercise to stay in shape (let alone grow), so does the brain. Can we really be sure that thoughts, opinions, taste will still come out sharper and faster after five, ten, 20 years of using these tools almost every
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My 'Grill Me' Skill Went Viral(aihero.dev)
3 points by jonathanlydall 3mo ago|1 comments
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
Remembering back, I certainly lacked a lot of critical reasoning which could have led me to do possibly equally stupid stuff like this had I the skill in my early teens. As I remember it, life felt more like a "game" in that you d
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
Appreciated and fixed. I'm a native English speaker, but I think not a word I often write.
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
I think it's a somewhat South African cultural thing, but when I get calls from businesses or spammers, the first thing the caller tends to say is "Hello, how are you?", which is completely stupid when you're calling som
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
In practice this often doesn't work. Article said the imposter in this case claimed her phone had been confiscated. Fraudsters tend to also plan things such that the impersonated person can't be reached by phone at that time, eith
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
Well, if this and other problems are ever solved towards self-replicating probes, we must just make sure not to over-prioritize replication like the Slylandro: https://wiki.starcontrol.com/index.php/Probe
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
Websites like Reddit love to say “it’s better in the app”, except it should have this added to that sentence: “for us, not so much for you”.
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
I've been doing regular significant re-writes to my local Git commit history with relative ease for over a decade even without this new Git command. I'm convinced that a big part of people often finding Git and rebase difficult is
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
They also have C# expertise, but yes, Java is probably the language they have the most expertise in.
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
I can’t recall for sure, maybe.
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
This is where getting it via Apple’s App Store is nice for consumers. I (a non-American) had a NYT subscription through the iOS app some years back and cancelling it (like any other subscription through the App Store) was as as simple as: -
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
Memory in particular is something that I've reflected on more than once as having the most impressive gains in computing since I started paying attention to it (networking/USB too, but that doesn't make your computer "fa
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
My assumption when reading that the CEO should care, was that they give those underneath them the time and resources needed to achieve quality because they value it, not that they are necessarily involved in the details.
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
No fault of the author, but I personally would have been more interested in how much of a difference this makes rather than the history of it. I have no issue with the practice in principle. Over here in South Africa CIT (cash-in-transit) i
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
As I got a downvote I can only assume my tone came across as “how could you not know this?”, but my feeling when I wrote this was that it’s a bit of a funny and interesting anecdote the parent wrote and I’ve been similarly frustrated with
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
My father, (who by profession was a CA with MBA, but is exceptionally handy) has regularly reminded me that walls/floors and ceilings are pretty much never straight and level, and over here they're brick and mortar, not wood. This
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
Depends on the kid and their age. Me to my 3.5-year-old boy after evening bath (winter here right now): Your feet are going to get cold, don't you want to put on your slippers to keep them warm? Him: No! And if I put them on he'll
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Blue rather than yellow colored squiggles, but ReSharper (and I expect JetBrains IDEs in general) kind of does this. It can point out things like unreachable code, redundant if predicates, suspicious casts and countless other things through
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
It’s a pity that US regulators can’t manage to mandate that the dinosaurs get with the times as fraud seems to me to be an enormous burden to US consumers. Even if fraud victims get their money back, firstly it must be an admin headache and
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Banks suck it up, but fraud is likely a lot less prevalent because 3D Secure is mandatory for online transactions and chip and PIN were ubiquitous way before the US seemed to have started using it.
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Reading this and some of your other comments in this thread, I think it’s awesome you’ve landed up doing what you really enjoy and are well compensated for it. It makes me wonder if I would be happier doing something else, but (because of m
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Haven’t needed it in years, but when it was still common that VGA was the only input into an LCD, this website had the images for easy calibration to perfect pixel alignment.
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Overscan is where it cuts off the edges of the image right? I’m sure an LLM could offer an explanation, but I genuinely have never understood why overscan is even a thing on HDMI ports. Most times I plug my AppleTV or laptop into a TV using
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
In a C# project I worked on in the past we used a specification pattern in front of EF to achieve essentially statically verifiable rules like this. The specification pattern is essentially a builder for a query (or more accurately in our c
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Meta: Is there any way to disable to continually distracting bouncing blue circle at the bottom-right of the page (short of using an element/script blocker or something)?
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Sure, my point wasn't that Windows Explorer is faster or slower compared to the command line or other OSes, but that deletion can be faster or slower (for Windows Explorer) depending on other factors too, like as per my example where i

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