jonathanlydall

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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Your dismissive tone implies you think I’m lying or something about my stated (and reproduceable) experience that deletions absolutely run a 1/3rd slower with certain software installed.
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
It is frustrating how slow .zip (and more recently .7z) support built into Windows Explorer is. This is a great article on why it's so unreasonably slow to modify these archives: https://textslashplain.com/2021/06&
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Its slowness is also a function of security software or any other file system "filters" (I believe they're called) are installed. For example, I run TortoiseGit which has a caching feature which is supposed to make it faster
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
It appears we’ll have to agree to disagree.
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
But a standard shoelace knot is just so much better, not only can it hold for an entire day (even on, according to you, "bad" shoelaces), but its slip release makes it instant to untie at the end of the day. Before when I used a g
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
I’d never defend the lack of web based configuration, but there is an argument to be made that if the app uses Bluetooth to communicate with a router (though I don’t know if that’s true in this case), it is inarguably easier to configure fo
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
I’ve never personally used the chore term, but it doesn’t bother me to see it and I don’t feel it has a negative connotation. Cleaning my kitchen after a meal may be a chore, but it’s not an intrinsically bad or unpleasant experience most o
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
No, it had absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the laces. It was because I was essentially tying a granny knot instead of a reef knot and anyone who knows anything about knots would realize that of course they would keep coming und
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Before your muscle memory is updated, all you need to remember is how to “quality check” the knot when you’re done. If the loops are perpendicular, it’s wrong, they should be aligned with the laces. If it landed up perpendicular, start over
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
I have this problem too! It could make their lives so much better, but kind of awkward to broach. Perhaps sholladay‘s advice will work well.
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
I only realized in my 30s that I had been tying my shoelaces wrong my whole life and a super minor change in my method has changed them from coming undone multiple times per day (unless double knotted), to instead staying tied the whole day
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Microsoft EXecution Container (MXC)(github.com)
2 points by jonathanlydall 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Possible, but I doubt it. Article says key fobs are the same across all their cars and this looks the same as mine for a Sealion 5, there is no hinge for the key you just pull it out. Likely the article authors just assumed from looking at
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Company Blew $500M on Claude AI in One Month(gadgetreview.com)
7 points by jonathanlydall 4mo ago|3 comments
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
I'd rather pay EUR 250 a year when I know the money is used for genuine public benefit rather than ZAR 250 a year where it's mostly enriching people who don't do anything of real value.
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
In South Africa we have a TV license which any shop selling TV’s is required by law to report the buyer’s TV license number for any purchase. The idea is that it funds public broadcasting and productions thereof, but like a lot of SOEs here
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
The successful standards, platforms, libraries, tools, etc. will be the ones that LLMs can understand. Like a good GitHub readme, or website, or Discord community, I strongly feel that making sure you've (perhaps personally) written en
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
I’ve lived here most of my life. Electricity has been essentially uninterrupted since the last load shedding about two years ago. I did get some solar panels and an inverter installed while load shedding was common as I work from home and d
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
Funny timing for this article to appear on the front page as I was just thinking of Zendesk today. We kind of tried Zendesk maybe 8 years ago and even integrated the chat into our Electron app. What put me off though is that support article
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
I live in South Africa where we have 15% VAT. When I was little and playing SimCity 2000 I looked at the tax rates for the city and noticed that the sales tax rate was like 2%, and based on our 14% VAT at the time, it seemed super low to me
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by jonathanlydall 4mo ago
I’m pretty happy with my Omada controlled EAPs around my house. Running Omada on my Windows Server was painful (doesn’t really run properly as a service, software updates are a chore), but since I moved it to run on Proxmox using a super si
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by jonathanlydall 5mo ago
This is a South African take on owning a home. Author is correct that if you don’t live in the house long, the overheads such as transfer duties and legal fees make it somewhat expensive. But over here we have a pretty high interest rate of
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by jonathanlydall 5mo ago
Apple TV free trials due to new hardware (e.g. new iPhone) is like this too, I just set a reminder on my phone and cancel it one day before they’ll start billing me. The UI for cancelling is also painless.
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by jonathanlydall 5mo ago
It depends on what you need to be "smart" about your house. If you live in an apartment there is not much to be automated. However, (if like me) you live in a free-standing house with solar panels, possible power outages and all h
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by jonathanlydall 5mo ago
My Windows machine goes weeks between reboots which are 95% of the time due to software updates, occasionally I restart just Explorer itself which can glitch out. I think it’s largely a factor of what additional drivers, services and securi
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by jonathanlydall 5mo ago
I have to remark how moved I was during the explosion scene of the Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer film. It had no music and actually (if I recall correctly) had no sound at all for what seemed like the longest time. It really did make
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by jonathanlydall 5mo ago
I recently got a BYD Sealion 5 PHEV and still driving in the engine so haven't been plugging it in yet. After 430km my fuel usage is exactly as per the start of this video at 6.9L/100km. Being in South Africa, the affordability of
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by jonathanlydall 5mo ago
Yes, this annoys me too. It was actually worse until about 6 months ago on tvOS, as the next episode started it wouldn’t be showing subtitles, but the selection menu would show the previous episode’s subtitle selection as still selected. Yo
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by jonathanlydall 5mo ago
Very cool. With English there is Letterland which seems quite similar at a glance. https://letterland.com/
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by jonathanlydall 5mo ago
Corruption is a big problem for sure, but so is apathy and incompetence. When my mother was doing community service at a clinic some years back (required by law for people who get medical degrees before being allowed to practice privately),

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