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lloeki
3y ago
I remember doing some coding on VxWorks during my engineering school. From my then limited experience it was an oddball but also as my first exposure to hard real time programming it sure was approachable and reliable as fuck. Definitely no
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Per device energy tallies also give you interesting data. Home Assistant can do that in the Energy dashboard, and you can answer questions/learn surprising things, like how much energy my "rack" (UPS+mac mini+5 disk bay+a few
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3y ago
At some point I grew deeply disgusted of the flavour because of a chemistry bench experiment in school where we made the isoamyl acetate ester, which is basically what most would describe as the archetypal banana flavour... except that when
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lloeki
3y ago
UTM maybe? https://mac.getutm.app
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3y ago
> My problem with the extraversion/introversion dichotomy is that I'm not either extreme. I like that and the description that follows because it shows how much the whole thing is neither monochromatic nor even linear. Even whe
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3y ago
That is true. There is a distinction to be made between loneliness and solitude though. One can feel hopelessly lonely in a crowd, one can also find great solace in solitude. In fact, another great cause of mental health issues is the appar
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3y ago
> Humans exist in physical space and it is necessary for our mental health to see other people in person. It does not follow that the deep social interaction that is beneficial to mental health has to happen at work. One can WFH and se
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3y ago
> Bro what sort of dystopiian offices have you been working in. There are loads of places like this. The irony is that in such context people enjoy the watercooler talk as an escape from the hellscape that is their 9-5 shitty job, doing
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3y ago
A good thing about PICO-8 is that it is a complete and closed environment, in that you do not need anything else and there's nothing to be added later on along the way. It removes a ton of moving parts squarely outside the "I
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3y ago
> Working remote has sucked all the personality and humanity from work imo. A platoon of conventionally acceptably dressed drones sat at generic desks furiously typing in a nondescript openspace where soundproofing creates cathedral sile
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3y ago
Our Ruby guild is ~6 ppl and counting. We are all remote, and not a single one is in the same geo. We throw "BTW this or that..." several times a day, it's obvious that we can, sometimes via DM, sometimes on specific or gener
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3y ago
Hold my refreshing beverage https://github.com/lloeki/minimal-rack {rack 1 2 3, rails 3.2-7.1, sinatra 1 2 3, grape} x {ruby 2.1-3.3} x {puma, thin, webrick, ...}
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3y ago
Similarly basically all washing machines today weight laundry and stuff then tune cycle duration, amount of water, drying time (if applicable), etc...
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3y ago
Going continuous is also fun: Lenia: https://chakazul.github.io/lenia.html https://levelup.gitconnected.com/playing-with-lenia-a-contin... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-97RhAZhXI A nice
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3y ago
> It's apparently possible to track a washing machine's progress with a smart switch that monitors power draw; Can confirm, it's what I do. I can even detect which part of the cycle it is in using plain Home Assistant temp
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3y ago
This one deserves an archival. At this point I'm kind of hoping this is some massive trolling campaign. https://web.archive.org/web/20240112192751/https://www.amazo...
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3y ago
Session cookies are often encrypted by frameworks using a server side secret. This allows storing data such as the CRSF token value to check against the one in the hidden form element or X-CSRF-Token without inserting in a DB every time som
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Yup. We moved FROM subversion to that setup. Subversion was hosted on a beige box from the previous era, it was slow as frack and a ticking timebomb. Initially, after a git-svn period we set up bare git+ssh on it as a direct replacement but
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Back when GitHub was in infancy, git-web was the top crop UI, our tracker was either one of Trac or Redmine, CI was a Hudson/Jenkins hellscape, the world "cloud" referred to water in the sky, reliable VMs were a distant dream
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> the genetic version of vendor lock-in All models are wrong but this one is mine, IANA biologist, yadda yadda. - there are only so many resources to sustain individuals - ergo there's a cap of the number of individuals - ergo some
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> Making the ports waterproof would be pretty easy, since they can do that on iPhones iPhones are not waterproof, they're IP68 water resistant. Apple even describes the port as being a liquid egress (and thus ingress) point in their
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3y ago
Oh my, may I remind folks about SDI vs MDI https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-document_interface Or the window-is-application/process (Windows, Linux DEs) vs window-is-document-and-application-is-independent
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3y ago
>> The 2011 co-op twin-stick shooting action game Renegade Ops was the first time I encountered a system which varies the screen layout in multiplayer based on the relative position on the players in world space. > the LEGO series
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> Blaming it on the two-party system is such a short-sighted US-centric point of view. There are plenty of countries with other types of democracies, and they have roughly similar problems There are also plenty of countries with very clo
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3y ago
There's Renass in France, live list of world seismic events: https://renass.unistra.fr/en/zones/monde/
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> Any Linux VM hosted under Virtualization.framework can use Apple's Rosetta 2 for Linux translation binary via binfmt_misc FTFY You don't need the mount, it just exposes the Linux binary stored on macOS, which you can copy ove
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> current designs They don't ? (well, not a full arrowhead, but wedged head and tail) https://evs-profilepics.s3.amazonaws.com/production/cdr/imag... (The important bit being that it indicates which direct
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The dramatically spinning car is how I read the sign, especially combined with what appears to be a straight road in the background (although we can't tell if there's a bend afterwards it looks like extremely straight) Easy to cle
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Yeah, other possible reads: - "brace yourself, here be dragons" - "til now it was a bit of a treadmill, but that's a part you probably don't want to fast read" - "on the surface this may look innocuous but
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3y ago
> We can and should praise Google for improving things, and use their new strong points to push Apple into improving too. Over a decade of Nexus then Pixel devices being flashable has not moved any needle of Apple doing the same. Google
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