nibbleshifter

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by nibbleshifter 3y ago
I wrote a command line screenshot tool that did exactly that years ago...
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by nibbleshifter 3y ago
There's still shortages of a whole bunch of random parts (wireless chips, etc). Unsure if its actually impacting Pi manufacturing specifically, but its hit some other products I want.
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by nibbleshifter 3y ago
I have seen those "risky" playgrounds in Germany - they aren't that risky at all? Sure, you could get a splinter from the wood if its not maintained, or have a fall and get scraped up, but the risks are low, the benefits (lea
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by nibbleshifter 3y ago
Perception of stability. Which until recently, was relatively unshaken. As an employer, MS also has tended to be much more understanding of personal circumstances and the likes - I know people there who took long career breaks, or had menta
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by nibbleshifter 3y ago
I have had a good amount of interactions with EA folks, a good number of well meaning people in my social circles are into it. I have no issue with radical ideas "outside the window" personally, but often find that EA groups tend
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by nibbleshifter 3y ago
I'll be honest, any time I see EA groups latch onto an idea, its a good heuristic that the idea is fucking terrible.
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by nibbleshifter 3y ago
I have a degree and 10+ years in tech. I redid it today, and now have 85 points. Amusingly, I just did some back of the envelope maths and worked out I could probably bump that to over 120 points in 2 years if I set my mind to it. As for &q
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by nibbleshifter 3y ago
Depends where. Japan? Enough red tape to mummify yourself.
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by nibbleshifter 3y ago
A while back I looked at how I would score on their "points based" immigration calculator thing. It wasn't good at all. I suspect they will have to have a strong rethink of their immigration policies in the next 10-20 years.
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by nibbleshifter 3y ago
I bought and sold bitcoin in exactly that way (in person, in public) back in the day. Never has anything even remotely untoward happen. Just sit, have a beer, wait for confirmations to happen, and be on your way.
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
With helmets, I won't even buy them online - because I can't fit check them, and reputable retailers won't take returns of helmets. Its cheaper to buy a helmet online, but it is generally better to pay the extra 10-15% and
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
Yeah, the context is important. Unfortunately the context went missing as soon as the "rule" started making it around hacker/maker internet.
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
There's an exception, IMO, for safety critical items in sports. I've seen so many people show up at climbing walls with cheap carabiners from amazon/etc that aren't rated for climbing, but when you view the listing all t
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
Its the rule supposedly came up with by Adam Savage - buy cheap tools, use em til you break em, then replace the ones you break with expensive, good tools. The idea of that rule is so new makers can work out what tools they actually are u
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
The "airline safety measures" of which you speak are all largely pointless security theatre.
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
He has a second channel (Heme Review) that goes more in detail. The whole point of the Chubbyemu ones is broad appeal.
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
Man, I miss model rocketry. Around 2010 in Ireland the motors became virtually unobtainable - there were a handful of shops importing them, and one day they stopped as customs had seized their stock. Apparently what was a growing hobby with
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
A horrifying amount of applications out there that I've seen are basically just that - wrassling some text around, but with a billion layers of unnecessary abstraction. I get to see a lot of peoples code in my job. Most of it is ridi
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
I think over the weekend I'll see how it handles some trivial-but-annoying/tedious data mangling tasks. There's a few small projects I have been procrastinating for ages that just will require a lot of "tedious but trivi
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
As a grown ass man, one of my favourite books remains one of those Usborne electronics books for children. It explains some basic concepts beautifully, far better than I can.
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
Where I live now, getting a licence is pretty hard. You take a theory exam (which you actually do have to study a bit for) on the rules of driving. This gets you a learning permission, that allows you to drive but only with a fully licences
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
I'll grant you that. I also forgot briefly what a complete fucking nightmare instrumenting/debugging PHP (on say, a LAMP stack) can be - which is the inevitable result when PHP decides to behave in "interesting" ways.
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
There are a considerable number of Perl jobs out there - just not many "greenfield" perl jobs. Most of them are maintaining existing codebases (not a fun job), and some are "help port this legacy codebase to not perl". I
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
A lot of the Java programmers I know professionally know fuck all about JVM internals, etc. Its largely unnecessary unless you have to chase down some extremely subtle bug most of the time. A lot of them are senior or principal product engi
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
Electron is still an abomination. I've gone from hating PHP for most of my career, to now having a grudging appreciation for it. Its a clusterfuck, but it works really well, and deployment barely gets simpler than "untar into we
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
This is one of the few times I've read a post about using GPT for dev work that has actually made a somewhat convincing argument. In my day job, there's been various attempts to use GPT to speed up some work, which has generally r
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
I suggested making it OTC without a prescription largely due to a couple of practical reasons - many users of illicit drugs who are not "street junkies" want to keep the whole thing hidden for various reasons (social stigma, worri
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
TIL about the abuse in Finland. I was aware it was sometimes abused by prisoners, but that's new. In another comment I went into a bit more detail around ways of dealing with the issue, using Finland's homeless housing policy as p
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
It sounds like King County has an inefficient system. Bit of a rant here. Tying success to "progress on their addiction" is also puritan brainworms, sorry. A lot of US stuff seems to rely on punitive monitoring and "you relap
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by nibbleshifter 4y ago
I'd make suboxone available OTC, no questions asked. Low cost, or even just free if you register as an addict. Same for naloxone/narcan/whatever "overdose stopper" autoinjectors. Which, I'm reliably told, are t

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