patwolf

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by patwolf 7mo ago
I use it on MacOS, but it doesn't support tabs.
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by patwolf 7mo ago
The first time I got a photo scanner, I was blown away that I could see myself on a screen. I eventually got a digital camera, and the novelty started to wear off. Now I can make myself the lead in a blockbuster movie, but that feels boring
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by patwolf 8mo ago
I found that writing rules was tricky when I didn't know exactly what content would be in a spam/promo notification. I ended up having claude code up a filter that asks an AI to review the notification first, which seems to be wor
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by patwolf 9mo ago
I got one of these for my kid a few years ago. He liked to browse Spotify on my phone, and I thought it would be a good screenless alternative. But honestly it just sat in a drawer, and I didn't have the patience to maintain and sync p
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by patwolf 9mo ago
> In the deal struck on Friday, Canada will allow only 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian market at the 6.1% tariff rate. I was wondering how Canada would prevent this from damaging their auto industry, and capping the to
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by patwolf 9mo ago
I've been looking at DBOS for queuing and other scheduling tasks in a nodejs app. However, it only works with Postgres, and that means I can't use it in web or mobile with sqlite. I like that SolidQueue works with multiple databas
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by patwolf 10mo ago
I wish it had generated the articles themselves. I'd like to know if it imagining IBM growing enough that it could acquire OpenAI, or OpenAI sinking enough that it could be acquired by IBM.
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by patwolf 10mo ago
Glad to see it working in react native. It always surprises me that RN doesn't natively support wasm. I've had to avoid other wasm-based libraries, like loro, for that reason.
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by patwolf 11mo ago
The funny thing is that CS1 probably wouldn't have been as successful had EA not dropped the ball on the SimCity franchise. There was a decade between SimCity 4 and SimCity (2013/5), and when it finally came out it was a completel
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by patwolf 11mo ago
Most dealership websites in the US list cars as New, Pre-Owned or Certified Pre-Owned, meaning Certified is distinct from Pre-Owned.
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by patwolf 11mo ago
I worked at a company that dumped Databricks once the first bill came. I guess it was an order of magnitude more expensive than what they expected. It was less expensive to rebuild the pipeline from scratch with a different product.
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by patwolf 11mo ago
According to this their most recent innovation was in 2023 with a "virtual community where people can co-create and interact with one another via digital platforms like NFTs and the metaverse."
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by patwolf 1y ago
Just a reminder that a market crash isn't the only way the Shiller PE Ratio can return to "normal". It can go back down if earnings go up. Or if previous dips in earnings roll outside of the 10-year window used to calculate t
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by patwolf 1y ago
From my time using Notes I remember lots of manual replication config to get anything to properly work offline, and even then I struggled to get it to work reliably. So while they might have solved it, I don't think their solution was
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by patwolf 1y ago
There was a mention of something like that in Starship Troopers as well. Heinlein describes life on an earth-like planet with low radiation as being "like a kid who takes ten years to learn to wave bye-bye and never does manage to mast
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by patwolf 1y ago
It's common to have npm auditing enabled, which means your CI/CD will force you to update to a brand new version of a package because a security vulnerability was reported in an older one. I've also had cases where I've
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by patwolf 1y ago
IBM in the past has seemed more interested in maximizing the value of their current technologies than trying to predict and guide future technologies. For example: 1. They missed the move to Cloud and eventually shifted focus to "hybri
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by patwolf 1y ago
I went through this on a few projects, and what surprised me the most was that some devs have very strong opinions about import ordering. I mostly rely on the IDE to manage imports, and most the time they're not even visible. We had to
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by patwolf 1y ago
I wish the article had gone into detail about SoundFonts. I had an AWE64 back in the day, and the SoundFonts were a relatively inexpensive way to do sampling. CPUs were generally too slow to do sampling without dedicated hardware. I still r
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by patwolf 1y ago
The antennas on mine don't appear to come off, at least not easily. I read somewhere that they came off on the early models but are now glued. It does enforce time limits. If I send a message or something that uses digital communicatio
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by patwolf 1y ago
For anyone looking for an off-the-shelf solution for wireless texting, I've used the BTECH GMRS-PRO. You can send messages on the device, but it's much easier to connect it to your phone via BLE and text through the app. However,
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by patwolf 1y ago
> Surely you are old enough to hear the comotion about switchgrass I hadn't heard "switchgrass" since GWB mentioned it in his State of the Union years ago. Did it end up becoming a significant source of biofuel?
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by patwolf 1y ago
I occasionally hear people pronounce it out loud as "vah tech". But seeing it written "VA Tech" is even more bizarre.
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by patwolf 1y ago
I'm old enough to remember when Google released AJAXSLT in 2005. It was a JS implementation of XSLT so that you could consistently use XSLT in the browser. The funny thing is that the concept of AJAX was fairly new at the time, and so
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by patwolf 1y ago
I was using it earlier today and noticed something was different. It sounded more lethargic, and added a lot more "umms". It's not necessary bad, just something I need to get used to. I always get a laugh asking it to talk li
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by patwolf 1y ago
The Game Gear, Atari Lynx, and TurboExpress all got around 4 hours of battery life and burned through 6 AA batteries.
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by patwolf 1y ago
I had heard KJV had some translation issues, but I'm surprised to hear that about John. I tried to learn Koine Greek, and a lot of the lessons started with John 1, so I always assumed it was one of the easier things to translate.
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by patwolf 1y ago
I haven't used mIRC since the 5.X days, but I recall the author always included an updated profile photo in the about page. It was interesting to watch him age with each release update. I downloaded this version to see if that was stil
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by patwolf 1y ago
Same. mIRC scripting was really what motivated me to learn to program. I had tinkered a little bit with BASIC before that, but mIRC was what kept me interested. It's one thing to write uninteresting "hello world" CLI apps, bu
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by patwolf 1y ago
I played around in Windows 2000 for the first time in 20 years. I know nostalgia can be blinding, but I would go back to that UI in a heartbeat. The uncluttered taskbar, the simple start menu that isn't full of useless recommendations

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