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by robrain 4mo ago
(2012), maybe?
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by robrain 4mo ago
Just one-shot vibe it for yourself. Lame, I know, but you have to entertain yourself sometimes when the only thing anybody talks about here is ruddy spicy autocorrect and self-inflicted job destruction.
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by robrain 4mo ago
The IRA (Irish terrorists, for Americans confused at the acronym, or maybe confused at what the IRA did) did occasionally phone warnings and occasionally the information was accurate. Code words were used to authenticate the threat.
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by robrain 4mo ago
Given the level of hate here (I use that word advisedly), this should do fine in the target market. Most of us aren’t in that market - I doubt Maranello are quaking that a bunch of nerds are sickened to their very core by this car’s existen
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by robrain 5mo ago
Could also mean that he was cheered by the response to his comments and his disposition improved. There are layers of ambiguity in this headline.
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by robrain 5mo ago
Article's current (possibly original), less ambiguous title: "Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after glitch allowed some vehicles to ‘drive into standing water’" IOW 3,800 Waymo vehicles aren't currently sat spinning their
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by robrain 5mo ago
I’m on a motorhome holiday in Norway right now. The younger people I’ve spoken to, from the Netherlands, through Germany and Denmark and into Norway have as good English as me. As with most American-exceptionalism, you ain’t that special. O
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by robrain 5mo ago
There are terminal/ssh apps (a-shell, blink [shonky business model, sadly] etc) for remote coding, at least one git client (Working Copy), plenty of text editors. Remote makes it way more useful, but bashing out well-formatted code on
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by robrain 6mo ago
I know you can’t comment on modding - but seriously, someone voted me down because they don’t like a literary suggestion? Tough crowd.
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by robrain 6mo ago
Becky Chambers - Wayfarer series and several enjoyable short stories/novellas. Low on blasters, high on sentient life in all its many forms.
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by robrain 6mo ago
I live in a ski resort, you insensitive clod /s Warmer over here in the west means wetter, which means land slides and floods (plus more wild fires in drier seasons). It also means a pivot in tourism (from glaciers, ski resorts, frozen
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by robrain 6mo ago
Went to one park, in the pre-madness epoch, near San Francisco. Enjoyed it. Bought the national guide book, intending to make sure I visited as many more as possible and get my little book filled with stamps. Went home to Canada. Oh well, v
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by robrain 6mo ago
If I look something up twice, I record it in Obsidian. If I need it more than a couple of times, I'll probably make an alias, a script or a mask [1] file. Autocomplete and autosuggest are essential to my workflow. And good history sear
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by robrain 6mo ago
Bought it on Kobo the day of the initial ban, mostly as a screw-you and reaction to corporate censorship. The fact that it's a good book and tells an interesting story in a clear manner was a side-benefit. Strongly recommend.
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by robrain 6mo ago
mise has an option as well (note the caveats though): https://mise.jdx.dev/configuration/settings.html#install_bef... And homebrew has discussed it, kinda sorta: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew&#x
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by robrain 6mo ago
Totally, we mix things up route-wise for that reason.
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by robrain 6mo ago
We love these signs when we're touring. In our motorhome we're normally going slow enough that we can just turn off the autoroute or else log interesting sites for a future trip. I'm British-Canadian so the European roads hol
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by robrain 6mo ago
To pile on to the LazyVim love, I recommend this site: https://lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/ Course and book (free html, available pdf and dead tree). Covers everything I've needed concisely.
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by robrain 7mo ago
Now tested - you’re right
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by robrain 7mo ago
Settings, Accessibility, Motion, switch off Auto-Play preview videos is supposed to do the trick for System Apps (including messages, safari etc). Untested since I run my phone via Wireguard to my home network and block everything there.
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by robrain 7mo ago
And yet this discussion seems to be driven by a load of TSLA maximalists. Elon is a busted flush. He promises the world, delivers somewhat less, somewhat late, if at all. And then layers it with deeply unpleasant politics. Not groupthink, a
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by robrain 7mo ago
That was an artificial boost created by setting a time-limit for a low price. There were ten days to buy at the price, then they put it back up. [1] [1] https://electrek.co/2026/03/01/tesla-cybertruck-awd-pric
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by robrain 8mo ago
Original title: "LangChain Integration for Vector Support for SQL-based AI applications"
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by robrain 8mo ago
The original title was "LangChain Integration for Vector Support for SQL-based AI applications"
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by robrain 8mo ago
Or, "Why only one of the letters in 'AI' is valid". Not exactly a hot take, I know. We're so far beyond emperor's new clothes territory with "AI".
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by robrain 8mo ago
I use Obsidian (other note-taking apps and editor modes are available) and generally write at least a sentence about each bookmark. Subject areas get their own notes/bookmarks and I use the available linking and tagging options to try
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by robrain 8mo ago
Less paywalled: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0zdd7yl4vo
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by robrain 8mo ago
I might be misreading it, but that screenshot looks like an example of how you can disable the plugin for particular sites, like SO.
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by robrain 9mo ago
Whistlerite here. My Strava stats for last year suggest half and half eMTB and road riding. Tiny bit of fully self-powered MTB work. As a 56-year old, eBikes are what make mountain biking possible and fun for me.
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by robrain 9mo ago
As a child in the 80s I was exceedingly nerdy. My loving and generous parents did nothing to discourage that. Indeed they encouraged my nascent interest in computers by regularly updating my ZX computers (80->81->Spectrum->48K etc.

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