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by staindk 4y ago
IMO Slack threads are quite good. I'm sure it depends on your use case etc., but in my work context I find they function really well. I did try test some concepts around Slack/Discord threads serving as entire "discussions&qu
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by staindk 4y ago
IMO if you want a personal pic on your blog it could make sense to move it to your About page. For actual blog posts/other content that contains pictures, it makes sense that those take up more space than 14kb - probably nothing to wor
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by staindk 4y ago
Agreed, IMO it's silly and almost feels like a dark pattern for an innocuous seeming link like that to require an extension installed. For those who already have the extension, see [1] [1] https://i.imgur.com/NfOYhDu.pn
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by staindk 4y ago
No mention of Black Mirror in the comments yet - I'm surprised! A lot of the other theorising here runs right alongside the premise of one of the stories told in the White Christmas episode[1]. IIRC the episode was very well done, as m
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by staindk 4y ago
If I leave this apartment in a worse state (besides fair wear and tear) than it was when I started renting it, the cost of repair will be on me via a portion of my rental deposit that I won't get back. Sure fair wear and tear does cost
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by staindk 4y ago
Yeah this probably is the best bet. Will be keeping in mind as I save up money and figure out where I want to settle down.
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by staindk 4y ago
Currently I'm unsure where I will/want to settle down. I also manage to save some money monthly, which I invest in diverse markets. So my thinking is that at there isn't (or "shouldn't be") any rush for me to b
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by staindk 4y ago
Hilarious sure, but also sad and concerning. I'm tentatively alright with the idea of renting forever and never owning property... but with rent increasing and investors buying up more and more property, it looks like things will get u
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by staindk 4y ago
MS Access has awful UX. I've used it on and off over the years and can never find my 'flow state' as nothing in that program seems to flow at all. If MS prioritised working on it it may have helped lift some people out of Exc
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by staindk 4y ago
Thanks, took a while to find but seems the version to go for is their Community Edition[1]. Had a look at a recent tutorial and it looks great! [1] https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/plmapp/education/soli...
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by staindk 4y ago
Sweet, will look into those, thanks. I just spent a while in wonder at a node-based parametric design tool for Blender called Sverchok[1] - looks super powerful but wayyyy too much for my 3D printing toothbrush holders and phone stands haha
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by staindk 4y ago
Thanks for the link - that's crazy. And awful. Wonder how true it is that you only get a couple of weeks in jail for stealing a car (in Milwaukee at least)...
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by staindk 4y ago
I'm guessing/hoping you're able to click on those comments once you make an account and login... either way though I agree it's a silly restriction.
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by staindk 4y ago
I'm late to this thread but wanted to ask in case anyone sees this and has a specific recommendation: Is there a good free/cheap alternative to F360 for me? I use Fusion 360 to model simple things for 3d printing. I've gotten
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by staindk 4y ago
Because it's been in the news I consume, I guess. I saw a diagram like this [1] somewhere, perhaps a John Oliver video. It seems Texas is on their own grid and I think wherever I learned that mentioned that Texas has not been maintaini
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by staindk 4y ago
I am South African and absolutely hate load shedding. 2 or 4 hours without electricity every day (when LS is active), often over dinnertime and other times you'd like to use electricity. Makes life much more meh. FWIW I think Texas had
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by staindk 4y ago
Fun read with some things I'll keep in mind. I'm sure if I had been subjected to many of the "suggestions" given in the first half of the blogpost I would think it less fun aha. There has been some discussion on the post
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by staindk 4y ago
I'm still trying to get back into reading again, but once at a second-hand bookstore my SO and I overheard the owner talk to another client about a specific series of books and my SO ended up joining the conversation asking about recom
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by staindk 4y ago
Ah shit. Thanks for the link - good to know. Cheeky buggers indeed haha
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by staindk 4y ago
GORE-TEX materials had a PFAS problem but have been PFAS-free since 2012 or 2014 or so, if I recall correctly.
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by staindk 4y ago
Yep good point. RAW is amazing in that regard.
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by staindk 4y ago
Thanks for the term! That's a rabbit hole we'll venture down next time I see my dad. I initially had a paragraph half written out in the comment you replied to detailing how my dad's new cameras perform extremely well at absu
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by staindk 4y ago
I loved this[1] recent video by DIY Perks and think you would enjoy it too. He essentially builds a housing for a lens with a massive aperture. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cT0jXI7l4E
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by staindk 4y ago
My dad's a hobbyist photographer and through him I've learned to generally shoot in aperture priority mode. For my intents it generally feels 'manual enough'. Then you leave ISO on auto if it makes sense for the lighting
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by staindk 4y ago
FWIW AFAIK Matthias is an engineer who used to work at RIM (BlackBerry). His videos about woodworking and everything else are great yeah.
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by staindk 4y ago
It may just be down temporarily. I used to use this Google Search timer extensively until there was a period of time (years ago) where it didn't work reliably for me - I think it counted down fine but then played no sound. Unsure if th
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by staindk 4y ago
Ah you can use pop with other stashes too, thanks for the tip... though that feels a bit like a semantic misnomer (? unsure what term would be best to describe what I'm thinking - but 'pop' kind of feels like it should always
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by staindk 4y ago
I don't know how JetBrains IDEs do 'local histories' but FWIW VSCode recently also implemented "local file history"[1]. I have not had to use it to salvage anything yet, but I'm sure that day will come. [1] ht
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by staindk 4y ago
I'm late to reply here but I only now got around to setting Kvass up and testing it out. I got it running on a free GCP Compute VM and linked it through to my PC so that the VM hosts the Kvass server and my PC (and in future laptop) se
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by staindk 4y ago
Thanks, and best of luck!

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