timrichard

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by timrichard 3y ago
I know what you mean. Sadly, looks like our Panasonic (NN-CF778SBPQ) may be on the way out after a decade of daily service, and I've been trying to find an equivalent with the two knobs. You can adjust power and time while it's st
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by timrichard 3y ago
I think Panasonic still make some. The term they use if you're web searching is "flatbed".
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by timrichard 3y ago
That's true. I evaluated it, but it wasn't of use to me as I keep my Macbook plugged in with the lid closed. I eventually tried this instead (for Intel Macs) : https://github.com/DevNulPavel/osx_battery_charge
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by timrichard 3y ago
And before the gramophone was invented, getting the latest tune for home entertainment often meant bringing the sheet music home and sight reading it at the family piano. I don't have a wider point to make about modern skill levels, bu
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by timrichard 3y ago
The average Briton might well have awareness through this documentary, where Brunel came second to Churchill in a public vote following the "Great Britons" TV series : https://youtu.be/QwHnVH9jWmU?si=lFShZQ4WMvRQwi
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by timrichard 3y ago
Yup. Another data point from someone driving in Wales at the moment : - People seem fixated on their speedometers rather than the road, which isn't great for safety. - I'm spending way more time in third gear when I would have pre
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by timrichard 3y ago
If you're missing some CLI tooling on MacOS, it's worth checking out the Homebrew repositories to see if you can find what you're looking for. I use several up-to-date GNU versions of utilities instead of the older BSD-flavou
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by timrichard 3y ago
I've had the opposite experience... My knowledge of Terraform was limited to the basic principles, but I've been using ChatGPT to develop scripts and learn as I go. It's been excellent, and the scripts I've been working
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by timrichard 3y ago
1976 is famous for being a scorching summer (at least with Brits over a certain age), but it's not in the top ten of our temperature records. Seven of those ten are from this century :-( At the other poster mentioned, records began aro
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by timrichard 3y ago
I installed Brave the other day, and it has a page translation feature.
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by timrichard 3y ago
I use Obsidian on MacOS, iOS and Android, and keep my Vault on GitHub. I use Working Copy on iOS and PocketGit on Android to pull and commit/push changes.
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by timrichard 3y ago
Thanks for the link... I checked out LightEdit, but it sounds like it leaves quite a lot behind : "..and it doesn't support the usual IDE editor features such as code completion, or code navigation." I remembered it's po
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by timrichard 3y ago
I use JetBrains products as my main IDEs, but then fire up VSCode for smaller editing tasks on things like Ansible Playbooks and Terraform scripts, as there are official plugins for VSCode that are so much better than anything I've fou
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by timrichard 3y ago
Another vote for the HD650 here. I bought a pair nearly 20 years ago, and they have had plenty of use. About two years ago, I picked up Sennheiser-branded replacement padding for the headband and earcups. Feels like new. You can also get a
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by timrichard 3y ago
If on a Mac, most of mine have been mentioned... I would add Better Touch Tool. I use it to launch apps and trigger actions in apps from a global context. I things mapped to the function keys and also presses on areas of the Trackpad. So fo
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by timrichard 3y ago
Interesting to see what happens to the current campaign against encryption, in light of them trying to keep WhatsApp messages from an enquiry for the sake of their privacy.
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by timrichard 3y ago
I was thinking along similar lines, but rather a LLM trained with plenty of COBOL to translate to a modern language, with unit test coverage.
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by timrichard 3y ago
I have a feeling of unease too. OSX occasionally warns me about third party kernel extensions, and that's not an encouraging direction of travel. I bought my audio interface precisely because RME have a reputation for writing reliable
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by timrichard 3y ago
> The film industry of today got started because of misfits refusing to toe the line of the anti-celebrity industry bigwigs, it's why hollywood exists where it does (easy to skip over the border to film). The history I've heard
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by timrichard 3y ago
> The Douglas Adams of this century certainly won't live in Islington: the house he once shared with two others is now worth something like £2 million Maybe that house is now being let by Islington estate agents Hotblack Desiato. Th
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by timrichard 3y ago
Laws are proposed by the (lobbied) Commission, and also the Council. Not by the Parliament, which is made up of the MEPs that citizens directly vote for.
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by timrichard 3y ago
"Secure the product over its whole life" I wonder how this will affect the business model where you get updates while your subscription is active.
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by timrichard 3y ago
Interesting to see what happens in the case (no pun intended) of Champagne regarding climate change. Due to global warming, there are indications that ideal growing conditions are moving westwards towards the South of England. Established
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by timrichard 3y ago
They have lifted restrictions on feeding animal remains to livestock, in the name of competition. Those restrictions were there for good reason in the wake of the BSE crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/
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by timrichard 3y ago
If you use JavaScript or Typescript, check out Wallaby and Quokka.
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by timrichard 3y ago
> I love Ableton and use it a ton, but man does it crash almost every session for me. Is that when using a plugin window or using the Ableton UI itself? I can only recall plugins crashing for me... Always worth checking for updates with
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by timrichard 4y ago
I use a RME DAC in my setup, and one of the things I like about it is the Bit Test feature. RME supply the WAV bit test files on their site. I've converted them to FLAC. The DAC shows up a message on the LCD when the bit test (played o
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by timrichard 4y ago
I was wondering about stimulation as well, in terms of media. YouTube recently offered up some throwbacks, and I remembered a great kids TV programme on the BBC from 1980. https://youtu.be/rOuAzHjsiOg?t=9m56s Between the Ad
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by timrichard 4y ago
You can set the power options so that it can shut down after a period of inactivity. Mine has 8 HDDs. According to my power meter plug, it uses 70W when all are spinning, 30W when the drives are spun down, and about 3W when "off"
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by timrichard 4y ago
I was wondering the other day how to classify tests that use a test double/fake like pg-mem, which isn't returning stubbed results but isn't the Dockerized test DB either : https://github.com/oguimbal/pg-

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