tlavoie

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by tlavoie 4y ago
Good to know, thanks!
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Out of curiosity, why Ocaml instead of (say) Haskell?
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by tlavoie 4y ago
On the other hand, I use Vivaldi fairly successfully when some site demands I use Chrome instead of Firefox. Most people won't of course, but it is a valid option.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I picked up one of these recently, and it seems to work quite well. https://www.amazon.ca/Detector-Quality-Monitor-Lightweight-A... I don't have it on all the time or anything, but is certainly interesting to spot-chec
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I'm curious how things like Nix will help with this in the future, especially as the platform matures. I took a bit of time a little while back to convert a wee app of mine to using Nix flakes to build, specifically because I was getti
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Here's an odd idea. Imagine being able to limit the overall momentum of a vehicle based on its expected mass. That is, a governor would cause the top speed to max out sooner for heavier vehicles, so owners would have to tolerate being
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by tlavoie 4y ago
The problem is, it would be demolished by spammers, without some sort of moderation.
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As a corollary to the site permissions making it effectively an app, I like web sites in a regular browser because it enforces more limitations than what an app may try to get away with.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I dunno, there are some pretty neat NSE scripts.
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Is the question not just one of defining the sets of "things" that are being accepted here? It's not that the compiler shouldn't care, but that you have defined an appropriate data structure and set of acceptable types t
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Excellent point. I have a Lack Rack in my office closet, but the mounted device (Fortinet 100D) was replaced with a fanless firewall instead. The Fortigate is still there, but off, and the table still holds my laser printer up.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
It depends a lot on where the breakable part is, and whether it can be replaced reasonably. I just did some repairs on our Cuisinart food processor, that highlighted poor design. The motor is in the base of course, driving a shaft that come
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I don't know if it would work on goats., They aren't fond of being rained on though, so maybe? They are really motivated however, and smart enough to figure it out. The bridge grafting worked great! The tree never lost any leaves
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by tlavoie 4y ago
You need sheep for that. Goats don't much like grass. I have to mow our paddock, except for when I borrowed a friend's sheep for a few days.
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They seem to like Scotch broom as well. Some red-leafed garden ornamental is brutally toxic to them though, and it can be a slow, agonizing death.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
You'd think so... but yeah, they have their own sort of smarts. Mine are very adept at reaching or finding tasty plants. One was less bright about plants on the other side of a fence that her horns fit through, one way. I had to rescue
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by tlavoie 4y ago
An electric fence goes a long way, and can be portable. Works great as long as you remember to close the gate. cough
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Goats' motivations are mostly to eat tasty tree bark and (some) other plants. Hardly incompetent or thoughtless, they're relentless if not contained. I have three, and the only incompetence at play is when I accidentally don&#x2
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Oh, I do miss a good thunderstorm. The roof hail damage, not so much.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I moved away from what I grew up with, and prefer it. (Good thing, I guess) Went from Manitoba prairie, to west coast. Mountains and ocean, and in my yard, mostly a wall of tall evergreen trees. The weather is pleasant too, but I attribute
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I'm surprised not to see this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DWLv4tQsz4 "Accidenture" - I think it was a whole satire site originally, but can't find it now. It had been pointed out by some Accen
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Hey Mickey, another happy reader here. One question, looking at your site, I see mention of an "Emacs 28 edition." I've got v3 of the ebook, is there an update version from here?
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Ah damn, you reminded me about the Rainforest Eagle's API. That was a thought for a side project, haven't gotten to yet. I already have some ESP32s writing to MQTT (Mosquitto on a Raspberry Pi), which another program dumps to Sqli
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Where this has been found to be a very expensive mistake, you are now seeing communities buy out homeowners, demolish, and leave the areas empty. Other efforts can be very expensive, but worthwhile if they're protecting enough. For exa
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by tlavoie 4y ago
The tenders, as those trucks are known, would be from the fire department themselves. Filling from nearby-as-possible ponds or tanks, a good-sized structure fire will still go through multiple trucks' worth of water. I volunteer with o
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Heh. An old boss gave me what he considered a "PITA" (pain in the ass) project, which I quite enjoyed. A client had been printing cheques with an embedded bitmap in the PCL code for the CFO's signature, and then they got a ne
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I still love my Samsung laser (ML-2251N), but it will be my last. On the other hand, I was able to get more toner fairly inexpensively, so it'll keep running for years now.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I use Pinboard, like many others here. The other thing I do is use that API to write new entries from time to time, to my own local DB, in case the author gets hit by a bus (as he's joked about). I haven't written a front end to d
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Good points, but I would suggest that just because the swamp-dwellers like it that way, does not mean it isn't a swamp. I very much minimize my time there, because it is the spammiest, clingiest "social" network I've tri
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Can you tell if that's all it does? I don't know what all geolocation covers in Android terms, but it would certainly be a superset of just scanning for BlueTooth. I would be curious if it does any or all of: - Fetching GPS coordi

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