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by wkjagt 3mo ago
I should look into how this affects my 1981 Volvo 244
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
You're probably right. On my 7th gen i7 with 16 GB, which should theoretically be plenty to check my email, GMail's web interface is very slow.
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
When gas prices went up in the 70s because of fuel shortage, smaller (more fuel efficient) cars became more popular to use less fuel to do the same thing. I wonder if the same will happen with compute, by making software more efficient, and
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
I am Dutch but live in Canada, and when I visit family in The Netherlands, I always notice how much darker it gets during the night, even when my family lives in a larger town than me.
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
Same for me. And it's not even rational. Even if I know the information is good, I'm just so put off by it that I am unable to follow.
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
I recently bought a book I've been wanting to read at a thrift store. I almost didn't buy it because it was a later reprint with an uglier cover that now says "Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock&
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
I kinda stopped doing CW (and ham radio altogether with that). I did quite a bit of POTA hunting but it became too repetitive. And I didn't find something that felt like a small enough step up from hunting. Activating parks felt like t
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
Steve Mould did a cool video on this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtMTvsi-4Hw
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
I am on the side that says the farmer didn't plow the field. I guess you could say he took responsibility for it, which isn't the same thing. I guess a counter argument that some would make is that the farmer didn't plow the
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
I just watched the video on their launch page and I am really not sure how I feel about it. On one side, it's cool that these people get to start businesses and stuff using ChatGPT (assuming these are true stories), but how much of the
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
One falsehood I just ran into myself when booking a parking spot at the airport: "all parts of a name start with a capital letter". This isn't true for Dutch names with "van de", "van der" etc, which this
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
I really miss the old internet. Thinking back, it was awesome. Even the beginning of social networks. I remember how amazed I was by things like Friendfeed. And it felt like things were only getting more awesome all the time. Even technolog
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
I just checked the drawer where I keep my NES games. Haven't played in a long time, but they're all still there.
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
I hate that my 2020 Ioniq EV takes decisions for me, and just overall pretends to know better. I've turned off all the gadgets I could find (lane assist etc, I hate the feeling of the steering wheel wanting to move by itself) but some
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
> Yes, but why? Most likely answer is "because that's what they wanted to do", which is a totally legit reason.
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by wkjagt 3mo ago
I wonder how much can be controlled over some kind of bus. Would be cool to have all sorts of physical buttons and a micro controller to control radio, AC, heated seats etc etc so I can keep looking at the road while changing things.
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by wkjagt 4mo ago
The Netherlands
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by wkjagt 4mo ago
Someone once told me when I was putting something exactly level in a crooked old house: you want it level with the house, not the universe.
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by wkjagt 4mo ago
This is so much fun. And something while playing reminded me of a this video I saw where someone asks her boyfriend "what does Y-E-S spell", and he said "yes". Then she asked him what "E-Y-E-S" spelled, and he
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by wkjagt 5mo ago
I felt the same and got a Casio CM-100 that has similar functionality. Not as nice as the HP but it does the job. Much cheaper too if you can find one.
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by wkjagt 5mo ago
I am Dutch and moved to Canada about 20 years ago (my wife is Canadian). Imagine our first meal at my new in-laws, and me not speaking much French yet (we're in Quebec), and still wanting to show my appreciation for the meal...
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by wkjagt 5mo ago
I also learned in an awkward way that waving my hand next to my cheek isn't an international sign for lekker. I moved to Canada about 20 years ago, and still sometimes do it, but apparently here it means you're signaling that some
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by wkjagt 5mo ago
Doesn't it come from car culture? Where (mostly young) people put giant wings and shiny wheels on a clapped out Honda Civic to make it look like a race car. I always thought that "rice" was an intentional misspelling of &quot
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by wkjagt 5mo ago
Oh yeah I totally get that, and I feel the same, but the author of this project specifically says that it's hand written (first paragraph of the readme in the repo).
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by wkjagt 5mo ago
It doesn't diminish the art form though. If anything, I value these kinds of hand written projects even more now that so many people are pulled in by AI doing their projects for them in a fraction of the time and effort. I love doing t
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by wkjagt 5mo ago
> "strlen" will always iterate through a string searching for a NULL byte whether it's in C, Rust, Assembly Not all languages use NULL terminated strings. I think Rust actually stores the string length alongside a pointer
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
It's too bad. It's a good mode for low power.
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
A couple of years ago I used a 555 in an attempt to fix a problem I had with my Xiegu G90 ham radio. When sending CW (morse code), the radio would sometimes not see a "dit" (the short tone in morse code). I could reproduce it by t
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
> I even went around at Linux conferences and counted, like 30-40% I don't think the interest in the hardware is necessarily low among Linux users, it's just that MacBooks aren't built with Linux in mind at all, and you ca
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
I left big tech about 5 years ago, which was an interesting timing looking back. It's not even that long ago, but man have things completely changed since then. I still code a lot, but only for fun. I've never even tried agentic c

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