JamesMcMinn

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by JamesMcMinn 3mo ago
There was a time when it was quite bad, especially if using Wayland and under heavy CPU or I/O loads. I think this has mostly been solved now, but I do recall getting frustrated with the switch to Wayland because of it.
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Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?(bsky.app)
683 points by JamesMcMinn 5mo ago|642 comments
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by JamesMcMinn 5mo ago
I can't find an announcement yet, however the pricing page now shows it's not included, and various support articles have removed any mention of the the Pro plan including access to claude code. See [1] and [2] for an example of a
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by JamesMcMinn 1y ago
Having switched to a kobo in the last week from a kindle, yes it is still possible, but involves a few steps, one of which can require an old version of the kindle for PC app. [1] I couldn't make it work on books already downloaded to
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by JamesMcMinn 2y ago
I'm not able to test this right now, but my understanding is that this was fixed (after 20+ years?) with this merge: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/156...
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by JamesMcMinn 2y ago
The storage costs coming in from 1st March feel like they're going to catch a lot of organisations out too. Private repos will cost $10/month per 100GB of storage, something that was previously not charged for. We're in the m
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by JamesMcMinn 2y ago
This has been developing over the last few days, with some users of the Tado smart thermostat and heating system being locked out of the app that's used to control both heating and hot water in their homes unless they agree to pay a su
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Smart thermostat company Tado is considering charging users for its app(theverge.com)
3 points by JamesMcMinn 2y ago|1 comments
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by JamesMcMinn 2y ago
This has been developing over the last few days, with some users of the Tado smart thermostat and heating system being locked out of the app that's used to control both heating and hot water in their homes unless they agree to pay a su
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
I've previously moved from Pivotal to Shortcut (when it was still called Clubhouse) and found it to be a good alternative for our small team. I did end up having to write my own import scripts, though that only took an evening or two.
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
I wouldn't describe mine as particularly unique, but I did a writeup for the lobste.rs thread, so will share it here: https://jamesmcminn.com/articles/office-2024/
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Ask HN: What does your desk look like?
5 points by JamesMcMinn 3y ago|1 comments
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
Not a single mention of sleep, which one would think would have a strong relationship with both coffee habits and learning and memory.
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
Replying here due to depth limits. > Can you point out the part of the article that disagrees with the assertion "cats are domestic animals"? This is neither relevant nor the issue being discussed. It is a straw man, and you al
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
Did you actually read the article I linked to? I ask because actual evolutionary geneticists don't agree with you, and I'm likely to side with them on the genetics of the matter.
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
Whatever do you mean? Something being domesticated has no bearing on wether or not is it native to an area.
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
It is in no way a faulty comparison. We did not domesticate cats in the same way that we did dogs, cows or chickens [1]. Wild cats found human populations useful because they attracted rodents. Humans found cats useful because dealt with ro
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
What point do you think I am trying to make, exactly? Native fauna is defined as animals which historically have naturally occurred in the local area [1], and wild cats are by definition native fauna in Scotland, and across much of Europe.
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
The UK, Scotland in particular, as a starter for 10. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_wildcat
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
I've found DBeaver [1] to be a good replacement after giving up with pgAdmin3 (I did love pgAdmin2, however). Datagrip is also fine if you're a Jetbrains user. [1] https://dbeaver.io/
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
This is a partial cheat, because there was software involved, by the coolest physical thing I've made is probably the photobooth I put together for my wedding, combining an old laptop with a broken hinge (which allowed it to become a c
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by JamesMcMinn 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457507 rather than accusing someone of being a sock puppet and doing EXACTLY what this post was created to avoid.
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by JamesMcMinn 4y ago
I could not take the book seriously due to how shallow it was. Written to sound clever, but lacking any actual substance. It literally could have been 2 pages of bullet points and delivered more value by dropping the pseudoscience nonsense
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by JamesMcMinn 4y ago
I tried to read his Deep Work book, and it was truly awful. Usually I avoid writing reviews for books that I didn't finish, but Deep Work is one of the worst books I've ever tried to read. To describe it as a 10 page blog post wou
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by JamesMcMinn 4y ago
Articles With Headlines that Exaggerate the Story Get 300 Times More Views
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by JamesMcMinn 4y ago
ScotRail have started to print tickets with QR codes on them, which unfortunately are an awkward size (far bigger than a credit card, even larger than a £20), come as a single strip without a perforated edge to tear, and are generally very
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by JamesMcMinn 4y ago
I created the Events2012 dataset which has around 120,000,000 tweets reduced from an original sample of several billion. It is now over 10 years old, but still cited and still requested fairly regularly. Previously, my response has been to
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by JamesMcMinn 4y ago
I don't think there's any risk of damaging the sensor. The shutter is a mechanical part that will physically wear out over time, the sensor is converting photons into voltage. I've been using my camera as a webcam for over 2
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by JamesMcMinn 4y ago
I've been using an A6300 with a Sigma 16mm f1.4 lens (both of which I already had), mounted to the monitors stand using a basic clamp. It works great, looks fantastic [3] and I still get a lot of compliments for how good my video quali
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by JamesMcMinn 4y ago
This is an opportunity piece written for no reason other than to ride the wave from a recent re-post of a 2 year old blog article. It offers nothing over the original blog post and it's difficult not to be cynical about the authors int

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