david422

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by david422 6d ago
I'm still waiting for my small android phone https://smallandroidphone.com/ ... written May 2022 :(
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by david422 29d ago
I upgraded a year ago and I bought a bunch of extra RAM because it was "so cheap", why not. Man did I get lucky, I got it right before the price hikes started.
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by david422 1mo ago
Accessibility plays a reason other than just taste.
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by david422 1mo ago
I was trying to figure out slow network speeds one day and I finally swapped an ethernet cable and got full speed. It turns out some ethernet cables are missing wires - and capped at 100Mbps! Wait what? I didn't even know that was a th
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by david422 2mo ago
I used to use a 3rd party clipboard (until blocked by work) that used Cmd-Shift-V to bring up the clipboard. So much nicer than Apple's solution.
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by david422 2mo ago
14 beanbags 14 catches is that ... is that juggling at that point?
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by david422 2mo ago
> I find this hard to believe, since Google Play store requires much less info, and doesn't disclose it to consumers (AFAIK). This changed recently.
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by david422 2mo ago
> For something free I can get why this would seem unreasonable (modulo scams, for which this is a hoop I would rather have than not), but if money's involved, a consumer should be able to contact a human and be made whole, and havi
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by david422 2mo ago
APIs, yes - humans, no.
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by david422 2mo ago
I think the silver lining here is that decentralizing power from America is a good thing, for the world, long term.
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by david422 3mo ago
I work with someone who tends to rejects PR suggestions. I also work with someone else who accepts suggestions. I think that the for the person who accepts suggestions, it's made me wonder if they accept them in part to share ownership
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by david422 3mo ago
I think this is true. When needs aren't met, they are more likely to follow a cult leader.
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by david422 3mo ago
Depends on the wood. Perfectly dry, seasoned hardwood is going to be easy. Wood with knots, soft wood etc. is going to take a while to figure out.
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by david422 3mo ago
Didn't even get my maul stuck once.
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by david422 3mo ago
I put together a new PC last year and got some extra memory, because why not. Crazy how much that would cost me today.
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by david422 4mo ago
> Static typing in Python is the biggest hypocrisy ever Yes, agreed. I used to work on a large python codebase and tried to add type hints where I could. The issue is that python was not the right tool for the job - except that switching
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by david422 4mo ago
> Almost all the Java web frameworks are giant balls of reflection. Name a function the right way or add the right magic annotation and the framework will autowire it correctly. I find this to be very powerful, and also very unintuitive&
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by david422 4mo ago
There's another article somewhere indicating how Maga is furious because their money is lost. Someone commented on the article something like - "I'm MAGA and I'm not mad at all". Which is perfectly in line with your
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by david422 4mo ago
> use Inkscape via CLI to generate icons, logos, and graphics for your app. I do the same thing. How many icon sizes does Apple require now? I create one SVG vector, and then dump them all out with a script. Need to change something? Upd
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by david422 5mo ago
I just put my Pixel 10 through the washing machine by accident. To my surprise, it was perfectly fine.
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by david422 5mo ago
That's what tabs accomplish!
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by david422 5mo ago
Android has an option to enable these buttons on a toolbar at the bottom, I always turn it on. Why change what works fine? Maybe that's the definition of being too old, can't be bothered to change to new things.
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by david422 6mo ago
Or they are like - here, can you check over this LLM design and see if it makes sense?
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by david422 6mo ago
My teammates hit the generate PR button. I'm not reading that, it's a summary of the changes that I am _already_ going to be looking at, wrapped in some flowery language about being "better architecture, cleaner code" et
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by david422 6mo ago
> so much easier to destroy things than it is to build them, so the builders are always at a distinct disadvantage Tangentially related, there was a local property nearby that had these large, aesthetic trees in the yard. The house was s
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by david422 6mo ago
Yes, I can see morons writing laws like this, and then it means that guys with guns can enforce it if they want to.
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by david422 7mo ago
> For example the washing machine. You dont need real time information because you know how long it takes since you've done it 1000s of times and it beeps. All these things are just managed in our heads subconsciously. Actually, thi
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by david422 7mo ago
I turned this into a game. Which image do I think looks better? Now I try to figure out which image is supposedly supposed to look better.
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by david422 8mo ago
A long time ago I was taking flight lessons and I was going through the takeoff checklist. I was going through each item, but my instructor had to remind me that I am not just reading the checklist - I need understand/verify each check
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by david422 8mo ago
> how do we get large text to scale at a lower rate than body text. It's great that the body text can scale up from 16px to 32px, but does heading text need to scale up from 32px to 64px? It's already huge. If you have any thou

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