nmcfarl

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by nmcfarl 7d ago
I don’t know, it might just come down to how good a driver you are. I agree with the proposition that people are horrible at halfway autonomy. But I am horrible at driving, and I kind of think almost everybody is. I have a car that just doe
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by nmcfarl 2mo ago
That’s all reasonable, and everyone is different , but I do think your original comment needed pushback, because meditation is often portrayed as enjoyable and easy at least in certain kinds of media. And I do think a lot of people give up
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by nmcfarl 3mo ago
I am not a slow reader, but I realized what you did - that these books give me a chance to engage with the topic and if I spend enough time with a subject, I might learn something from myself even if I learn zero from the actual book. My so
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by nmcfarl 3mo ago
I really think this depends on the job. As soon as I read your initial comment, I thought about locums in medicine, people who float for as little as a weekend at a time, and as a little as once a quarter at any particular hospital. And the
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by nmcfarl 4mo ago
I think i can handle this code by hand in fact it’s better than code I have handled by hand. (at a cursory glance.) In my day - I think it was around 2000 – I was handed a 5000 line perl script that both responded to CGI bin requests to run
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by nmcfarl 4mo ago
I knew the answer was no - but I was curious, the nearest locker is a 2h10m drive each way. Which is about an hour closer than I thought it would be.
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by nmcfarl 4mo ago
I did do that. And I think that most of the drivers are not local and the comments just made it more likely they would skip on doing what was going to be clearly a difficult delivery. However, even after my third revision of the notes – to
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by nmcfarl 4mo ago
What this mainly says to me is that my life is going to get much worse - as Amazon logistics cannot deliver to my house. I used to be a big user of Amazon prime, but they recently swapped over to logistics for my rural area which has no cel
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by nmcfarl 5mo ago
I don’t think most people can do this 100% of the time. I actually think if you can do this 100% of the time you’re probably a zen master. I think most people over the age of 25 can do this maybe 80% of the time. And most of them can keep i
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by nmcfarl 5mo ago
I do ranch work in a place with a lot of iron in the soil. I often have these sand sized grains of dirt in my port. But I had it in a lightning days as well. I just hate ports. Before MagSafe, this used to kill phones. Now my son has a phon
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by nmcfarl 6mo ago
But cloudflare is also just difficult, I’m on Starlink (because where I am my only other option is Hughes net), and my browser of choice is Safari. No vpn, and only boring ad blockers. I routinely blocked by Cloudflare from viewing things
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by nmcfarl 6mo ago
I liked the apple II, and the TRS 80 as I rather like basic. And then I didn’t hate DOS, and then I actively hated the graphical shell of Windows 3, but could not afford a Macintosh -so suffered through it where I had to, but mainly used DO
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by nmcfarl 7mo ago
Or they can blame Apple for delivering a developer experience to those companies that makes those companies not want to play ball. Not that they likely will, as Apple owns the framing.
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by nmcfarl 7mo ago
You know, sometimes it doesn’t and sometimes it does. And also I’ve been known to forget it overnight and wake up to moldy clothes. I have a friend who will say things like “I have to go at 3” and get up at 3 on the dot without even looking
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by nmcfarl 7mo ago
I am pretty sure this is not true. I recall my mother’s family conversing via mail in the early 80’s - and she would write one 10 page letter a month as a reply (max) - that would 3 or 4 mails a year with any particular sibling (and probabl
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by nmcfarl 8mo ago
This is not always a bad thing. The example I always use of why it’s good that Amazon has knock off parts, is a Jacuzzi heating element. Amazon has them for $30, but has none of the legitimate item which are only sold through a dealer netwo
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by nmcfarl 9mo ago
Also for kids at least, sometimes they really will be happier with less choice. Sometimes kids make bad decisions and limiting choice to good options is helpful. Additionally the inverse is true. Sometimes kids choices are restrained, and t
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by nmcfarl 10mo ago
Sadly not flat and not open. But more far flung repeaters are an option as I have electricity further from the house. However the TDeck being hard to use makes it unlikely the kid would carry it. And bad UX in general makes it hard on my w
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by nmcfarl 10mo ago
I am so glad that he did this and I did not. I’d seriously been considering trying meshcore out, as I live on several hundred acres without cell service, and I’d like some means of communicating with my family. So far CB radios have not wor
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by nmcfarl 10mo ago
This is going to be painful for people in a way which I haven’t seen discussed here yet. A year ago I went on vacation with my family, and the kids wanted to watch Netflix on VRBO‘s TV and so I logged in to my account on the tv. And of cour
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by nmcfarl 10mo ago
My sixth grader has classmates who call 20-year-olds boomers, at least when the 20-year-olds are doing things they don’t like. It really just means someone I don’t like who’s older than me.
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by nmcfarl 11mo ago
Interestingly, I have yet to find I have the horrible feedback problem people are talking about in this thread with my APP3, but I do in my Honeywell syncs, about 1 day in 3. And as I wear glasses all hearing protection in the earmuff style
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by nmcfarl 11mo ago
I’m not sure if that’s true. The number of times I’ve opened FFmpegs man page must number in the hundreds. I think I’m a pretty good conceptually, but I can’t remember all the flags. IE that –s is frame size, while -fs is file size. And wh
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
The conclusion is, it is much better until they cut the coating. However, it feels more like plastic than it does like fabric.
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Two Years After the FineWoven Fiasco, Is TechWoven Better?(ifixit.com)
2 points by nmcfarl 1y ago|2 comments
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
I’ve had two cases for this in the last month. Not that I have access to an agentic browser. * We decided to buy a robot vacuum, again. And we decided on a particular model that yo-yo‘s up and down in price by about $200 every month. We end
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
My stepmom who retired five years ago, did COBOL dev as part of her banking job until 2002ish and then she was full-time management track. In her bank, most of the work had been integrated with Java, and the Java was done by outsourced Indi
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
To save some googling the Politicians Fallacy is this one: We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
This is really possible. I installed Claude code many months ago, and never used it - but may have logged in in at that time. When sonnet 4 was released I tried it again, and started using it with just my API keys (I do not have a paid sub
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
This was once true, I think, but it is no longer true. If you set an API key in your environment, Claude Code will work.

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