paulirwin

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by paulirwin 2mo ago
My two-year-old son had started saying "turn around" in a sing-song kind of way several months back, and thus my wife and I, both babies of the 80s, had to start singing the song whenever he would do it. It became a fun thing that
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by paulirwin 5mo ago
And what about containers/VMs, or booting software bare metal? Does my laptop have to pass my age verification to a Docker container? Am I at risk of government censorship (or worse) if I create a hobby smart home app that boots bare m
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by paulirwin 6mo ago
One thing that MCP solves well, that neither CLI apps (like the `gh` CLI for example) nor letting your LLM call arbitrary APIs via CURL does, is setting granular permissions per tool. Most agent frontends I've used like Claude Code onl
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by paulirwin 6mo ago
As a vegetarian of 20 years, I like being able to go to restaurants and have something that is on par with what my friends and family are eating (although I do prefer Impossible to Beyond, by far). Even without friends and family, there&#x2
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by paulirwin 10mo ago
Avalonia is FOSS (MIT licensed). You only need Avalonia XPF if you are migrating legacy stuff. Moq is largely unnecessary today with LLMs being able to easily generate mock classes. I personally prefer to hand-roll my mocks, but if you pref
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by paulirwin 11mo ago
The last sentence is not correct. ASP.NET is part of .NET Framework which is still supported by nature of being included with Windows, and follows its support lifecycle. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/
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by paulirwin 1y ago
Yeah, agreed. Anker, if you're reading this - please open source the printer hardware/parts and software if you're truly pulling out of the market!
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by paulirwin 1y ago
It seems like everyone is dog-piling on Anker over this, so I'd like to put forward a bit more positive of a take. I have a M5 that I got through the original Kickstarter campaign. I love this printer. I use it casually, but I rarely h
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by paulirwin 1y ago
Azure SQL Database for a long while has been the most cost-effective way of running SQL Server as a PaaS database, and still is if you choose the DTU-based modes, making it a very attractive option. Combined with the rich feature set and ma
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by paulirwin 2y ago
Can someone check my understanding: does this mean they have eight logical qubits on the chip? It appears that way from the graphic where it zooms into each logical qubit, although it only shows two there. If that is true, it sounds like
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by paulirwin 2y ago
These are the first few sentences of the article: > Cadmium is bad news. Lead and mercury get all the press, but cadmium is just as foul, even if far fewer people encounter it. Never in my career have I had any occasion to use any, and I
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by paulirwin 2y ago
Congrats on the launch! This looks great. I see you plan on making money by charging for the hosted service. Given that, and given recent history in the industry with companies starting out with this model only to rug-pull it from users lat
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by paulirwin 2y ago
They now refer to the former as Windows PowerShell, and the latter as PowerShell. The Core part was dropped.
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by paulirwin 2y ago
And for organizations, it's only $419 for the first year. It's $251/yr from 3+ years on. It should be noted that $419/year is $35/mo, which is still $10/mo cheaper than the Visual Studio 2022 Professional month
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by paulirwin 2y ago
> Whether it be the rent-seekers at JetBrains This is a gratuitously negative comment that is unfair and uses an incorrect metaphor. Rent-seeking is trying to charge for something without providing any new value, usually from something a
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by paulirwin 2y ago
> Apple really needs to just build this functionality into macOS already. ... or at least allow API access for third-party/OSS apps to do this without needing full screen recording permissions!
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by paulirwin 3y ago
> we're still stuck with the same treatments Take a look at CAR T-cell therapy, used for Leukemia and blood cancers (and mentioned in this article). The first trials were happening around 2011, and now there are several FDA-approved
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by paulirwin 3y ago
Gridfinity is an awesome organizational system you can print yourself, customized to your needs. I’ve also printed watch charging stands, a bottle drying stand, games, and gifts for other people. Will you save money? Probably not, but it’s
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by paulirwin 3y ago
For some definition of "end." Semantically, E2E encryption should mean encrypted end-to-end between you and the person you're calling, without Zoom having the key or ability to decrypt it. For example, this is Signal's
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by paulirwin 3y ago
It also seems very similar to .NET's Lazy<T>: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.lazy-1?v...
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by paulirwin 3y ago
Almost 7 years later, I am still using an Anker Powerline+ braided USB-C (C to C) 6' cable that I purchased for use with the original Pixel (1st gen) phone in 2016. It's the cable I use every night to charge my phone, and it comes
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by paulirwin 3y ago
Definitely agree with the first and second points above. I absolutely will if I can see it with enough time to safely slow the RV, and the terrain doesn't look like I might blow a tire or damage the RV doing it. I'm usually less c
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by paulirwin 3y ago
No, but static code analysis could do a good job at catching this (at least it does in C#).
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by paulirwin 3y ago
Same, I'm going to give it a shot as well. 20 years of GERD with 10+ years of daily medicine that I'd like to stop taking. I wonder if a yoga downward dog position might be equivalent?
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by paulirwin 4y ago
I think I'm understanding correctly, but please correct me if I'm wrong... the class pointer is a pointer to the type (class) the object implements. So that would mean to exceed even an unsigned 32-bit pointer size, there would ne
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by paulirwin 4y ago
GitHub has supported GPG-signed commits since 2016: https://github.blog/2016-04-05-gpg-signature-verification/ AFAICT, the new thing here is that you can use SSH instead of GPG to sign commits, which should hopefully m
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by paulirwin 4y ago
I tried to buy one of these this month. The dealership I went to has a policy of not selling over MSRP, which I appreciate. As a result, they are no longer even taking names for the RAV4 Prime waiting list because they estimate the wait is
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by paulirwin 5y ago
Came here to say this. Angular ticks just about every box from the original article. It is opinionated (IMO in a good way, but YMMV), well structured, and batteries are included. You still have the flexibility to do data access, state manag
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by paulirwin 5y ago
The symbol rate vs bandwidth is hopefully changing; the ARRL is petitioning the FCC to make it a bandwidth limit instead. On many HF bands, there is limited bandwidth anyways, so the proposed 2.8kHz is a good balance without letting a singl
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by paulirwin 5y ago
I have Premium and watch almost daily and can't remember the last time I saw an ad. Isn't that the whole point of Premium?

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