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by pridkett 2mo ago
GeyserMC will be your friend if using Bedrock and Java. But the big thing is that community is a little all over the place. I use ChatGPT to walk me through everything to securely set up a couple of servers. Kids love it. Most chatbots will
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by pridkett 3mo ago
There’s a few things mixed up in this comment. But the 10-20x cheaper, I’m assuming comes from the difference between the number of tokens you can use on a $200 Claude Max subscription and the cost of those via the API. That’s neither here
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by pridkett 4mo ago
Just wanted to say thanks! The first time played Flight Simulator 2020 with SmoothTrack I was blown away. I still am blown away each time too. Great experience that’s been nearly flawless for me and really turned up the realism. I can move
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by pridkett 5mo ago
I still use an IrDA device on a regular (3-4x yearly) basis - ScubaPro Galileo Luna dive computers. What’s more - somehow this works on an M-series Mac using no additional paid software. UTM with an older Linux distribution and some tools I
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by pridkett 7mo ago
Java is the original version from Mojang/Notch. There’s always been enough of a community that killing it off to move away from Java would break so many extensions and servers would see an active revolt. There is the non-Java version (
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by pridkett 9mo ago
Geotargeting. I live in a semi rural area. My town has 1.1% of kids who are classified as ESL. There’s a much larger town near us that has 32% ESL and 70+% of Hispanic descent. We get podcast and very infrequent YouTube ads in Spanish. So
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by pridkett 11mo ago
During the old days lots of things were easier to get. Semi related to this - Ian Goldberg famously had the email address n@ai (Ian backwards if you missed it) - which caused problems for many mail clients and validators. I’d imagine cypher
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by pridkett 11mo ago
Simple for simple cases - but you update a dependency and that updates a dependency that has a window range of dependencies because one version had a security issue which causes you to downgrade three other packages. It can get complicated.
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by pridkett 1y ago
I was pleased that at my local toy store (yes, we still have one, The Time Machine in Manchester, CT) they carry Choose Your Own Adventure books. What’s more, last week we picked up a copy of “The Cave of Time”. So many memories of that boo
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by pridkett 1y ago
All the authors up front have fidonet node numbers associated with them.
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by pridkett 1y ago
You’ve just described Ambient Weather. What I find kinda funny about that is they still try to upsell you to get more than 1 year of data retention. Luckily, they allow you to configure additional arbitrary locations to pump data to. I wrot
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by pridkett 1y ago
The State of Charge YouTube video that covered the announcement and visited a site in McKinney, TX indicated it did need the Walmart app[0]. Sigh. Plug and pay charging is so much better. It’s not like this is a Tesla only feature. Ford has
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by pridkett 1y ago
And let’s not forget that until the DSM-V, a child could not be diagnosed with both autism and ADHD (see section E at the bottom of this table [0] showing changes from the DSM-IV to DSM-V): > The symptoms do not occur exclusively during
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by pridkett 1y ago
I moved all my setup to Ansible about five years ago. It’s been awesome, especially as it makes it trivial to replicate changes to new machines. Installed a new package? Run the playbook again. Changed a script? Run the playbook again. Sure
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by pridkett 1y ago
This is, quite possibly, one of the best nerd sniping comments I’ve seen. Two thoughts come to mind, one not serious, one serious. 1. I can’t imagine having to align the counters on all those tapes. 2. I’m guessing this would really only wo
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by pridkett 1y ago
Because the ones running Docker in production aren’t paying the license fees they make you pay to use Docker Desktop.
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by pridkett 1y ago
I’ve had a couple of the original, the prime, extend, and now the Flex 4K. They’ve all been terrific devices. The extend was a little wonky because transcoding goes wonky on bad signals, but generally great. They’re all a huge improvement o
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by pridkett 1y ago
Radio can work, but again, I’m on the edge of reception areas and the hills make picking up FM and AM inconsistent. In the event of a truly severe weather event (the ones where they hit the alert to make every cell phone go off), the visual
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by pridkett 1y ago
Newer iPhones and the XReal One glasses are just fine and in part with the admittedly mediocre experience of Android devices. Let’s not pretend that Nebula on Android is good. I’ve got a Beam Pro. It also is not great. SteamDeck is really t
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by pridkett 1y ago
Ditto. I bought them because I travel a lot for work and TVs at hotels are always a mess when it comes to HDMI in. I use them on maybe 1 of 4 flights I’m on (usually on SteamDeck with XR plug-in in Decky), and rarely at the hotels. The only
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by pridkett 1y ago
Or, the manufacturers will lose patience with slow adoption, the mess that is widevine DRM (what? Your TV isn’t based on Android? No, you can’t have DRM!), and customers really not caring because basically none of the broadcasts make the vi
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by pridkett 1y ago
I live in an area that is on the edge of coverage and has lots of hills. On ATSC 1.0, CBS is hard to pick up. Frequently unwatchable - which means unreliable for sports. I picked up an HDHomerun Flex 4K a few years ago. Basically the same w
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by pridkett 1y ago
1Password makes this fairly easy. I’m sure other tools can too. But if you’ve got a tool, you just don’t need to think about it. As long as 1Password doesn’t get LastPass’d - although their architecture should prevent that.
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by pridkett 1y ago
You can have the best of both worlds - use atuin and fzf. I use fish shell, so you'll have to forgive any fishisms. First, when you start atuin, don't bind to ctrl-r, instead manually bind it to something else. I use ctrl-t. This
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by pridkett 1y ago
Repomix can take care of this for you. I pack it, cat the file to my clipboard with pbcopy, and just paste it into the prompt. https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix
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by pridkett 2y ago
Growing up we don’t have sidewalks on most of the roads around school, but they were mostly low volume residential roads. What we did have was the sixth grade kids acting as the school safety patrol. Those kids would be dismissed 5-10 minut
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by pridkett 2y ago
Here’s something that still blows my mind. When I bought Ultima VII, I think I paid $69.99 for it. Depending on how you do the math, that’s like $150 today. And today I don’t buy most games unless they’re half off and under $15 on steam.
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by pridkett 2y ago
Considering that Netscape used to have “about:jwz” as an Easter egg URL and he was influential in open sourcing Netscape…
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by pridkett 2y ago
Rick Santorum tried doing this repeatedly starting in 2005. It was one of personal crusades in the Senate. https://www.politico.com/story/2012/01/7-year-old-attack-on-...
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by pridkett 2y ago
Texas has the “Capture or Use of Biometric Identifiers” act. It’s very similar to the Illinois act that requires consent etc. Although it’s been on the books for a long time, Texas AG Paxton really only started enforcing it in 2022, 14 year

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