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by pwpw 3y ago
I would love my own personal and local version of a code assistant like GitHub copilot trained entirely on my code. It would be interesting to see how it captures my style and how it would evolve over time. I regret deleting my code from my
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by pwpw 3y ago
Spot on advice. I am not a morning person whatsoever, but investing time in myself during the mornings before work is how I gradually switched from accounting into software engineering. When the 2020 lockdown happened, I of course no longer
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by pwpw 3y ago
It’s a shame this is downvoted on HN of all places. I have seen various research that suggests both caffeine (in coffee & tea) and even alcohol (in lighter beers) do not dehydrate. I’ll stick with caffeine since that’s the topic. The pr
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by pwpw 3y ago
One of my earlier bits of tinkering when I was younger was jailbreaking my iPhone and finding the code in the Japanese iPhone OS build that enabled emojis and using it to enable emojis on my American iPhone. If I recall correctly, I was the
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by pwpw 3y ago
I can’t imagine a world where Google would move their primary domain from .com to .io. Over the past 20 years, I’ve witnessed numerous successful restaurants move locations due to rent hikes that are still in business in their new locations
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by pwpw 3y ago
What are you talking about? I feel like you’re pushing agenda talking points rather than discussing the reality in Texas. Business travel via airplane between Houston and Dallas is a major source of travel and has the exact same issue of no
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by pwpw 3y ago
> No it won't. Americans are too deluded by car culture to ever let that happen. How has no one mentioned the actual reason it won’t happen? Texas citizens are not so enamored with cars that they prevent this from happening. Texans
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by pwpw 3y ago
I never realized a tool I use every day was still being actively maintained. An endless amount of thanks to Bram Moolenaar, the many others that have contributed to it, and those that are now helping in the transition. —- As an aside, brows
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by pwpw 3y ago
Check out ErsatzTV and dizqueTV. I’m working on a Saturday morning cartoon channel that uses Adult Swim fillers.
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by pwpw 3y ago
That’s a good thought, but I do want to stay on the technical side for now. Perhaps that would be to my detriment, but I find the actual developing and problem solving so exciting! The company said they needed an in-house invoicing system,
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by pwpw 3y ago
> whereas everyone else would call that person a junior engineer. Does anyone have advice on what I should call myself? I was a senior in public accounting (~3 years of experience) when I switched into software development after self-tea
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by pwpw 3y ago
The issue with lobsters is the difficulty of joining it, which I suppose is a feature.
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by pwpw 3y ago
Entirely pet theories that may be untrue but worth considering: - Nicotine helps mitigate the negative symptoms of ADHD, but US society has seen a major drop in tobacco usage - Having access to a secretary greatly compensates for workplace
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by pwpw 3y ago
I also notice and appreciate that Kagi returns older results while Google continues to push newer webpages. I have found so many useful results from perfectly fine content on older webpages. At this point, I’d be extra happy if Kagi had a
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by pwpw 3y ago
> There's no form of society in which ADHD is an advantage > I don't think there's any task in which someone with ADHD is more suited to than someone without; there are tasks which are less difficult for the person with
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by pwpw 3y ago
> Final anecdote to "prove" my point we did not lose our attention. I have taken ADHD-diagnosed boys to camp and fish. Of the twelve (ages 12-16), only one could not sit patiently and watch the line and bobber for extended peri
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by pwpw 3y ago
In college, I studied the failed merger between GM and Ross Perot’s Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Essentially a study on egos and cultural incompatibilities. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/26/magazine/g
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by pwpw 3y ago
Synology NAS 920+ for my photos, backups, Jellyfin, home assistant, etc. I mount it with nfs to my devices and have a raspberry pi 4 running WireGuard to connect to it when out of the house. It’s incredibly easy to maintain, which has been
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by pwpw 3y ago
Could you tell me more about the NVMe cache? My understanding is that it’s not officially supported on a DS920+. A few questions if you don’t mind: - How did you go about setting it up? - What are the benefits of adding one? - Can you use i
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by pwpw 3y ago
I found HERE WeGo maps the best of the bunch when traveling in Albania and Greece. Particularly for offline maps. Apple Maps lacked enough detail to be usable and Google Maps frequently insisted on taking narrow alleyways designed for human
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by pwpw 3y ago
Just for clarification, the parent I was originally responding to was expressing their negative view about the Nano and how they love their M1 MacBook Pro, so I wanted to provide my experience with the two laptops that I have used extensive
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by pwpw 3y ago
Yeah it's a 16". I spent two weeks vacationing in Europe and then a 3rd week working at night, and it was a pain to carry that MacBook around! It forced me to bring an entire backpack to carry it. Not fun to add all of that weight
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by pwpw 3y ago
Huh I’ve been using a Thinkpad X1 Nano for nearly 2 years now primarily for personal dev work, and it’s by far my favorite laptop I have ever owned. It replaced a 2020 M1 MacBook Air, which replaced a 2016 MacBook Pro, which replaced a 2009
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by pwpw 3y ago
> Many great cities become museums of themselves, their lack of new development an homage to their glory days. This is sometimes how I feel about Athens. It’s such a cool city, and the Acropolis is a marvelous site to see from a rooftop
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by pwpw 3y ago
Your advice is greatly appreciated. Cheers!
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by pwpw 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! When I opened the Nikon F4, I discovered that my grandfather had left a Provia 100 roll in it. Probably was in there for about 20 years. I just took it to get developed. It looks like a 5-pack of Provia 100F i
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by pwpw 3y ago
After passing the CPA exam, I had to work under a licensed CPA for a year in order to be issued my license. I felt that most of what I learned that applies to real-world issues was acquired while working during that year. The CPA exam was a
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by pwpw 3y ago
I recently inherited the Minolta X-700 and Nikon F4 film cameras from my grandfather who is now quite old and nearing the end of his life. Neither had been used in a long time. I gave them a good cleaning and purchased some film. Besides us
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by pwpw 3y ago
I think you and the GP may be getting tripped on word choices. Most private universities in the US are organized as 501c3 organizations. There are numerous requirements[0] to be a 501c3. This however does not prevent a non-profit from being
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by pwpw 3y ago
I have been largely unimpressed by how they operate as a company handling users. Six weeks ago, I tried to change my email but got frustrated that an obvious option wasn’t available in the settings page. So I deleted my account and went to

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