tomchuk

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by tomchuk 1mo ago
Wired up Twilio & Anthropic API on a Cloudflare Worker so I can chat with Claude via Garmin InReach during a 3-week backcountry trip to Alaska's North Slope. Location metadata is included in the system prompt for accurate location-
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by tomchuk 4mo ago
Oh, you’re right, I do have the DM16L!
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by tomchuk 4mo ago
Treated myself to a SwissMicros DM16C [1] while waiting for HP to re-relase the original. [1] https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm16c
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by tomchuk 5mo ago
… and a M1 MacBook will source 5V/3A all day long to a non-PD negotiated sink. Somewhere between the M1 and M3 Apple decided to buy into USB-IF compliance and limit to 500mA. Has lead to some very embarrassing “works on my computer” si
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by tomchuk 11mo ago
IAM, Cloudfront, Route53, ACM, Billing...
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by tomchuk 1y ago
Yesterday's discussion around Kagi[0] prompted me to poke through some settings there, as it had been a while. They've also added a "Exclude AI generated images" which they describe as "Best-effort removal of AI gen
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by tomchuk 2y ago
Can't mention Fibonacci and memoization in the same sentence without me breaking out my favorite Python party trick: def fib(n, cache = {0: 0, 1: 1}): if n not in cache: cache[n] = fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
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by tomchuk 3y ago
Very relaxing. Until impossibly small $15 Incabloc springs start flying around the room. I'm convinced these sublimate into a vapor the moment they fly out of view of your loupe.
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by tomchuk 4y ago
During a recent move, I found my WikiReader [0] from 2009 at the back of a drawer. Tossed some new AAA batteries in it and it fired right up. It contains a fairly complete offline copy of (2012-era) Wikipedia and some reference material for
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by tomchuk 4y ago
I have a shell function I use all the time to keep track of both calendar and timezones where our teams are located now() { cal -3 echo echo -n "Local: " date --rfc-3339=s echo -n "UTC: &
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AWS DNS Issues?
21 points by tomchuk 4y ago|10 comments
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by tomchuk 4y ago
I have an older iPad mini for this purpose (but an old iPhone without a data plan would work too). I setup a separate home@<domain> iCloud account under my family plan and use it exclusively for streaming music vi AirPlay, cooking w&#
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by tomchuk 5y ago
Kenji Lopez-Alt, of Seriouseats and “The Food Lab” fame, is coming out with his new book, “The Wok”, here is his travel rig: https://www.instagram.com/p/CaxbNwdvOTR/ . I’ve had a similar wok hob for years, and whil
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by tomchuk 5y ago
I’ve divulged my camera & network setup. Sure, you could use that info to sneak up to my house, turn the gas off to my generator, cut the power, wait 3h for the batteries in my UPS to run out…. Or you could walk up and smash a window we
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by tomchuk 5y ago
I’ve been very happy with Ubiquiti’s Unifi Protect doorbell. It does mean having to buy into their whole ecosystem, but I was already most of the way there when I added the doorbell and a couple 4k cameras. Recording to a local device does
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by tomchuk 5y ago
Looks like the author is running BSPWM, their configuration (in their dotfiles repo) is available here: https://github.com/siduck76/dotfiles/blob/master/thinkpad/bs...
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by tomchuk 6y ago
Depending on the make, this could be something you could disable via app/ODB dongle. I use the Carista app/BT dongle and have used it to disable the panic button on my last two Toyoyas.
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by tomchuk 6y ago
Looks like the embargo just lifted today. reMarkable just sent out an email with links to reviews: https://mailchi.mp/remarkable.com/first-remarkable-2-reviews...
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by tomchuk 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. My primary monitor is a 43" 4k LG at unscaled, native resolution. I can fit five 94 column wide terminals tiled across, each showing 140 lines of text. Is the text super crisp? Nope. Would I give up all this s
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by tomchuk 6y ago
Canon has their DO (Diffractive Optics) technology[1] which I think only ever made it into a 70-300[2]. Mirror lenses have been around for a long time. They fold the length of larger telephotos into about a third with some trade-offs in spe
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by tomchuk 6y ago
As mentioned, you'll need to ensure your /etc/fahclient/client.xml includes: <config>  <slot id='0' type='CPU'/> <slot id='1'
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by tomchuk 7y ago
The website lists a restaurant (Southern Proper in Boston) that shut its doors months ago. The space already has a new tenant, has been renovated and has new signs up. Edit: It appears the site immediately posts any user submissions without
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by tomchuk 7y ago
I was disappointed as well. But I get it. After three years, Pixel users still have to refer to a guide [0] or track down a Google Engineer's Amazon reviews [1] to find a 3rd party USB-C cable on Amazon that doesn't have the poten
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by tomchuk 8y ago
Tracking/jamming equipment is available [1] (and pretty cool). [1] https://www.aaronia.com/products/solutions/Aaronia-Drone-Det...
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by tomchuk 9y ago
They're doing this so you (or other shared tenants) can't read your VMs or the host's memory (and vice versa).
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AWS accelerates instance reboots in anticipation of research findings
32 points by tomchuk 9y ago|14 comments
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by tomchuk 9y ago
http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6880152186 - That's last mile wireless. Throughput is hampered by my crappy usb NIC because all of my thunderbolt ports are in use. With thunderbolt ethernet I'm getting the f
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by tomchuk 9y ago
As a Webpass customer in Boston, you really hit the nail on the head. More than twice the speeds of Comcast's best offering at less than half the price, better reliability and none of the bullshit - no outages, no slowdowns, no rate hi
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by tomchuk 9y ago
Not sure how I missed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293578
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DNS Issues affecting resolution of .io TLDs
2 points by tomchuk 9y ago|1 comments

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