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bazscott

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Doing Swift and diagrams at a logistics company. Numbers guy e.g. 7, 666. Into football, hockey, politics and economics. Made a Transformers game you probably played. Pro Yahtzee player. Disabled. My flags are: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️

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tonyarnold, to random
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I was watching a YouTube tutorial on running nix on macOS, nodding along and impressed by defining a setup using a flake file, and then the person said "and now we're going to install homebrew using nix because there are packages in there that aren't in nix” and I nope'd out so hard.

Packagemangerception isn't cool.

bazscott,
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@tonyarnold I used nix at my n-2 job and it's impressive technology but has holes. E.g. it would set up most of a Rails environment but you still had to install Postgres and Redis separately - which are the hard bits! So I never fully saw the appeal over just using asdf or whatever to manage installs.

jamesthomson, to random
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About by PCalc for visionOS is now available!

Perhaps the most pointless app on Vision Pro, but still quite fun to play with. This is a complete remake of the original PCalc About screen in VR. It's basically me experimenting with what's possible today with RealityKit, over-engineering things as usual, and then for some inexplicable reason actually shipping it. I hope you enjoy it!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/about-by-pcalc/id1613982997?platform=vision

Hundreds of objects swirl around a PCalc icon.
A lovely view of the public transport options in the PCalc About screen.
A distant dragon watches over the city.

bazscott,
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@jamesthomson Absolutely pointless...
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five stars! 👏

bazscott, to random
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Spotted a stereotypical Mercedes driver at the servo this morning 😂

bazscott, to random
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They do keep saying we need more women in tech! 😜
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112474689420329429

corduroy, to random
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Has anyone thought about what we will do with all the land occupied by service stations? It’s now 5 weeks since I got car-energy away from home.

I think governments will need to spend a fair bit on rehabilitating these polluted sites when the holding companies go broke one-by-one.

bazscott,
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@corduroy There's a new one being built near me - been a very long time since I saw that.

The people I feel sorry for are people who can't afford an EV, they'll be left with old cars and skyrocketing petrol prices.

bazscott,
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@tonyarnold @corduroy Yeah it's taking a LOT longer than I hoped to get reasonably priced EVs.

My experience: we weighed up a BYD Atto vs getting a new Kia Seltos - that's what we had already, basically the same size car. Here's how it priced out.

Yes, I'm fully aware that a 50k car is still way expensive for most people and we were lucky to have something to trade in.

corduroy, to auspol
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Every now and then, Labor does something that reminds us they’re genuinely better than the other mob

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/05/labor-to-wipe-3bn-from-hecs-and-help-debts-through-indexation-changes

bazscott,
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@corduroy @huwr Education should be free for as long as people can take advantage of it. If we can't even do that as a society, what the fuck are we even doing pretending to be a society?

tonyarnold, to random
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I feel like my career has absolutely stalled.

Having all of this time to reflect and introspect during my illness and recovery over the past few months has left me wondering what impact I believed I was having on my peers and the people around me over the last decade.

bazscott,
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@tonyarnold You've had much more impact than most people I know - specifically with Reveal on a LOT of developers, but also more locally with the people who have been lucky enough to work with you.

As for career, that's a very personal question. I felt the same - in fact I felt I'd gone significantly backwards. But then I realised I don't really care. I'd rather be a good developer working with good people than have a high fallutin' job title and be miserable.

tonyarnold, to random
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The interactions between SwiftUI, SwiftData and Swift Concurrency can be confusing.

Because SwiftData Models are retrieved by Views on the MainActor, it's reasonably safe to pass them between Views, but anything around the edges will still force you to drop back to persistent identifiers and looking up the Models — it'd almost be easier to pretend that it's not safe to pass Models between Views, for consistency.

bazscott,
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@tonyarnold I installed Sentry recently on a brand new iOS 17 app we're building with SwiftData. It's a standard architecture, no ViewModels, all simple and as Apple recommends kinda thing. Sentry spotted a few places were DB actions were performed off the main thread. (Was impressive actually.)

bazscott, to random
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I "need" a new iPad this year and I'm seriously considering an Android tablet instead. 99% of my tablet usage is watching things so there's no reason I need the extra cost of an iPad for that. The convenience of Notes etc on it is occasionally useful, but I could live without it.

My car has, essentially, an Android tablet in it and it's really good. It's got me thinking maybe that could work.

bazscott, to random
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90% (99%?) of the problems you have writing apps are nothing to do with the UI framework you use.

huwr, to random
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At a cafe, getting coffee:

Server: Would you like a cup or a mug?
Me: Yes please!
My wife: He wants a cup…

bazscott,
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@huwr What the hell is the difference?

bazscott, to random
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My daughter texted me from the shop "which do these do you want?". I replied "yes please!"

bazscott,
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@nilsmielke None of these are routinely available in Australia apart from a chocolate orange so it's a big treat 😀

bazscott, to random
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First game of my second season managing the kids hockey team. Just a 26-2 win to start with! 🎉🏒

bazscott, to random
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I am genuinely shocked at the lengths countries and their media will go to to shut down debate on the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians.

Germany - of all countries - should know what happens when only one side of a debate is allowed to be heard, for example.

The greatest trick Israel has pulled is to muddy the waters such that they can claim any criticism of their actions is anti-semitic. It's not the same thing, as can be seen by the very many jews who criticise Israel.

bazscott,
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@maks They are, and have been for decades. This isn't only a Netenyahu thing (though he has been involved in it for much of that time of course). Slowly killing people by restricting their food, water, medicine has the same end result as killing them with bombs and bullets.

bazscott,
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@maks That is an interesting video. I watch it and think "yep, tick, tick, tick" they are doing all that. His argument seems to mostly be as long as you don't say in public why you are doing it, it's not genocide. Which seems like too convenient a loophole tbh, I think he's oversimplifying there.

bazscott, to random
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Urgh. Sick. Shivers, temp, headache, etc 🤒

bazscott, to random
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Phil Davis and Gary Oldman back together again on my telly - oh happy day!

This time it's in Slow Horses. If you can tell me what they previously starred in together, you win a prize!

(It was over three decades ago and is possibly Oldman's best ever performance.)

(No Googling!)

bazscott,
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@aeberbach Good guess, but no, earlier than that 😀

tizaks, to random
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@decryption yeah you’ve had way worse luck than me, but it’s definitely not uncommon.

I’ll likely do the same when the warranty is done, but like you said I’m still not blown away by the alternatives. Most decent ones are still $10k or more above the M3 and I already feel uncomfortable enough sitting at the $60k range for a car

bazscott,
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@tizaks @decryption I got a BYD Atto and have to say it's fucking amazing! Personally I'd have gone the BYD Seal but my wife wanted the higher ride height.

The Seal is more of a BMW/Merc competitor than a Tesla competitor imho, it's that nice a fit and finish.

bazscott,
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@decryption @tizaks Fair enough yeah. I'm just happy that car designers are trying different looks and experimenting a bit. That won't work for every customer of course but I think that's preferable to everything being boring 😀

BTW you need to book online for a BYD test drive - worth doing just for fun - and weekends are booked out for many weeks. Weekdays are when I went, that wasn't too bad.

bazscott,
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@tizaks @decryption 🤔 It's like half the price surely? Seal is 50k vs like 100k for a BMW no?

bazscott, to random
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This. This is so spot on. I could rant for days about the damage Thatcher & Reagan did to the world. People think Obama and the orange guy were consequential presidents - they weren't. They didn't really do anything much. We're still living in a Reagan/Thatcher world!

video/mp4

bazscott,
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@NormanDunbar @FloydyStu So I don't have like a big problem with it 😀

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