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aj

@aj@home.ajacks.net

I make things with computers. Mainly software for money, but also music, video and 3d stuff for fun. I play many instruments, all quite badly. I was once competent with a viola, bass guitar, and a drum kit. I hope to remember the old ways one day when I'm less busy with remaining alive.

When I'm not in a darkened room staring at screens, you will find me in a wood staring at trees.

🏳️‍🌈 🌳 💻 🎥 📚 🎼

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box464, to random
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🪑⑁💺 Looking for home office chair recommendations. 🪑⑁💺

I work from home full time. I spend 8 hour plus extra at night sometimes for study sessions / programming hobbies. Fairly regular sized person, looking for back support - I currently sit at the edge of my seat for some reason. Probably not good.

Willing to spend some money on this, although I will mumble and grumble about it.

Thanks!

aj,
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@box464 If you’re a percher, try getting a foot-rest as it will naturally put you back into your seat, might be worth a shot!

stefan, to music
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Hey, what are your favorite musical sketches?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4KBuRANCjO-96gsu_rqGrJHzDsQ1icqk&si=GsG64T93xfkA8mSm

aj,
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@stefan Always love me some Victor Borge!

https://youtu.be/dKeqaDSjy98

atomicpoet, to random
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The loudest band I ever heard was Guitar Wolf back in 2000(?).

I knew beforehand they were going to be loud, so I brought industrial strength ear muffs for noise reduction. And it was still loud. So loud that I could feel everything reverberating through my skin. At one point, it felt like my head was vibrating uncontrollably.

Big respect to Guitar Wolf. They put on a show. And they really demonstrated how great the Japanese rock scene is.

But I was lucky. I got my ears checked a few days after the show – no damage was done. Glad I was wearing ear muffs.

This show at CBGB’s showed how loud this band was. Again, great band – but not for the faint of heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiiRlDsKcJQ

aj,
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@atomicpoet The loudest band I ever saw was Airborne. Like you I knew it was going to be loud af, but wow it was something else!

My ears were ringing for days afterwards. The guitarist scaled the balcony where I was watching, and whilst playing a solo leapt off into the crowd.

All in all, everything we had hoped for 🤣

atomicpoet, to random
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Just discovered that the Amiga 500 Mini exists.

Unfortunately, it costs C$200 – which is too rich for my blood.

But this is something I actually would like to check out some day because I missed out on the Amiga.

aj,
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@atomicpoet Wow, cool! I've just blown my shiny things budget for the next while on a uConsole (should it ever ship), but this is going straight to the top of my list for the next round.

atomicpoet, to random
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The Pacific Dogwood is fully in bloom.

aj,
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@atomicpoet Nice timing! They just got a mention in a song I was listening to, and I wondered what they looked like.

jasongorman, to random
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I feel 10 x as productive already! https://chat.openai.com/share/a21e5542-49c0-43e4-839f-09b1ed2a09e3

aj,
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@emilybache @jasongorman @matthewskelton I've been trialing Github CoPilot, while working on a mature (15 years) commercial code base, and it's almost universally wrong with it's suggestions, such that it doesn't save any real time once you've corrected it.

It has a bad habit of forgetting the context of the code your working on after a few steps, and inserting references to properties and methods that don't exist.

Where it has been valuable, is that I'm working in an unfamiliar language, and it has been quite useful in surfacing the language conventions, keywords etc, even if they are presented in solutions that are wrong for the scenario.

cory, to php
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If the only I’ve written has been in the course of forcing Wordpress edge cases to work, how would one suggest getting started with ? (I write a lot of but don’t necessarily want to write it on the server).

aj,
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@shawnhooper @cory I'd second the official docs, they're really good. I'm just coming over from a c# background, and if you don't mind spending some money, laracasts.com has a great selection of really good video courses.

aj,
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@cory @shawnhooper Again with the spending here I know (I'm learning for work reasons), but if you're using PHPStorm as the IDE, there's a fantastic plugin called Laravel Idea, which generates stub code for all the things that Laravel does by magic methods - so it all appears in the IDE's intellisense. I've found it really helpful as a beginner.

mxtthxw, to random
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Thinking of setting up a Libs Of Mastodon where I just post pictures of Libby from Home And Away.

aj,
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@mxtthxw Absolutely should take do this on the 3 biggest servers to take the handle.

mxtthxw, to random
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    aj,
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    @mxtthxw This sounds great for a really limited set of scenarios and a nightmare for everything else.

    aj,
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    @mxtthxw I wonder if the warranty will cover running into the wall 🤔

    atomicpoet, to random

    Some good AI news!

    It was only a matter of time before decent LLMs would be able to run locally on your PC, and now it's happening.

    Nvidia just announced that "chat with RTX" will be able to run on any PC with at least an RTX 30xx card or greater. Since I already own an RTX 3090 Ti, I'm very much looking forward to using this on my own machine. As a nice bonus, this is much more environmentally friendly than using Chat-GPT's cloud systems.

    (And no, I don't think chatbots are intrinsically evil.)

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/13/24071645/nvidia-ai-chatbot-chat-with-rtx-tech-demo-hands-on

    aj,
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    @atomicpoet I think we are finally arriving at the 'real' use case of LLMs, which is interrogating your own data on your own machine. I saw an acquaintance recently using a model locally to interrogate the manuals & maintenance documentation of industrial machines.

    aj, to react
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    So I had to learn the basics of for a work thing and holy moly, what an awful experience. Why is it everyone's go to, it's horrible!

    atomicpoet, to random

    Has anyone ever tried buying up these mini-PCs, installing SteamOS on them, and then tried reselling them as game consoles?

    Because I feel that’s what they should be used for.

    aj,
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    @atomicpoet With a bit of inventive connector work you could probably squeeze a bus-powered GFX card like the GTX1650 in there too.

    tiredhorizon, to random
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    If you're setting up a home studio for recording music, vocals, podcasting etc...

    DONT hang untreated/unsealed rockwool, fibreglass or similar on the walls. These materials fragment and shed over time and you will inhale it. This could lead to any number of respiratory illnesses.

    You'll be better to learn the science behind acoustics and position mics, furniture and pro quality foam and panels instead. Dont cheap out for your health.

    aj,
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    @tiredhorizon Totally, for home use you could simply hang a heavy curtain and get a good enough effect, and get your room back if use a rail for a mixed use space. I think a lot of people get hung up on “pro audio” solutions that solve problems on spectrographs, when there’s simple practical solutions to many things at hand.

    Vibracobra23, to Bloomscrolling
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    My Christmas Cactus just managed to hang on for long enough without wilting too much.

    aj,
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    @Vibracobra23 Mines just starting to drop its flowers, but this year has been its best ever so pretty happy with it either way this year. Yours is a lovely shape too!

    volpeon, to random

    I hope this project vanishes in obscurity

    aj,
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    @volpeon jeez, the clout farming never ends!

    jasongorman, to random
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    "The industry push for TDD..."

    Less than 2% of developers actually do Test-Driven Development.

    aj,
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    @jasongorman @AdeptVeritatis I’m only a TDD beginner myself, but the best advise I’ve picked up is testing that ‘your code does what your code does’ is pointless (2+2 will always equal 4!) and you should test how your application behaves.

    That was the thing that made TDD click for me, switching my mindset to writing a test which describes what behaviour will occur (not what code will I write) and suddenly it makes perfect sense to be writing the test first!

    aj, to Futurology
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    folks, does anyone have any links to resources for getting a DOS machine running in some kind of VM? Hopefully one which can replicate the speed of the original hardware? I want to play around with old database software for some research, but I'd like the experience to be 'authentic' in terms of performance.

    freemo, to fediverse
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    So its done! I finally released a fairly easy to install (from scratch) Hugo based Static Site generator with full ActivityPub support.

    It has step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for your own blog or static website.

    One of the coolest features for me, other than having your static site blog posts show up as posts in the Fediverse is the support for interacting with those posts. Any replies you leave, likes, or boosts will show up in the "comments" section of the website on the page associated with the post. How cool is that!


    QT: https://fedipage.com/news/fedipage-v1-0-1-released/

    aj,
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    @freemo Damn this is cool!

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