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neilgall

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Emptier of drip trays, filler of beans.

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orsinium, to security
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Which one would you choose?

  1. Make sure you correctly handle user input in SQL queries to prevent SQL injection, or

  2. Make a standard banning any punctuation in geographical places and force local authorities to rename streets and reissue all street signs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

neilgall,
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@mike @orsinium We don't even need foreigners

alanferrier, to random
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Neal Ascherson - always worth a read, be you independence or union-minded.

"Polls saying the nationalist cause is no priority among voters are misleading. The aspiration to once again be a sovereign European state has only been strengthened by devolution."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/04/the-snp-may-be-laid-low-but-the-call-of-scottish-independence-is-loud-and-clear

neilgall,
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@alanferrier Quality writing indeed.

neilgall, to TeslaMotors
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The communication between my #EV and its charger is a bit flaky when the solar charging is intermittent, and sometimes it won't start a charge despite plenty solar power. Poking the car into charge-always mode via the app seems to fix it so I added that to my automation.

Now I'm getting "your charge has been interrupted" notifications on my phone several times an hour despite no charge actually starting.

Other than turning notifications off I don't have a good fix for this 🤔

neilgall, to random
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Fucking computers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo

neilgall, to random
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Excellent performance from our the last couple of days. Has powered most of our household usage, and despite a couple of short trips the has gone from 60 to 88% charge. Exported a few kWh too.

neilgall, to random
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DATEDIF(A2, B2, "D") to get the number of days between two dates.

Really? This is the state of spreadsheet software in 2024?

neilgall,
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I'm only using a spreadsheet to try to make sense of my bills. I have been billed 20 times since August covering a different duration each time, between 3 and 111 days long 🤬

It looks like they think I exported £410 of solar energy between December and March, which is hilarious enough but they then CHARGED me that amount.

So the spreadsheet is just antiquated bollocks. Octopus are incompetent.

neilgall, to random
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Is there a Strava for gardening? I need to proclaim all the work I've done today! Still looks untidy though.

neilgall, to Electricvehicles
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Discovered the drop-off charge at Edinburgh Airport is half price for . Not complaining as the charge is a ridiculous money-grab but it's pretty hilarious greenwashing.

neilgall,
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@GBJames the drop-off charge is £5 if you're driving into the airport even for a minute to drop someone off. It's £2.50 for EVs.

neilgall, (edited ) to random
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Yet another incorrect electricity bill from . This time they have billed me twice for three whole months, which makes a grand total of zero correct bills since I joined last year. Truly awful.

m, to random
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TFW when you discover that your car has an API... :cyber_hacking:

neilgall,
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@m Cool, isn't it? I've been using mine (https://github.com/hacf-fr/renault-api in my case) to build smarter EV charging so that I get a base charge of 60% from cheap overnight grid power then allow my solar panels to top it up as much as possible during the day. An Alexa skill on top of that lets me ask the current charge level and override the nighttime charge limit if I'm doing a longer journey next day.

neilgall,
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@m Access to the car API is all from a machine running in my house, using AWS IoT Data to communicate with the lambdas that Alexa invokes. Mostly low enough usage that it's all free but I did get billed 1p the other month 😂

neilgall,
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@m Oh, I can also start the heating with an Alexa command. Brilliant in an EV where the car heats up in 2-3 minutes using power from the house.

neilgall, to random
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I booked an to use on holiday in Spain. Not for environmental reasons - that would be pretty hollow since we're flying there - but because it was the cheapest option for a reasonable sized car. I doubt we'll be doing many mile..., er kilometers but anyone know how public charging in Catalonia compares to the UK?

neilgall,
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@russellt Cheers. Do you tend to need a provider-specific card or does contactless payment work?

neilgall, to guitar
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I got a cheap Lekato looper pedal based on good reviews and it works great and is fun to play with, but with distortion it adds a weird metallic quality to the sound. It's not awful but it's different from the sound without the pedal in the chain. It's the last pedal in the FX loop, as recommended. Is this to be expected or are there things I should try changing?

neilgall, to random
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Just bought two of the same thing on eBay 🤦‍♂️

neilgall, to random
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I have an account with MyProtein as I've bought from them before, but not for quite a while. Went to Tesco and bought one of their products using my wife's clubcard and by the time I drove home I have a text from MyProtein with a discount offer. Coincidence or real time marketing data?

neilgall, to random
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Aspect Oriented Programming, or AOP, which stands for Creating More Problems Than You Are Solving*.

  • AOP expands to that due to someone's awesome spelling modifying aspect injected in some long forgotten code corner.
neilgall, to guitar
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Built me a pedal board with old and new effects. Been playing with sounds half the afternoon.

neilgall, to random
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Uh oh once again I just realised at 3pm I've been on decaf coffee all day. I clearly can't tell the difference in the morning so I should just switch permanently.

neilgall, to random
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Am I missing some underlying fundamental philosophy of or is the whole thing genuinely half baked and only 14% documented?

neilgall,
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@cryptonomicon I agree and would love to, but we inherited a large app which is fully built on GCP features. But everything seems so... amateurish.

neilgall, to random
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Ok another day of rain was a hilarious April Fools joke but it's past time now so just fuck off, weather.

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