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zrail

@zrail@hachyderm.io

Fractal side projects. Sometimes I write stuff. He/him.

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kellogh, to LLMs
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i get that are going to be used to reduce or remove a lot of jobs, but i have a long list of jobs that i wish existed but are too low-value to hire for, and a lot of them could be done by an LLM

zrail,
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@kellogh I just can't imagine a future where this is true. This is the same line that cryptobros gave and it was never true then either.

bitprophet, to random
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Deleting a pile of oooold forks on Github. There's a weird theme: just lots of ~11-13yo forks of other peoples' projects, with a single commit doing some minuscule QoL thing.

Like, "add vimrc swap files to an ignore file” (in a SSG I used about 3 website redesigns ago) or “add an html tag to a list of html tags” (in a now outdated pypi related readme tool).

But like, a dozen of these 😂 Feels good to clean up I guess?

zrail,
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@bitprophet I'm sure there are tools out there you can fork and use.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Someone in a reply asked, [Snidely Whiplash voice] "Muhahahaha, well, did you stop using search engines because sometimes they return a wrong result?"

Well, basically yes. Yes, I mostly have.

zrail,
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@thomasfuchs I set up a SeerXNG instance the other day which can aggregate a bunch of other engines. It's moderately snappy but can't set is as default on iOS so it hasn't seen a ton of use yet.

zrail, to homeassistant
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Last night I found myself flailing around trying to find a way to bring my electric rates into in a maintainable way.

I settled on querying a static JSON file using jq and the command_line sensor platform: https://www.petekeen.net/static-json-in-home-assistant

@homeassistant @homeassistant

thomasfuchs, to random
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“AI” is like crystal healing but with graphics cards

zrail,
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@thomasfuchs gpus are wafer thin silicon crystals. Kinda the same thing? Differently pretty.

bitprophet, to random
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OH: “Rule of law is like a Terry Pratchett-style god that requires believers, as many as possible, in order to exist.”

zrail,
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@bitprophet I have read them twice, first according to some character-arc-driven reading order and second chronologically. Highly recommend the latter.

It's a long haul either way, I think it took me about a year last time. Worth it, though.

danderson, to random
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Hah, TIL emacs has an entire emoji browser these days. 'C-x 8 e e' pulls up a categorized browser.

zrail,
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@danderson Neat!

cstross, to random
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/27/24016791/astrohaus-freewrite-alpha-digital-typewriter-e-ink

I have no idea how such a shitty product can exist. Same price buys you a Chromebook; there are plenty of software libre distraction-free writing apps out there (try opening a terminal and typing "vim"?).

Or you could chicken out and buy a Kindle Fire Max 11 with keyboard case for the same price.

Both of these let you type for more than a day on a charge: the only benefit of the freewrite alpha is an 80 hour battery, which is pointless with USB-C charging everywhere.

zrail,
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@cstross is this for the person who really wants to drag an IBM Selectric to the park but can't fit it in their Tom Bihn messenger bag?

tqbf, to random

Blitzing stuff into the sugar in a Vitamix works for flavoring shortbread. Pomelo zest and thyme worked reasonably well. I need more ideas, or else I'm going to try to do a goat cheese shortbread.

zrail,
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@tqbf I vote for the goat cheese experiment.

fasterthanlime, to random
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Tonight I’m playing “is this Dreamworks animated film about puberty or racism?”

zrail,
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@fasterthanlime

Girl Why Dont We Have Both GIF

mjg59, to random
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Well it looks like the power meter at the cabin is beaconing something in the 900MHz spectrum every 15 seconds, but annoyingly it doesn't seem to be the gridstream protocol described at https://wiki.recessim.com/view/Gr-smart_meters_Setup_Guide

zrail,
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@mjg59 not sure what your goal is but I have had a really good experience pulling real time usage off of my meter's pulse-per-watt IR "test port". I use an esphome loosely inspired by HA Glow.

danderson, to random
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My brain after a day of doing Serious Web Development for the first time in years, getting to grips with a new framework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADlGkXAz1D0

zrail,
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@danderson I'm so sorry. It's... it's so bad.

Edent, (edited ) to RaspberryPi
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My ancient 2 is evidently getting too slow to run properly.

I don't want to spin up a VM, or buy a huge server. I want something discrete and discreet.

I like the look of the "Yellow", but I refuse to buy any gadget which doesn't use USB-C for power. So no PoE either.

So, does anyone have a personal recommendation for a HomeAssistant device which has built-in Matter / Thread / Zigbee support?

(I know how to Google. Looking for word-of-mouth recommendations.)

zrail,
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@Edent IMO a cheapish used thin client is the way to go. Yes you have to install your own dongles but it's more future proof. My HA is running as a docker container on a Wyse 5070 along with a bunch of other stuff and barely cracks 10% CPU most of the time.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Wait Christians are mad at the pope now?

Anything they’re not mad at?

zrail,
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@thomasfuchs Christians have been mad at the Pope since 1517.

And no, they're mad about basically everything all the time afaict.

mariyadelano, to random
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I’m not one of those people who are afraid of doing math. I’ve done advanced math classes and I was a physics major for two years in undergrad, I’m not scared of math as a concept.

But yet the second I see a spreadsheet for any kind of financial calculations my brain blanks out and fails to process anything I’m looking at and I feel very stupid.

Sincerely, a business owner who is having to put financial projections together because I’m about to get acquired oh boy.

zrail,
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@mariyadelano math doesn't (typically) involve emotions in the same way money does.

zrail,
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@mariyadelano Yep. For me, math about my business invariably leads to questions about whether I'm doing the right thing, and comparing to some theoretical FAANG W2 gig.

tqbf, to random

The Toaster of the Future is superior to all previously attempted cooking appliances at baking biscuits. It's making short work of a trussed chicken right now too. Future toasters such as these will affect you in the future.

zrail,
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@tqbf out wall oven went out after we had a partial power outage so we bought a Breville to hold us over until we could get a replacement.

That was two years ago.

The wall oven magically came back after a subsequent brownout but we have used it maybe half a dozen times.

zrail, to ruby
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I've never been able to bring myself to try but this year feels different.

Do you reach for a familiar language or use it as a chance to try something new?

zrail, to python
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Hello! I'm a senior software developer looking for a role where I can help users succeed. I have 17 years of experience running the gamut from to to to . I love to make relational databases sit up and dance. I've been in the financial and fintech space recently, as well as devprod/infra.

I'm open to full time W-2 or short term consulting.

Email me: pete@petekeen.net or DM me here if you'd to chat about how I can help.

https://pkn.me/resume

zrail, to InteriorDesign
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I have an problem. I don't really want my printer in my office, so I've been keeping it out multipurpose "spare" room (I.e. guest bedroom / workout room / now 3d printer lab).

It's a room that's about 10ftx12ft, has a Murphy bed on one long wall and a rowing machine on the other so there isn't a lot of space for activities.

I need something to put the printer on that is stable while also being mobile so I can scoot it out of the room when we have guests.

zrail,
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I've considered a cheap work table with wheels, a cheaper (2D) printer stand, wire kitchen/storage shelving (the chrome kind), and a planar stand (for woodworking power tools). I'm not confident in the stability of any of that.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? Or votes of confidence in the above?

thomasfuchs, (edited ) to random
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Just learned what the user interfaces in the SpaceX capsules run.

The capsules that provide life support for people traveling into space and have to be absolutely reliable.

The user interface that controls an explosion.

.

.

.

It runs some home-compiled version of Chromium and the UI is written in JavaScript.

zrail,
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@thomasfuchs "Houston, we, uh, we have a problem. The displays are all showing [Object object] again."

zrail, to random
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Did you know that McDonalds will sell you a tote of 13 chocolate chip cookies for $6? Literally in a special little happy meal esque box.

Now you know.

TerryHancock, (edited ) to proxmox
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I have multiple VMs on a host machine (, but I don't think that matters for this question).

I want to have several VMs on a virtual -- i.e. software only -- network inside the Proxmox server. Like there's a little pretend switch, connected to pretend NICs on each VM.

WHAT IS THAT CALLED?

I would've thought "VLAN" meant this, but when I look it up, it seems to be a more expansive term, and people talk about "managed switches", etc.

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zrail,
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@TerryHancock in Proxmox and Linux in general a bridge is a virtual switch. If you make a bridge and connect a virtual nic in each VM to that bridge with a static IP, every VM will be able to talk to every other VM over those IPs.

As long as none of them have packet forwarding turned on packets over that bridge won't escape to the real NICs.

bitprophet, to random
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NORMAL PEOPLE: learn either 'pls' or 'plz' first as a chat shorthand for 'please’, then use that spelling consistently

ME: randomly oscillates between pls/plz, with absolutely no rhyme nor reason

😩

zrail,
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@bitprophet I spent my babby internet shit poster years immersed in a culture that prided itself on fully formed sentences and proper grammar.

Thus, I find my spelling trends toward chatspeak when I want to be sarcastic, which I'm sure comes off as confusing to the normies.

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