We're in zone 6a, but just barely. Most of our flowers stopped blooming a while ago and we've had a few hard frosts. Both the blooms and the bees were a nice surprise.
I can assure you it won't be this llama.
Relative to their peers is somewhat more telling. But generally agree.
Jokes on you, a team I work with split their creds into multiple pieces, concatenate them where needed in their bootstrap, and committed then as plaintext in their repo.
I gotta ask: how often are you buying new (to you) records? What are you doing with the ones you've previously acquired?
I used to have a pretty solid CD collection, but I kept them all in a binder that's since been lost to time. Every once in a while I think about rebuilding a physical media collection and records are appealing. But we don't have a ton of free space and I'm wary of storage. Records are also physically large, which seems like it would make buying/selling difficult unless you have a local scene you can trade through without needing to ship things.
But! I am only watching from the outside. Any insight you can offer would be appreciated.
Single instance, but still federated is somewhat odd to me. Part of the point of multi-instance was to provide protection against a single instance going off the rails. That's not to say that multi-instance doesn't come with its own class of problems, like community fragmentation.
The entire description reads like it was written by a LLM. Fediverse users have a decent nose for generated images, so I'm surprised this generated language flew under the radar.
That said, I can't fault OP for using AI to build a thing they wanted to build. The plagerism machine is real, but it's hard to tell people not to use it. Even more so when it's being used to create something that wouldn't have existed otherwise (ie it's not replacing anyone's job).
Companies pouring money into AI are the ones to look at. Example:
They're still doing doing great if you zoom out further, but it's a potential start.
Not OP, but I'm in my 40s and the answer to both your questions is a resounding no. I went for a pixel 3a to a OnePlus 13 about two years ago and the thing is way too big. Even my work issues iPhone 15 is a bit too big.
The screen real estate is kind of nice, but pocket fit is abysmal.
I was living in texas in the 90s when my parents had my sister and I use these.
Disclaimer: I care a lot about the problems being solved than the nth degree of how.
That said, although we make a ton of use of agentic development at work we're still making the system design and architecture choices by hand.
There are certainly some team members who miss doing things like figuring out how to solve a puzzle, but we've had a ton more time to focus on system stability and performance.
I would argue that there's a third class of engineering: the splashy YOLO. We have one of those. The boss's boss loves the output, but the implemetaions are dog shit. We now have a personal atlassian token committed to the repo and said grand boss isn't technical enough to see why that's an issue.
In a statement, Utah’s attorney general, Derek Brown, said Kalshi had continued to operate in Utah, despite a federal court ruling that Utah’s gambling laws apply to the company.
“Gambling is illegal in Utah, whether you place the bet, run the game, or promote it. Calling it a ‘prediction market’ doesn’t change what it is, and being federally registered doesn’t put a company above the law,” Brown said in a statement.
This is honestly great. Talk about finding out.
As a developer, our executives and stakeholders have really losed focus. It seems like 10-20 years ago we were being asked to solve tightly scoped problems. Now we get massive sprawling edicts, tons of how I want it, and the result is a very unpolished product. No one seems to care about basics or details anymore. This predates our current AI mess and the AI boom has only made things worse.
Printables link. Apologies for the... very lazy select + background blur. In the land of windows I would have used paint.net, but I'm coming to you from a mac today and haven't found a great alternative.
Granted, I used a blower fan as instead of the box fan the canonical design uses.
Due to a series of unfortunate events, we've found ourselves with a reasonably clean basement. One of my wife's biggest complaints about the basement had always been dust. Dust from my very infrequently used wood-shop. Dust from the litter box. Dust from... well, dust.
The new basement seemed like a good excuse to take a crack at the dust situation and this design sprung into mind.
I built it with four 16x25 MERV 11 filters, some plywood, some 1x4s, some plumber's tape to hold the fan in place, and the aforementioned blower fan. I could have gone for a higher MERV rating, but I didn't feel the need to go super overboard. I can also crank the fan for multiple consecutive passes. That's the whole idea of the design after all.
The box itself is only held together with tape and the weight of the fan. Now that the basement is more together I might model and print some brackets to make the box more solid.
One cheap motion sensor plug later and the air down there is honestly pretty fresh
A small update from a few days ago. To save you a click, it turns out that if you apply PVC cement and don't push the pipes together you won't actually make a good joint. Who knew.
I'm honestly impressed it lasted so long without issues. We've lived in this house over 10 years and the PVC run predates our purchase.
As a side note, PVC repair couplers are a massive PITA. I am glad I didn't have to dig a fresh trench, get the old pipe out, and put a new one in, but it was quite the dance getting the coupler on while fighting with 2" OD pipe that's firmly lodged in clay. My nice small hole grew a bit longer to get some wiggle room.
I was surprised the lemongrass overwintered. The flowers were a second nice surprise. And then like all flowers in our veg garden it turned out that bees really like them.
Picking up where the title left off, I was rudely awaken by the high water alarm from my sump pump. This was odd, as we have an electric pump and a venturi backup that's powered by city water.
The electric pump wasn't running when I got into the basement and the backup hadn't been triggered yet. I guess the radon folks messed with the sensor's height when they were here. I'll address that later.
Manually triggering the backup resulted in turbulence in the sump pit, but no change in water level. Maybe the backflow vavle and the electric pump have both failed?
I finally put my hand in the pit to feel for backflow. There wasn't any. I felt around for the float for the pump, found it, and pushed it down some. The pump turned on, but sounded like it was working hard. No real change to water level. I'll need to figure out why the float going too high results in the pump turning off. Maybe overtravel turnoff is intentional? Seems odd. I put this on the back burner too.
I went out into the rain and popped the cap on the alternate outlet. Water shot out. It was 12:45 AM and I was now wide awake.
Today I found roots chasing the line with a snake. Rather than just clear them out, I figured I would address the source of entry so I wouldn't have to clean it out again. I'm very pleased in how well I located the hole. I was afraid I would have to be digging around for a while, but the snake told me how far to go and I had a pretty solid guess where the line ran.
Not the best angle, but the fam would not tolerate my shenanigans for long
This bush is usually crawling in bees for a month or so while it blooms.
Its bloom cycle might have been a bit shorter than usual due to the drought, but the bees were happy while it lasted. They're off to the rose of sharron, which is one of a few plants exerting the energy to bloom right now.
I have no idea what this bush is called, but for three or so weeks out of the year it smells fantastic. Very sweet smelling.
A few days back, I wondered if I could achieve focus stacking doing the macro rock-your-camera-to-focus trick. For the uninitiated, the idea is that slight movement of your camera toward and/or away from your subject is an easier focusing method than using the focus ring on your lens.
I thought my logic was straightforward:
- Focus breathing means that even if you're using a tripod photo stacking software will still have to deal with shot-to-shot variation in framing/perspective
- My body does not support focus bracketing
- My body does have high burst rates
Put the three together and here we are. The daisy in the post is 39 images fed into helicon focus 9. I've now spent a total of 10 minutes with this software and it's super easy. Here's one of the photos in the stack to give you a feel for how thin the depth of field was:
For kicks, here are two more stacks. They're not super compelling photos, but they do show that the concept is viable.
Everything in this post was shot at f/4 on a Sigma 35mm f/2 with 26mm of extension tubes in the great outdoors with no additional lighting.
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