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It certainly feels like the copywriters at cloudflare received marching orders to write for a broader audience, which means, write for no one. I miss their more technical writing s…

I was just looking at the same thing and how flawed it is that we tie parameter count with "intelligence". GLM-5.2 is my go to day to day model because of how darn good it is. I ha…

Switching all my projects from psql to SQLite was a bit of a PITA but has absolutely been worth it. Keeping with the “do it the rails way” has kept mental overhead low, and seems t…

Related to this is WaitUntil8th, a movement encouraging parents to sign up in groups/regional block (think a PAC) so there is less pressure on individual kids if their peers are al…

A different new website. Abosloutely loved it and I'm sure will be appreciated by others.

… I’ve been using Ruby for years and never thought to use show_source like this in a debugger. Thanks kind stranger, you just made my day!

Agreed. I think the article does a great job going into exactly that definition.

This is really cool, and very well done! Would love to see it more on a per-user basis, as I share access with my family and do not have similar tastes at all. Perhaps tied in with…

There is a finish company working on something that might fit this need: domestic sand batteries. https://polarnightenergy.fi/sand-battery/

I recently tried RubyMine IDE by jetbrains after having jumped on the VS Code bandwagon since its first beta release. It has been incredible. Instead of monkeying around for 3 hour…

It certainly does sound like Canada. I am one of the lucky ones and do have a family doctor and it is still a minimum of 6 weeks for me to book an appointment to see him. If I am r…

Couldn't agree more. Greece is a great example of what happens to a country when they have a sovereign debt crisis and no control over the value of their currency. The ability to c…

My mother has been using it because "now [she] only needs to enter her 4 digit computer pin instead of her long Bitwarden password" Unfortunately she is unwilling to change her Win…

That's actually a really cool idea. I am not sure what variance there would be on a light sensor though.

Anyone who is looking at using SQLIte + Rails should check out the work done by Oldmoe (X/Github) on his Litestack project. Here's the intro paragraph: "Litestack is a Ruby gem tha…

Or even a phone that is "off". Newer iphones (11+) can be found through the FindMy network, even when the device is off. https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/21/ios-15-here-are-the-devices-…

I said the same to my fiancée. We have gold status on Westjet (Canada’s second largest carrier and it has a hub airport close by) and I just put in the cancellation on my westjet c…

Has 4G/5G improved? When I lived in the UK (Midlands until 2019) it was entirely unreliable. I'd wager 75% of my connection was on 3G as soon as I was more than 3Km from a town's h…

For what it’s worth, we close during the Christmas and New Years break every year but still pay our employees/don’t use up their PTO. I don’t want to work during that time, and don…

I do mostly construction financing for a living and can confirm, housing construction costs in BC are ludicrous. A major factor in the jump is the build code changes and new enviro…

Wait, where is Hungary invading?

With the continued shift to EVs, petrol taxes just don't make sense as a form of taxation to pay for roads. I think we should be shifting entirely to a gross curb weight tax for al…