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I have almost no experience of archery and this annoyed me. So many close shots of Odysseus or other soldiers limply firing arrows that look like they'd barely make it five feet. B…

Funny you mention LotR, coming out of the theatre after watching The Odyssey I thought "man, if only Peter Jackson had made this". The landscapes were often gorgeous, but otherwise…

Ah that makes sense, thanks!

I had been using LineageOS + microG for many years on my Pixel 3. I upgraded to a Pixel 8 and tried out GrapheneOS and the install experience was good, but I found some odd perform…

It appears to use a lot of memory too, at least in Firefox. I can't have more than a few Linear tabs open at a time.

Boring isn't it? Reading half a book every single day. Not for him though, he loves it.

There's a lot in here that I which I knew more about. You often hear about think tanks in Australia, and know they have political leanings but I wasn't aware of their precise natur…

I've been using Envoy Gateway in my homelab and have found it to be good for my modest needs (single node k3s cluster running on an old PC). I needed to configure the underlying En…

Brilliant, I'm anxiously awaiting Australian pricing details (and release dates...) but could definitely seeing myself getting one of these as my first VR device, and the controlle…

Proton/Wine is so good these days. Rarely have I had an issue running a game in the last 3 or 4 years. Sometimes EA/Ubisoft games that have their own special launchers don't work i…

Agree. It was getting in the way of me spending time with the family because I was distracted mulling over the puzzles. I had thought last year that they could peak the difficulty …

In my experience, the people using AI to make programs are still programmers. As in, they were trained in programming pre-AI. Managers are using AI to output manager stuff - docume…

Thank you!

It depends on the ORM, I know SQLAlchemy and Django ORM have some Postgres specific features (e.g. full text search/indexing). Some also let you extend the ORM to add your own feat…

When I worked as a pizza delivery guy (favorite casual job I had during uni) we only used those big pizza rocker things, which I think are better than these wheels. Easier to clean…

Insightful article, thanks for writing/sharing!

I think the syntax highlighting for this could make it more readable. Make the leading `\\` a different color to the string content.

I deleted Twitter years ago as I was getting over it. When Bluesky starting take off it sounded like it was "Twitter but better", so I created an account. Felt just the same as Twi…

There's a term I read about a long time ago, I think it was "aesthetic completeness" or something like that. It was used in the context of video games whose art direction was fully…

I take my 18-month old to daycare each morning, before parking my car a few streets away and catching the train into work. It is terrifying to think that one day I might just forge…

Great article. > Don't underestimate the value to your soul of good work. This in particular resonated with me. My concern is not really that AI will take over my job and replace m…

Some of my colleagues will copy/paste several paragraphs of LLM output into ongoing slack discussions. Totally interrupts the flow of ideas. Shits me to tears.

Terrible performance for me too. Firefox, 3600X and 6800XT. Especially as the header morphs when you scroll down. I don't mind the icons and general aethetic direction, but serious…

I installed it a few months ago, I thought it was pretty good! I couldn't find a prebuilt package mirror in or near Australia though so it was painfully slow to install updates, an…

You can install/run guix using a nonfree kernel to get around that. https://wiki.systemcrafters.net/guix/nonguix-installation-gu...