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smilbandit

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About smilbandit

I work in enterprise IT as a lead web programmer/architect.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47882369

    Did they recently add skulls on their badges and branded swag?

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    Comment #47664062

    I dabbled with AI music for a bit with Suno. Worked out well for the most part, only way I'm ever going to hear music with themes for some of niche things I like, like Shadowrun. I…

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    Comment #47529977

    was looking at this a few days ago. my son got into cassettes last summer. even bought a dual deck off facebook market place to record mix tapes, worked great tape to tape.

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    Comment #47372664

    I got to get me some new surge protectors and not the cheapies. maybe a small ups.

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    Comment #46629654

    setup a desktop with n8n, ollama, open webui, comfyui, and aider. work is dragging it's feet on AI orchestration and workflow tooling so figured I learn it a bit to get ahead of th…

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    Comment #45421326

    Wonder if android will scale up to a windowing interface for larger screens or will it be like samsung dex.

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    Comment #44565010

    The cynic in me thinks that this is a way for bigger farms to gobble up smaller farms by calling in ice but knowing that they will be able to keep ice from raiding them unless a bi…

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    Comment #44539594

    Phrasing matters. using "didn't" puts a bad light on FEMA but if they used "couldn't" it changes things. no idea which it is but i'd bet it should read "couldn't"

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    Comment #44128212

    From my limited experience, former coder now management but I still get to code now and then. I've found them helpful but also intrusive. Sometimes when it guesses the code for the…

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    Comment #38875048

    Just want to say thank you for having a link for "as seen in" showing all the fake movies/tv where they are from.

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    Comment #37603996

    My depth of stock trading stops at the buy low sell high level. Can someone explain a little more if you have time? What would have happened to those trades if splunk had went down…

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    Comment #36258431

    i don't use apps other then a broswer for the most part, so not that broken up about these api issues. i also don't use reddit as much after they removed the .compact templates.

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    Comment #36208602

    ah the hours spent building the perfect computer on paper using arbitrarily decided limit of money I was never going to have.

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    Comment #35814657

    In this day and age I feel that things like this should have an in person registration for a few days or week before the online registration.

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    Comment #34584356

    for me it was a hobo clown painting in the family room whose eyes always followed me as a child. told my parents it was scary but it never came down, i just assumed it had a lock o…

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    Comment #34060436

    raspberry pi on your own network that updates an RSS feed that is hosted on an S3 bucket. get the RSS updates via reader, outlook or slack.

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    Comment #33132986

    Feed readers are my learning project, I use it to learn new languages. I've built and rebuilt readers in vbscript, vb.net, c#, php and python. php and python have been the easiest …

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    Comment #31573929

    on taste. I find all sugar substitutes to taste like poison. Wondering if there's reason for that?

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    Comment #30939423

    https://sixdaemonbag.com It's personal

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    Comment #29819521

    I missed getting everything from RSS. A couple years ago I built my own engine that could bring in twitter, reddit, here and a few other services that didn't have RSS feeds and pub…

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    Comment #29788115

    Death of the author and spouse. No need for it to transfer any farther then that.

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    Comment #28914124

    some were in Detroit but I believe they've all been paved over now.

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    Comment #28371581

    digital idiocracy

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    Comment #28197977

    as a watcher of a few usenet flame wars in the 90's, I can attest that nerds can be emotional.

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    Comment #27029980

    I'm neutral on SQL but very big on the right tool for the job. My rule of thumb is, if i'm querying data just to massage it and then stuff it back into the database then I first tr…