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snowe

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I’m a staff software engineer at Sunrun, the USA’s largest residential solar installer.

I mostly work with kotlin, but also java, python, ruby, javascript, typescript. My hobby is picking up new hobbies. Currently bird photography and camping.

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I don’t get what this solves…

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I’m kinda with the other person…go with an Apple, even a cheap air will work better than any windows option (my m2 air literally works better with adobe stuff than my custom built gaming pc with a 3080 in it). Yeah the storage thing sucks, but you should be using a NAS for your data storage anyway, and if you do really need it for things like travel, you can always get an m.2 nvme USB stick and put literally whatever size m.2 in it you want. But yeah, the storage situation sucks in Apple land.

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Hm. I’m not sure. my air I think only has 16gb, but I’m able to run Lightroom, Photoshop, IntelliJ, and Insta360’s whatever it’s called all at the same time. The biggest downside with the airs is that they have no fans so they get hot rather than allowing full use. If I was using it for clients I would definitely go with a Pro. I’m mostly using it for personal use. My work laptop is an M1 Max with 32GB and it just chugs through anything I throw at it, but that’s like… $4.5k lol. Not sure I would suggest that. But like, 16gb on a Pro is probably what I would go with if I was going to upgrade my air and needed something beefier. I have 1tb on my pro and I immediately maxed out the storage cause I shoot in raw. I do wish I had gotten 2TB of storage, but it’s so expensive. It’s honestly the worst balancing act, but macOS is sooooo much better for adobe software (and programming) that it just really isn’t worth it for a windows or linux computer with higher specs.

sooo. I’d recommend a Pro, with at least 16gb of ram. That will probably cover all your needs. You might be juggling stuff with your usb drives, but that’s kinda a fact of life with lots of assets anyway, so I’m not sure that’s a pro or con over other laptops. Get enough that you can hold at least like 3 clients at once on your drive.

I have these two usb m.2 cases:

dockcase.com/…/dockcase-explorer-edition-m2-nvme-…

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08G14NBCS

I actually like the second more. The first is really cool and has an extra output/input for power and 5second power loss capacitor backup and stuff, but it’s wayyy bigger and I just don’t need that when I already carry too much camera stuff. It’s also way cheaper lol, leaving you more money to buy bigger drives.

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You can still recover.

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Have you had a cat?

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Shows all the options on iPhone, on all the keyboards I have installed.

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  • Kleenex
  • toilet paper
  • paper towels
  • potato chips
  • daisy sour cream
  • batteries
  • tampons
  • butter
  • olive oil
  • ziplocks
  • pumpkin puree
  • contact lenses

This is a combined list from my wife and I.

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doesn’t really need to be brand specific… We just don’t go for the generic versions of any of these items. Like energizer or duracell, doesn’t matter, but cheap ones included with a remote absolutely not. same for tampons. the generic versions all use cardboard, not plastic, so they’re painful. toilet paper and paper towels, once again, the generic versions are all bad, none of the name brand ones are bad.

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I use ikea rechargeable batteries for my Xbox controller and Panasonic or Samsung 18650 batteries for my flashlights. Most stuff I use rechargeables for, but when you’re camping you often want backups that aren’t rechargeable.

Who have logs of how users vote?

Besides it’s a very important question for our privacy, I suspect some of my comments getting downvoted at set periods of time from other accounts. I don’t understand how the fediverse work and what I’m asking is who has vote logs? Who I can ask, if a bot, like on reddit, got dedicated to downvote every post from one user....

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~~We do not. Who voted on what is not stored at all. There’s not a database table for it nor is it logged in the logs. ~~

I am apparently too sick to be commenting on here. Comment likes are stored in the comment_like table (I was looking for vote for some reaason…). https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/a2e38a6b-656e-4717-88a1-6d6626f2f4f3.png

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DataGrip. best database tool on the planet. JetBrains really does make the best stuff.

How long does it take for the fediverse to "forget" an instance?

I made the choice of hosting some Fediverse software on a domain name I own, however that piece of software (Akkoma, upgraded from Pleroma) has since become unacceptably unstable, and I’d like to switch to something else. I read that if I’m already federating with other servers, I shouldn’t switch software on the same...

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Lemmy will mark your instance as forgotten in 3 days if I remember correctly

Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)

The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...

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iMessage isn’t an app… you’re not paying attention to what they’re saying at all. iMessage has never been an app. It’s a protocol for Apple messages through their server hardware. Messages is the app, Messages can send emails, sms, mms, and iMessages.

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Wait you thought hangouts was good? Holy shit would that be one of the worst Google offerings of the decade if it wasn’t for the ten other Google chat and video systems they have made. My god I can’t think of a worse communication platform than hangouts. You might be the first person I’ve heard of liking it.

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Since Google is just trying to get people to use their closed off communication standard (they added a bunch of stuff to RCS and that’s what they want the eu to force Apple to use). And I don’t trust Google with anything anymore, not sure why you would. The killed by Google website is proof enough of that.

Chinese Tesla rival Nio cuts 10% of workforce as CEO predicts 'intense competition' (www.cnbc.com)

Chinese Tesla rival Nio cuts 10% of workforce as CEO predicts ‘intense competition’::China’s Nio has been hit by weak consumer sentiment in the world’s second-largest economy, stiff competition and a price war started by Elon Musk’s Tesla.

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In what way?

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But like, what are they copying here?

Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. (news.yahoo.com)

Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy....

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Just so you know, companies already use drones for roof surveys. I work for sunrun and we use them to analyze roofs for solar installations and whether roofs need to be fixed before hand.

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Only applies if there aren’t bicyclists and if your view isn’t blocked. I’m sorry but your attitude is why pedestrians are dying.

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In many locations bicyclists ride on the sidewalk, especially in high traffic situations in the USA where right turn on red is going to be deadly.

real cause is…

Yes that is one issue, but sightlines are a major one and a significant factor in why Hoboken has almost entirely eliminated pedestrian deaths while the rest of the nation continues to see them rise. Hoboken didn’t get rid of larger cars.

youtu.be/Fh4H9qZ-_6Y

youtu.be/fEj-pyjA2oo

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The person I responded to literally claimed that they’re infallible and see every person approaching no matter the intersection. If that isn’t the exact definition of what you are saying I’m doing then I don’t know what is. You are clearly the danger if you think that anyone can pay attention to everything happening at all times. There’s a reason that more people die on roads in America than they do in Europe and it sure as hell isn’t because those drivers are somehow better than American drivers, it’s because vigilance doesn’t matter. Road design does.

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Their example was literally about them not selling. Maybe learn to read. They explicitly called out foreclosure by a bank where the bank takes their property back from the homeowner and sells it to reclaim the mortgage amount. That is not the homeowner selling.

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There are!! rebble.io I still have mine but haven’t used it since they got bought. I really do miss it, it was great.

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They’re looking for someone to confirm their biases, not actually looking for the truth. It’s pretty clear by their responses that all they’ll accept is someone stating that they’re a far left org.

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Seems like they’re already giving the incompetent superintendent a golden parachute. 500k for getting someone shot.

Google emails revealing disagreements b/w Product and Advertising teams about manipulating search to drive ad revenue (gizmodo.com.au)

tl/dr: email chains used as evidence in DOJ Google antitrust case show internal arguments about drops in # of searches, and how to increase them so that people see more ads. Search team wants to create better search results to keep people coming back....

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Well it sure does sound like advertising won doesn’t it. I completely stopped using Google it is so bad now.

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I’m sorry….

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We could easily get Israel to hold off on attacks. It would start with not funding them.

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Apple is still releasing security updates for the iPhone 6s… that’s over 8 years of phone updates. support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

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You’ve really got two options here. Tailscale, which will give you named dns routes for your machines, based on the machine name, or dynamic DNS with a reverse proxy like SWAG.

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So if you read the article the court case actually ended 13 years ago, the judge just never ruled on it. So it’s not even that the evidence is old (I mean it is, but that’s clearly not the reason here). There was a delay in the actual ruling after the case concluded. Really really strange.

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Kagi is even better than DDG. Google is absolutely horrendous.

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Not kagi. I haven’t specified Reddit once since switching to kagi. It really is that much better than DDG and Google.

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The lowest plan is only $54 a year and it’s most definitely worth it for the results.

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When you use 1/10th the searches because you get it all in the very first query your usage goes wayyyy down. even then, you aren’t limited to 300 searches. you can go over, you just pay per search. and even with that if you can’t do that then just default to DDG then. I found DDG to be terrible, not at all better than Bing by itself, so Kagi was something I tried and immediately fell in love with. It just works. And I don’t have to worry about any of my data going anywhere at all, to any advertisers for anything, or for tracking, etc.

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Sorry I’m having trouble understanding what you’re asking for. You’ve done 418 searches in a single day? That would be 12958 a month so I’m not sure I’m reading your comment correctly.

Does it also work with very specific technical searches?

That’s pretty much exactly what I use it for.

Could it for example search for the behavior of when it encounters an alphabetical character?

I’m not sure what you’re asking here.

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He’s shiny after cleaning off. Like he doesn’t ever take showers or something

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!shell

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So if any of these suits succeed that should mean that we’re gonna see more lawsuits suing companies for harming kids actual health right?

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ok yes, you’re correct. I meant physical health, like air pollution. I just worded it badly.

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I’m absolutely terrible at nginx. Can you share the config you used for your hosted version?

How to deal with Ancient aliens in the workplace?

Two of my coworkers frequently mention shows like “Encounters” or “Ancient apocalypse” or whatever. I’m not the best at debating or forming arguments against these though I do feel strongly that bold claims require better evidence than a blurry photo and an eyewitness account. How do you all go about this?...

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They talk about this in the documentary Behind the Curve. Pretty much exactly what you said here

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well it’s called Thief. They’re stealing the function and making it look like they wrote it. hence max1.

Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)

The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...

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Social media has always excluded forum like sites. It most definitely does not include anonymous sites. Social media has a strict definition about having connections to people, none of which Reddit nor lemmy has. Reddit technically added followers, but you cannot see nor interact with them, that’s not social media, that’s an email list. If lemmy is social media then so are every single comment section on every news site ever.

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Social media has always excluded forum like sites. It most definitely does not include anonymous sites. Social media has a strict definition about having connections to people, none of which Reddit nor lemmy has. Reddit technically added followers, but you cannot see nor interact with them, that’s not social media, that’s an email list. If lemmy is social media then so is every single comment section on every news site ever.

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social media didn’t come about until after the advent of facebook so yes, by definition it excludes anything before then. Forum software existed for decades at that point. At no point in time has forum software ever been included in anyone’s social media definition, except it seems like you.

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So are you saying that Facebook Groups aren’t social media either? That’s a forum like site. Tumblr isn’t social media either?

Correct, facebook groups is not facebook. It’s forum software hosted at the same url as facebook. Same as Facebook Marketplace. Marketplace is not facebook. It’s craigslist. It just happens to be hosted at the same url as facebook. Just like StackOverflow Chat is not question and answer software even though it’s literally hosted at the same url. Just like your phone is not social media even though you both create communities on it and communicate with people on it. If you don’t understand how servers work behind the scenes then maybe that doesn’t make a lot of sense to you, but a url is nothing more than a sign to put on the front of your building. You can then teleport the user to anywhere else in the universe and it can have absolutely nothing to do with the original location at all. This is the framework of the internet.

Lemmy and Reddit both fall under these definitions.

literally every single website on the entire planet meet those definitions.

Not sure what you mean by this… Reddit has had chats and PMs for a long time.

You cannot interact with your followers. I didn’t say anything about communicating with individuals that you see around the site. You have no way to know who your followers are you have no way to message your followers. You have no way to interact with your followers. Reddit is a forum software, exactly like every forum software before it.

Neither Lemmy nor Reddit are anonymous. They’re pseudonymous. Something like 4chan where you don’t even need an account is anonymous.

accounts have nothing to do with anonymity, maybe you’re using some layperson’s version of anonymity, but anonymous means it does not require real information. reddit and lemmy are anonymous.

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SearXNG

that’s awesome. Is the quality good? I’m really loving Kagi, but I love OSS stuff so might consider this. Maintenance is also an issue. I’m tired of maintaining things. I’ve got my own unraid server, pihole, etc and I’m not in the mood for adding more stuff.

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