I’m trying to save money on the power bill so I’ve reluctantly connected a few things to the wifi in the hopes that I can set them up to easily tun in a delayed way to use off-peak power. Turns out, neither the dishwasher nor the washing machine or dryer even support that! The dishwasher does, but you have to use the app every time - you can’t set it up to run delayed by default when you press the start button on the machine

So, back off the wifi they go. It was the first use I had for ‘smart’ devices and it didn’t even do the thing.

Is monster actually that green colour? I’ve never tried it and assumed it was a normal colour and the green was just the can design

Thanks but things tend to have voltage or compatibility issues when made for a different market

Til. Still not in NZ but might grab one next time I’m across the ditch

Maybe if they could make the steam deck 1 actually available in aus/nz first so we can actually purchase them instead of everyone just having nintendo switches idk just a thought

I’m enjoying it, mostly. It’s definitely great at some tasks and terrible at orhers. You get a feel for what those are after a while:

1. Throwaway projects - proof of concepts, one-off static websites, that kind of thing: absolutely ideal. Weeks of dev becomes hours, and you barely need to bother reviewing it if it works.

2. Research (find a tool for doing XYZ) where you barely know the right search terms: ideal. The research mode on claude.ai is especially amazing at this.

3. Anything where the language is unfamiliar. AI bootstraps past most of the learning curve. Doesn’t help you learn much, but sometimes you don’t care about learning the codebase layout and you just need to fix something.

4. Any medium sized project with a detailed up front description.

What it’s not good for:

1. Debugging in a complex system
2. Tiny projects (one line change), faster to do it yourself
3. Large projects (500+ line change) - the diff becomes unreviewable fairly quickly and can’t be trusted (much worse than the same problem with a human where you can at least trust the intent)

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What game is this?

US doesn’t have graveyards? Do you just burn your dead

Github has an option to show private commits in these graphs though

Yeah it took me like ten seconds of confusions to understand what about a pie was being considered sweet. And then ohhhhh maybe they thought it meant a FRUIT pie?

“A pie” is a meat pie around here

I know him as the guy who made his webserver respond to everything with a ballsack in an eggcup if your Referer is hacker news. Seems childish

I see a kangaroo 🦘 in northwest Australia, great attention to detail there

Not really sure what this means. I’m not really aware of anything I’m missing out on. If you don’t want to use their cloud storage (which you have to pay extra for) there’s no need to have an apple account. All the apps I use work fine locally

You don’t need to use an Apple account with Mac computers, and it doesn’t even try very hard to convince you to either

I’m in NZ and I’ve always hated it. Someone always goes and switches them off, and they’re totally unnecessary when every device already has its own switch

The difference is the order: long black has water on the bottom, espresso on top. Canadiano is the opposite.

Long black’s better because it preserves the crema better (it doesn’t get murdered by pouring the water on top)

I’d use it if it didn’t cost extra in my country. Swiping my card really isn’t much harder

Auckland did the same thing at about the same time with similarly positive results: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513134/auckland-unitary-plan-improving-housing-affordability-research-shows

In other words this will affect exactly zero users.

Why would debian not have done this a decade ago?