darrylb42

Looks cool.

What is the benefit of registering? I skipped it to try it out.

Was very quick looking at my local MySql database. I liked being able to run sql against some local parquet files.

Would need to support Redshift via an ssh tunnel for me to use it on a regular basis. I don't want to manage the tunnel with a different tool.

That seems cheap for gas. 15h driving ~6l/100km 90l of gas. That would be over $200 in gas for me.

The downside of flexibility. Choose input method is the system list. Holding the space bar is the keyboard's method. I sometimes switch to a non-Google keyboard and the Choose input method way of switching is how I get back. I didn't know about the long press on the spacebar method, learned something new today.

I have all LG appliances. Washer & drier are 10+ years old, came with the house. Fridge, stove & dishwasher are newish (2 years old). So far they have been great. I really like the induction top on the stove, though having to match the pan size to the burner is a little annoying sometimes.

I thought I wanted a new car, but all I really wanted was Android Auto. Added a new touch screen to my 10 year old car, wireless Android Auto is great. I do wish there were a few more app icons at the bottom of the screen. I tend to switch between three apps and there are only buttons for two that are not maps or making calls.

Facebook, all Meta properties no longer allow sharing anything considered news in Canada. If you put in a link to a news site it will be blocked. At one point they were event blocking news satire. People sharing news now will drop in an image instead of a link. Much less useful.

And doctors doing 24h shifts. At least in the NICU my kids were in.

Pihole blocks stuff for everything on your network. No need to train your family or do anything to machines are devices. While it does not block everything, and sometimes too much. It does block a lot.

By blocking too much, for one of the banks I use blocking their app telemetry causes the app to crash. And sometimes I do want to click on an ad Google serves up when it matches my search and I am buying something.

- CanadaLand

- Behind the tech with Kevin Scott

- Childish

- Dev interrupted

- Doug Loves Movies

- Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

- The HanselMinutes Podcast

- Law Bytes

- Maintainable

- StackOverflow podcast

- Midnight Local

- Newcomer

Last time I was shopping for a car ~4 years ago. Most prices were written on the windshield as weekly payments, over an unknown period. Getting the actual price required stopping and reading the small window sticker.

Do you subscribe to anything? You may need some positive signals. I have premium so it may work different but suggested is mostly new stuff from channels I subscribe to or channels I have watched. Though mostly I just look for what is new in my subscription list and don't pay much attention to the home screen.

Now with 20% more**

** than a box with 20%less no change in package size required. This was on a thing of Oldspice antiperspirants.

Or in Canada, BC. Things like meat can be priced in $/lb or $/100g in the same cabinet. Makes the mental math tricky and you can think something is cheap when it is not.

You mean FTE? Full Time Equivalent.

The seats in the PHEV are nicer than the folding seats in the gas model and the pop out pretty easily. We have the passenger one out full time, easier to get to the kids in the back and allows for more storage when travelling.

I worked at one place where if the estimate for any task was over 2 days it would not get approved. Some really required two days tasks could take months. If we didn't want to do it, high estimate. If the business really wanted it they asked different devs until it was two days. Such a strange place to work.

It should handle fractions I was trying to get the size of a quarter section. It rounds .25 to 1.

Are you able to have all your normal keyboards as dvorak? I have thought about trying to switch. But I use a few different keyboards in my day and it would be a real problem for other people if the keycaps didn't match what was on the keyboard. I also think my fingers would get confused about what letter is where when switching.

I only use the radio to listen to AM traffic reports. News 1130 traffic on the one. Most of the time I am listening to something from my phone.

The daycare my kids go to reduced rates. Maybe it is big enough that the paper work is not a big deal. The new subsidized daycare made things cheaper for everyone I know.

My websites PiHole Media Server Print server Sometimes a Minecraft Server

Or you get a squatter toilette. Also you need to bring your own paper for a lot of public toilettes. Though it has been almost 20 years since I last visited. At the time I wondered why they handed out so many advertising Kleenex travel size packs. It was for the train station bathroom.

Go into the office for enhanced collaboration they say. Everyone I work with is in different countries, so being in the office gains nothing. Being at home is much nicer.

I visited Costa Rica this year and this is what the rental house had. Bit freaky.

PiHole is interesting in the amount of ads it blocks, but also the ads it doesn't. Made most of the banners go away for the silly coloring applications my kids use, but the full screen video ads don't go away. The video ads really need to be blocked as there are a lot that are not appropriate for the age of my kids.

Some applications also refuse to start without tracking active. Took a while to figure out that "Envoy" the desk booking system wouldn't start while getting DNS from pihole.

I don't mind them, but sometimes you get random things the self checkout will not let you buy. Like anti-perspirant, had to stop and go over to a regular line for that.

Google lies about music available on Youtube Music. Getting voice command to play stuff you know exists is next to impossible. I think voice command just sucks in general.

$100 for a ACM membership $500 for O'Reilly. I can see why O'Reilly didn't want to renew. Learning materials are pretty slim with O'Reilly removed.

How did you learn that keyboard exists? It is not on their keyboard page. Kinesis needs a better organized site.

I got the Freestyle2 a few weeks ago, enjoying it, still have some issues finding the navigation keys, home, end etc. I really like having my arms pointed straight rather than angled in like with a normal keyboard. Keys are a bit mushy, went from cherry blues.

Our office is 100% hoteling now no fixed seats. No personal stuff unless you want to carry it in everyday you go in. Been a few months since I went in.