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vinnymac··on Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market
You can actually dig up plants before the first frost and winter them in the house. I do this for a variety of them.

Just make sure to trim away anything that’ll track in bugs / disease, and keep them in a temperate climate.

vinnymac··on Show HN: Play the game I'm developing directly on its website
This is the third time I’ve seen your beautiful game now. So I decided to pull the trigger and buy early access.

Unfortunately after filling out the stripe form on iOS Safari the pay button remained gray and I couldn’t checkout.

I actually experienced a variety of quirks on mobile while navigating that might require some investigating. Perhaps because it is optimized for Chrome?

vinnymac··on Is something bugging you?
I wonder if they are working on a time travel debugger. If it is truly deterministic presumably you could visit any point in time after a record is made and replay it.
vinnymac··on WebAssembly Playground
At the moment you need to send state between WebAssembly and JS contexts in order to manipulate the DOM.

> By itself, WebAssembly cannot currently directly access the DOM; it can only call JavaScript, passing in integer and floating point primitive data types. Thus, to access any Web API, WebAssembly needs to call out to JavaScript, which then makes the Web API call. Emscripten therefore creates the HTML and JavaScript glue code needed to achieve this.

> Note: There are future plans to allow WebAssembly to call Web APIs directly.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concept...

vinnymac··on Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
That sounds very useful, how much space does it utilize?
vinnymac··on Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements
For those without an iOS device see this example: https://ibb.co/N7Mw4dW
vinnymac··on Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements
Not to mention the user experience for an optgroup on mobile is vastly superior as a sheet rather than a popover.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/se...

For those without iOS, see an example here: https://ibb.co/DkN16Gc

vinnymac··on Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements
> You could still see it by manipulating the DOM or using XML, but apart from a couple of experts nobody knew.

Except for all the users who were frustrated by the change. Most users wouldn’t even know who to report this to, even if they noticed it at all. They may chalk up the issue to the new computer or phone they purchased in the last two decades.

vinnymac··on Automatic class sorting with Prettier (2022)
In a similar vein, you can sort imports with Prettier using Trivago’s plugin.

https://github.com/trivago/prettier-plugin-sort-imports

vinnymac··on Automatic class sorting with Prettier (2022)
I had learned of both Biome and Rome, but didn’t know about the rebrand. Makes me think they’ll switch gears to focus on improving the linter after reaching 100% parity.
vinnymac··on Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database
Every single time I see it, I immediately think of Red Amber Green.
vinnymac··on Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
This is cool, I have toyed with Tauri in the past for some projects.

Curious what brought you to pick Svelte and Tauri for this project? Were you already familiar with them?

vinnymac··on DevDocs
When programming on the go, I’ve found this to be useful. Especially if the WiFi is flaky.

I also enjoy having documentation consolidated. If man, mdn, and devdocs were combined into a single standard interface it would be a great boost to my productivity.

vinnymac··on Git Things
The fact that it was brought up early in the article, tells us which one is a more common operation as well.
vinnymac··on Generation Junk
Appreciate the heads up! I looked it up here: https://recall.cosori.com/

Fortunately my model is not on the list of recalled products. The one I use is an older version of the `Cosori - Original Air Fryer - Silver`.

vinnymac··on Amazon's Silent Sacking
I had a professor who worked on security at Amazon 12 years ago. He would always go on and on about how terrible his job was there, and how much better it was being a teacher and getting to see the sun.

Looked him up on LinkedIn 6 years later, and he was back at Amazon.

vinnymac··on Generation Junk
We don’t even call them toasters anymore in my household. Our Cosori air fryer has a toast setting that works beautifully.

It cost less than $250. It warms, bakes, roasts, dehydrates, as well as 10 other settings. It has 3 different racks, so I can toast 3-4x as much bread than I could in a regular toaster.

I’ve only had it for 6 years, but it has held up nicely, no issues whatsoever. I guess what I am trying to say, is that the product is the bells and whistles these days.

vinnymac··on Is Software Getting Worse?
Couldn't agree with you more. I spent the last 6 months leading a web performance optimization effort of one very popular site.

The dichotomy between upper management and ICs in the weeds doing the actual work is mind boggling at times. ICs would understand the spectrum, and desire to create baseline targets across the service for the best experience we could muster. Meanwhile management only cared whether the core funnel met a specific target and viewed all other efforts as a distractions of the bottom line.

This narrow minded thinking directly results in a subpar experience for customers. It's a shame too, because product quality is critical at this organization.

vinnymac··on Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
Excluding all the bells and whistles, as well as the incentives. The ground loop and heat pump package comes to $48k.

However, I paid significantly less than that even with all of the additions. As the incentives and discounts reduced it by about ~14k. The tax credits are ~13.5k, which won’t be realized until this upcoming tax season.

vinnymac··on Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
No issues whatsoever with the ground loops. They will supposedly outlive the lifetime of the home according to the installer (~120 years).

Only issue I’ve had at all is with the thermostat, which is an Ecobee Pro. While these smart thermostats are okay, they seem to mess up some of the more basic requirements of a thermostat, compared to the older dumb models.

For context, the system went live in January, all permits cleared in November. So about a year of use.

vinnymac··on Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
I replaced my gas heating with a heat pump and ground loop last year.

Removed my water heater and HVAC, for two 500 feet deep holes in the ground. Electricity bill is low, and gas bill is gone. You can receive tax breaks from federal, state, and local utility companies (in the US) too.

While I do recommend it, you may need to wait for an available drill if the terrain under your property is difficult to dig through.

vinnymac··on The mystery of the mimic plant (2022)
SciShow did a video on the subject.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWWsYw9fH0

If trees are capable of communicating at the roots with nearby offspring through mycelium, while sharing resources and information, why couldn’t a vine?

vinnymac··on Resetting the timer in my toothbrush
Most people I personally know would reach for a phone to record a video.

They are simply more familiar with it, and while some may be aware screen capture exists, it usually requires some setup, and knowledge of a macro.

vinnymac··on OpenAI Is in Talks to Raise New Funding at Valuation of $100B or More
> In the current state no one has financial interest in spreading negative news about them

Perhaps not as much incentive, but considering the relationship between M$ and OpenAI, I expect many to have interests in spreading negative news.

vinnymac··on You Can Select Multiple Tabs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox
I recommend giving tree based tabs a try if you haven’t. Another massive workflow enhancer.
vinnymac··on Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds
Whenever I read these stories I wonder what I can do to maintain the forest on my own property better.

Curious if anyone here has any books they would recommend on tree identification and maintenance?

vinnymac··on Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says
It is especially true for startups to be open minded and flexible. If engineers aren’t having those kinds of conversations, perhaps they do not feel comfortable being open and honest.

If we create an environment where engineers feel comfortable enough that body language isn’t required as the sole feedback indicator in this scenario, perhaps the entire workplace would benefit.

vinnymac··on Why is this artist teaching Boston Dynamics dogs to paint?
LLMs vary in there resource requirements.

The best models at the moment require beefy hardware, but you could still run a handful of 7B models, at the same time, with a top of the line laptop.

With a custom build they could do something far more impressive.

vinnymac··on Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
Bundle up configuration and scripts, and now we have containerized CI infrastructure.
vinnymac··on Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
I’d rather see CI services add a mode that would enforce all scripts must live in separate files, rather than inline.

It’s really not necessary to support inline except for single lines that are very short (under 30 chars).

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