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Family farm I came back to after working out for years and sold my IT company.

The fleet task app has been really useful. I have my hired hands using it, tasks are shared and can be deferred so they don't show up until spring or midsummer when we have weather or time to work on them, or we're going to need that piece of equipment readied.

Honestly, I have so many features in it now it's hard to describe it, shared work calendar, parts shopping list, recurring maintenance, blah blah blah. It's very bespoke and I doubt anyone else would want to use it the way we do.

Same here. Farmer now, former network engineer and software project lead, but I stopped programming almost 20 years ago.

Now I build all sorts of apps for my farm and organizations I volunteer for. I can pound out an app for tracking sample locations for our forage associations soil sample truck, another for moisture monitoring, a fleet task/calendar/maintenance app in hours and iterate on them when I think of features.

And git was brand new when I left the industry, so I only started using it recently to any extent, and holy hell, is it ever awesome!

I'm finally able to build all the ideas I come up with when I'm sitting in a tractor and the GPS is steering.

Seriously exciting. I have a hard time getting enough sleep because I hammer away on new ideas I can't tear myself away from.

Yah, he was just running a 12V bilge pump on a battery, and used a charge controller to keep the battery up so just needed a voltage slightly above the battery voltage. I doubt it used a kWh per day as it cycled. He might still be using it, haven't talked to him in a few years.

opencode acp -- start ACP (Agent Client Protocol) server

We had a neighbor that put loops of wire under a 600kV line and got enough power to run a water pump for cows. The square law makes that kind of thing pretty low-return.

>The driver sits in a recumbent position in an open cockpit, steering via a handlebar that is located under the knees. A power switch and front and rear brake levers are positioned on the handlebar. As a supplement to or replacement for electric power, the C5 can also be propelled via bicycle-style pedals located at the front of the cockpit. The maximum speed of an unmodified C5 is 15 miles per hour (24 km/h). At the rear of the vehicle is a small luggage compartment with a capacity of 28 litres (1 cu ft).[5] As the C5 does not have a reverse gear, reversing direction is done by getting out, picking up the front end and turning it around by hand.

Well, hard to believe this was a flop.

It's the thing you do most with selected text and it removes the need to use a keyboard shortcut.

Selecting text with no purpose and being worried that it's a security hole is like saying "I leave my car on the street with the keys in it therefore nobody should have keys".

You forgot to shoehorn Copilot in there. They renamed Office to something like that, not even kidding.

Register with one provider and DNS with another. You can always use one to regain the other.

How would you search email on an E2EE server without pulling them local?

10X. 100X. I have very, very little time for programming anymore, but I have a lot of ideas for things I never had time to make.

In the last 6 months I've built (with the $20/mo plan from Cursor):

- shared tasks app that tracks fleet maintenance on my farm, with a personal tasks view. We can now search part numbers by equipment or refer back to previous work to look up invoices, as well as actually get jobs lined up for when we have help so they aren't sitting there staring at the walls because nobody has a list of what to do next.

- LoRa telemetry mesh for soil moisture sensors, gate motion sensors, waterbowl temperature and level sensors. This would have taken me months to build and debug, Cursor had it done in minutes, I prototyped and then punched up some boards on kicad and ordered them from JLCPCB. Took a couple days to debug them into a workable state and was in place for winter.

- Fertilizer planning application for figuring out our fertilizer buy while prices are low, based on:

- Soil sampler truck application for Android tablet, that interfaces a sub-3m Garmin GPS connected via bluetooth and tracks all the sample site for the sample truck as samples are punched, so we can go back to the same spot every year and determine soil regeneration results.

- Android application to track and calculate loads for silage feeding of cattle, since as you feed you'll want to rebalance the grain ration as you refill, and you'll often have silage at X %age left on, this app lets you enter the mix you want and calculates how much of each to add in order to rebalance the leftovers on the truck to the new ration. I actually did this one on my laptop while I was feeding cattle over a week.

- An alert app to watch MQTT and set phone alarms off if an alert pops up for telemetry problems or intrusion alerts on above LoRa mesh.

Currently working on a system that lets me run multiple Cursor sessions on a workstation and interact with the chats remotely over my phone so I can work on projects while I'm running equipment or doing chores.

A lot of people hate AI, and for a lot of things I totally get it. Frankly, the ethics of AI and the horrible uses people are finding for it scares the hell out of me. But I would never have found time to do any one of these items before AI. I used to run software projects when I was an IT nerd, so I know how program well enough to be dangerous. I'm enjoying having a team back.

Probably had Claude write their authentication backend.

Primarykey:email_address

So I can't see bothering with this when I pumped 260M tokens through running in Auto mode on a $20/mo Cursor plan. It was my first month of a paid subscription, if that means anything. Maybe someone can explain how this works for them?

Frankly, I don't understand it at all, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Listen for 2 hours to how the customer thinks it should be done, then do it the way that actually gets the result they asked for.

Buffet is stepping down at the end of the year.

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025.pdf

My problem with Gemini is how token hungry it is. It does a good job but it ends up being more expensive than any other model because it's so yappy. It sits there and argues with itself and outputs the whole movie.

Try Activities and set a shortcut to Meta-Tab to switch between activities. I love it so much for running several projects at once and keeping all my browser/terminal/IDE/SSH together and out of each others way. You can also use Meta-Q to bring up a list.

Also, Meta-T for snapping windows into tiles with Shift-Drag multiplies that organization.

The sheer productivity gains of using Plasma makes Windows look pathetic.

https://valetudo.cloud is the only one I know about but not sure if the controller in those units would be flashable.

I had to do exactly this with Oracle. They couldn't fix my account to be able to change my billing, but I still had access to my resources. But I couldn't change anything and I figured it was just a sign that breaking my rule of never dealing with Oracle was a bad idea so I shut it down. Then had to cancel the card to get the billing stopped because multiple long calls and chats with CS couldn't get that fixed.

That's a nice little island you have there; it would be a shame if we let the gang next door have their way with it. Now why don't you make nice with our close business associates and give them a good deal, eh?

Mama mia, cabrone.

Let's see the claude.md file.

>Them not having interest in global domination and regime change

I don't even know where to begin with that one.

Did you just propose Virtualbox as a replacement for ESX?

I use QGIS to make NDVI maps for my farm from the Sentinel satellite data. Combined with yield maps from harvest, I can come up with soil sampling sites and create a variable rate fertilizing plan. I then plug that into AgOpenGPS for the fertilizer spreader.

Stallman approved.

"move back and forth" I think is what they were going for, but proofreading isn't a thing anymore.

Haha, my uncle lived to 94 smoking like it was a cure for cancer, and I've seen a picture of him filling a sprayer with 2,4D with no PPE and a smoke hanging out of his mouth.

>then they just throw 50% in file 13

I can't hire those people, they're unlucky

I listened to an episode of Open Source Security Podcast and they talked about making EOL of opensource dependencies a CVE type. I think it bears thought.

And then he went to work for DOGE.