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patrickdavey

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patrickdavey··on Organizing OpenStreetMap mapping parties
Funny, I find OSM most useful for all the little walking paths people plot... Way better than Google maps. No car based system will ever be good there.
patrickdavey··on Geoengineering test launched in Alameda
Termination shock here we come...
patrickdavey··on Geoengineering test launched in Alameda
According to this link [1] I saw yesterday, the UAE is seeding clouds to cause rainfall too....

I'm not sure where this ends, but, once you start taking water which might fall someplace else it seems it might end badly....

1. https://mastodon.solar/@dave/112233242269447817

patrickdavey··on Focus by Automation
What tools/methods have you found that help with aphantasia?
patrickdavey··on Postgres is eating the database world
I have a handful of sites I run on a VPS with a basic setup, including MySQL.

One thing I've always liked about MySQL is that it pretty much looks after itself, whereas with Postgres I've had issues before doing upgrades (this was with brew though) and I'm not clear on whether it looks after itself for vacuuming etc.

Should I just give it a go the next time I'm upgrading? It does seem like a tool I need to get familiar with.

patrickdavey··on Money bubble
Can you explain what you mean by rebalancing in the context of index funds?
patrickdavey··on Paris Vote Targets SUV Drivers with Parking Fees Set to Triple
Finally got around to getting a Benno boost last month... Dropping the kid off at school has never been more fun!

Love the cargo bike

patrickdavey··on New evidence that polar bears survived 1,600 years of ice-free Holocene summers
Not all life though right? Usually accompanied by extinction events. Worth remembering that too.
patrickdavey··on Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV
I'm running a pihole at home.. but, I definitely still see YouTube ads. I don't see how it's possible with a pihole to block YT as the adds are served from the same domain. I guess you're only referring to the Amazon ads?
patrickdavey··on Book of Kells (2018)
I went to college in Trinity and the Book of Kells is housed in the old library.

Once you've finished seeing the book, you head upstairs through the Long Room, and that place is just special (they used it as the hall of the jedi)

As a student there you could visit for free. I used to just go up and hang in the library for 10 mins or so a few times a year. Loved it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Trinity_College_D...

patrickdavey··on CSS Is Fun Again
What resources have you been using to relearn?
patrickdavey··on Lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup
If you are going to try it... I'd discussed it with my two wonderful co-organisers before we put it to the group... and, we really would have shut it down. I think if you just half threaten, well, might not work so well :)

We used a doodle.com poll with a set of months and just let people say which one(s) they could do.

Best of luck!

patrickdavey··on Lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup
I've been running my local ruby meetup for about 6 years now. It was pretty stressful to begin with, trying to get people to give presentations, or thinking of one myself.

Then maybe 4 years ago I had the idea of threatening to shut the meetup down unless we managed to get 11 people to sign up to do a presentation once a year. This basically meant we had an entire year's worth of talks sorted by January.

We've been doing this every year now for the last 4 years, and it's working really well. It's not _my_ ruby meetup, it's the community meetup, I'm just helping facilitate it :)

patrickdavey··on Ask HN: Brother printers sending ink data to Amazon?
I keep seeing this suggestion (put devices on a subnet, lock them out of everything else)...

Do you have a link or guide to help me understand how to set this up. It seems like a great idea!

patrickdavey··on "You have a 27% 'AI' issue in here"
Damn right! I got awesome grades, no idea how anything worked(s) though!

There were definitely people in my uni course who got worse grades, but who had a better understanding of the material.

patrickdavey··on Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers
Have you looked at "Zen mode"? It removes the chat while you're playing ... you'll still see any insults after the game though ;)
patrickdavey··on Australia to give cats a curfew because they are murdering so many other animals
I'm curious how you did this?
patrickdavey··on Poverty is linked to poorer brain development but reading can help counteract it
I'm actually sorry to see this down voted.

I have a daughter, and it is just crazy once you start reading books how much is needlessly male focussed.

From the first farmyard books where the boy is driving the tractor and the girl is in the cart on the back. To fantastic Mr fox and his four small foxes (all male) etc etc. It's just extremely unbalanced.

In our community, there's every reason not to use a male default everywhere. It would not have changed the original commenters meaning at all to have said "they" instead of "him" and would have been more inclusive. Surely that's a good default?

patrickdavey··on Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
We had a delayed flight (24 hours) from Frankfurt to Christchurch, New Zealand. As the compensation is a sliding scale of time and distance we were the maximum.

It did take about 4 months to get the money, but, Singapore air were very good (well, they didn't deny anything at least).

Hurrah for European legislation, and hurrah for Frankfurt airport not letting take offs after 11pm so that even if they could have fixed the fault in time it would have been too late :)

patrickdavey··on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
Just make YouTube lite available everywhere...
patrickdavey··on Eventually everything will evaporate, not only black holes
I thought that was coming down from the trees? And didn't some people think even the trees were a mistake?
patrickdavey··on Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders Will Migrate to Google Tasks Soon
How about a task you could pin to the top of your gmail. Maybe call it "Inbox". That'd be super handy rather than having to go to a different app to manage your tasks.
patrickdavey··on Vim Keybindings Everywhere – The Ultimate List
Please do!
patrickdavey··on Bean leaves don’t let the bedbugs bite by using tiny, impaling spikes (2013)
Hah! Very good. Yes, just starting to work on the CBT. I'm definitely a work in progress :)
patrickdavey··on Bean leaves don’t let the bedbugs bite by using tiny, impaling spikes (2013)
I'm somewhat anxious at times, and definitely one of the things I'm paranoid about is getting bedbugs (hasn't happened yet!)

One day our daughter had some small bites on her arms, and then we found small creatures in her bed... my brain went straight to "*k we have bedbugs, burn the house down and start again, but fortunately* my friend is an entomologist and his partner was visiting and she took one back for him to look at.

The answer came back that it was a definitely a carpet beetle and not to worry (simpler to get rid of, which we did).

I recommend having a friend who's an entomologist. Definite life hack ;)

patrickdavey··on An Open-Source Espresso
The rancilio looks great. A different comment said it takes 4 minutes to switch from brewing to steaming? Is that correct? I quite like a flat white in the morning and 4 mins is quite a while ;)
patrickdavey··on Greenland ice sheet is close to a melting point of no return
For your personal life mainly. I guess I'm most curious about whether you're planning on where you're living etc in the context of various forms of climate breakdown.

I'm also curious how many personal changes you've made (flying less, vegetarian) when it seems like we need massive government intervention to move the needle.

Thanks for replying!

patrickdavey··on Greenland ice sheet is close to a melting point of no return
So, what's your plan?
patrickdavey··on “I would like to apologize to Halli”
I'm genuinely curious: why would this be flagged?
patrickdavey··on Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery
I found this hard to read. I have struggled with poor sleep for years (like, 10 years probably). It's not _that bad_, but, memory isn't great and definitely don't feel rested in the mornings. But I'm still reasonably functional, can hold down a job etc.

A while back I got tested for sleep apnea, had a 6 or a 7 on the scale (mild). I tried the CPAP machine for 6 weeks (inside the time I could return it). My number went down to 1 or something, but, I didn't feel any different, so I gave it up (this was about a year ago, maybe a bit longer).

I decided to try get to the bottom of my tiredness again and was recently at my doctors. He said it would take 3 to 6 months of using the CPAP machine before you'd know whether it would make a difference! I'm trying some other things first (giving up alcohol for 6 months as of yesterday!), taking nasal sprays and a device to stop me snoring.. Really hope something works out as it's just so annoying!

I'm very jealous in a way that the author found out the root cause of their issue. Well done keeping at it! For anyone who has successfully used CPAP, did it really take 3-6 months before you found it made a difference?

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