JustEnoughDucks

One project I am doing at work (engineering and administrative departments run on spreadsheets) not being a programmer at all is automating technical sales generation. We make custom things but we have a few products that have a bunch of standard things to configure.

Using VBA to do a few small calculations (it sucks at large data which is why python in excel is amazing) and taking in a bunch of configuration fields to output a price, then generating a word document from a template with the quote including the relevant configuration details.

Sadly the apple watch sensor + algorithm is the singular best PPG optical heart rate tracker on the market.

Not enough to put myself in danger of the Israeli Pegasus sending me one text to inject spyware but still…

That is not true, the winner (in many if not most, certainly the red states) states give all of the EC votes to the winner that won by 1 vote. Completely throwing off any claim of any representation in those states. People’s votes literally don’t count there

And an electronics guy’s smart home if there is no wireless at all and all KNX and Ethernet wired lol.

Thank kindle unlimited exclusivity bullshit for that…

I mean, they did invade Tibet with ground forces and eventually bomb the shit out of them, kidnapped tons of children and killed their parents. Between 10k in the first three days (the tiny tiny tibet army was very overwhelmed) and their government estimates 1.2million tibetens were killed then and during the 220k Chinese soldier occupation, but the actual number is likely more around 87k to 150k, with the remaining number being imprisoned in slave labor camps and the children kidnapped to grow up as “real Chinese” children. Like the indeginous schools in the US and Canada. Things got so bad that according to the PRC’s own reports, over 70% of rural PRC members defected and fought for the rebels. Skeletons clogged the Yellow River one year apparently. But as typical with all imperialism whether western or eastern, the winners try to explain the deaths away as famine when the soldiers steal all of the crops and shoot out the legs of the people, but they “technically” die of starvation or disease.

Then they came and cut all of their old growth lumber (maybe the real end goal?) with massive deforestation and resource harvesting.

But it is no question that China’s current imperialism is economic for 90% of it. It is also by far the lesser of the evils and much much less violent and physically harmful nowadays after 1970 or so.

This is a bit vindicating lol. Every single social media post on the internet even here on Lemmy when something comes out about scalping people for more of their data there is a top comment saying: “do this and this to opt out” as a solution and it gets high visibility.

I usually say “yeah, there is a high chance that does nothing” and there are always people who say that is not true, without exception… Well, here is more proof.

I wonder if it was even able to compile. I am a shitty hobby coder who just does it to make my embedded hardware projects function.

I have yet to get compilable code out of any of the AI bots I have tried. Gemini, mistral, and chatGPT. I am not making an account lol.

I have gotten some compilable python and VBA code for data analysis stuff at work, so I wonder if it is because embedded stuff uses specific SDKs that it can’t handle.

Either way I have given up on it for anything besides bouncing ideas off of or debugging where electromagnetics issues could lie (though it has been completely wrong about that also even though it is using the wrong concepts, it just reminds me of concepts that I might have overlooked)

VW ID7 was advertised as the new Passat stationwagen.

It ended up just being a standard sedan with more tacky LEDs on the outside starting at like € 70k

KiCAD for 10 years now. Leaps and bounds better than then!

Steam 15 years or so

VLC since windows XP

Firefox since then also

Arduino for quick things for 12 years about

Discord since 2016 (and now looking to change)

Glad I bought 305M of S/UTP Cat6a 8 months ago for our renovation

It also has the bonus that is one file has an issue, it doesn’t lock up and crash every single other open document in different instances across excel, word, powerpoint, everything lol

London population: 8.8 million

Twin cities combined population: 3.6 million

London public transport: pretty damn good, connections everywhere, not an insane price

Twin cities public transport: almost non-existant, insane parking prices

London police: sometimes reasonable and lightly armed

Twin cities police: notoriously corrupt, heavily armed, use constant excessive force on civilians

Mystery solved.

Easy, just let more convicted pedophile child rapists walk free after serving less than half of their already tiny sentence! Then put them in the Olympics representing your country! Just because he drugged her and “only hurt her a little” instead of holding her down.

/s context