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I remember seeing something similar on Masters of the Air, where the Resistance would question downed airmen :

https://youtube.com/shorts/EJmmq0yc08U?si=dnFXr0IgJh18pmp-

I agree… I add a capful of something like this if I think the wash needs it :

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/312705939

And is then finished in a trouser press…

you'll just pee out the extra Vit D.

It’s fat soluble, rather than water soluble

One interesting thing to note is that many people use more force than necessary with their fretting hand. This was certainly true of me. Some hold the guitar neck with some sort of death-grip.

One useful exercise is to fret a note as you normally do, and play it. Then keep picking or plucking that note with gradually less pressure applied by your fretting fingers. At some point, the note will choke and not sound out any more. Then, a little more pressure can be applied to make it sound out again. That minimal level of force is going to be the ideal amount for stamina and to prevent injury. There’s nothing to be gained by pressing harder, in fact you can bend notes slightly sharp by pressing really hard. In many forms of instrument practice, hand tension is often the enemy (especially for faster soloing).

The faucet seems a bit drastic. I got a 1L (about 32oz?) spray bottle of Isopropyl alcohol, and use a small spray amount onto a microfiber cloth to clean iPhone and iPad screens. It’s really cheap and seems to last a long time, as only a small amount is needed.

It will degrade the oleophobic coating of the screens quicker, but I figured that would wear off over time anyway. So far it’s been really effective at wiping off all greasy fingermarks in seconds. I like the window/glass type microfiber cloth for this.

When I started using systemd timers, I really liked the systemd-analyze calendar facility, to calculate n trigger times for a given calendar expression.

For example, show the next five trigger times for the end of the last day when the month has 31 days :

systemd-analyze calendar --iterations=5 '*-*-31 23:59:59'

Yes, I think so. Often it doesn’t take much more than a glance for simpler edits.

I think you’re absolutely right and I’ve come to the same conclusion and workflow.

I work on one file at a time in Ask mode, not Composer/Agent. Review every change, and insist on revisions for anything that seems off. Stay in control of the process, and write manually whenever it would be quicker. I won’t accept code I don’t understand, so when exploring new domains I’ll go back with as many questions as necessary to get into the details.

I think Cursor started off this way as a productivity tool for developers, but a lot of Composer/Agent features were added along the way as it became very popular with Vibe Coders. There are inherent risks with non-coders copypasting a load of code they don’t understand, so I see this use case as okay for disposable software, or perhaps UI concept prototypes. But for things that matter and need to be maintained, I think your approach is spot on.

I have been adding .env files to .cursorignore so far.

I can see from that thread that the approach hasn’t been perfect, but it seems that the last two releases have tried to address that :

“0.46.x : .cursorignore now blocks files from being added in chat or sent up for tab completions, in addition to ignoring them from indexing.”

A button with a dice icon.

I should do a lot more with Alfred, but apart from using it as a launcher my most used feature is the clipboard search. After invoking it by typing 'clip' into the box, I get an incremental search on all clipboard contents it has tracked, and can re-copy any of those items to the current clipboard by pressing enter. Very useful and efficient when it's part of your workflow.

I use Forklift instead : https://binarynights.com/

I can use it as an orthodox file manager (with the f keys I remember from Norton Commander). I also like using it to access remote filesystems over nfs and sftp, and also S3 buckets. It also works well with Dropbox and iCloud. There is a great sync feature to keep source and target directories synchronised. It's also good for diffing directories at a glance. It's good at managing archive files too. Plus the regex file rename feature is often handy for me - I have a few presets saved for various purposes. It's also my go-to MacOS uninstaller, as it gathers the related files.

I've been using Jetbrains IDEs for quite some time. I currently use IntelliJ and Cursor together. Cursor is everything I hoped Jetbains AI would be. The TypeScript support in VSCode and derivatives (like Cursor) is great, unlike Jetbrains. As I already have a license, I switch to IntelliJ for the fantastic Git and DB plugins, as well as the great refactoring and find/replace features. Local History and diffing in Jetbrains is also far superior, so sometimes I use history labels as snapshots in between significant changes from Cursor.

If you're transitioning from ChatGPT pastes to an IDE integration, I would recommend a trial of Cursor. They have acquired SuperMaven, and the autocomplete feature is mostly appropriate and useful. I think the chat-diff-review-apply workflow really tightens and accelerates the feedback loop, as well as the ability to submit an error from the terminal to the chat session with a single click. People say good things about the Compose and Agent features, but I haven't so far been drawn to them to explore.

Possibly, depending on the listener.

But why would I bother recompressing when the various media players in the house can deal with the FLAC files just fine? On a typical home wifi network, a track probably transfers in about a second.

I think the ZeroTier free tier is much more generous. I also like the client app, which lets you be connected to more than one network without switching. The API is also nice... I've hooked it up to an Ansible play, and it works well.

Nice to see 1-2-1-2 listed, the PIN of soundcheck guys everywhere.

I think the .cursorrules and .cursorignore files might be useful here.

Especially the .cursorrules file, as you can include a brief overview of the project and ground rules for suggestions, which are applied to your chat sessions and Cmd/Ctrl K inline edits.

Turbocharge? I can’t access Sora in the UK with my OpenAI subscription.

I quite like the Sony Bravia UI. I did intend to just use a connected Raspberry Pi 4B running LibreElec to play my own content, but I ended up using the Kodi app from the Google Play store, which was superior at the time (h264 and h265 hardware decoding, plus working HDR. The Pi4 firmware was lagging behind). I have used my Pihole for DNS to stop calls to tracking services like Samba. A fairly recent firmware update meant I could attach a cheap gigabit Ethernet adapter to the USB3.0 port, so happy camper here.

I agree with you.

I’ve been using Cursor for a month or two, as it’s a great speedup and a big step forward in DX. I’ve also been periodically browsing r/cursor, to see if I can pick up any workflow tips. I can see a clear distinction between fellow devs using it as a powerful coding tool (as intended), and the no-code folks trying to use it as an application generator.

A few of the latter have some success and showcase the things they’ve built, but the majority who post on the subreddit vent similar frustrations :

- Trying to build an app one tab press at a time without understanding the code, so unable to fix inevitable problems when chat is unable to.

- Relying heavily on the Composer or Agent features, which sometimes merrily erases chunks of code or entire files. Unable to recover work because unaware of Local History or VCS.

- Running out of fast response credits because 500 are bundled per month. The ideal workflow is to give harder things to Claude or O1, and delegate easier things to gpt4o-mini (which is unmetered). But that only helps if you know which tasks are harder or easier.

Yup, can confirm - for me, at least.

At one stage, I started walking home from work at my fastest pace. 5 miles, 5 days a week. No other lifestyle changes. No significant weight loss.

A few years later, I started tracking calories with myfitnesspal and keeping to a limit (1600 initially, 1400 when it became easier). No exercise, but steady and impressive weight loss. I seem to have kept most of it off. I think a lot of it becomes psychological - not being afraid to feel appetite or skip meals if already satiated from earlier.

That would be fantastic...

I keep them both open on the same project, as there are some things IntelliJ does superbly.

I evaluated Jetbrains AI and Copilot with VSCode, but they just didn't impress me. I tried Cursor, and subscribed a couple of days into the trial. The workflow is just right.

I don't think so. I upgraded my Fitbit to a Fitbit 5 when I started getting arrhythmias a few years back. I used the ECG capture whenever I felt something was wrong. As the irregular beats graduated into episodes of what the medics identitied as SVT (due to a worsening thyroid, as as it transpired at a later point), I captured each trace. I brought the printout of the PDF to the GP, who ordered some blood tests and referred me to cardiology. The cardiologist wanted me to email the PDF traces too as a starting point. Nobody treated it as a gimmick; in the early stages it was the difference between data and no data, because the episodes had been unpredictable.

And doesn't work on Intel Macs. :-/

I went for one of the cheaper Thunderbolt 3 docks (Orico), and no problems so far. It handles my Ethernet and HD webcam connections amongst other things. Intel Macbook.

I take BP readings for someone who gets anxious about them too. The system we've arrived at is that I play music that relaxes them during the readings. They don't look at the numbers. The first one will be high, so I usually ignore it. I take several readings, look for a couple of consistent ones, then discard any outliers.

That's true, but I think music genres can be very tribal.

At some point it just descends into fashion.

I remember a quote I read that said there are really only two genres; things you like, and things you don't.

Again, my point was that even though we only have one direct representative, the governing party as a whole will be punished in the next election if they become deeply unpopular. If your rulemakers are immune to voter displeasure, it isn't a healthy democracy. You said "if you dislike them, you pressure your elected representative to change that". If as an EU citizen you are angry with the performance and direction of Ursula and the Commission, there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.

In the UK, politicians will often U-turn if they sense that a policy will make them unpopular and make the next election harder to fight. Governments can and do get punished on polling day every five years. Sunak paid for his unpopularity and the record of his government. Could any EU voters do anything about Ursula getting a second term? (and once again she was the only name on the ballot and then only just scraped through). The EU commission is not concerned with democratic accountability. Power is concentrated in the Commission and Council. There's a very weak link back to the electorate, but it's homeopathic democracy.