snowe
@snowe@programming.dev
I'm a staff software engineer at Sunrun, the USA's largest residential solar installer.
I mostly work with kotlin, but also java, python, ruby, javascript, typescript. My hobby is picking up new hobbies. Currently bird photography and camping.
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 8 months ago:
still, people are clearly confused by the button. I’m just gonna make it an animation and prefers-color-scheme since that’s so widely supported now.
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 8 months ago:
I’ve wondered what this problem was for years but never cared to figure it out, because it always resolved after the first button press (just refresh the page and it all works properly). turns out it is something wrong with my use of local storage to save your theme state. if you don’t have the key in local storage then it does what you mentioned. I just need to switch this to prefers-color-scheme anyway.
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 8 months ago:
that post is about toggle buttons, not switches. e.g. a play pause button, when pressed, does it show play, or does it show pause?
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 8 months ago:
It shouldn’t be like that. on my computer it shows the sun when it’s in light mode, moon in dark mode. Image
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 8 months ago:
Hm. what browser are you on? It is showing sun for me on light mode. Image
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 8 months ago:
I’ve been saying this for years. My site only has a few lines of javascript. the rest is pure html and css, and it’s very simple. tylerthrailkill.com
- Comment on Everything about TOML format - Orchard Dweller 9 months ago:
Because no one ever uses those. Literally
>and|are the only ones I’ve ever seen in over a decade and you will never need to worry about the differences between the two.XML as a configuration language is terrible. Yaml gets the point across in an easily readable way, which is exactly the point. Same for JSON except JSON you can’t even use comments (you need json5 or one of the numerous other alternatives to get those).
- Comment on Reddit might be forced to hand out IPs of users frequenting piracy subreddits: how does programming.dev compare? 9 months ago:
Thank you for the good post. And at this point, most of the work is being done by Ategon and the other admins. I am mostly here for infrastructure support and general direction of the instance.
- Comment on Reddit might be forced to hand out IPs of users frequenting piracy subreddits: how does programming.dev compare? 9 months ago:
I’m not in the business of collecting user data and don’t really want to be. In regards to logs, we restart our containers every 6 hours and the logs are wiped at that time, so the furthest back logs I can actually find in our system are from an hour ago.
And nah, I wouldn’t give in. There’s no real reason to request that information, as accessing a url means absolutely nothing. I did so just now to verify things and the same could be argued by any real user (oh, I clicked on the link and didn’t know what it was going to). I very much doubt the past 6 hours of logs would be useful anyway, as by the time I got the request the logs wouldn’t matter anymore.
But, I’m still going to see if I can turn off logging for requests. I do not think we need them at all, and if we do, we can simply turn it on for a few minutes to get the info we need. But on this note, since this is all federated, your requests might show up in logs to other instances. Thus the weakness of the fediverse shows itself again. Any company can simply go to a different instance and try to request the same data. And we can’t stop that.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 10 months ago:
Regenerative braking only can recapture something like 2-5% of lost energy. The bigger factor is exactly what the other person said.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
thanks for the picture. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. Just to check, I went over and looked at my wife’s work laptop and it’s not on that keyboard, but it is on her external keyboard, but not as a separate key, it’s part of the print screen button! Image
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
I’ve never even heard of this key that you are talking about, yet it’s mentioned several times in this thread.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
You can buy adapters for literally any battery to any other battery type. They’re all over Etsy and Amazon. Torque test channel even does a test to see how much performance you lose from them, along with building a monster battery pack that uses all the brands batteries at the same time.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Torque test channel is pretty much completely power tool specific and goes a lot more in depth on them. PF for breadth, TTC for depth.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
A bunch of much better ones on Etsy too
- Comment on You can only pick one 10 months ago:
Inflation would stop that eventually.
- Comment on Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents 10 months ago:
Maybe those binders are correct for you in your EV but not for me with my ICE.
I’ve never needed 15 minutes to get gas. As long as there’s an open pump, if all I’m doing is gassing up, it’s 5 minutes, if that.
on road trips that’s all your doing? You’re not going in for a bathroom break and to buy snacks? Somehow I highly doubt that and even if you are you are in the minority. There’s a reason they’re called rest stops out on long stretches of roads, they’re not just for gas.
But if I need a new car in the next 5 years, I’m not even considering one, and most of the reasons for that are reasons that proponents are acknowledging, even as they’re trying to be patronizing and condescending and shaming anyone who points out valid drawbacks.
you haven’t pointed out any drawbacks, you’ve just spread a bunch of incorrect FUD.
It’s not like people are saying EVs are bad, just that the reality of the situation right now is that, for many, deciding to switch over to one from an ICE will mean, in some ways, changing the ways they live around the limitations and necessities that come with the EV, and that for many, these changes tip the scales away from the EV.
This is also incorrect, unless you are towing things. Like I said before. This is just a bunch of FUD.
- Comment on Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents 10 months ago:
I’m very interested in why an ev wouldn’t work for your work travel schedule.
- Comment on Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents 10 months ago:
Modern EVs charge in less than 15 minutes so… it’s really not longer than a gas stop, at least not in any situation I’ve been in and I own two gas vehicles and an ev. Like I literally get 200+ miles of range in 15 minutes. Your numbers are just way way way off.
And what in the world are you talking about. 1000 to rent a car two times a year? Where the fuck are you renting from?
I’m sorry but you’re just really really really misinformed here. There are plenty of aaa charging services if you get stuck, but you’re not gonna get stuck cuz EVs are good about letting you know if you’re gonna be in trouble.
I don’t really want to spend the time to refute every point in your post, just seriously, go try renting a modem ev (non-American, American EVs are terrible)
- Comment on Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents 10 months ago:
The estimates I saw for battery life were talking about replacement time, not just ranging to a minimal capacity. Even discussions I’ve read on reddit have basically had most people stating that if you buy a used EV the batteries would likely need replaced. I don’t have anything to go on for realistic expectations except the statements from people who have owned an EV.
That’s because people are obsessed with long ranges. You don’t need long range. EVs last plenty fine, even with reduced distance. Undecided with Matt Ferrell has covered this a lot.
I’ve been using full synthetic in my SUV, it’s good for 20k miles or more so I replace it every couple years at a cost of around $60. So around $450 so far? I changed oil in my old car a little less frequently with plain dino oil, so that was maybe $400 through a lifetime of around 300k miles.
You’re damaging your car. You should be changing your oil at minimum every 6k miles. 20k is ridiculous. 6k is the number for full synthetic, 3-4k is for non synthetic. Project farm covers this and does a ton of tests to show you why.
And sure, there are minor costs like replacing the spark plugs every decade, I spent $80 on a new power steering pump for the SUV and I need to pick up a new coolant thermostat soon. I don’t remember if I replaced the belt on my truck or my wife’s car, and they get new batteries every 5+ years as needed. Oh and I had to replace the transmission on the old car, that cost all of $250 to pick up from a junk yard. So yeah, there’s a few other things I didn’t add in. Now what kind of maintenance has to be done on an EV, and what kind of prices are you looking at for replacement parts?
$0 dollars. Windshield washer fluid is all I’ve had to touch. On our towing truck I had to replace a gas line from gas destroying the line. Gas vehicles are soooo much more expensive in every single way. There’s a ton of studies on this dude.
- Comment on I swear... if any of you try to ruin this meme for me... 10 months ago:
Doesn’t mean you listened to them, or knew their song names, or liked them even one tiny bit.
- Comment on Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents 10 months ago:
You’re not going to get any ev that’s good at towing, so get that off your list right now. In regards to used EVs for 6k, they’re all over the place. Just look for Nissan leafs or Priuses.
most estimates put battery lifetime between 8-15 years
That’s until it’s at like 85-95% capacity. Ev batteries will last for decades no problem. And if you had that little maintenance on your car then you’re just not taking care of it. Oil literally would cost over a thousand dollars just by itself, so if you’re not replacing the oil you’re irreparably damaging your vehicle. (12k miles a year, replace minimum every 6k miles unless you’ve done an oil test and have a custom timeline, $30-50 each time, so $100 a year minimum on just one thing).
I’m sorry but your numbers just outright do not add up at all. You clearly either abused your car and actually didn’t maintain it, or you maintained it and have no clue the true cost.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
Kagi. DDG and Google are trash in comparison
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
lol yeah I listened to over 150 new genres and thousands of artists this past year (according to Spotify wrapped), buying all those albums would be thousands of dollars if not tens of thousands.
- Comment on Apple wins bid to pause Apple Watch ban at US appeals court 10 months ago:
Only non-Apple stores can continue selling, to get rid of back stock
- Comment on Japan prepares regulation requiring Apple to allow sideloading 10 months ago:
Cuz it makes no sense. You wouldn’t complain that the iPhone doesn’t work as a skateboard because they don’t want you using it as a skateboard. It doesn’t work as a skateboard because it’s not a skateboard. All companies design products to be used the way the company wants you to use them. If op is talking about it being super locked down, that’s also incorrect. I can disable plenty of the security features on Mac and it continues to work just fine, compared to windows where if you disable UAC you literally cannot use your computer the same way and it will bug you constantly. It’s just a trope that isn’t really true at all.
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
… nobody reports cp to cf. cf has a literal csam scanner that pretty much ever fediverse site is using. I own programming.dev. It’s in use there. You clearly have no clue what you’re talking about. Have a nice day, I’m really not in the mood to talk with you anymore.
- Comment on It's like a game where you can't make mistakes 10 months ago:
Can’t tell if you’re joking…literally the entire run is a trick. Let’s see you make a single one of those jumps.
- Comment on It's like a game where you can't make mistakes 10 months ago:
Transitional tech.
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
Also cf is about the only way to make federation affordable and safe. If we didn’t use cf on programming.dev, the server charges per month would bankrupt me. I’m not getting nearly enough donations to cover the bandwidth costs for every single call, cf covers like 70% of the bandwidth for free just due to caching. And cf also allows you to block and report child porn, thus taking another burden off server administrators.
People that think you shouldn’t use cf just do not understand what it takes to run an instance.
