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pridkett commented on A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003   web.ai/... · Posted by u/kjok
donq1xote1 · 2 months ago
I just wanna say this is a such dope domain lol. How much does it cost?
pridkett · 2 months ago
During the old days lots of things were easier to get.

Semi related to this - Ian Goldberg famously had the email address n@ai (Ian backwards if you missed it) - which caused problems for many mail clients and validators. I’d imagine cypherpunks.ca is easier to use. I saw similar things with one of the Balkans in 1998 - I think it was Croatia, where some government officials had name@hr email addresses.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2002-January/...

pridkett commented on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade   emily.space/posts/251023-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
mk89 · 2 months ago
Not sure how uv helps here, because I am not very familiar with it.

With pip you update a dependency, it won't work if it's not compatible, it'll work if they are. Not sure where the issue is?

pridkett · 2 months ago
Simple for simple cases - but you update a dependency and that updates a dependency that has a window range of dependencies because one version had a security issue which causes you to downgrade three other packages.

It can get complicated. The resolver in uv is part of its magic.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/internals/resolver/

pridkett commented on Nine things I learned in ninety years   edwardpackard.com/wp-cont... · Posted by u/coderintherye
Kurtz79 · 3 months ago
Since he might not be known to most (especially a younger audience), the author is a writer best known for many of the Choose Your Own Adventure books that were hugely successful in the 80s.

Jimmy Maher wrote about them recently https://www.filfre.net/2025/09/choose-your-own-adventure/

pridkett · 3 months ago
I was pleased that at my local toy store (yes, we still have one, The Time Machine in Manchester, CT) they carry Choose Your Own Adventure books. What’s more, last week we picked up a copy of “The Cave of Time”. So many memories of that book growing up.
pridkett commented on FidoNet Global HyperText Interface   github.com/Mithgol/FGHI-U... · Posted by u/xk3
b112 · 4 months ago
It seems like a weird name to take. Fidonet, starting in the 80s until even now, far predates this.

https://www.fidonet.org/

While it sounds similar, I don't see the link.

pridkett · 4 months ago
All the authors up front have fidonet node numbers associated with them.
pridkett commented on AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API   developer.accuweather.com... · Posted by u/TerribleTurnout
asteroidburger · 5 months ago
Many people have no problem setting up a station and giving away the data for free.

https://map.purpleair.com/

This is primarily for air quality by default, but you can get temperature, humidity, etc as well. For each station, someone paid for the hardware and is sharing the data gratis.

pridkett · 5 months ago
You’ve just described Ambient Weather. What I find kinda funny about that is they still try to upsell you to get more than 1 year of data retention.

Luckily, they allow you to configure additional arbitrary locations to pump data to. I wrote a little program to drop that data into an InfluxDB database (along with PurpleAir, AirGradient, AirThings, Solar Data, and Iotawatt). The only practical use I’ve found is to look and see “When was the last time we head three days in a row that were so windy?” I suppose I could do fun stuff with Home Assistant too.

pridkett commented on Walmart plans EV Charging network which will blanket the US within a few years   evchargingstations.com/ch... · Posted by u/tzs
autoexec · 8 months ago
If they force you to use an app it'll make their charging stations useless for me and anyone else who refuses.
pridkett · 8 months ago
The State of Charge YouTube video that covered the announcement and visited a site in McKinney, TX indicated it did need the Walmart app[0].

Sigh. Plug and pay charging is so much better. It’s not like this is a Tesla only feature. Ford has thousands of chargers beyond SuperChargers that just work for plug and pay.

[0]: https://youtu.be/_UIVp8Upvj8?si=eX9EMWKi6sho4DnT

pridkett commented on U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent   washingtonpost.com/health... · Posted by u/perihelions
dns_snek · 8 months ago
> Not that much.

Very much so. What we now call Autism Spectrum Disorder was referred to as "childhood schizophrenia" in the DSM-2 [1], things only started moving in the right direction with the DSM-3 [2] when it was finally sort-of recognized as an independent disorder of "infantile autism", but some core elements of ASD like sensory processing differences were only recognized in the DSM-5.

There's a good overview at [3]. It's good that criteria are different today, the criteria from decades ago failed to include majority of ways that autism expresses itself, many of which benefit from support and accommodations even though they're not obviously debilitating.

[1] https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DSM-...

[2] https://aditpsiquiatriaypsicologia.es/images/CLASIFICACION%2...

[3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8531066/

pridkett · 8 months ago
And let’s not forget that until the DSM-V, a child could not be diagnosed with both autism and ADHD (see section E at the bottom of this table [0] showing changes from the DSM-IV to DSM-V):

> The symptoms do not occur exclusively during the course of a pervasive developmental disorder, schizophrenia, or other psychotic disorders and is not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., mood disorder, anxiety disorder, dissociative disorder, or a personality disorder).

The DSM-V states that they can exist together. In fact something like 28-44% of people with Autism exhibit some form of ADHD. [1]

It just goes to show that we’re still evolving in how we understand things. And then we can get into things like twice exceptionality and Asperger’s…and yeah. Lots to learn.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519712/table/ch3.t3/

[1]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

pridkett commented on How I set up new MacBooks   catalins.tech/how-i-setup... · Posted by u/cmpit
sandreas · 8 months ago
Jeff Geerling has a phenomenal ansible playbook to setup his macs:

https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

pridkett · 8 months ago
I moved all my setup to Ansible about five years ago. It’s been awesome, especially as it makes it trivial to replicate changes to new machines. Installed a new package? Run the playbook again. Changed a script? Run the playbook again.

Sure, there are edge cases I hit because I have some older machines, but for the most part, it’s awesome. I’m up and running on new Macs within a coffee break of getting terminal access.

pridkett commented on USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID Under OS X (2004)   web.archive.org/web/20040... · Posted by u/donnachangstein
geerlingguy · 8 months ago
Was going to post the Action Retro attempt. Latency is abysmal, yet it's still a glorious thing to see it (kinda) work at all.

Need to see if someone can hack together RAID on cassettes on an old Apple II

pridkett · 8 months ago
This is, quite possibly, one of the best nerd sniping comments I’ve seen.

Two thoughts come to mind, one not serious, one serious.

1. I can’t imagine having to align the counters on all those tapes.

2. I’m guessing this would really only work for sequential reading and writing. In some ways that makes it more fun as the latency would be that much worse.

pridkett commented on Docker Model Runner   docker.com/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/kordlessagain
bsenftner · 8 months ago
I wonder if the adult kids of some Docker execs own Macs, and they make it. Why on Earth make this not for the larger installed OSes, you know, the ones running Docker in production?
pridkett · 8 months ago
Because the ones running Docker in production aren’t paying the license fees they make you pay to use Docker Desktop.

u/pridkett

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