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Repair Manifesto: If we can't fix it, we don't own it.
- Repair is better than recycling.
- Repair saves us money.
- Repair teaches basic engineering.
- Repair saves the planet.
- Repair connects people and things.
- Repair is sustainable.
#Minimalism

Ah sorry missed that

Saw EC2 and database in the same sentence (pet not cattle)

Your measuring access to/from said crunchy database via an EC2 instance

Got it

Yeah but one does not run a database on an EC2 instance in AWS

One runs RDS instead (which under the covers might be EC2 instances however they are highly tuned, as is the filesystems invoked)

This is a case where apples to oranges might actually be the more useful comparison

Fast charging is ONlY needed for road trips and if you have a decent range then you need to stop and rest anyways so this is not as critical as one might think initially

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You should also check the burstable instance version of the t3 and the g (arm) variants which are supposedly 30% cheaper for the same fire power

Burstable, if I understand it correctly, lets you use more of your neighbors cpu if they don’t happen to be pedal to the metal at the moment

Woohoo 🎉

And when I say you I mean anyone can mess with anyone else’s tags and edit them to say interesting things all of which show up on someone’s dashboard and might end up raising eyebrows 😈

Hmmm — sounds like a great idea for a site that does that automatically

#ideation

The Benito effect... activity on Bluesky spiked 70% during the Super Bowl 👀

You could edit those utm params to say anything at all btw

Just saying 😈

Ouch

Could #Startrek replicators not simply output latinum?

… Money for nothing …

Or has that been debated to extinction already?

Answering from the sauna so yes 👍🏻

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Letting that freak flag fly!

Yeah but for real I want to do some ambient music/noise with it exploring the overtones

(That will be a combo of the specific solfeggio frequency versus the natural resonance of each gong which will be affected by the gongs makeup and diameter)

Let me know if you know anyone please!

-- I don't know yet which transducers I will use (hence the experimental part) but likely shakers placed directly in the middle of the gong or slightly off-center as we explore the harmonic resonances of each frequency

It will NOT be "banged" -- as a (former) musician I understand how instruments need to be cared for

Anyone have a gong I can borrow? (Ottawa)

I'm serious 💯

Looking for a gong up to 7' in diameter OR access to a gong if larger than 7' (that's feet not inches) for an experimental recording technique (exploring the overtones using resonators tuned to solfeggio frequencies)

That’s a possibility????

When you’re whole-heartedly, genuinely, completely, obsessively, excitedly consumed by something:

It’s infectious.

People want to be around you, even if they don’t share your obsession.

People root for you, because we love seeing that thrive.

Fly that freak flag.

The hard part is to just watch

The moment you try to explain (or even feel the need to explain) is the moment you know the design could be better

You might not know what better is however

That takes a lot of iteration to get to

The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala Darja Jovanovic, Scala Center

🪙 The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

www.scala-lang.org/blog/2026/01...

#scala #opensource

Ah however a designer has color theory behind them to know which colors to use and why

Then again so does AI 🤖 (sigh)

That tracks

Have you even noticed what your default mode is?

Does the default mode for you permeate everything you do?

The proverbial “how you do anything is how you do everything”

Or do you pick one mode for some things and the other mode for different things?

This also affects the way one writes software

I start with documentation (which IS code — they are NOT separate things to me) and work from that starting point to focus on making it work

Now I think this also affects which software program you tend to gravitate towards

The work and then think group basically dominates the market thanks to GUI based apps that allow you to start something long before you have an idea of what it really is

Which group are you in?

What benefits derive from being in the group?

What problems derive from being in that group?