Trouble
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@trouble The smallest kernel of the thing I want to write is this:
Had a very good experience today asking Copilot "See this accessor for a database row? Do the same thing for that database row that is almost exactly the same."
It did a great job.
... by changing 90% of the contents of three […]
Had a very good experience today asking Copilot "See this accessor for a database row? Do the same thing for that database row that is almost exactly the same."
It did a great job.
... by changing 90% of the contents of three […]
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mastodon.fixermark.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:51 PM
@trouble The smallest kernel of the thing I want to write is this:
Had a very good experience today asking Copilot "See this accessor for a database row? Do the same thing for that database row that is almost exactly the same."
It did a great job.
... by changing 90% of the contents of three […]
Had a very good experience today asking Copilot "See this accessor for a database row? Do the same thing for that database row that is almost exactly the same."
It did a great job.
... by changing 90% of the contents of three […]
@b0rk I think there's something more general that makes this hard in many aspects of programming: the systems didn't tell you why it didn't work. So people change things at random until it does, then call it done. Like turn off firewall features until your thing works (and your IP camera is now […]
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masto.ai
February 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
@b0rk I think there's something more general that makes this hard in many aspects of programming: the systems didn't tell you why it didn't work. So people change things at random until it does, then call it done. Like turn off firewall features until your thing works (and your IP camera is now […]
@sellathechemist @AppleWoi then I would suggest a good soaking, then sometime with pressure to flush out the grime. Wd 40 or even hot water can do the trick. Note that sometimes the sorting gets accidentally bent, so it might need bending back if it's a lack of force problem but doesn't sound […]
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masto.ai
January 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
@sellathechemist @AppleWoi then I would suggest a good soaking, then sometime with pressure to flush out the grime. Wd 40 or even hot water can do the trick. Note that sometimes the sorting gets accidentally bent, so it might need bending back if it's a lack of force problem but doesn't sound […]
@AppleWoi @sellathechemist ditto, but if you can feel it, you can usually clean it up. For the posts I can give a rough polish with nothing more than a shop rag, wrapping over the post and pulling the ends back and forth. For the inside of the bushing, I can clean by pushing a rag through with a […]
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masto.ai
January 25, 2026 at 3:16 PM
@AppleWoi @sellathechemist ditto, but if you can feel it, you can usually clean it up. For the posts I can give a rough polish with nothing more than a shop rag, wrapping over the post and pulling the ends back and forth. For the inside of the bushing, I can clean by pushing a rag through with a […]
@moira BT headsets can frequently trigger built in voice assistants already with a button push; seems simple to repackage one. And if you want to trigger your own app, I don't know Android, but worst case there are the open source android forks you could use. Or maybe a pi zero (and still have […]
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masto.ai
January 24, 2026 at 3:19 PM
@moira BT headsets can frequently trigger built in voice assistants already with a button push; seems simple to repackage one. And if you want to trigger your own app, I don't know Android, but worst case there are the open source android forks you could use. Or maybe a pi zero (and still have […]
@moira I had a similar failure for an internal plastic latch on an igloo cooler. I placed it on the flatbed scanner and scanned it, imported the bitmap into cad, extrude, and presto! instant replacement part.
January 21, 2026 at 2:03 PM
@moira I had a similar failure for an internal plastic latch on an igloo cooler. I placed it on the flatbed scanner and scanned it, imported the bitmap into cad, extrude, and presto! instant replacement part.
@ifixcoinops Rheem heat pump water heaters in the US are designed to be hooked up to ducts. Feel free to build your own duct system. But it doesn’t work as well as one would like since one is constant draw, the other is intermittent. Also, efficiency comes from only creating a minimal […]
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masto.ai
January 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM
@ifixcoinops Rheem heat pump water heaters in the US are designed to be hooked up to ducts. Feel free to build your own duct system. But it doesn’t work as well as one would like since one is constant draw, the other is intermittent. Also, efficiency comes from only creating a minimal […]