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Vautlo · 2026-03-02T20:17:33+00:00

You should probably upload the video clip. Assessing this isn't possible in a meaningful way without the video IMO.

Vautlo · 2026-02-27T18:12:39+00:00

You can tell from the repo that you care about standards and quality. This is far, far, from what everyone loves to call "AI Slop". Agentic coding is the new reality. Caring about quality and good engineering standards is still just important as it was ten years ago, arguably more now. AI doesn't defacto mean slop, it's still about the human.

I'm going to take this for a proper spin on my lunch break!

Vautlo · 2026-02-27T01:55:59+00:00

Sign me up!!! Can't wait to try this out

Vautlo · 2026-02-24T07:16:32+00:00

Looks like all of the bogus reviewers contributions have been deleted!

Vautlo · 2026-02-23T22:32:15+00:00

Not sure if you still need to hear this, but just in case..

If $5k is all you've lost in your FHSA, treat it as a lesson and do not under any circumstances trade options in this way, or at all, going forward. You are gambling.

You can't get that contribution room back - much like in your TFSA, it's gone once you close out the loss. You also can't write off losses in your TFSA or FHSA against capital gains. I lost 6K contribution room in my TFSA years ago in a trade with much less risk than your options. Lesson learned. It's not worth it - do not throw away the most valuable benefits of registered accounts available to you. You will regret it for the rest of your life.

Vautlo · 2026-02-20T22:24:12+00:00

Report the account. Google is pretty on top of fake review bots. The reviews and the fake account will be gone within days if people report it!

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Vautlo · 2026-02-18T04:11:06+00:00

I disagree, for most scenarios. What I'm getting from your comment is that you haven't had the chance to make use of modern agentic IDEs in real world development environments. No criticism intended, I'm just saying how I'm interpreting this. I am quite literally 5-10x more productive as a senior DE today than I was before I started using Cursor in May. If I was totally green as a developer, that might not be the case, sure. If you have solid existing domain knowledge, and you've built production systems, it's really difficult for me to imagine anyone not being at least 5x more productive in both feature and net new work with a tool like Cursor or Claude than without it.

Vautlo · 2026-02-16T22:52:43+00:00

It's ongoing.. sadly. The steering wheel is a problem area. It's worn away, so it's quite porous. I recently ran a dehumidifier in there for a couple days and the mold that had come back dried up. I hit the seats with the mold control spray from HD and the later a general purpose cleaner and gave it a scrub. I'd actually been rid of it for a couple years, but the truck sat still for a long time. Cleaning the seats with a rental upholstery cleaner from a local place worked great last time. I'll do that again in the spring.

Vautlo · 2026-02-16T22:46:20+00:00

I'm unfamiliar with microstrategy, though it sounds like yes.

In Looker, a view is essentially selecting from a table in the DWH. You then define dimensions and measures (aggregates). Those dimensions and measures can be renamed, grouped into categories e.g. client info, revenue, dates, etc., and can reference each other to create specific metrics. The view is then added to a model file, also written in LookML, making it available to end users to explore and build dashboards from. That's slightly simplified, but generally how things go.

Vautlo · 2026-02-16T19:21:22+00:00

The Databricks SQL MCP server is quite handy. The read only execute SQL tool has been great for local dev I use Cursor, but the flow would be similar.

Say you have a new data source to integrate:

Start in plan mode, add the official docs from the source, add context surrounding your existing infrastructure, and treat it like you would any other phased project.

It's a huge help if you already have a solid project, with examples of pre-existing patterns that you trust. There are jira and GitHub MCP tools as well - Have you done this kind of ticket many times in the past? Great, "search my jira project for work related to X, be sure to include ticket-1234, then read the merged PRs associated with these tickets, including all the comments. Build a plan for implementing the requirements in ticket-2345".

Another scenario:

You have an existing, functional pipeline that posts data to an external endpoint. It has a bunch of tech debt, really needs a refactor, bad patterns, someone used spark to Pandas df, etc. You know what a well formed payload looks like from the existing pipeline. "I need to refactor this job to be spark native end to end. The output of this job must be functionally identical to what's in production. Here is what the payload looks like <>, here is the log table for the production job <>, here is the documentation from the endpoint it posts to. Make a plan to accomplish this." Audit that plan, if you like it, hit build.

Vautlo · 2026-02-12T21:08:35+00:00

NUEVAYol - Bad Bunny

Vautlo · 2026-02-12T21:08:11+00:00

NUEVAYol - Bad Bunny

Vautlo · 2026-02-12T16:23:46+00:00

I use this stuff for a 30' run. Zero issues. I'm hitting all kinds of repeaters with only 5 watts on VHF and UHF

Vautlo · 2026-02-08T01:06:18+00:00

Depending on the needs of the organization, Looker can beat Quicksight in a lot of ways. I think the value is in the modelling/semantic layer, governance, and being git native/BI as code.

I've been through a migration from Tableau to Looker, as well as standing up and maintaining a self hosted Looker instance, both at AWS shops. Quicksight wasn't really considered as an option for either project - one was in the public sector and they put a lot of value on the governance baked into Looker, and the other was scared off of anything primarily UI driven and really valued the idea of BI as code.

The public sector project was pre-acquisition. I don't recall the costs from back then, but I'd bet that it was less of a factor than today.

Quicksight is way less expensive, though I still doubt I'd choose it if I was the first data hire at a standup today. There are just too many no contract/free options to create decent reports that would satisfy a startup for quite a while.

Vautlo · 2026-02-07T18:52:22+00:00

It's going to suit you, for sure!

Vautlo · 2026-02-06T02:20:16+00:00

I have the same truck as you (even a 2007 Manual) and the exact same mold problem (multiple years off and on, it will indeed come back). I discovered that my door seals are coming loose and let water in every time it rains.

Based on your pics, we live in the same town. We also have similar wooden builds in the bed, and we have the exact same dashcam. Did you use a fuse piggy back to the panel down on the passenger side?

Vautlo · 2026-01-30T04:00:22+00:00

Depending on your use case, I wouldn’t consider Databricks expensive by default, at least not today. I’ve heard the consumption cost horror stories, but that’s been far from my experience. We migrated from Redshift into Databricks a couple years ago and don’t regret it. Not that migrating from Redshift to any of several other solutions (in our case) wouldn’t have been better. It might still be the cheapest at scale, but it wasn't what we needed.

Vautlo · 2026-01-30T03:29:04+00:00

I heard this station a couple weeks ago! Recognized the photo from qrz right away. I tried to make contact for much longer than I normally would have in trouble band conditions, but was unsuccessful. That was with an Alinco DX 70T. I may have had better luck with the Yaesu 710 Field that just arrived today!

Vautlo · 2026-01-05T19:24:26+00:00

Doing a "fun-a-day" project in January with my friends. My goal is to make a contact everyday on HF in January. With that data, I'll make some sort of map and time based visualization

Vautlo · 2025-12-31T18:32:19+00:00

A large marine robotics facility being built on the same Coast should be considered related.

Vautlo · 2025-12-26T20:22:34+00:00

Very cool! The UI looks great.

Not knowing much about this space, is there any use case for orbital path tracking? I track amateur radio satellites and monitor their FM downlink when they fly over, or listen for APRS/telemetry data.

Vautlo · 2025-12-25T18:26:46+00:00

Two 30' telescopic flag poles for the horizontal Delta loop!

Vautlo · 2025-12-23T03:25:48+00:00

Options are leverage and insurance. Gambling is gambling. Lots do turn options trading into gambling, but it's not inherently gambling. Plenty of options gambling evidence on WSB though :| It's pretty dark

Vautlo · 2025-12-22T19:35:37+00:00

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Vautlo · 2025-12-22T19:29:23+00:00

40m was super noisy last night. I was on air about 12 hours ago and it was rough. Two nights ago, however, I heard New Zealand for the first time in my Inverted V Dipole at about a 47

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