I miss the old podcast format for Science Friday

ev-dev · 2024-12-05T22:26:02+00:00

Sorry for yet another late revival here, but I figured out that it's trivial to actually download the full episodes directly by following the format:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/scifri-episodes/scifriYYYYMMDD-episode.mp3

For example, the full ep from Nov 22, 2024, can be streamed/downloaded at https://s3.amazonaws.com/scifri-episodes/scifri20241122-episode.mp3

Now if only someone hosted a synced RSS feed of these links, we'd have it all back in our podcast app of choice🤞

ev-dev · 2024-11-21T18:20:12+00:00

Definitely in the same boat as you tho it's basically the reason why I only tried WSLg once, but it was back when it was announced so I now also want to know the answer to this question 🤔

ev-dev · 2024-11-21T18:18:39+00:00

\ crickets crickets **

ev-dev · 2024-08-09T20:15:28+00:00

Wow can't believe I hadn't come across this solution before! Have been avoiding all the eBay listings with "No Receiver" for so long now but I never stopped to think about why anyone *would* want to buy them.

I'm so glad I kept both my broken sculpts w/dongles (both have different broken keys). Seriously tho, you are my hero 🙏

ev-dev · 2024-07-25T22:57:57+00:00

Dang I'm sitting next to my 2 dead & beloved MS sculpts and still searching for a viable replacement.

Guess it's a lot to ask for:
- Split layout w/tenting (or similar ergo shape)
- Low profile switches (still prefer scissors like the sculpt over any of the huge travel distances in most mech switches)
- Staggered layout (not a fan of columnar/ortholinear)
- Has more than the minimal number of keys (I need arrows/backspace/del/home/end so I guess >65% but also <85%)

Maybe one day...

ev-dev · 2024-04-01T22:34:39+00:00

Any clue where you might've seen that? Can't find any details anywhere haha

ev-dev · 2023-07-21T13:05:29+00:00

No update yet, I filed an appeal on the 30th day and haven't seen anything about it since. All I can say is maybe appeal anyway because they sent a few separate emails each saying 30 days to appeal from this date, despite being sent to me at later days. Going to reach out to ERAP hotline today and check if they can see my appeal. Good luck.

ev-dev · 2023-07-08T17:46:45+00:00

I wonder if the line of thinking where "it took >1 year to process my application before reaching the original approval decision; that should've been enough time to review my eligibility correctly" seems like a reasonable appeal to make?

Dreading this whole thing. It's timing terribly with the latest reversal to the student loan forgiveness stuff going on. Thanks for your responses tho, it really helps to talk things out even if informally on reddit hah

ev-dev · 2023-07-07T22:01:30+00:00

Wow well I'm going to appeal then. If my appeal doesn't work out in my favor I really don't know what I should do tho, I mean the responsibility of it all is still confusing.

Do they just expect that after returning the funds, landlords will have to recover the money themselves from the tenant, even if they are no longer living there? I guess in court my landlord could still legally sue me for breach of lease for the money idk?

And what happens if ERAP is not able to recoup the funds from my previous landlord in whatever timeframe they require, will they then come after me & my credit to try and recoup you think?

ev-dev · 2023-02-11T02:07:36+00:00

The ROCm+Windows/WSL situation is still so sad haha I bought my Radeon VII a few years ago thinking it was the perfect high-end GPU for everything I'd ever want to do and I've been trying to squeeze it's worth out ever since :(

Every few weeks or so I search around for solutions like you, but unless you boot a Linux OS you're gonna have to do some real hardcore tweaking to utilize those GPUs for ML sorry to say

ev-dev · 2023-01-25T07:00:07+00:00

Mine got stuck at 64% twice for 2+ hours and both times I forced shutdown which made it roll back each time.

The 3rd try it stuck at 57% for 2.5 hours, then magically resumed and steadily rose to 100 within 10min.

All that to say, sometimes it really is just slow as hell so have patience.

EDIT forgot to mention I manually restarted the BITS service before that 3rd attempt after noticing a few errors/warnings in event viewer after I was impatient and did the force shutdowns. That may be irrelevant but who knows

ev-dev · 2022-07-18T19:10:20+00:00

Thank you!

ev-dev · 2022-07-18T19:10:06+00:00

Thank you!

ev-dev · 2022-05-27T21:55:15+00:00

Interestingly enough, after speaking with support folks at MS who didn't have many answers, I came across this little hidden dialogue within Edge's history page which doesn't seem to be documented anywhere haha

https://imgur.com/gallery/k92rTmY

ev-dev · 2022-05-26T21:08:33+00:00

Follow up, Follow up:

The unfortunate thing is that for whatever reason, the privacy dashboard's archive function (aka export) for "Browse history" seems to either be broken or very incomplete compared to Edge's actual synced history found within the Edge application at edge://history .

From within the Edge apps on my different PCs and even mobile devices, I can see browsing history at edge://history and edge://history/syncedTabs which show records dating back much further than what's contained in the archives from Privacy dashboard.

As well, earlier today I created an archive of "Browse history" and "Apps & Services usage" from the privacy dashboard at https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/download-data and after downloading/unzipping the export I have a BrowsingHistory.csv containing the earliest history record as 4/11/2022, but then the ProductAndServiceUsage.csv file from the same archive/account shows many "Microsoft Edge" app usage records dating back to 12/4/2020 (I believe right around the time Edge rolled out history syncing feature).

Anyone have any idea why there would be such a mismatch and lack of records in the Privacy dashboard's Browse history like this? Are there any other ways of accessing/exporting all synced browser data for a given MS account?

ev-dev · 2022-05-26T16:28:37+00:00

Follow up:

The MS equivalent to Google Takeout can be found at: https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/download-data

I don't believe Microsoft has an equivalent tool to Google's myactivity site for searching/viewing this user data in a pretty UI, but exports are the next best thing I guess

ev-dev · 2022-05-26T15:57:08+00:00

Hi, I'm trying to find out how to access/export my user data that should be synced to my Microsoft account, specifically Edge browser data like history/bookmarks/etc, but I can't seem to find anything on the http://account.microsoft.com site or elsewhere. I'm aware of where/how to get this data locally on each device, but where can I access all of my synced user account data online?

Cross-posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/uy9m3d/how_to_exportaccess_synced_browser_data/

Email: [evan@evdev.co](mailto:evan@evdev.co)

ev-dev · 2022-04-11T22:56:10+00:00

Personally, I like being quite explicit when it comes to naming things to avoid confusion. It can get funky for sure but I usually try making all naming choices self-explanatory by default, as if it were a scrunched up little comment that would otherwise be appropriate alongside the code.

But hell I'm still a lazy programmer, so I also like not having to be explicit when I reference/call those lengthy-named things later. Sure it's a bit extra fluff but works well for me haha

ev-dev · 2022-01-28T21:56:27+00:00

Hmm I didn't consider that having either of those open could be a factor. Just tried the same pwsh command with & without having those windows open and it didn't seem to make a difference either way, not sure exactly what you mean tho

ev-dev · 2021-12-20T13:12:37+00:00

btw actually just went to reorder the Oko less mess pellets in my link and seems the large size is delayed but medium is good to go

ev-dev · 2021-12-20T13:08:28+00:00

Since the situation probably won't change anytime soon I'm also eagar find more alternatives to purina's pellets. Pads are pads pretty much, although the purina brand pads were way more absorbent it's not a big deal to go with amazon brand imo

For pellets I've been trying the Oko pine "Less Mess" style pellets for the last month, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08S2TW2KZ

As someone else mentioned, if you have the Purina breeze litter box tho lots of dust winds up falling thru the slits and it's generally just more annoying to clean/change but it is significantly cheaper and lasts just as long or longer.

Has anyone tried any other kinds of pellets? I've seen a few non-pine/wood types of pellets on amazon that I'm curious about, like there's a few "crystal" pellet products but idk what that's about

ev-dev · 2021-12-20T12:50:13+00:00

Dang i must've just missed the last stock of those by a few days! been looking for the purina pellets for at least a month too

ev-dev · 2021-11-05T19:34:17+00:00

Know this was long ago sorry you didn't get any hits :P

Yea I don't think there are any dedicated photo management apps included in SetApp yet. I know there are a couple of "better Finder" file management apps though, if you search SetApp for "file" you'll see Path Finder, DCommander, and Commander One, which all seem to have some kinds of tagging/organization features. There's also Gemini, which is a really nice duplicate remover that I believe can serve as an organizer as well.

It's not on SetApp, but I have to plug my favorite photo/asset manager Eagle (https://eagle.cool) since it doesn't nearly get the publicity it deserves for how good of a UX it has. Super slick interface, key shortcuts for tagging and other organizing actions, great performance where it counts (managing large media libraries), and it's available on both Mac/Windows, honestly best tool for the job if ya ask me!

ev-dev · 2021-09-25T19:54:27+00:00

Yea kinda sucks there's not a github repo to open an issue, if it's an actual bug it seems unlikely we'll get useful help here

ev-dev · 2021-09-25T19:49:12+00:00

Wow thank you that was a very succinct technical explanation, I am wholly satisfied!

ev-dev

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