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eye floaters are basically a disability and there's even a reddit support group!
Jesse Pelley
Jesse Pelley
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Mom tricked me into crossing the border. Very pretty castle though
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© maksymowicz / Adobe Stock Another stunning photo from Bing
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I didn't realize how easy it was to get a LLM up and running. exciting!
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Christmas trees look their best on Christmas morning, right before sunrise, when it’s quiet.
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My year with ChatGPT: 10.83K messages 677 chats 23 images generated by its own estimate, this is about 10 kWh for the whole year. The time saved from endless googling, scouring forums and general brainstorming is unmeasurable. Across 677 chats I’ve used it for esoteric scripting troubleshooting (HTA and jscript), random philosophy, tax law and accounting, and even meal prep ideas. I’m struggling…
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I caught him relaxing in the study 🐰
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revisited Mont Royal, Montreal
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voice in my head: “I can’t think of any rational reason for jumping in front of a bus.” oh ok
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📌 putting this here so that I remember. I woke up on my day off with a headache for what seems like no reason. I did everything I thought right: balanced breakfast, coffee, advil, plenty of water. Annoyed. At around noon I took a bath and put my head under. Instant relief. Why? Maybe it's because the blood vessels are mildly dilated. Maybe the water pressure affected it. I doubled down and put…
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Ever asked ChatGPT about someone you know, personally? Mike told me the other day that it gave him a nice little summary about me: what I did for work, what my hobbies and interests are. It felt a lot more personal and detailed than I would have imagined. It's not like I'm a public figure with a wikipedia page. It summarized (this website) and my linkedin profile and probably anything else you…
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I posted these to instagram and I can't help but share the autogenerated alt attribute in the img tag: "Photo by Jesse PeIley on May 06, 2024. May be a selfie of 1 person, beard, mountain and snow."
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I'm dissatisfied with spreadsheets on phones so I thought I'd start learning how I can use javascript on a webpage to do my most common calculations for me. huzzah
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I've been learning Spanish for the past month or so using good old duolingo. I thought it would be cool if they had a public api to pull my profile stats and post them here live but it seems it would be harder than I would hope. This URL shows my progress but it requires authentication but it's something. https://www.duolingo.com/api/1/users/show?id=11848513 2025 Update! the Correct URL is :…
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First code written on the mac mini 😝 tell application "System Events" repeat 1000 times click at {950, 755} end repeat end tell
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Well worth the hike! 📸
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I should have had marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers to complete the experience 🍫 Glad we can breath again today!
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I finally learned how to poach eggs. Yes, it was delicious. No more 🍳😌
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It's already 2 months in to 2023 and I can't believe it. I had a quite the career change last year and I'm just settling in now. This year I'm focusing on important things like reconnecting with old friends.
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Much like how I disliked the bloat of wordpress, I also don’t like how bloated mediawiki is. I think I’ve learned enough of javascript and sql to build something similar for myself. I would start with a blank page, the home page. Additional pages would only be able to be created if it’s linked from another page. This enforces organization and prevents dead links. On a single page, each paragraph…
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Just discovered robocopy, another robust built-in tool for windows. Wish I had known about it before 😔
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📝Gratitude journaling
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I’ve had these guys for so long I’ve forgotten where I got them. Psyduck still works!
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Happy Thanksgiving! I made Nan and Mom play Scrabble with us this weekend even though I’m awful at it. We used up all the tiles at the end because we switched to “house rules” … but Nan still won.
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I have the Bing Wallpaper app installed on my work PC which changes the desktop background daily. The one for today is stunning!
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🍿 The Woman King (2022) ★★★★ The best movie in theatres I’ve seen this year. It had an engaging story, great acting, and visual effects. To me it seemed like it was promoted as an action film with a serious plot. But there is plenty of drama, character development and actually quite a bit of humour—particularly by Izogie (Lashana Lynch), who takes my pick for best character. I don’t particularly…
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If you're lucky enough to be working on an excel workbook with 80+ sheets, you may improve your life with the following: The little black arrows in the lower left corner bring up a scroll-able popup window, if you right-click on them 🤯
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~25 years later I'm still learning new things about Windows. Have you accidentally moved a window so far off screen where you can't click on the title bar and move it back? Right-click on the taskbar, click "Cascade windows". OR Shift-right-click on the window in the taskbar, click "Move", then with the keyboard press the arrow keys until the window comes into the screen!
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Lac Leamy
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Big To do! - OAuth2 for liking and commenting and posting to a "wall" (og facebook style) - personal kb to replace mediawiki
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Time with family in Nova Scotia
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Wow I just used linear algebra for a real world example. Needed pen and paper but I did it! WHY DOES THIS FEEL SUBSTANTIAL
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I'm excited to learn about IBKR's flex queries and Steam's user API 🤓
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I’m happy when I make my mom happy. Happy birthday, Mom!
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2022—guaranteed to be mentally a better year. I mean… the bar has been on the floor for quite a while 🙃
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I don’t think I’ve seen all my aunts, mom and nan this happy all together in a long time 🥰
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This coin is 10 years older than Confederation. We had found it in the floorboards of our old house and I’ve kept it with me since. It sort of proves that the house I grew up in is at least as old as the country!
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sometimes I need to take my phone with me on a run 📸
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I don’t know what I was doing in 2008 but it was obviously not listening to this album 😩
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I did it before so I know I can do it again. I changed my diet drastically a few years ago as an experiment (ketogenic diet). I’m doing it again this year from Canada Day to Thanksgiving.
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wow I just gave Windows 10 Mail a go with compact mode. What a solid app! Fluid interface, minimalistic, responsive. Blows macOS mail out the park!
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I really wish Apple would let us disable the hard-coded Flashlight and Camera buttons on our lock screens. But then I discover random photos like this.
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Ontario came out of lockdown and I managed to find a few pics taken right before I got my hair cut. I had got this hat about a month ago but I had no idea that I would soon use it to contain that mess.
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I think I’m finally able to ditch instagram. I mean… I’ve made like one post there in a year. Hurray #selfhosted !
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Full moon from last night June 24 📷 iPhone is getting a bit better at capturing it—you can even see the lunar maria!
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He said he liked it and that’s all that matters 🤠
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I'm still geeking out that I had to use a modulus for the first time while building my photo grid the other day. Please understand that I'm just learning here 😅 if ($i % 3 == 0) { //with $i representing a numbered photo, if $i divided by 3 is exactly 0 then start a new row of photos! }
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I'm off work for another 'stay-cation'! My big goals for the next week: - start running again - upper body workouts - fix my music library
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Pretty cool art from Aaron Kuehn 😁
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I've been primarily a macbook user for about a decade but in the last year I decided to try a PC again. Mostly because of the software I use at work but also because games. I went with a Razer Blade Stealth. It is very similar to macbook design and even supports eGPU. I miss the old matte macbook screens so I was happy to get that option. About 6 months into using it I was rudely reminded of the…