DWakefield

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by DWakefield 8mo ago
I had a chance to meet Cliff Stoll a couple summers ago. He was giving a presentation to a quilt society and it was great. If you ever have a chance to see him in person, no matter the topic, you will be greatly rewarded! He is such an ener
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by DWakefield 2y ago
Is that more than or less than the level of incompetence that you'd expect from republicans? Not everything has to be partisan, does it?
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by DWakefield 2y ago
I second this - been using Netvibes since Google Reader went away. Clean interface and reasonably customizable. At the time, it was the closest to feature parity that I could find and I haven't felt the need to look for a replacement s
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by DWakefield 2y ago
Sending stock quotes, scores, weather, etc. reminds me of a service that Google used to offer via text message. I used that a ton before I got my first smartphone: text W[ZIP code] to 46645 (GOOGL) and it would text back the weather. Same f
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Mrs Perkins's Quilt (2017)(squaring.net)
26 points by DWakefield 2y ago|3 comments
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by DWakefield 2y ago
I second that thought. Years ago on a Nortel PBX, we had a line in the factory where I work that had a fault. It would intermittently dial my extension (411) and I figured that it was from pulse dialing. Eventually the fault in the line was
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by DWakefield 3y ago
Does anyone know where there are pictures of the interiors of these homes? I'm very curious about the concrete bath fixtures, but can't seem to find anything online that definitively shows the inside of an Edison concrete home. It
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by DWakefield 3y ago
It's the same connector as on the BBC Micro:bit, right?
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by DWakefield 3y ago
Breaking it for everything would be one thing, but in this case, the update only impacted the application when it was named Chrome.exe. Changing the name or doing the same thing with Firefox still worked the way it had with Chrome. This wou
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by DWakefield 4y ago
That's interesting - 2.5 was the same number I landed on that sounded best to me.
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by DWakefield 4y ago
I had an 8086 (compatible) Epson Equity II+ w/ SVGA back in the day. Was a bit odd, but it worked!
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by DWakefield 5y ago
I won the game and the stats were buggy for me as well. Still fun! Statistics played..................0 win %...................-9223372036854775808 current streak..........0 max streak..............0 guess distribution....... 1
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by DWakefield 6y ago
The collateral idea seems good, but it might encourage perverse incentives for Google. If they know they're going to get a few hundred bucks if they disable an account, I'd fear the rate of accounts being disabled may go up. Even
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by DWakefield 6y ago
Or maybe he's stating the thesis for his post and then backing it with technical detail before writing his conclusion. Have readers become so accustomed to instant gratification that they can't take the time for a thorough analysi
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by DWakefield 6y ago
Any projector setup worth having would have an HDMI cable ready for you. A 5.25" floppy diskette won't fit an a CompactFlash slot. What's your point? I can come up with silly excuses too.
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by DWakefield 6y ago
100% agree. I did a very similar project this year - at my wife's insistence. Guess who's done most of the programming now that I've got the techy hardware side done?
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by DWakefield 11y ago
This looks very interesting, but be warned that in this project's case SQL == MySQL and nothing more.