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by Froedlich 4y ago
Depends on where you are. My local Code Gestapo is only concerned about AC systems connected to the grid. DC and PV wiring aren't part of their remit, and they're not in the least interested in being tasked to cover those, as it
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by Froedlich 4y ago
> There have been devices using 3G for years. It is very cheap and the infrastructure is pretty much everywhere. --- My Resmed CPAP machine came with a cellular tattletale. It was a separate module with a cable to the mainboard. I unpl
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by Froedlich 4y ago
Three years ago I bought a small window air conditioner. It came with the usual front panel controls and a remote. The remote turns it on and off and lets you set temperature and fan speed, which is all I expect of a remote. However, it
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by Froedlich 4y ago
History. Looking back, the primary goal of each textbook and teacher was to do their best to make sure nobody would ever voluntarily pick up a history book for the rest of their life. Decades later I wound up reading a biography of a modera
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by Froedlich 4y ago
I've been using plain ASCII text files for 35 years now. Editors, word processors, and operating systems come and go, ASCII still works.
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by Froedlich 4y ago
An Arduino ought to have enough horsepower for a plant-watering application. They're cheaper than a Pi, sensor availability is comparable, and they're not hard to program.
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by Froedlich 4y ago
The Big Data Problem in a nutshell: the more data you have, the easier it is to draw wrong conclusions from it. Otherwise known as, "you tend to find what you're looking for", as hidden biases in the query will ignore data th
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by Froedlich 4y ago
My browser's password storage function for general web sites, forum logins, and such. My memory or a shirt-pocket notebook of passwords for things that need better security. The notebook is backed up by the simple expedient of using th
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by Froedlich 4y ago
Most of the email I receive would fail the Turing test.
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by Froedlich 4y ago
An elderly friend of my wife's is in a nursing home. My wife talks to her on the phone every day, sometimes twice a day. The friend talks about how she is so lonely all the time, and why can't my wife come and visit more often?
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by Froedlich 4y ago
I've gotten a fair amount of side work in the last 20-odd years, largely because most of my admin and programming skill set is antique. Setting up printers on Microsoft Xenix? Updating a business inventory system that was written in
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by Froedlich 4y ago
"Don't fuck with me." A bit salty in ordinary conversation. Several online translators agreed "Non futuis mecum" is an intelligible Latin equivalent. Though in conversation, probably less useful than Klingon or Na
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by Froedlich 4y ago
Back in the mid-1980s PC world, it would have been hard to avoid at least one of the many competing One True Ways. But the majority of what became my personal ideas of good design came from Phil Burns of Northwestern University, who posted
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by Froedlich 4y ago
There have been so many interview fads it's hard to remember them all, but a particularly disagreeable fad was the "surprise question." You're being questioned about some programming-related thing, and then in the middl
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by Froedlich 4y ago
I've worked on several projects that used "Black Chamber" development. That is, local LAN only, with no access to the internet, and no internet-capable "personal electronic devices" or cellular phones permitted in t
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by Froedlich 4y ago
I spent a few years running my own non-computer-related business. It wasn't even on the Web. I shut it down when it became unprofitable. For some reason, both recruiters and potential employers were laser-focused on that "work ga
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by Froedlich 4y ago
Eric S. Raymond was working on one, with the help of some EE friends, but his blog went 404 some time ago. You might find some mention of it on archive.org, and perhaps contact information for one of the other developers.
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by Froedlich 4y ago
> but apparently nobody else can do spam filtering. . I've experienced the opposite; I had to abandon one paid mail host because they turned their spam filtering up to "Thunderstruck!" I was getting about every third mes
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by Froedlich 4y ago
Not for all accounts. After several years, they started strongly recommending an SMS verification, then finally locked my account when I couldn't provide them one. [I have SMS turned off by my cellular provider] Every year or so I&#
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by Froedlich 4y ago
> So a easy way to get started is to receive everything directly and use a commercial (often with low-volume free tier service) relay for outbound --- I used to do that. Did it for almost a decade, in fact. Then the spam filterers dec
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by Froedlich 4y ago
And it was, back when any hint of "commercial use" could get your machine booted from the mail routes and usenet. After Cantor and Siegel, it was every spammer for himself.
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by Froedlich 4y ago
> I'm not sure what the competitive edge could be to not wall garden. I've had several email providers die since the 1980s. Each time it was a major disruption in my life. The last time, I coped by mostly dispensing with emai
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by Froedlich 4y ago
From my experiences trying to tell non-native or highly accented English speakers gibberish URLs or filenames, that would probably be an exercise in misery. "Three. Like one-two-three." -> they hear "tree" or "1
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by Froedlich 4y ago
If you like Fedora's default Gnome, probably. If you're a KDE user, Fedora isn't friendly at all. And you'll still have to have all the Gnome binaries to support the Fedora tools that are Gnome-only.
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by Froedlich 4y ago
Anything that uses standard mbox or maildir formats should be fine. I have mail going back across multiple operating systems and mailer programs since 1995; it has imported without a problem each time. From 1986-1994 I used a bizarro lash-
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by Froedlich 4y ago
Scoring attracts people who try to game the score system. Relevant content usually loses out in the competition for scores.
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by Froedlich 4y ago
> Still though, I don't understand why downloading from yt is so important nowadays. --- In my personal case, almost all of my "quality Youtube time" is spent in areas where there's no wired internet or cellular sign
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by Froedlich 4y ago
For writing code, I still use an ancient 1986 text editor that runs under DOS. I run it under DOSEMU now. After all those years, it's pretty much a direct mind-to-text interface. For debugging code, almost all compilers come with
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by Froedlich 4y ago
The "Linux desktop" is bash.
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by Froedlich 4y ago
I have to, in many cases. Too many sites blazing white, like staring into a monitor-sized car headlight, with faint spidery gray text unresolvable among the glare. This used to be taught as "good UI design." I disagree strongly.

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