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by bpoyner 2y ago
Unless you really can switch hands at the drop of a hat (which is incredibly rare), the term is cross-dominant or mixed-handed. I prefer my right hand for fine motor skills and left for gross. I have a coworker is who is almost exactly the
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by bpoyner 2y ago
Xenix .. that brings back memories of green screens and digicards (digiboards).
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by bpoyner 2y ago
I'm so old I remember when ps would directly get the processes via system calls to the kernel and none of this reading from /proc.
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by bpoyner 3y ago
The answer is simple, we need to ban android tablets. /s
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by bpoyner 3y ago
If you have a Mazda and interested in such things, check out the Mazda AIO Tweaks.
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by bpoyner 3y ago
If you moved from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8, Stream 8 is basically EOL on May 31st 2024.
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by bpoyner 3y ago
My first trip to Florida I wound up in the emergency room from a bug bite that made my wrist swell to double the size. What a state.
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by bpoyner 3y ago
Yep, if you look at the Itanium Wikipedia article, it says 'Designed by: Intel, Hewlett-Packard'.
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by bpoyner 3y ago
Some companies don't make a difference between personal days and sick days. Both are days where the employer is given little to no notice that you won't be at work that day. Vacation days generally should be planned ahead of time.
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by bpoyner 3y ago
I reported a bug in the iOS Home app and they fixed it. Seems to be hit or miss on what they'll fix.
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by bpoyner 3y ago
I've only once had a doctor test my blood pressure lying flat. I had a suspected GI bleed and he wanted to see the difference between flat and sitting up. Then he called up the hospital and got me a spot reserved in the ICU.
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by bpoyner 3y ago
If you're on apple silicon and the VM is x86, I agree the performance is abysmal. I'm pretty sure this is just a QEMU issue and not really the fault of UTM. If your VM is aarch64, the VM performance is amazingly great and I can&#
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by bpoyner 3y ago
And specifically when you tell the shell to redirect stdout to a file, the shell is opening a file descriptor to handle the request. A file descriptor also sits in the middle for piping stdout for one command to stdin of another. It seems l
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by bpoyner 3y ago
Where I live, they're proposing a Single Point Urban Interchange (SPUI) so that all interstate traffic goes through one set of traffic lights. To make that work, they have to build two flyover ramps to send the northbound traffic over
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by bpoyner 4y ago
I still have an iPhone 3GS. It's fun to turn it on occasionally to scare the kids. Unsurprisingly some apps no longer function because they need cloud services that were discontinued.
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by bpoyner 4y ago
They changed the curl man page in the last year so that all options have 'see also' recommendations. The documentation is amazing. https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1460867775690387457
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by bpoyner 4y ago
In large parts of New England they use heating oil, which is similar to diesel and pollutes the air more than natural gas. There are many things they could be taking on, but natural gas isn't the worst of them.
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by bpoyner 4y ago
But you may have used the Palm OS successor, webOS, which is used by LG smart TVs. It blew me away that Palm OS is still around in some form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS
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by bpoyner 4y ago
I'm assuming that's a joke, but for anybody who hasn't managed to hear of Kiwi Farms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
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by bpoyner 4y ago
I worked with Gary Wright (vol. 2) around 1998-2000, before he quit the high stress job to hike the Appalachian trail. Living the dream.
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by bpoyner 4y ago
"Fail different"
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by bpoyner 4y ago
That would drive my wife up the wall. Our school district in the Pittsburgh suburbs has 5 math tracks from grades 4-12. They just added linear algebra because so many kids were maxing out the available math curriculum.
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by bpoyner 5y ago
This reminds me of swamp cooling. When I describe swamp cooling (evaporative cooling) to somebody who didn't grow up with it, it blows their mind.
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by bpoyner 5y ago
Is it easy to deactivate though? I checked the group policy template provided by Mozilla, I don't see how deactivate it across the organization.
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by bpoyner 5y ago
15 years ago a foreigner couldn't even get a hotel room in Thailand without handing over passport information for each guest. I can't imagine it's changed much since then. If the Thai police want to track you down it wouldn&#
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by bpoyner 5y ago
The only thing I did with my Mazda infotainment system was update the firmware and the retrofit kit to support CarPlay. I find the commander knob not that hard to use with some experience, but with the AIO tweaks you can enable the touchsc
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by bpoyner 5y ago
I'll just leave this right here. https://mazdatweaks.com/
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by bpoyner 5y ago
I had a friend in high school who found it funny to hand unsuspecting people a fully charged capacitor he pulled from a camera flash. This was 30 years ago, before "modern electronics", so the charge lasted longer than a few seco
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by bpoyner 5y ago
This video describes some of the hazards and how to avoid them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLVzvMTgGDY&t=170s
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by bpoyner 5y ago
Oh, the police will get a search warrant, and find exactly what they were told would be on your device. The police aren't in the business of discovering your innocence. It's then up to you and your lawyer to prove you didn'

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