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by bxparks 5y ago
It was the mouse for me as well. It started to cause sharp pain on the underside of my right elbow. The problem seemed to be the numeric pad on the right side of the keyboard, which pushes the mouse slightly further away from my body, stret
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by bxparks 5y ago
I agree, NiMH rechargeables are better than alkalines in almost every way. They don't leak and destroy the electronics. They can be recharged 500-1000 times, so they don't end up in a landfill after a single use. They have a reall
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by bxparks 5y ago
I find the quality of the photos from my phone to be terrible: wrong brightness, wrong color balance, wrong focus, wrong contrast, wrong orientation, motion blur, etc. The quality of the documents from the Fujitsu scanner is top notch. And
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by bxparks 5y ago
A Fujitsu S1500 ScanSnap, dual-sided, document scanner (now discontinued, replacement might be the iX1600). Completely changed how I manage my personal documents (e.g. financial, invoices, receipts, product manuals, medical info, business d
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by bxparks 5y ago
(No one upvoted my post, so I didn't bother checking the threads, sorry for the delayed response). This was on an 8-bit microcontroller, so it was compiled to a left-shift into the carry bit, then a left-shift from the carry bit into a
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by bxparks 5y ago
Completely agree. My online bank redesigned the Bill Pay page with so much whitespace that I can see only one payee on a 14" laptop screen. They also disabled Ctrl-F searching so that I cannot quickly find the payee that I want. Instea
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by bxparks 5y ago
Agree on both points. I am often pleasantly surprised by clever compiler optimizations. I recently saw the following code optimized into a couple of bit-shift operations, with no branching: uint8_t pattern = ...; uint8_t result =
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by bxparks 5y ago
This article made a passing reference to the lack of S3 Sleep on some laptops, so I did some googling to learn that there is something called "Modern Standby". I'm not sure I like the idea of my laptop randomly connecting to
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by bxparks 5y ago
Be careful what you wish for. I use one application which does not check whether the computer goes from 2 external monitors to the built-in laptop monitor. When I reopen the app on the laptop without the external monitors, all of its window
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by bxparks 5y ago
The problem with undefined behavior is that there are about 200 of them in the C language spec, and I can remember only 3 or 4 at any given time (signed integer overflow, dereferencing NULL, out-of-bounds array access). And I can't rem
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by bxparks 6y ago
Super capacitors seem to die as well. I have 4 dead capacitors out of the 8 DS3231 RTC modules that I have bought within the last 2-3 years.
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by bxparks 6y ago
You are getting a lot of down-votes, but you are correct, and I gave you some upvotes, at least one. If the application is doing financial modeling and estimations, where only 1-3 decimal place of accuracy is needed, then floating point is
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by bxparks 6y ago
I think the question about overturning the jury is directly addressed in the linked PDF, whose Syllabus is surprisingly easy to read: > Re- viewing courts should appropriately defer to the jury’s findings of un- derlying facts, but the u
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by bxparks 6y ago
In a corporate context, "lifetime" means almost nothing, it's a marketing slogan. Just like "unlimited bandwidth", "unlimited storage", and "we take your privacy and security very seriously".
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by bxparks 6y ago
Makes sense, but weirdly I did not follow that route. I started on Unix, then learned about DOS, did not use it much, but I did switch my Unix prompt to use '> ', because I liked it better. The default '$' has too muc
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by bxparks 6y ago
That's a good point about previewing. So instead of "cgn", it looks like you can do "gns", which highlights the match, then enters into substitution mode, and you type the replacement, then hit <ESC>. Then you
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by bxparks 6y ago
Hmm, the middle mouse button is bound to "paste text from buffer" on Linux (probably X11 more accurately), so I keep pasting random text into the edit box or terminal window. And if I click on that middle button, then change my mi
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by bxparks 6y ago
If you use bash (or zsh, and maybe others), hit ^L (control-L) to clear the screen. From the bash(1) manual: clear-screen (C-l) Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen. With an argument, refresh the current line
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by bxparks 6y ago
How do I scroll a page up and down with a trackpoint (on Windows and Linux)? I've tried using a trackpoint, but the two-finger swipe up and down on a trackpad is a convenience that I cannot seem to live without.
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by bxparks 6y ago
Took me a while to find the markup supported by hdoc: https://hdoc.io/docs/features/api-docs/ "hdoc supports a small subset of Doxygen's commands. hdoc supports both the @ and \ conventions for comm
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by bxparks 6y ago
I'm a bit confused. You got a local MQTT server, and a local Traefik proxy, all behind your local firewall. How does Traefik get its LetsEncrypt certificate from behind the firewall when LetsEncrypt can't see Traefik? The last tim
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by bxparks 6y ago
I've had so many leaking alkaline batteries, particularly the Duracell brand, that I've replaced almost all my batteries with NiMH Eneloops, the LSD white ones. Even for low current applications (e.g. remote controls) where the si
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by bxparks 6y ago
The D1 Mini is my favorite ESP8266 board right now. It has built-in WiFi of course. It is physically smaller than a NodeMCU, but still exposes enough GPIO pins to allow interesting peripherals. The built-in micro-USB connector and USB-Seria
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by bxparks 6y ago
I understand the sentiment, but for me, I actually prefer writing the documentation myself on my projects. It forces me to make sure that I understand the PR that's coming in, since I'm going to have to maintain it into the future
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by bxparks 6y ago
I love stow. My only complaint is that I cannot seem to remember the name of the command: Is it "grab", "collect", "pirate", "organize", "install", "push", "pull", ...? S
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by bxparks 6y ago
Thanks for that tidbit, I had to look it up. This wiki page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_cereus ) says, "Germination and growth generally occur between 10 °C and 50 °C, though some strains can grow at lo
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by bxparks 6y ago
I get them on eBay, but you are right, the success ratio is not great, maybe 50-70%. Batteries are advertized as "New", but the BIOS will say 100-200 cycles. I have tried 3 times to find a battery for my MBA11 without success. I&#
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by bxparks 6y ago
I guess I've been doing something similar. I currently use 9 laptops (2 Windows, 5 Linux, 1 MacBookAir, 1 Chromebook). Only the MBA11 and the Chromebook were purchased new. The rest were bought on eBay for $250-$600. After getting them
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by bxparks 6y ago
Somewhat of a tangential comment: I love that README files have become useful again, say, in the last 10 years. I think GitHub and the proliferation of open source projects may have had something to do with that. My memory is a bit fuzzy, b
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by bxparks 6y ago
I have had great experience using JSONNET ( https://jsonnet.org/ ) as a configuration language. It supports variables, inheritance, operators, functions, substitutions, types, with just the right amount of power, expressivene

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