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by bxparks 5y ago
* Never ever use Google SSO. If Google locks you out, there is no recourse and you lose everything. * Use your own domain, but don't use Google Domains as the registrar. If Google locks you out, you use everything. * Don't use Gma
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by bxparks 5y ago
I don't mind commercial use of my software. I do mind having to spend time and effort to answer support questions, feature requests, and incorrect bug reports from commercial companies. Of course, I usually don't know they are fro
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by bxparks 5y ago
Red Pocket has their cheapest plan at $30/year ($2.50/month) on T-Mobile. 200 min, 1000 txt, 200 MB per month. Real SIM card. Available only on eBay. No affliation, just a satisfied customer.
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by bxparks 5y ago
I use this keyboard because it does not have emoji. I have never used emojis in my life. I cannot figure out half the emojis that I get on Signal because I can't zoom in to see what it is. I do wish this keyboard had better spell cor
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by bxparks 5y ago
> Note that fairly generous costs for disposal have been collected from the whole industry. There's just a question of how we actually spend them to dispose stuff. I'm not sure I trust that they calculated the cost of disposal
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by bxparks 5y ago
That's true, neutron bombardment and nuclear fission probably produce a lot of short-lived isotopes, which are much hotter than the U235 or U238 that we mined out of the earth. But after the short-lived isotopes decay, we are left with
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by bxparks 5y ago
As long as Nevada is a 50/50 purple state, I don't think things will change much. The nuclear waste site is very unpopular there. Neither party wants to be blamed for imposing such an unpopular plan, and cause 2 Senate seats to be
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by bxparks 5y ago
Maybe not "dread", but distrust with a tinge of sadness. It is surprising to see how much their executives are willing to destroy Google's reputation, in search of.. I don't know.. their next bonus and promotion? Seven t
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by bxparks 5y ago
The article's technique relies on the Domain Registrar providing email forwarding. But I would recommend not using Google Domains. If and when Google's AI bans your gmail account, you lose access to the DNS configurations of your
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by bxparks 5y ago
Yeah, I have an iPad4 that looks like it's brand new. I bought it for my mom, she treated it like a baby for a few years, then returned it to me. It is stuck on iPadOS 10.3.3. It now sits on a shelf, running Yahoo Weather and nothing e
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by bxparks 5y ago
This website says that the IKEA brands are equivalent to the Eneloop Pro and Lite, but not the regular white ones: https://eneloop101.com/batteries/rewrapped-batteries/ (Scroll/search to "IKEA")
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by bxparks 5y ago
Yup, I hate Duracell batteries with a passion, they leak like a wet sponge and destroy electronics. I have converted most of my batteries to NiMH, but for the few that cannot be rechargeables, I will go out of the way to buy anything but Du
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by bxparks 5y ago
Just a quick digression: If you decide to upgrade from Mojave to Big Sur, make sure you create a bootable USB installer first, and back up anything that you don't want to lose. I decided to upgrade because Mojave is no longer getting s
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by bxparks 5y ago
Interesting stuff. One small correction that I noticed: $ sudo locate cfg | grep \.cfg$ should contain quotes, like this: $ sudo locate cfg | grep '\.cfg$' because the shell swallows the backslash. But locate(1) su
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by bxparks 5y ago
I agree, but here is my rough memory: - the Nexus One died when the power button broke - the Nexus S died when half the touch screen stopped working - the Galaxy Nexus died for some hardware reason that I cannot remember - one of my Nexus 4
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by bxparks 5y ago
Every Android phone that I've owned (about 7-8 of them?) died with hardware problems within 2-3 years. Except for my current one. It's a 5 year-old Moto G5 Plus that I bought for ~$200. It got one OS upgrade to Android 8.1.0. I ru
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by bxparks 5y ago
I had to do a similar hack recently. The 'zoneinfo' library is available only on Python >=3.9. But the 'backports.zoneinfo' library is available for older Pythons. The recommended way of handling this causes mypy to s
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by bxparks 5y ago
Just make sure that you use a different domain registrar than Google Domains, and make sure your admin email address is not gmail. Because if Google bans your account, you will be totally screwed.
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by bxparks 5y ago
If their DNS service goes down, I can transfer to another DNS in about 2h. I tested that. The bigger problem is if Cloudflare's AI bans my account and I lose access to their Registrar. My hope is that Cloudflare is small enough that it
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by bxparks 5y ago
Cloudflare Registrar is "at cost". Hard to get cheaper than that.
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by bxparks 5y ago
I wonder if there is a bit of survivorship bias in this article. Some kids grow up in a non-friendly environment, but develop the skills to deal with the adversity, and when they grow up, those skills become highly advantageous. Other kids
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by bxparks 5y ago
I don't bother filing bugs or sending PRs. I spend hours filing a detailed bug report. No response. I spend hours crafting a PR. Ignored. I file a bug report along with several possible solutions. I get a snarky response totally unrela
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by bxparks 5y ago
Ha, I did not realize that I do the same thing on my mid-2013 MBA11. I left the MacBook ecosystem in 2016 so I guess I don't have to worry about this.
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by bxparks 5y ago
I don't think it's "learned helplessness". It is a rational, calculated tradeoff decision. In many situations, it is more painful to fix the underlying layers of technical debt, and more time consuming to fight the push
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by bxparks 5y ago
I think the fundamental flaw of C++ is the bifurcation of its target users into elite (i.e. library) programmers and "average" programmers. It makes the C++ standard library incomprehensible for normal users. The C++ committee mem
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by bxparks 5y ago
Not sure if that would fix all the problems. I think the SEC (or Congress, if legislation is required) should prohibit publicly traded companies from having dual-class shares with a 10 to 1 supervoting ratio. Some of the problems with FB ar
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by bxparks 5y ago
Heh, I got uMatrix cranked up so high, all I get is the menu bar with "FACEBOOK", 3 screenfuls of complete blank, then "A future made by all of us". I feel strangely good about not seeing anything.
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by bxparks 5y ago
I heard of 'command -v' once before years ago, then completely forgot about it until this article. I don't like it because it's harder to type and harder to remember (why the -v?). But I've only been using Unix for
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by bxparks 5y ago
With one of the recent versions of GNOME (4.0? on Ubuntu 20.04 or so), you can't even create icons on the desktop. They broke a GUI paradigm that has existed since the dawn of Unix time, WTF. I blew away GNOME on all my Linux computers
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by bxparks 5y ago
A similar code generator for CRC algorithms is https://pycrc.org/ . I don't know enough to compare the two, but one difference that I notice is that pycrc supports 4-bit lookup tables, where as crcany does not seem to.

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