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by chris_st 6y ago
I use kind of like my own personal Stack Overflow. I tag stuff with several (hopefully memorable) tags, and when I can't remember how to (whatever), I search and usually find an article which I thought was helpful enough at the time.
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by chris_st 6y ago
Absolutely. I did something slightly simpler: a single file with a per-day section. This helped immensely with quarterly reviews (I'd forget a lot of things I'd accomplished), and REALLY helped when I hit an obscure bug (typical
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by chris_st 6y ago
Indeed. She hits a great balance between explaining enough that it's clear, but not over-explaining to show off her world-building skills.
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by chris_st 6y ago
From the File menu, choose "Publish to the web", and then choose ".csv" format. This gives you a URL that (up until recently) you could pull with either "curl" (etc.) or from a web page (e.g., an SPA). Now th
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by chris_st 6y ago
I have a personal website backed by a Google sheets page; however, it started not handing out proper CORS headers on the request, so it no longer works for me. Have you run across this? How did you solve it? Thanks!
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by chris_st 6y ago
Had a friend who worked for the US government, in one of their farmer support areas. Told me that it's not unusual for them to be used to keep crops from freezing , oddly enough.
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by chris_st 6y ago
Even if we can't remove one, preventing adding another seems like a good idea.
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by chris_st 6y ago
GLaDOS?
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by chris_st 6y ago
Try (if you can find it!) Stoneyfield plain yogurt, not their Greek-style. It tastes great, and I have a 100% success rate with that as a starter. Good luck!
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by chris_st 6y ago
Came here to mention the Instant Pot. My only difference is to put the cooled milk into pint jars, then add a teaspoonful of the previous batch of yogurt to each one. I'll have to try the 60-hour thing... sounds interesting!
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by chris_st 6y ago
I use my Instant Pot in pretty much exactly this way, but have never had lumpy yogurt, so maybe something else?
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by chris_st 6y ago
Turo [1] is copying the AirBnB business model... rent out your car to strangers. (Well, I'm not going to, but I don't do AirBnB either). [1] https://turo.com
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Fractal Boards in WorkFlowy(beta.workflowy.com)
3 points by chris_st 6y ago|1 comments
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by chris_st 6y ago
Really interesting addition to Workflowy, with a very nice demo video. All the people using or implementing various Zettelkasten-ish sites should check it out.
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by chris_st 6y ago
Cool, thanks for the info! I wonder about the underlying instance's OS, though... in the past, for home servers, I've set up cron jobs to get OS updates and reboot, but that seems wrong for a web server I'd like to be always
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by chris_st 6y ago
I'd be interested to know how people who use this kind of thing (or Dokku, etc.) keep their OS, database, applications, etc. up to date, for security reasons if nothing else.
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by chris_st 6y ago
Yup! I may give their drivers another try... this is a different computer, with a later OS. Alas, they no longer support it. Ah well...
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by chris_st 6y ago
I have... somewhere... a stainless steel knob, designed to control the volume, that was wonderful to feel and turn. Alas, the driver was incredibly flaky, and just wouldn't work consistently. I ought to dig it up and see if I can rev
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by chris_st 6y ago
Well, maybe on other browsers... on Safari, on a wide screen, I still had to maximize the window to see all the text. At a "mere" 1200px wide, half the text was under the knob.
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by chris_st 6y ago
Wow, that's fantastic, and so true.
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by chris_st 6y ago
> "This is my personality - ... - I really enjoy learning about new things" . This is me in a nutshell. I wondered, in my teens, why I was so drawn to music when I'd quit whatever instrument I was trying to learn. Turns
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by chris_st 6y ago
It's a great game, with the right people . One of the guys in our games group has extremely poor listening skills... the game is really not fun in that scenario.
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by chris_st 6y ago
My thoughts exactly. Needs a simple, clearly-solves-specific-problems tutorial.
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by chris_st 6y ago
And now they're free to print and play! So go now, and play "Give me the brain", "Lord of the Fries", "Kill Doctor Lucky", "Spree", and "Unexploded Cow". On the other hand, skip entirel
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A day in a Train Factory Circa 1905(delanceyplace.com)
2 points by chris_st 6y ago|1 comments
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by chris_st 6y ago
A quick read, describing the roughly 10,000 workers who built train engines at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, which was spread over twelve city blocks in Philadelphia. They put out seven engines a day (!), and for modern development, it wou
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by chris_st 6y ago
> thoroughly useless and anachronistic. As a native English speaker, and armchair linguist, I feel that that sentence describes a rather substantial percentage of English usage, grammar, and (especially!) spelling.
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by chris_st 6y ago
"If debugging is the art of taking errors out of programs, then programming is the art of putting them in." -- someone far smarter (and funnier) than me.
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by chris_st 6y ago
Thanks, "Mrs. Hudson" is interesting. Still think I like the original Sherlock the best...
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by chris_st 6y ago
I'll second Kaser's "Sherlock"... Had a lot of fun with that back when I had a windows box. And YEAH, his art-style is funky indeed!

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