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by codazoda 3y ago
My taxi driver in Mexico spoke perfect English. I figured he was either American or had lived here. He said he learned the language watching YouTube videos and had never been.
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by codazoda 3y ago
I make a little framework for “stupid simple HTML sites” and use it as a “starter” for most of my own work. https://neat.joeldare.com
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by codazoda 3y ago
I got the most use out of it on an airplane with no wifi. It let me keep working on a coding solution without the internet because I could ask it quick questions. Magic.
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by codazoda 3y ago
The cited problem was trademark infringement. I had used “jazAwake” as the name and the drive was the Iomega Jaz(tm) Drive. They also mentioned that it might shorten the life of a drive, but that was not their primary complaint.
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by codazoda 3y ago
I might be that idiot. But, whatever. I enjoy my failure enough to try again. https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...
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by codazoda 3y ago
I once received a cease-and-desist from my employer, who was a big tech company! I had written a small shareware app called JazAwake. It was designed to stop the Iomega Jaz drive from spinning down every two minutes or so. They did not know
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by codazoda 3y ago
We aren't using a special lens. It works but only within a certain range. The ideal laser focus, on our machine, is only about 3mm from the lens body. The handle posts necessitate moving the laser head farther away, to around 11mm. So,
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by codazoda 3y ago
If you have trouble engraving tumblers, I've found a trick that works really well. The tool ensures that the laser maintains consistent focus at both edges of the tumbler resulting in a more uniform engraving. I call it The Tumbler Tri
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by codazoda 3y ago
More than ten years ago I self published a small book. Today, I decided to summarize the instructions and post them online. Because a lot of my technical co-workers write, and because they often assume it’s more complicated than it is, I t
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Publish Your Book(guides.joeldare.com)
2 points by codazoda 3y ago|1 comments
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by codazoda 3y ago
If you create collage (cut and paste) art using typography, you might find a tool I created this week useful. It cycles through randomly picked Google Fonts and lets you edit the text. I'm using it to create art inspired by Chris Ashwo
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by codazoda 3y ago
I hate to admit it, but Kia got this right. I own 3 Kia’s and they all have various problems, including really big problems, but this is an area they got right. On my daily driver, the Kia Niro, it has a battery button that instantly charge
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by codazoda 3y ago
Does this rule encourage off-shoring? Meaning that contract developers just invoice you and you write that off as any other expense, or does it apply equally there?
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by codazoda 3y ago
GitHub is my worst offender. When I need a timestamp for Git I always need the exact date and time, even if it's recent. This was mentioned elsewhere but it's buried under another comment. I think GitHub needs top level placement
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by codazoda 3y ago
Yup, agreed. I came hear looking for this one. Whenever I need a timestamp in GitHub I need the exact time. I always have to hover to get the info I need.
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by codazoda 3y ago
The search box at the bottom of HN still links to this subdomain which means that HN searches are currently broken. So, hopefully this is just a temporary glitch or oversight.
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by codazoda 3y ago
I’ve never used this. Instead, the best thing my wife and I did was create a “bills” and “play” account. My recurring bills come out of the bills account and everything is paid automatically. My discretionary funds go in the “play” account
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by codazoda 3y ago
I don’t have experience with the outlined workflow, only with GitHub PR’s, but it feels like maybe the PR’s could too big if you have this problem? I’m anticipating some push back on this, because I didn’t notice it mentioned anywhere else,
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by codazoda 3y ago
It’s totally possible for many of us. I simply own a domain at Namecheap and hit their dynamic IP update endpoint to set the dns to point to my currently assigned IP. Mine only changes with router resets and such. I also forward some ports
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by codazoda 3y ago
As a total noob, will this help me design my first parts using a kit like a Pico W kit with motors, switches, LEDs and such? Will the ECD be helpful in making sure I get stuff close-ish?
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by codazoda 3y ago
I’d love to read more about your contact system if you’ve written about it or care to. I’m mostly unavailable on the phone except to people who are in my contact list (do not disturb mode) but I wouldn’t mind considering how to take it a st
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by codazoda 3y ago
Audio didn’t really catch on for journaling either; save podcasters. It’s reasonably easy to store for most of us on this platform. For most people it has the same search problem. I used to take audio notes in the car, because it’s easy to
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by codazoda 3y ago
I’ve never seen this before but I think it’s right up my alley (save the part where I’m pretty introverted as far as meetups and video calls). I just went down a rabbit hole looking at the RSVP specs, h-cards (which I remember from way back
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by codazoda 3y ago
This feels different to me because Arm is designing these chips. It feels a bit more like a drafting company who draws plans but doesn’t build anything. They don’t just have some loosely defined patent. The linked articles are about the bra
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by codazoda 3y ago
Also listed elsewhere, this repo has a much more up to date list. Maybe I should make an edit to the repo after all these years! I also had trouble finding the original author online when I created the GitHub repo, but the other repo links
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Control USB power on a port by port basis on some USB hubs(github.com)
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I wonder if it supports software control? I haven’t messed with this in a long long time, but here’s a C program for controlling USB port power via software. It works on a pretty limited set of hubs, because most cheap out on including the
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by codazoda 3y ago
I was a hobby VB developer at this time and I abandoned it shortly after VB.net without really realizing why. I also abandoned Windows completely shortly thereafter. The main thing that killed me was the size of the files that you had to di
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by codazoda 3y ago
Wow, this hits hard. I became a fan because my father-in-law was a big fan. I was amazed at the business side of the artist. The way he basically turned a single hit album from 1977 into a life-long career and a giant enterprise delivering
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by codazoda 3y ago
I was experimenting with this just last week. The TRS-80 CoCo was my first computer and I still have one. A year or two ago I was able to read and write data to a modern digital audio recorder. I think a program could be built to write the

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