dirktheman

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by dirktheman 6y ago
It's mainly for privacy reasons. You don't have to write a custom solution over GA, since it already exists: just install Matomo (formerly: Piwik) on your webserver and you're done. It's just as useful as GA, free, and a
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Slightly related, but my daughter's junior high school offers a special course 'Maths for parents'. It's awesome since a lot of parents have forgotten even the most basic maths principles since they last sat in the scho
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by dirktheman 6y ago
My cousin's life dream has always been to be a chef. A while ago he finally made the transition, quit his job and started working as a chef in a restaurant. He was pretty disappointed to learn that it's... just another job. The le
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by dirktheman 6y ago
I know some farmers and they all have one thing in common: they work around the clock, 7 days a week. No days off or vacations. Their farms might be worth millions, but it's also both their home and their job. Also, a lot of people don
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by dirktheman 6y ago
You can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through
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by dirktheman 6y ago
If the actuator broke down the 351st time, would you've commented 'they didn't even spin something 400 times...'? What would be a number you'd be comfortable with instead?
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Those are the worst... it's like entering a store, only to have your way virtually blocked by a pushy salesman.
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by dirktheman 6y ago
My french teacher back in high school was also an emerging novelist (he's now quite famous here in The Netherlands). He used a system with pink colored post-it notes to keep track of his story lines, yellow post-its for quotes and gree
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by dirktheman 6y ago
I love Tasmota! I have a large cooker hood that I built into an alcove. Works fine, except my wife and children can't reach the buttons. I soldered wires to the button circuit board and connected a Sonoff 4CH Pro (basically 4 wifi conn
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by dirktheman 6y ago
For home office use you can't go wrong with a Brother HL-series laser printer. Cheap as beans, and (unlike HP), toner cartridges don't cost more than the printer itself. For large offices: I have NEVER encountered a large multifun
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by dirktheman 6y ago
For smaller organizations: when you see signs that bills aren't being payed on time, or when your employer delays your paychecks. Huge red flags that point to serious cash flow problems.
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Their test group for this feature consists of 8 to 9 people, with 5 in a control group. You'd think that for one of the most visited sites in the world, they'd have larger test groups?
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Related: the Pleasanton fire department has the oldest still functioning lightbulb. Apparently it was manufactured in the late 1890's, and has been in service with the fire department since 1901. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Excellent! That makes asking for a raise much easier! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574650
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Fun fact for all Americans who say "Our country is too big, changing to metric could never work here": Canada switched from Imperial to Metric between 1970 and 1985. Though in practice people you'll encounter people who will
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Let alone the measuring in stone when discussing people's weight...
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Imperial system reminds of UX people doing engineering. With one system you actually get a working program, guess which one...
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by dirktheman 6y ago
And why would a quarter of a gallon be more convenient or 'divisible in human unit' than a quarter of a liter...? Say, I walk into a bar. I order a beer. Here (in The Netherlands), since I didn't specify, I get a small beer o
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Similarly, the foldable MacLaren baby stroller was designed by Owen Finley MacLaren, who designed the undercarriage for the Supermarine Spitfire...
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by dirktheman 6y ago
And a whole province was erected where once was sea! "God created the earth, but the Dutch created the Netherlands"
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by dirktheman 6y ago
That was my first reaction, too. Generic, computer-generated mush. It doesn't take a skilled musician anymore to be a star. Then I recalled my youth. I was an angry teenager in the early to mid 1990s. My parents hated the grunge and pu
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by dirktheman 6y ago
The YouTube channel of this Figaro's owner, Technology Connections, is my absolute favorite channel! Super interesting stuff about how things like toasters or VCR actually works, a great series about the format wars, all with super hig
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Yes, you can use a S3 bucket and Route53 to host a high availability, static website for mere pennies.
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Do your sensors/lamps use Zigbee? I use the excellent Zigbee2MQTT library and a DIY Zigbee sniffer. Now I can use most vendor-locked IOT-devices (Hue, Ikea Tradfri, cheapo Chinese stuff) in my Home Assistant without the need of a separ
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by dirktheman 6y ago
I have a Mailgun account for the website of my daughter's gym club. After they scrapped the free tier the highest Mailgun invoice was $0.98. I always found it strange, the accounting, billing costs and transaction costs must have been
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by dirktheman 6y ago
I'm still on my Retina Macbook Pro late 2012, so not really...
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by dirktheman 6y ago
My WiFi-connected IOT devices run on a separate network, with outgoing connections disabled, but that's more out of a privacy concern. I'm a big fan of IOT and home automation, with one exception: door locks. I wouldn't trus
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by dirktheman 6y ago
It's a cool project, but for these kind of things I'd rather use a Shelly1. Runs locally, can easily be flashed with Tasmota firmware and it connects to my Home Assistant instance. This thing has never failed me and it's only
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by dirktheman 6y ago
I used to work in a very small village in France. The bakery from the nearby city would bring a van full of bread to the campsite near the town, the reception would function as a 'depot de pain' for both tourists and villagers.
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by dirktheman 6y ago
Modern car manufacturers: "Hey let's replace this perfectly fine working knob with a touch screen that sorta looks and feels like a knob but really isn't and that will need an outrageously expensive replacement just after the

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