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by duffyjp 5y ago
I don't know if you'd call it a bug exactly, but the fact you still can't name a file "con.txt" or "aux.bat" etc is pretty silly.
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I had a bluetooth mouse and keyboard on my PowerBook G4 for two years before I even had wifi. It worked flawlessly. As soon as folks started adding wifi to their homes the mouse became unusable and the keyboard would occasionally miss key
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I had left an almost full case of Diet Pepsi at work went we were sent home for COVID. Over a year later when allowed back I opened up the work fridge and grabbed a can. Due to masking and still being quite nervous about the virus I basic
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I babied my iPhone 12 Pro by using an automation to turn off a smart-outlet at 76% charge. After a year I'm at 95% health, basically on par with everyone else. I've discontinued the automation and will just buy a new battery in a
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by duffyjp 5y ago
My ~25 year old dishwasher has a delay-start. That solved the stray dish issue for us.
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by duffyjp 5y ago
If reddit ever dropped the old.reddit option, that would be the last time I ever use the site. They must know the new (several years old now, I suppose) layout is awful. I can't understand the rational. Maybe it cost a fortune to bu
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I bought an LG G7 from Google Fi, and it was exactly 18 months from the phone's release to when they stopped updating it. I didn't buy it on day one either, so I got even less. I vowed that was the last e-waste phone I'm bu
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by duffyjp 5y ago
FWIW, I'm using a Dell charger at home with a new 16" Macbook Pro and that works just fine. I think it's only 65 watts, but it's never been insufficient. Their website shows they're available in just a couple days.
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I've been doing Rails for about 12 years and at our shop we have it down. `cap production deploy` and it's done. Essentially zero downtime for deploys. Some things I'd note-- * Don't use puma or unicorn. Phusion Passe
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by duffyjp 5y ago
Wow, that's incredibly dishonest to consumers! My turkey states "no hormones added," I assume that's also unlawful like pork? It should be illegal to advertise you're not doing something that is illegal in the firs
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I went from AirPort Extreme -> Google Wifi -> Asus RT-AX86U. They all have their pros and cons but the Asus is immensely more powerful. I love that it can mount a large USB drive as Time Machine, and the wireless is so fast it'
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I'd take the leap to 4K. It's time. :) I have my work Macbook Pro connected over USB-C and my gaming PC over Displayport. I just turn on whichever system and the monitor turns on and my keyboard, mouse, wireless headset etc come
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I did that for years in my 20s, not for eye-health but because it was awesome. I still have that 800x600 projector on a shelf...
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I've been doing this for YEARS and can confirm it's an amazing setup. I'm on my second 43" display. The first was a 4K TV and the new one is an Aorus 4K Gaming Monitor. It's high refresh rate and has a built in K
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I'm on an intel iMac with Big Sur and 48GB of ram. I've had this memory leak plague my system at least half a dozen times. I just checked and I'm one notch up from "normal" on the cursor size. I tried setting it ba
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I haven't had a chance to try yet, but I'm hoping some of the irb regressions that began around 2.7 are fixed. Try pasting an array or hash with 1000 or so elements. In 2.6.x it's instantaneous, in 2.7.x it can take minutes
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I was in Tokyo on March 11, 2011. I completely understand why the Japanese public are against nuclear power.
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by duffyjp 5y ago
My PowerPC G4 PowerBooks have that.
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by duffyjp 5y ago
"Without overpassing that narrow boundary which plunges the ambitious penman into the ridiculous" In the modern vernacular, "jumping the shark."
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I own a 2011 Macbook Pro I still use daily. I have Apple laptops going all the way back to the PowerPC days and use current ones through work but that DVD equipped unibody generation has the very best keyboard. By far.
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by duffyjp 5y ago
Whenever I look into the modern formats excited to save 50% on bandwidth, I realize I'd have to spend 50% more on storage since I still need my fallback to JPEG. WebP is probably the best supported but isn't available on slightly
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by duffyjp 5y ago
Affordable is relative. These are at least twice what I've ever paid for casual-looking shoes.
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I use hard drive magnets as key hooks. Keys themselves don't stick, but the keyring does and holds great. I put my business card under mine and the wife's under hers both to label and to have a way to eventually remove them from
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by duffyjp 5y ago
Yep, I store each hash in the DB. The ruby gem has a mechanism to test similarity to your existing hashes with a threshold so small edits still match. It's surprisingly fast too, checking against every existing hash doesn't noti
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I've been using this in a Rails app to detect duplicate image uploads for years. It works really well. https://github.com/westonplatter/phashion
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by duffyjp 5y ago
The 1980s domestic cars I drove in my youth had odometers with only 5 digits. That tells you a lot.
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by duffyjp 5y ago
I could rant for ages, but already got downvoted so I'll keep it short. It was the only car I've ever owned to leave me stranded. It did so at least half a dozen times. The 12V battery (which we replaced) would be drained flat b
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by duffyjp 5y ago
We owned a Ford plug-in hybrid. Amazing power, every creature comfort imaginable, great price-- what could go wrong? Sort answer: everything. It was an absolute nightmare. First and last Ford I'll ever buy.
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by duffyjp 5y ago
You can buy something in the 1-3 KW range at Home Depot. I've seen one in person at an off-grid house and the owner couldn't understand why people even used solar. This was 15+ years ago though, so solar was MUCH more expensive
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by duffyjp 6y ago
My iPhone is set to "Silence Unknown Callers." It's the perfect compromise. If a call is legitimate they'll leave a voicemail and I just call them back.

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