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by duffyjp 4y ago
I think the key is the Volt was designed to be a great plug in hybrid from the start. The C-Max had an ICE only, standard hybrid, and plug-in hybrid version. Our plug-in literally had two separate high voltage batteries. Half the cargo b
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Depends on what he's using it for. Ventoy won't boot on lots of intel Macs and certain questionable EFI systems. If they're refurbishing machines and time is more important having separate USB sticks for each OS is worth no
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I'd be curious what the output is of the f3probe tool used in the article. I assume you have a 128GB module with the missing bits used as reserve for when blocks fail. I'm fine with that if it's sold as a 124GB drive, not 12
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by duffyjp 4y ago
My experience with WD spinning disks has been great. I've had two Sandisk SD cards fail which was a bummer but they both went into a read-only mode so I didn't lose any photos. I've switched to Samsung's high-endurance
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by duffyjp 4y ago
My wife had a plug-in Ford C-Max Energi for a few years. We always plugged it in but it only did ~20 miles on pure EV so long term our mileage was around 40MPG. My Prius easily beats that and I'm not paying an extra $20 a month on my
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I agree. I have a 2013 Prius C that cost me $20K brand new and gets 50mpg without even trying. My fuel expenses are negligible. The new 2023 Prius gets even better milage and has TWICE the horsepower (99 vs 196). Before the Prius I had a
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I just watched the HBO Chernobyl miniseries (excellent, btw) and the parallels to the initial lack of action to a huge public health threat is chilling. If there is a carcinogen in the air, get people out of there!
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Is Ubuntu Touch still active? The supported devices like on their website is really ancient: https://ubports.com/supported-products What I'd really love is to have a straight Ubuntu Server install for old android phon
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by duffyjp 4y ago
One of my first real jobs I was tasked with maintaining the department's website. After a while I asked my supervisor where it was actually hosted. He took me over to another building and showed me a headless G3 B&W PowerMac on t
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I guess you could try running your games at 800p on your current system and see what it's like. I actually do a lot of gaming at 1280x800 on an old Macbook. I'm using Parsec to connect to an Optiplex with a 1050ti in the basemen
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by duffyjp 4y ago
バッタ臭い / Battakusai / Stinks of butter was a derogatory term for foreigners in the past. Butter was unpopular with locals in Japan for a long time by what I've read, but I never thought the expression was being literal. Inte
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I lived in rural Japan for two years as a single guy and it was very, very cheap. I was making ~30k USD and saved half of it without really trying. I didn't have a car, but you don't need one even in the countryside if you can bik
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by duffyjp 4y ago
We've deployed with Capistrano to Ubuntu hosts for wow... 13 years now? It works super well, but our DevOps folks want to move to a push button approach within GitLab (rather than me typing one easy command, but hey). I'm super s
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I had lasik and struggle with this daily. My home setup is very comfortable. I got a 43" 4K 144hz screen and my eyes are a good 4 feet from it. I use a fairly reclined chair and lapdesk. By not focusing in all day and I can still see
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by duffyjp 4y ago
In theory, but in practice it doesn't work. I have an iPad Air 1 stuck on iOS 12 and it's basically useless since probably 75% of the apps you might want to install either refuse or don't work. All things that worked fine d
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by duffyjp 4y ago
The eBay listings are long gone, but in 2019 I ordered an adapter and a cheap used Samsung sata m.2 and they work perfectly in my G4 Mac Mini. The SSD listing descriptions were: * "2 Pack M.2 NGFF SATA SSD to 2.5 inch IDE 44PIN Convert
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by duffyjp 4y ago
There are I think three classes of meds now. I don't recall the specifics but they try you on the non-stimulant one first which for us didn't do anything. My son takes Concerta which is an extended release drug that basically giv
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I had a 12mhz AMD 286 as a kid and played the crap out of Wolfenstein. I'm sure it was running terribly but I didn't know any better.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Are you medicated? One of my boys has ADHD and it was life changing. When I was a kid ADD as they called it then was highly stigmatized because the meds turned you into a zombie, it's not the case anymore. Basically zero side effects
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Japan imports almost all of its oil, so maybe it makes sense in that market though the scale seems impractical to me. * https://www.worldometers.info/oil/japan-oil/
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Nope, I wrote a dedicated app to do the ETL (which is Rails but doesn't actually run a webserver outside of development). I'm transforming Peoplesoft data into something actually usable, so it's more complex than any off the
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I got the 16" M1 Max from work and adore it. I do Rails mostly and it's fantastic. We have a Rails based ETL app that pulls data from Oracle into a local Postgres with tons and tons of transformations. The Mac significantly out
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by duffyjp 4y ago
An excellent tool. I've used it for longer than I can remember to sort my photos and videos into yyyy/mm folders for easy organization and backups.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Was your Rails experience quite a while ago? Stuff like the method_missing matching a regex stuff that was common years ago has basically disappeared from common use, at least in my circle. Rails 7 has been my favorite version since 3. Ve
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by duffyjp 4y ago
They must be comparing you to a performance ICE car? Or you log lots of miles? I only spend around $300 a year on gas for my Prius, though I'm only logging 4000 miles a year on average. 50MPG goes a long way.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I run a Poweredge T20 with a Xeon E3-1275Lv3. I snagged a 32GB kit of ECC ram from somebody's trashcan Mac Pro on eBay for a song and have a couple SSDs for OS and VMs. I use USB WD MyBook drives for storage and backups. Right now th
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by duffyjp 4y ago
When I bought my current desktop the two CPUs I was looking at were the i7-9700K and i9-9900K. This was the generation where intel went from 6 cores with HT to 8 cores w/o HT for the i7. The i9 has 8 cores with HT. I liked the idea o
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I don't think there's an emoji to represent my facial expression when I read your sentence.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Oh, absolutely for what you describe newer chips are going to make a huge difference. The system I'm describing is used by my wife for Steam games, remote desktop, media consumption etc. My work laptop is an M1 Max and personal laptop
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by duffyjp 4y ago
It's probably a silly thing to do, but if you can pickup a 4770K or Xeon 1281v3 for the price of a pizza I bet you could get a a bit more life out of your machine. More cache and hyperthreading always helps. I had a 1271v3 in my son&#

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