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by faster 4y ago
I get 5-7 hours on battery from my X1C7 FHD running Ubuntu. I carry a power bank in my bag that gives me that much again.
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by faster 4y ago
I've had servers in FMT1 since 2000. They had a series of power issues. Generators didn't start and everything died. Next time the power went out the generator started and the switch from the grid to the generator blew out the swi
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by faster 5y ago
I remember reading "Modern Manners" and laughing so hard. The first edition was so extreme that the working was softened in later versions. "Dating is a social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion."
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by faster 5y ago
And this Stanford guy is good too. This may not be the best one of his podcasts for addressing the exact goal but it's still relevant. https://hubermanlab.com/optimizing-workspace-for-productivit...
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by faster 5y ago
I was a huge Desqview fan, and I tried Desqview/X but didn't stick with it. In the 80's I built a multi-line electronic claims submission host for a local insurance company that ran the same app 4 times under Desqview (not X)
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by faster 5y ago
I expect bots on a new unadvertised site within minutes. I've seen it many times. Bots are always scanning, along with script kiddies.
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by faster 5y ago
What's the difference in cost to the organization giving the shots or the antibody tests? My expectation is that they're about the same. If that's true, it's easier and more certain to just require vaccination. Also, thi
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by faster 5y ago
I was hoping the article would mention the recent "security improvement" that prevents daemons from using Bluetooth in Big Sur. I haven't seen anything from Apple (or anyone else) explaining how that improves security.
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by faster 5y ago
That just happened to me! I have been a contractor at a Fortune 50 company for a while and they opened a position for the job I'm doing. I applied and was rejected by the HR algorithm (the rejection email came about 2 minutes after I s
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by faster 5y ago
2 of the 4 credit cards in my wallet have greatly restricted the coverage they provide for rental cars in the last 2 years. Check your cards to be sure you're still covered.
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by faster 5y ago
Food poisoning is real too, and I got a food handling certificate online in 20 minutes for about $20. Is cosmetology that much more complicated (safety-wise; incompetence has its own consequences, same as in the restaurant industry) than f
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by faster 5y ago
I thought it was Naples FL, tied with Newport Beach, CA. Every financial offer I've gotten with one of those places in the return address has been extremely scammy looking, and I lost a pile of money to a Newport Beach scammer in the 8
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by faster 5y ago
I don't know anything about the normal real estate closing process in Canada, but I learned (through a word game, of all things) that there are types of real estate fraud in some countries that are impossible (without explicit seller c
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by faster 5y ago
I once had a conversation with a couple friends of friends who did targeting for the credit card industry, figuring out which demographics to send cards to. Their goal was to find people who paid responsibly and spent irresponsibly. If peop
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by faster 5y ago
Funny; I have a Polish friend who lives in France and LOVES peanut butter. When she travels to the US she always maxes out her luggage weight with peanut butter on the return trip. I'm sure there are outliers everywhere. An Italian fri
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by faster 6y ago
In my first job (early 80s), we wrote 6809 assembly in Wordstar using non-document mode. It worked very well for that purpose. We had a Molecular Supermicro 32, basically a card cage for Z80 boards running CP/M and sharing a small (lar
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by faster 6y ago
I recently read a book where the killer convinces victims (via hypnosis) to swallow their tongue, which blocks the airway and suffocates them. Decades ago, there was an episode of Hawaii-50 where the killer used bullets made of ice, so ther
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by faster 6y ago
I have gotten a lot of books via alibris.com (no affiliation, just a happy customer), a marketplace for used booksellers. I got a brand new $170 statistics textbook for about $35 because it was intended for another country; thinner paper an
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by faster 6y ago
Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but I've never had a site attach extra text to copied text like this site does. I wanted to see what the test machine's case looks like, so I copied the make and model and pasted it into
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by faster 6y ago
When I was building back end software, I could and did work from anywhere. I enjoyed working in the same space with my team, but not all day and not every day. And it wasn't necessary except maybe once or twice per quarter. Now I work
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by faster 6y ago
Serious question: what are the 'far-left' analogs of QAnon, Pizzagate, and the anti-vax and flat earth movements? I'm sure it's just my bias, but I can't think of any right now.
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by faster 6y ago
George Carlin did a great routine on 'stuff'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac "a house is ... a pile of stuff with a cover on it".
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by faster 6y ago
Of course she learned to swear from her friends. For better or worse, that's where most people I know learned to fit in with their peers and confuse their parents. That and older siblings who were a little farther along the path toward
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by faster 6y ago
When my daughter was about 5 we were on public transit and a bunch of teens were talking near us. Every second or third word was 'fuck' or 'shit'. My daughter asked why they talk that way. I told her it was because they
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by faster 6y ago
Yes, on both Digital Ocean and its 'brother from another mother' Linode. I have a client with a few Linode VPSs and their biggest attacks by far come from the 'private' network.
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by faster 6y ago
I completely agree with you about acceptable risk; sorry I misread your last sentence above.
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by faster 6y ago
It sounds like you accept the bill's authors' claim that EARN-IT is about protecting children. I'd be very interested in hearing from child abuse investigators how the controls in the bill line up with how tech is used in abu
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by faster 7y ago
I had some Levi's 501s that I got at a farm supply store for $12 when I was in college (early 80s). I wore them regularly for about 15 years then occasionally until a few years ago. They had no holes when I donated them. Newer 501s don
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by faster 7y ago
I switched to VS Code with the PlatformIO extension. A little bit of conversion is required, 'ino' to 'cpp' and some shuffling between directories.
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by faster 7y ago
This reminds me of the old SGI postmortem memo [0] which said "optimists tend to be promoted". I've seen the exact scenario described in the 'management issues' section of that memo played out several times, so it r

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