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by fooblat 5y ago
This hobby is especially fun if you know someone else who is into it you can trade mix tapes with. I got hooked after I picked up a deck for $5 at a flea market. All it needed was a good cleaning. Since then I've picked up 3 more decks
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by fooblat 5y ago
There is a dark side to placebo research and especially the work of Ted Kaptchuk and it is this: patients often report feeling better after a placebo treatment, and they subjectively do, but their condition has not actually improved and the
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by fooblat 5y ago
You really have to look into the details here. Dr. Ted J. Kaptchuk is a an infamous alt medicine advocate[0] and his manipulations are well documented. In this case the subjects were told "this is a placebo, it has no active ingredient
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by fooblat 5y ago
> Every time my router resets, all of the IPv6 addresses in my home network change. Isn't this solved by using dynamic dns updates? I've been running a native ipv6 home network for a few years and have not run into any issues.
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by fooblat 5y ago
You seem to be jumping to a lot of conclusions simply because we chose freely available open source. To have a business depend on software you either need a support service or you support it yourself. We chose the latter and made sure the t
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by fooblat 5y ago
It is highly negotiable when you get to large volumes. We got a term where CloudFront fetches from EC2 were free for objects <101K (or something like that) and free for EC2 from S3. We were able to take great advantage of that with the w
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by fooblat 5y ago
I did exactly this project for a high traffic site about 10 years ago. We got datacenter rooms wholesale that included power and cooling. Did everything else ourselves and cut our burn rate in half. However, we were totally open source so n
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by fooblat 5y ago
Something to consider: To stand 6' away and still be able to read the things people at my company present via screen share I would need a 10' screen (or binoculars). edit: typos
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by fooblat 5y ago
My gut reaction to this is hell no. I absolutely do not want a camera on me while I'm trying to concentrate and get work done. I also don't do well in open offices with my back to the room. Maybe I'm just old but I need some
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by fooblat 5y ago
I'm struggling to understand what problem this is meant to solve. I've been working in high scale production environments for 15+ years and I can't think of a situation where I'd mount a network file server and run a loc
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by fooblat 5y ago
I want a setting for "Search for what I actually typed in the search bar" instead of trying to guess what I meant. I was advised to use advanced search syntax and operators but when I do I get a captcha challenge on every other se
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by fooblat 5y ago
This is not objectively less complicated than running your own mail server and certainly requires no less prerequisite knowledge, just different. I get doing this for the fun of figuring it out and I'm all for that kind of project. If
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by fooblat 5y ago
It does seem like an odd choice given that Creative Commons specifically recommends against it[0]. That alone would make me unlikely to use this project. 0. https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm..
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by fooblat 5y ago
I'm with you on this one. I refuse to buy any appliance that requires a connection to the internet. I look for things that are straightforward to repair and maintain.
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by fooblat 5y ago
Interesting. I do something similar like this: cat $script | ssh $server bash Haven't found a case where this fails yet (but I'm sure it's out there). Edit to add this also works nicely: ssh $server bash < $
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by fooblat 5y ago
This drove me crazy when I lived in Berlin. I did some research and you don't have to put up with it. Contact Amazon DE customer service and tell them to put a note on your account that you do not consent to any changes to the delivery
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by fooblat 5y ago
Ads are fine. Trying every way possible to track and record every second of my life online and in the physical world is evil.
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by fooblat 5y ago
I just tested it and, in bash at least, it actually works fine. echo foo | # echoing foo tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' FOO
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by fooblat 5y ago
Pro tip, if a line ends in a | you don't need a trailing backslash. The same is true if a line ends in || or && as those all imply continuation. Edit: cat file | program1 | program2 | ...
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by fooblat 5y ago
Nice list! > If you want to cat bunch of files at once you can this command You can use cat itself for this (and save typing a few characters): cat *
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by fooblat 5y ago
After much research I purchased a Samsung MWF300G[0] a modern microwave with only 2 dials. Used daily for 5 years and I love it. 0. https://www.samsung.com/levant/microwave-ovens/solo/mwf300g-...
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by fooblat 5y ago
At the time I was getting dialup service from a small regional ISP. One day I asked them if I could use my own domain name and they happily offered to host the dns records, make my dialup IP static, and set records for www,mx, etc. All for
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by fooblat 5y ago
It was a different world in 1995. I was able to register my first name as a domain name also in 1995 because it was simply unclaimed.
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by fooblat 5y ago
As a big word nerd I'm curious about the name "tickertape display" as it seems to be a blending of two things. Historically, "ticker tape" is what came out of telegraph printers. These printers were later replaced b
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by fooblat 5y ago
At that point why not use Amazon WorkMail[0]? Then you don't have to maintain anything at all. 0. https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/
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by fooblat 5y ago
Yes and no, respectively. A cgi-bin is as highly available as the web infrastructure hosting it, which as the cgi-bin author you don't need to know anything about. A cgi-bin cannot "crash" because there is nothing long-runnin
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by fooblat 5y ago
Em yes! "The European Parliament has voted in favour of an amendment (no.171) which would place further restrictions on the use of dairy food labels for plant-based products. The use of dairy terms, such as "cheese", "yo
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by fooblat 5y ago
Where I live in the EU, a product cannot legally be labeled as cheese if it does not meet the official definition of cheese, which includes being made from milk. We also have lots of vegan "cheese" type products with funny names l
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by fooblat 5y ago
I was working in a large computer store in California when Bob came out. To my memory, I never sold a single copy. This is despite a large in-store promotion put on by Microsoft.
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by fooblat 5y ago
> I can’t stop everything and clean up. As much as I would like to, I have a deadline. In my experience, if this way of thinking has become institutionalized you have bad leadership. It is literally unsustainable to constantly develop wi

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