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by fooblat 5y ago
I love internet radio projects. Did you consider making a DIY internet radio from a raspberry pi? That's actually what I was expecting to see based on the title. I used a rpi to make an internet radio for our living room our of a 1950s
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by fooblat 5y ago
It is amazing to me that we still have such a distance between people on this. Some people have basically created a tv studio at home with a nice set, good lighting, nice background, quality camera, and mic. Having a video call with these p
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by fooblat 6y ago
> I'm only saying you should avoid using modern things needlessly. I agree with that idea. However, I don't think it applies in this case. The point of using modern bash syntax is that it fixed the brittleness and pitfalls of p
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by fooblat 6y ago
Am I understanding correctly that your point is that we shouldn't write modern bash scripts because some number of untrained people will have problems by accidentally misusing the scripts (wrong interpreter, blind copy/paste, etc)
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by fooblat 6y ago
> it's the worst of both worlds since it's neither portable nor that much better than POSIX Writing modern bash using the updated syntax, it is easy to make robust scripts and the syntax around things like quoting is simple and
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by fooblat 6y ago
I've been seeing this argument for decades and yet I've never run into any issues like you describe. When I write a bash script it is for my use or in my production system. In either case I call bash explicitly (/usr/bin
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by fooblat 6y ago
Alternatively you can use the newer (and highly recommended) bash syntax that is also quote safe: $ a=1; b=1; c='!'; d='!' $ [[ $a = $b && $c = $d ]] && echo true true For anyone writi
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by fooblat 6y ago
I love my MiSTer build! The usb controllers made for the recent mini systems (NES, SNES, Genesis, etc) make great accessories for the mister. Add a couple of usb arcade sticks and you can really play almost any classic retro games as it was
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by fooblat 6y ago
> Most of the code there was copied from StackOverflow, proving that it’s correct and we can skip writing tests and save us some time. So perfect!
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by fooblat 6y ago
While I haven't personally used it, another commenter mentioned Xonsh[0] and that is what it appears to be: A very smooth integration of python into a shell that still feels like a unix shell. 0. https://xon.sh/
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by fooblat 6y ago
I have a friend who lives like this. He also insists he doesn't smell. In reality he often has a noticeable odor. Whether you'd find this odor offensive or not seems to be at least partly cultural.
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by fooblat 6y ago
So many happy memories of that place! Like the time I went there in the early 90s as a teenager to get a book about this new html thing. It was so new they had just one book on the subject!
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by fooblat 6y ago
I was a teenager in the late 80s and BBSing was a huge part of my life for over a decade. At one point I had met most of my friends through local BBSes. I have intense nostalgia for those times, running telix[0] (and later qmodem[1]) long
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by fooblat 6y ago
Really cool and brings me a wave of nostalgia for Mugshot[0]. 15 years ago Red Hat launched a similar service and it was great. Unfortunately it didn't catch on. 0. https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/0
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by fooblat 6y ago
I joined spotify in 2011 and the core offer was simply access to all music across your devices. However, that's not really relevant. 2020 was the year I really started to question why I was taking such care with my data in some ways bu
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by fooblat 6y ago
When this report came out it was the straw that broke the camel's back for me in terms of my data privacy. Most people seem to have found Wrapped 2020 entertaining but I found it creepy. I miss being able to do something simple like li
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by fooblat 6y ago
Since this tip is popular I'll share another related tip. When using nested ssh session, you can send escape commands to any of them by the number of tildes. For example, if you ssh into Server A and then from Server A to Server B:
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by fooblat 6y ago
Great write up! One thing to add is that you can even open tunnels during an interactive session without disconnection. To do this, type the escape command sequence ~C (will not show) and it will drop you to the control prompt. You can then
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by fooblat 6y ago
This is my experience as well. You must always ask for a detailed description for these roles. I've even seen companies that have a role called "Product Manager Owner" with a vague enough description that it could be either o
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by fooblat 6y ago
For me the difference is stark. At my last three companies it worked like this: Product Manager is responsible for the product strategy and feature roadmap. They spend most of their focus on internal and external customers. They report up t
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by fooblat 6y ago
Indeed, my first reaction was that this would be a list of sites to avoid.
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by fooblat 6y ago
> A printed photo in an album can easily last 20+ years without deterioration. This first sentence is a big one. For a while now we have been making a yearly printed album of our favorite family photos. The first one was a gift for our p
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by fooblat 6y ago
Taboola, Zergnet, Outbrain, and the like are half the reason I run a pihole. These companies and their ilk promote the worst of the worst of clickbait.
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by fooblat 6y ago
I've been using linux based operating systems for 20+ years and I decided to give NixOS a try recently. I had read the install was "difficult" but I found it very straightforward. The configuration system very easy to underst
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by fooblat 6y ago
Neat project but, contrary to the title, it is not in fact a heads up display.
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by fooblat 6y ago
By my reading of their privacy policy, it seems they will keep data they collect as part of a story or project. Personally, I never use anything that asks me to sign in with something else. My data is my business and IMO there are plenty of
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by fooblat 6y ago
Dr. Ted J. Kaptchuk is has been at this a long time. His agenda is pushing so-called alternative medicine. When you dig in just a little and do some research on him you will find a lot of reasons to question his assertions. In his studies,
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by fooblat 6y ago
I find those studies problematic. In the ones I read from your links, the doctor says something along the lines of "this pill is a placebo. It means it has no active ingredients. However, the 'placebo effect' is known to be p
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by fooblat 6y ago
They don't have a dvd iso for Springdale 8 but there is a boot.iso download and a package repo[1] 1. https://springdale.math.ias.edu/data/puias/8/
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by fooblat 6y ago
> Assess whether they’ll accept help This is the big one for me. Previously I had such an under performer on my team. When presented with concrete examples of where he was falling short of expectations he simply would not accept that he

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