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I have the same setup, but I haven't yet been able to get the Yubikey Neo to work as a GPG key on android via NFC. It prompts for a PIN, but the PIN I use for GPG on linux isn't accepted. There's also no working windows cl
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9y ago
it's TOTP, but it backs up your TOTP codes in the cloud and will happily restore them to any device that can receive SMSes to your phone number.
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9y ago
As far as I can tell, the internal combustion engine and related components are not the most expensive part of a modern car to build or maintain. Suspension, braking, tires, electronics, drivetrain and interior features are the parts of
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9y ago
In Boston city traffic, bikes move faster than cars. The city speed limit is 25 mph, and most narrow roads with sharrows the typical traffic speed is much lower. Source: Bikes daily in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville on a bike share bike.
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In both cases, critical data with no backups was deleted by an ex-employee. In the "first day" story, it just happened to be both his first day and last day. I guess the difference is that one was a developer and the other an adm
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9y ago
under 30, almost all from green vegetables.
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I switched from a calorie restricted "balanced" diet (1900 kcal/day, 150g carbs/day) with small portions that was going nowhere to an unrestricted (>2500 kcal/day, <30g carbs/day) diet with larger portion
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9y ago
I've cut carbs and increased my calorie intake (through fat and protein) over the past year and have shed 70 lbs of "water weight". I went from Obese to a healthy weight, from a 42" waist to a 32" waist. And I'
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9y ago
even assuming 100% buy-in for content providers for google pass as an ad replacement, it doesn't replace all the use cases of a decent ad-blocker (like ublock origin). For me, I block newrelic, google analytics, segment, and a whole b
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9y ago
That list of cars isn't the list of most popular millennial cars, it's the list of cars that no one except young people will buy. You're right, the GT-R, R32, WRX, IS-F, and Magnum aren't a "normal person cars"
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9y ago
The Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite or Edgerouter X is cheaper and able to handle gigabit network traffic, and can terminate OpenVPN. https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-... or https://www.amazo
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9y ago
dealerships in the US are nicknamed "stealerships." People typically don't go to the dealership for service once the warranty is up, if at all. The dealerships in my area charge as much as 4x the cost of independent shops for
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in the late 90's, I knew the guy that had somehow secured and was running the .so ccTLD single-handedly. In the age of $70/year register.com bills, it seemed insane that a single person could be responsible for an entire TLD. I&#
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You don't get the value proposition. This isn't for cost saving, it's for time saving and organization. Here's where we are today: If I spend any significant amount of time away from one of my devices (phone, laptop, de
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9y ago
I'd love to have both, though. Debian apps for productivity, android apps for communications/games, side by side on the same screen with shared storage and maybe synchronized state. As it is, I have to manually sync state betwee
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a co-worker got a trademark infringement notice when he used companyname@hisdomain.tld to interact with a particularly litigious software company. They assumed he was a reseller and was representing himself to others using the same email a
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9y ago
I don't think there's any notification that someone has added you to their contact list. That is, if you have someone's phone number in your contact list, and they sign up for amazon calling, you see their name in a list. H
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Just yesterday I was hearing news of how most of the retail giants and lots of smaller retail stores are going out of business due to competition from ecommerce. If that means the end of practices like this, then good riddance.
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Neither of my parents (70+) can handle smart phones. They get computers, TVs and other personal electronics just fine, but iOS and Android are both basically unusable for them. Both OSes have too many distractions and too many interaction
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I've found Gnome-terminal to be better than iTerm2 in the areas that matter to me - speed, color/font rendering, and configurability. I switched from OS X to Ubuntu and i3 because I was tired of how slow iTerm2 was compared to Gn
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The space doesn't cost as much as it once did. In almost every market, the land is the expensive part, not the house. Modern building materials are cheap and energy efficient. I moved from a 1400sqft 1930 built house to a 3600sqft 20
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I'm slowly moving off Google's platforms after over a decade as a GApps user because of how nothing works for apps users anymore. Even if I could find a gmail address that wouldn't get buried in spam and that I actually like
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I don't have a google home, but I have android TV (NVidia Shield) and an Android phone, Android Watch and several chromecast audios. Google Assistant on my android phone and watch can't interface with the chromecasts or android T
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Would be great to see this functionality in the rest of google's products, but I'm not optimistic. I'd love to seperate my kids' youtube and app usage from my own on my Android TV. Why is feature parity, or hell, even c
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9y ago
I remember the last time I looked at Nylas, it was a fancy gmail frontend. Now it appears to require a "Nylas ID" which is not something I need. I don't want my mail being synced to someone else's computer. Where's
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9y ago
My company uses github, and it's been down enough to significantly impact work about a dozen times in the past 3 years. There were periods before that where github would be down enough to cause CI or CD builds to fail on a daily basis
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are you sure the link works? I'm frustrated, but not really surprised, by the amount of email I get where the unsubscribe link returns a 404 or 500 error on submission. I'd say it's close to 20% of all unsubscribe links are
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10y ago
I've tried to do work on windows 10 Pro on a brand new 8 core Ryzen machine with 16 GB of RAM, SSD storage, and an RX480, and working in windows at the command line is 100x (no exaggeration) slower than Linux.
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I find my workflow in "bash for windows" horribly slow. My prompt command (that does git/virtualenv/etc checks) takes 4 seconds to run on windows and 0.04 seconds to run on the same machine dual-booted to ubuntu, and ab
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10y ago
Renting/Leasing doesn't help, because the real cost of failures that can't be fixed is time. Crops need to be harvested in a small window of time, and if your tractor is broken due to a software bug that you're not all
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