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by geoffeg 2y ago
> Maybe this is Boeing's way of slowing down Dragon capsule dockings? I'm gonna go with Hanlon's razor here. The Starliner team seems to have enough trouble just getting a single Starliner to the ISS without issues, I can&
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by geoffeg 2y ago
For those wondering, this refers to Chesterton's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
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by geoffeg 2y ago
What are you using to generate album.json?
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by geoffeg 2y ago
I wonder if any other musician has had as big an impact on the music I listen to as Steve Albini did. A huge and sudden loss.
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by geoffeg 2y ago
Make sure you're not memorizing each letter's dits and dahs, that'll make it much harder to receive and transmit morse code at faster speeds. Better to learn the general "sound" of each character, often using a Koch
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by geoffeg 3y ago
> * Low ratio of window seats may not be acceptable to passengers Is that really a problem though? A lot of window passengers seem to close the window almost as soon as they get in their seat.
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by geoffeg 3y ago
New business opportunity: A company that ships iPhones to Europe and installs/refreshes alternative app stores on them.
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by geoffeg 3y ago
Seems like Boeing might not have the documentation the NTSB is requesting[1], even though they say they do keep that documentation. I wonder if Boeing doesn't want to admit that for some legal reason, maybe they don't have a lot o
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by geoffeg 3y ago
Is it a Gremlin?
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by geoffeg 3y ago
https://aviationsourcenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Re...
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by geoffeg 3y ago
That reminds me of something I've been thinking about: Does anyone make a modern Nokia N900? I miss having a small, open Linux machine with a good keyboard in my pocket. I don't want something running Android, I want a common(-ish
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by geoffeg 3y ago
My favorite is "Leaving to spend more time with their family."
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by geoffeg 3y ago
Honestly, I don't think the concern is this particular product or company, even if they can truly adhere to a privacy-first policy. For me the consideration is a slow erosion of privacy from any company or product. For instance: twenty
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by geoffeg 3y ago
My biggest complaint about my Steam Deck is the contrast ratio on the LCD screen. The backlight bleed bothers me more than it should, but I think I've gotten used to LCDs with very good contrast ratios over the last ten years. I'm
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by geoffeg 3y ago
For a while I had my phone charger plugged into a smart power outlet and a shortcut to turn that smart power outlet off when the phone's battery hit 80%. It would then turn the power outlet back on at 2pm the next day for it to be read
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by geoffeg 3y ago
I really hope Songtradr doesn't enshittify Bandcamp. Recent trends for services like Reddit, Twitter and others make me nervous, especially when it comes to FLAC downloads.
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by geoffeg 3y ago
Tailscale supports using NextDNS as a nameserver: https://tailscale.com/kb/1218/nextdns/
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by geoffeg 3y ago
A court case may not even be needed, sometimes a simple letter from a lawyer is all that it takes.
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by geoffeg 3y ago
My Dad had two Compucolor 8001s when I was a kid. One he used as his work machine, and the other as a "backup" I used. They felt very advanced for the time (early 80s) and I learned BASIC programming on them, drawing colored lines
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The .meta directory: let's tidy things up(dotmeta.org)
163 points by geoffeg 3y ago|140 comments
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by geoffeg 3y ago
Oh, I'm sure they're right, but it was wild to me, someone who starts any new web-based project with a static html page.
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by geoffeg 3y ago
I was in a meeting a while back where a team that was tasked with standing up a few dozen completely static websites was discussing what React components to use. I asked why they were using any front-end JS framework at all and not just cre
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by geoffeg 3y ago
You must have a very efficient house.
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by geoffeg 3y ago
Multiple HVAC techs I've talked to have recommended against installing good/high quality filters in a forced air system. They've explained that high-MERV filters reduce airflow which causes the fan to wear out faster and may
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Session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta(tailscale.com)
157 points by geoffeg 3y ago|32 comments
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by geoffeg 3y ago
Better yet: “I’m sorry, as an AI language model, I don’t have direct access to real-time information such as temperature. Can I help you with anything else?”
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by geoffeg 3y ago
Because the FAA moves at a glacial pace. It does seem to be getting better over the last few years though.
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by geoffeg 3y ago
The flight plan was the best case scenario.
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by geoffeg 4y ago
Isn't every news organization to some extent? https://my.lwv.org/california/torrance-area/article/how-reli...
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by geoffeg 4y ago
I first met him when he gave a talk at a St Louis Java user's group meeting on getting the first version of the Square app running on Android. The amount of optimization required at the time to get the app running in the limited resour

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