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by jdeibele 6y ago
What I don't understand is why a replaceable battery is seen as an all or nothing proposition. Design the car so that you could add 1 or 2 extra batteries when you need them. So 90%, 95%, 99% of the time you're using your built-
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by jdeibele 6y ago
My wife had her older Prius battery run down years ago. I tried to jump start it in the parking garage but my cables weren't long enough to reach the front. We called AAA. I didn't think there was any way that the battery for th
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by jdeibele 6y ago
TVs now come with smart apps that can report what you're watching for advertising. There are very few brands (Sceptre being one) that don't do this. So now TV manufacturers are supposed to sell the razor at or near cost and make
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by jdeibele 6y ago
My daughters attended a local public program where students had to achieve at least 99% on certain tests. The program started out relatively central, then was moved further out. The year after my younger daughter left, the program was spl
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The most famous example of this is the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. They've been re-written 4 or 5 times, basically updated for each generation. Franklin W. Dixon (Hardy Boys) and Carolyn Keene were pen names for a variety of au
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by jdeibele 6y ago
My daughter is a freshman and she chose Oregon State from the schools she was admitted to. When I was a student, Oregon State had one campus. They still have their main campus but a major second campus almost 3 hours away by car. Also, th
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by jdeibele 6y ago
pip-review works great for keeping packages up to date. https://pypi.org/project/pip-review/ > pip-review Faker==4.18.0 is available (you have 4.17.1) pip==20.3 is available (you have 20.2.4) > pip-review --
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I had read a long time ago that a typical 3x9 arrangement has fewer "real" gears than 27. One reason is that you're not supposed to heavily use the gears that are the most opposed because it causes additional chain wear.
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Late to the conversation but I wanted to switch the DNS for parents-in-law and found that Comcast has DNS settings locked down (not user changeable) on their router. Since they're also using VoIP and cable from Comcast, I didn't g
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Google Reader has been gone so long that I really don't remember all the features that it had. One thing that I seem to remember it having was a social aspect. Twitter doesn't treat its lists very well but it is possible to find
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I did read it. But Medium.com doesn't seem to support RSS feeds at all. I would have liked to add a feed for your articles so I could read them even when they don't make the front page of HN.
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Yes, you're right. Thank you. And they're still doing offering PDF's only to members. Which I don't have a problem with.
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I bought what I thought was a 2020 Mac Mini in April direct from Apple. The only significant difference on paper was that the base model came with 128GB for the 2018, 256GB for the 2020. As it turns out, that's true: About This Mac sa
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As I remember, they charged a membership fee for being able to download the whole article as a PDF. It seemed somewhat reasonable that an article that would be passed around the department or on to your boss would require a fee. I can'
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by jdeibele 6y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/02/09/584555705/epis... "The art market is going nuts. People are spending record amounts of money of paintings like Leonardo da Vinci's Salvat
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Were you able to do that without digging into the walls? My house had a bathroom and the kitchen upgraded by the previous owner and we did the basement but most of the house remains on knob-and-tube. I've gradually added GFCI outlets
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by jdeibele 6y ago
The confusion seems to be about logging into your account on the web versus using a mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird. Pick a service that lets you use a long password and a security key (like Yubikey) or authenticator (Google, Authy)
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by jdeibele 6y ago
The look and feel of Big Sur is like a breath of fresh air. It definitely feels related to iPadOS with the colors and buttons that seem destined for a touchscreen but as somebody who uses multiple Apple devices it was comforting rather tha
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Maybe if you commit 100% to the Google system or work solely on your iPhone/iPad it is. I wanted to look at pictures on the big screen of my desktop Mac. Leaving Google Photos in automatic upload on my phone meant that photos would a
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I've been pleased with PhotoSweeper on my Mac. I started with the free Lite version, then went ahead and bought the full version. I set it at the highest match setting. If you adjust it to a lower setting, it will match things where
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by jdeibele 6y ago
And the Intel Mac Mini had user-replaceable RAM. Tired of fan noise and slow response, I went from a 4 Thunderbolt 2018 MacBook Pro with only 8GB of RAM to a 2018 Mac Mini with 32GB of RAM (originally 8GB, bought the RAM from Amazon and up
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by jdeibele 6y ago
https://www.forbes.com/2010/06/16/legal-humor-archery-opinio... says that the English were required to practice the longbow starting before the 13th Century. In 1541 every man 60 and under was to have a lon
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I use my Brother MFC-2740DW more for scanning than I do for printing. It does a great job with Apple's Image Capture on my Mac either using the document feeder or the flatbed. What I love about the document feeder is that it will sca
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I worked for Software Etc. for a while. I remember thinking "they pay us peanuts and they expect monkeys". This was demonstrated by the two fat binders filled with procedures for EVERYTHING that were supposed to followed to the l
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I remember hearing that IBM shipped computers with extra processors installed that could be activated if you paid the fee. In searching for more information, I found https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWE
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I changed the DNS setting on my router to one that blocks ads. The game I play shows me "house ads" - ads that are built into the app for the publisher's other games and their Facebook page - instead of ads from whatever aw
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by jdeibele 6y ago
To chime in: The local newspaper went from being delivered 7 days a week as a folded newspaper to being delivered 4 days a week in a tabloid form that's about 60% the size of the old format. We cancelled then, and probably a lot of oth
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I have United-branded Visa. I was going to cancel it but the rep said that I could pay the annual fee of $95 with miles. I have it to avoid paying bag fees. Haven't traveled with United for more than a year. I guess I'll kee
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Use PiHole on a Raspberry Pi or set your DNS to use servers that block ads via DNS. I did the latter six months ago. One time I've had to show my college freshman how to change the DNS on her MacBook from the router default settings t
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I've gone to visits with a partner with metastatic breast cancer, my father with colon cancer, and my mother with metastatic lung cancer. It's incredibly useful to have two sets of ears listening to what the doctors are saying so

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