jdeibele

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by jdeibele 9y ago
I was disappointed that I had to search for how to enable the caching services. That's done via the "Sharing" part of system preferences. This is one of the features that was only in the Server option but is now available fo
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by jdeibele 9y ago
I do the opposite: I try to limit recurring transactions to one or two per card. My cards have been compromised by Target, Home Depot, and other vendors. I never know exactly who, just get the notice from the bank that I'm getting a n
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by jdeibele 9y ago
In Portland, I've never seen the direction at the end of the street address. It's always <house number> <direction> <street name>. A lot of the City of Portland systems have you input your house number, street
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by jdeibele 9y ago
This was a thing about 10 years ago, maybe longer. Lots of stores started up that would list your stuff on eBay for a percentage of the price. That lasted for a year or so and all those stores closed up shop. It's too bad because t
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by jdeibele 9y ago
I was one of a bunch of people to stand in line at Costco because of listeria contamination of a bunch of different organic vegetables. None of us got sick, so far as I know. I took 4 bags (peas, corn, green beans, unopened peas) back for
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by jdeibele 9y ago
Would that were true. There are any number of companies that get close to zero (Theranos) and others that do go out of business (see 2008 - Lehman, Washington Mutual, etc.)
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by jdeibele 9y ago
Was listening to Atul Gawande on the podcast "Conversations with Tyler". Sponges are now bar-coded (less expensive than RFID, etc.) and scanned during the process to make sure they're not left inside the patient.
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by jdeibele 9y ago
When they use .00 on all the figures it calls into question everything else about the article.
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by jdeibele 9y ago
Somewhat disconcerting to see this in Chrome: Attackers on github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, pa
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by jdeibele 9y ago
He meant software drivers, not people drivers.
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by jdeibele 9y ago
Yes, it's nice to see signs of life. I, like many people, have been afraid it would go the way of Google Reader. Too bad they really dumbed down the interface - it's not possible to delete messages from the new site.
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by jdeibele 9y ago
I'm using uBlock on Safari and I'm not seeing this. Still hopeful that we'll see something that universally disables HTML5 auto-play videos.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Why not replace the transparent cover with a different color? Or glue a sheet of plastic over the LEDs in the exact tone you want? From what I've read, orange LEDs are generally more expensive in and of themselves. And to order the
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Disagree. If you think somebody (in this case the government) is mispricing something, it's not hypocritical to say "this is mispriced" and still take advantage of it. Is it objectively mispriced? Probably. But we would ha
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I agree with you. I think it's more likely that people would forget somebody else's PIN more easily.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Hear, hear. My wife and I spent 9 weeks in SE Asia. The only time I got sick was trying Indian food in an empty restaraunt in Chiang Mai. Since then the rules have been "no empty restaurants" and "try to eat where the local
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by jdeibele 10y ago
If you're not paying attention, yes. I checked flights on Kayak from SF to Vancouver and a lot of the results look like this: Tue, May 2 Air Canada logo 10:45a – 1:01p Air Canada• Operated by United 2h 16m SFO – YVR nonstop Flight
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I'm executor for my aunt. Found $800 in travelers' checks that her husband had bought 31 years ago. Advice on AmEx site is to go to a bank that sells travelers' checks. I can only find a few within 25 miles of Los Angel
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Sadly I have to upvote this based on personal experience. Was reading this thread right after the thread on John Goodenough. There are different things that happen as one gets older that one wishes didn't. Still, it beats the alter
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I was a founder and did tech support for years. Eventually stopped doing it for a couple of years and tried doing it again. I wanted to fire every customer who called in because of the abusive way they treated the support people. The su
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by jdeibele 10y ago
That's why restaurants have to call it "pasta ai quattro formaggi" because if they call it mac-and-cheese it's not going to taste what Mom (or Dad) used to make.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Hadn't tried that (fast.com) before. Interesting results: iPhone 6+ very close to router: 110Mbps 2012 MacMini (WiFi 802.11ac) very close to router: 120Mbps 2011 MacMini (ethernet but USB-powered switch in between): 92Mbps With dslrep
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I'm looking at Southwest to fly to John Wayne Airport (SNA) from Portland and I'm surprised that they are very expensive and take twice as long (because of having 1 stop) as their non-stop competitors like Alaska, JetBlue (LGB ins
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Replaced my Motorola/Arris SB6121 with a Zoom cable modem, going from 4 channels down to 16. A month later, I saw that Comcast was billing me $10/month for not returning "their" modem. Called and raised a little hell be
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I remember Cliff giving a talk at Sequent in Beaverton. Two indelible impressions were the energy and enthusiasm that Cliff had ... and the person in the front row tossing Cliff something to eat every X minutes. Felt very much like a humm
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by jdeibele 10y ago
At my credit union they've moved to using thumbprints on a reader for regular visitors so the staff doesn't have to go through checking signatures, etc. I'm executor for my aunt. She has a safe deposit box at a bank to whic
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Cable and phone companies don't seem to care about efficiency in their marketing efforts. Almost everywhere they're allowed to count it as an expense and fold it into their regulated costs and make a regulated profit off it. Putt
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Ask HN: Backup service to back up all files newer than date X?
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by jdeibele 10y ago
"none too fond" is almost certainly a vast understatement. http://allthingsd.com/20131010/how-jeff-bezos-crushed-diaper...
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My wife had her wallet stolen in Florence while we were traveling. It turned out that some banks will give different numbers to each card and other banks (Bank of America) will give the same number. We had to cancel the BofA card that I h

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