jdeibele

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by jdeibele 10y ago
Only show me content that's been re-tweeted more than X times, where X is something that I can set. I don't want to read about what somebody had for lunch and I wouldn't expect it to be re-tweeted. But something thoughtful o
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I've been frustrated by some time that there's not a generic "look but not touch" function available to 3rd party programs. I'm a lot less concerned about a 3rd party leaking info about my assets than I am about the
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by jdeibele 10y ago
You can't upgrade the RAM anymore. "Mac mini (Late 2014) does not have user-installable RAM." https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205041
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Google Voice is GREAT for non-profits. For my son's Cub Scout Pack and my kids' soccer club I paid the money to get permanent numbers for them both. Now they each have a permanent number that goes just to voicemail. The messag
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Google Voice has been awesome for us with a little Obihai box. I use it every day to check on my mom (who has medical issues) and we have glitches occasionally but they are almost always cleared up by re-dialing. It let us replace our $40&
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by jdeibele 10y ago
There are some programmers on Hacker News who probably are paid more than I'm guessing both companies combined made. As I remember it (could be wrong now), SEA was two programmers and PKWare was Phil Katz (and his mom). "The lea
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by jdeibele 10y ago
The article kind of glosses over the battle with System Enhancement Associates. As a sysop (long time since I used that word), ARC was extremely popular. Then PKarc came out and it generated files that were more compact but kept the ext
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Somewhere along the way in public school I learned to put my book in my lap and my head on the desk. Evidently it was OK if I looked like I was asleep ...
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Was curious what would happen if you set the firmware to only boot from the startup disk and it crashed ... Seems like MacOS does the reasonable thing and prompts for the firmware password if you use a different disk. https://sup
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Replacement batteries are relatively inexpensive and reliable. I've had good luck with replacing the battery on a Roomba and a Mint (now part of iRobot) via 3rd party manufacturers.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I'm one of the ones who's paying for Youtube Red for my family. I've been very disappointed about the fact that links to Youtube from sites are not ad-free. So I'm reading an article on The Verge, I click on a YouTube
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YouTube is still having trouble getting people to pay for YouTube(theverge.com)
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I was surprised (and pleased) to see Apple add "rename" to the file menu in Finder for El Capitan. Coming from Windows, I found the "click on a file to rename it" very unintuitive. Evidently a lot of other people did,
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Thanks for the reference. Interesting to see Drew Houston popping in because he was just starting getdropbox.com
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by jdeibele 10y ago
What does ReadySignOn cost? I can't find any pricing information on their website. On their App Store web page it just says "Free" without the usual "Offers in-app purchases". On closing the tab I saw something abo
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I live in Portland. Lots of small, one-story houses being torn down and replaced with something that has 2 more floors. What surprises me is that roofing on these new homes isn't required to have a south-facing exposure. Seems like
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Guessing because the peak-load for electricity tends to coincide with very hot days. So lots of demand for air conditioning but the solar panels are also generating maximum capacity.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
As an old guy, I have other committments besides work. Family, non-profits, etc. It's helpful not to have to worry about those things as well as moving across the country for a lot less pay in a job that might not succeed.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Thanks for the reference. For end-users, they claim that their app will work on multiple devices whereas Google Authenticator only works on one. That would be a big advantage - I'm worried about losing my phone even with backup cod
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by jdeibele 10y ago
http://www.wired.com/2016/05/huge-solar-plant-caught-fire-th... has a decent summary of the problems with this type of solar. I was surprised that the Ivanpah fire wasn't mentioned in the Time article but the
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I received a debit card from my relatively small credit union a few days ago. I was very surprised to see that it didn't have a chip in it. It seems likely that the fees they earn from "signature transactions" must be signif
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Agree. If Google and Apple can do per-app passwords for apps or websites that don't work with 2-factor authentication it seems like Visa should be able to kick out a per-merchant number for Comcast, Netflix, etc. If the underlying cre
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SpaceX launches satellites, loses rocket(space.com)
3 points by jdeibele 10y ago|0 comments
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The sample size is <very> small. I was the only person to use Safari Technology Preview beta 6 so I was "1 in 133,647". Having said that, I tested it with Firefox and found some unused plugins that I either removed (Google
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I was interested to read in the comments on a different topic that businesses typically have a deposit-only account, a withdrawals-only account and an account in the middle. As a family, we set up an extra account at Schwab to write checks
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by jdeibele 10y ago
0.05% plus $0.21 in Interchange fees for most people https://www.cardpaymentoptions.com/fee-sweep/debit-fees-expl...
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Poster you replied to is talking about deposits, not withdrawals. Banks treat cash very carefully. If you bring in a stack of cash that they have to count once to see how much it is and then again to verify it's going to take time and
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by jdeibele 10y ago
As somebody who lives in Portland it still seems very much "car centric". There are some people who are able to get along without a car. There are others who can commute via bus or bike. But it's really difficult to get a
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I installed Messenger but didn't use it much. When Facebook shut off access to chat via the web app a few days ago I removed Messenger. There's no way I'm going to install this app. I never installed the Facebook app beca
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by jdeibele 10y ago
There's at least a couple of kinds of Quakers: ones with ministers and ones without. My wife belongs to a Meeting that doesn't have a minister. Instead of having someone preach, the attenders sit silently in a circle. If som

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