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by jdeibele 4y ago
My son is in Scouts. He was a Wolf, then Bear, then Webelos. He achieved the Arrow of Light as a Cub Scout. https://www.boyscouttrail.com/webelos/arrow-of-light.php Is that the same as what the Webelos used to be?
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by jdeibele 4y ago
A local firefighter and I were volunteers for our kids' soccer club. He said that he specifically worked on the other side of town because he didn't want to respond to fires or health emergencies that involved his neighbors. The
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by jdeibele 4y ago
One of the things that's different about modern videogames is that it's better to be at home with your own Xbox or PlayStation or PC if you want to play with your friends. We have 4 Wii controllers because when the kids were young
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Seems reasonable after a Twitter employee deleted Trump's account on the employee's last day of work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/02...
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by jdeibele 5y ago
John Gruber's podcast recently had an episode[1] devoted to a photo-sharing app/website called Glass[2]. I'm not planning on joining it but I would be much more inclined to do that than pay money to Flickr. I was using the
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by jdeibele 5y ago
USB-C to DisplayPort cables are like $14 on Amazon. I'm responding to you using one. I have a MacBook Air in clamshell mode with 1 USB-C going to the display and a $10 hub that does Power Delivery and 3 USB-A ports for speakers, Yub
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by jdeibele 5y ago
As a lay-person, I wondered about using solar power in Africa and then shipping ammonia to Europe (or wherever). https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/articles/round-trip-efficiency... says that using fuel cells as transport
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by jdeibele 5y ago
I'd never heard of this and spent a few minutes searching. I was expecting something like a 10-foot stick but it's more like 4-feet. (paywall but I used Safari's reader mode) https://www.japantimes.co.jp/ne
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by jdeibele 5y ago
If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can get a full WaPo subscription for $3.99/month. It works great for me on my Mac, less so on my iPad when following links in Twitter. The Twitter browser view doesn't seem able to
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by jdeibele 5y ago
I've mentioned this before: switch your address to a California one, cancel now that you're a Californian, optionally switch it back to your proper address. Worked for me with several publications.
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by jdeibele 5y ago
My brother-in-law bought a Speed Queen washer because it has relatively primitive technology. As I understand it, they're aimed more at commercial users or users who want to fix their machines themselves. https://speedqu
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by jdeibele 5y ago
"The Box" describes how the container became ubiquitous and it's a good read. https://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Econom...
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by jdeibele 5y ago
I used to drive a sedan and it felt like I was dropping down on entry and climbing out on exit. Along came kids and I've been driving a mini-van instead ever since. One thing I really like about the van (Honda Odyssey) is that you st
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by jdeibele 5y ago
I think a big part of the problem is that manufacturers and big stores do a thing where Best Buy gets model XAB234b, Costco gets model XAB234c, and Home Depot gets model XAB234h. They're almost identical in specs and features. This
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by jdeibele 5y ago
I live in Oregon but changed my address on wsj.com to a California address so I could cancel without having to talk to anybody. In 2018, a law went into effect that says that if you can sign up online, you have to be allowed to cancel onli
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by jdeibele 5y ago
I wonder if there's a Winco or local equivalent for you? They don't accept credit cards, only debit cards, checks, and cash. No loyalty programs. And you have to bag your own groceries. I switched from using a debit card to
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by jdeibele 5y ago
Yes, but there used to be elaborate systems for handling cash. Department stores had pneumatic systems that would take deposits of cash and zap it to the strong room. When I first started shopping at Costco #2 they had such a system. The
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by jdeibele 5y ago
The legal market isn't cheap because there are "sin taxes" on cannabis that make it expensive. Often the high taxes are supposed to be a disincentive for consumption or overconsumption. Cigarettes are too expensive for teena
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by jdeibele 5y ago
I use lists. I found https://github.com/KrauseFx/twitter-unfollow which moves all of your follows to a private list. Then move people from the private list to a topic list. I also use Tweetbot on my Mac, which allow
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by jdeibele 5y ago
I use Feedly on the backend, Reeder 3 on my Mac and NetNewsWire on my iPad. I did pay for Reeder years ago and I use it on my Mac because it has good keystroke support (j for next article, etc.) whereas NNW does not. There's a Reeder
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The key is the administrator. This might be Vanguard or Fidelity or it could be a much smaller company, probably local. Some companies have experienced people looking at many companies and picking one based on the lowest costs and wide se
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by jdeibele 5y ago
I bought Toshiba Chromebooks (the 2014 variant, which lacks the backlit keyboard but is pretty much otherwise identical to the 2015) for my kids. Two of them have moved onto MacBooks but the youngest chugs along with his Chromebook. I wa
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by jdeibele 5y ago
The standard thing was to turn off the fluorescent lighting back when everybody (tech support, sysops, programmers) was almost entirely looking at a screen. I got very used to calling "lights" before turning them on or there would
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by jdeibele 5y ago
Welcome to the concept of "joint and several liability". Say you were in a phone booth and a car jumped the curb and ran you over but didn't manage to kill you. Your attorney would sue the motorist but maybe they don't
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by jdeibele 5y ago
The major problem with the built-in password managers is that they don't store more than the password. If there's a site that has security questions, I use LastPass to keep track of the security questions and my answers. I hav
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by jdeibele 5y ago
My wife ordered an electric bike about a year ago from Strom/Stroem and it finally showed up a couple of weeks ago. I did the "final assembly", which was attaching the handlebars and front wheel. The hardest part was puttin
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by jdeibele 5y ago
I've had the pleasure of working with 3 excellent home inspectors over the past 20 years. They tested and checked things that I never would have thought of. One of them flagged the water heater in our current house for immediate repl
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by jdeibele 5y ago
You might be right but what I've read of nutrition is that taking supplements is thought to be quite different than eating a whole food. Taking Vitamin C tablets is different than eating an orange because of all the other things that
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by jdeibele 5y ago
It's possible to set up a Yubikey (or compatible) as the primary 2FA and Google Authenticator (I use Authy but it works the same) as a backup. Once you've done that, you can remove SMS as 2FA. At least you could several years ag
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by jdeibele 5y ago
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/abandoned-ships/ just had an episode about ships where the crew is not able to get off for various reasons. One of them that I hadn't known was that if you leave before

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