jjkaczor

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by jjkaczor 3mo ago
... and this kind of site gives you the ability to do some more research ... Myself, I am of the "buy the cheapest tool" first and see if I use it... If I use it and it works, great - if it breaks or wears out - or I use it regul
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by jjkaczor 3mo ago
Heh - that's where I was going with the "tribulations" aspect of my comment - which is why I like to read honest blogs - those dreams of "someday I might do 'X'", only to find someone who has - and then re
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by jjkaczor 3mo ago
Heh - do you have a "blog" (ala jwz's DNA Lounge)? (This is the kind of retiring from IT tale that I love to read and follow the trials and tribulations of over the years - good luck, thanks for open-sourcing your work!)
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by jjkaczor 3mo ago
True - but it did have the benefit of giving the majority of people who passed through it the same benefit of a baseline understanding of "things" - those with aptitude and talent (and time and privilege) could take that further a
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by jjkaczor 4mo ago
The invasion issue is also further remediated by using a "workstation style" laptop which only gets 60-75m of battery life (plus also weighs far too much to be used on your actual "lap")...
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by jjkaczor 4mo ago
You know you are getting old (insert AI generated meme) when your default of "20 years ago" was the 80's... Nope...
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by jjkaczor 4mo ago
Yeah, normal people look at me funny when I am "out and about" and they want me to do something on a random website and my reply is: "naw, I will look at that when I am back at a real computer".... I have had every type
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by jjkaczor 4mo ago
In a country far from home, on my own I was out late on a Saturday night in the bar district. Decided on a whim to buy a pack of cigarettes and have a smoke - a few minutes later a group of guys approached me and asked for a couple. Of co
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by jjkaczor 4mo ago
That's actually what I did - upgraded from a 5-bay Synology to an 8-bay in December (before HD prices skyrocketed even further than they had since my last NAS build), still have a couple free slots, but doubled my overall available sto
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by jjkaczor 4mo ago
As a book want-to-be-hoarder without enough room to actually do so, these stories always make me sad - I spent alot of time in quiet, cool empty libraries picking up random books as a child. OTOH - I personally don't have enough room f
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by jjkaczor 4mo ago
Oh that's easy... "money". When it was just about the "love of technology" and the building of the skills involved, things were different...
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by jjkaczor 4mo ago
... try being a Canadian with a bit of a hearing deficiency that is always saying our "verbal tic" of: "sorry" just prior to asking people to repeat themselves...
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
Came for this - happy to see it here...
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
I would be 3d-printing some janky feet in TPU before submitting myself to that process. Even if they "wear-out/fall-off", I can print some more.
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
... well, that would guarantee I never take a gig in one of those data centers...
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
Well - the fact that they don't pay attention (or lack critical thinking skills and a baseline reasonable education) is a large part of the problem. But - with a person like POTUS - and those he surrounds himself with, they will throw
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
If you vote/support someone who runs on a racist platform - you are getting that as part of the "package deal": https://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/11/10/the-cinemax-theory-of...
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
AI is already coming for "art" and "research" - by "slop metrics" it's already there for "art".
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
Curtis Yarvin, who pals around with Peter Thiele posted in 2008 on how to deal with "non-productive" people: "convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses." Of course, he was "just joking" a
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
Am so "teh old", that honestly - I can't say whether or not that product was worse than the "CueCat": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat (Naw - the CueCat was better, at least it was a generi
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
I was lucky enough to have seen the initial controversy and install the X1Plus firmware on my X1C about 2-weeks before lockdown. It has worked flawlessly with OrcaSlicer ever since. For monitoring when I am away from my office, I setup VP
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
Outside of Prusa - how would you compare Bambu's documentation against it's competitors? In my experience, having owned 2-other printers prior to an X1C - there is absolutely NO comparison - EVERYTHING was community, Reddit, forum
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
I have seen one YouTube video that seemed to indicate a problem with pulling filament was because of a little flap within the new 4-1 PTFE filament adapter. There is a little rubber valve/flap (apparently it is a consumable, because t
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
Odd - I bought an H2C about a month ago - and the nozzle-swapping Vortek rack just wouldn't calibrate or operate - blocking even calibrating the left-nozzle from proceeeding. However - yes, they did have me perform multiple disassembly
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by jjkaczor 5mo ago
... Well - with a blog title of "Delphi Nightmares", I would expect uh critical or negative commentary... It's right there in the name.
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by jjkaczor 6mo ago
Naw I did the same after I got "piled" on at Metafilter a few years back, and after 18-years buttoned my account because I was sick of the toxicity (I am an ancient BBS/usenet guy from decades ago - I can handle "flamewa
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by jjkaczor 6mo ago
General agree... I still do the things (mid-50's) I used to do when I was a teenager with no computer, no phone. But - now they are easier - I can read books on an e-ink screen and pretty much instantly find what I want to read next.
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by jjkaczor 7mo ago
While Microsoft is hierarchical - but it did encourage reaching out in a "flat" manner internally. In my experience - a loooong time ago ago now - executive leadership would participate in high-level escalations/critsits for
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by jjkaczor 7mo ago
Thank-you! thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. [This is the single most helpful tip/link from HN I have ever found, much appreciated]
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by jjkaczor 7mo ago
Well... one wonders and speculates what exactly is meant by his statement of: "unleash hell"

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