johnbrodie

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by johnbrodie 9y ago
At least on a performance vehicle, that's still far too heavy IMO. 40ish lbs? The (cheap) wheels on my Miata are 11 lbs, without any exotic materials or crazy engineering. Almost quadrupling the unsprung mass is a hard sell performa
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
I remember a story from years ago in the news where a family (I believe the father may have been a jeweler) had their house burglarized. They had a house fairly far away from their neighbors, and the suspect literally brought a circular sa
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
Cali is the only US state where lane splitting is legal. How many people with a long commute are riding motorcycles to work every day? The weather is great for it. Were I in the bay area, I'd be riding in every day. If not for the
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
An opposite anecdote: I bought my Nexus 5X used on Swappa. It finally bootlooped about a month ago. Called Project Fi support, they transferred the phone to my ownership in their system, and then issued an RMA and sent me a refurbed 5X.
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
Is there a real alternative? The patches themselves form as a notice, if anyone happens to be looking closely at the project. I'm sure a blog post widens the audience, but once the patches are public, the cat is out of the bag.
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
I wish I could be as excited as everyone else re: the new Firefox. I've never switched to Chrome, and dealt with some of the previous performance issues. I dealt with these issues because of Vimperator, which as far as I know, won&#x
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
My wife and I went on vacation and didn't have the proper "club card" for the store. 867-5309 worked as a phone number, and was issued to a "Jenny".
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
The "lifetime guarantee" of Craftsman just doesn't have much sway anymore. All of their tools are made in China junk that breaks if you look at it funny. The quality is just non-existent these days. Might as well just go t
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
You're comparing industry-wide fraud with an illegal practice that individual citizens do? I'd wager that there are easily 100,000 trucks on the road in the US for every one that can "roll coal".
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
Wayfair has done this. Sent them pictures of a (fairly pricey) door handle/deadbolt set that had scratches on it. They said to just keep it and do whatever with it, they'll mail out another one. Super convenient, and now the do
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
Any examples?
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
Yes, in the velodrome races. Here's a video from 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhlewcOxAI
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
All of these battery saving options are great, when they are painless. Running apps that _need_ to stay in the background like Tasker is a much more painful experience now than it was a few years ago.
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
How did you train yourself not to bottom out the keys? I've been using mechanical keyboards for a few years now, but gave up quickly on trying to not bottom out due to sheer frustration with non-registering key presses.
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
I must be doing it wrong. We bought a house in AZ with a 15 year, 2.99% interest rate. The MITC made almost no difference, even for the first year where I was paying mostly interest.
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
Just renewed my membership to the EFF yesterday. Through the 4th of July, they have discounted rates to become a member [0]. I encourage everyone to donate, looking through cases they've been involved in within the past year, the mon
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
This might be region dependent, but was not true at any restaurant in the US I've worked at. Sometimes, bar staff and busboys were tipped out (at a much lower percent than what the wait staff kept), but I've never seen kitchen em
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
I've been running unstable for years, and have had what you mention happen exactly once. If you're on unstable, use apt-listbugs and don't update every day, and _generally_ you'll be fine. Don't use giant DE'
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
You'd have to take that up with the ZFS folks.
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
Docker isn't included in this release (thought supposedly will be coming in something like 11.1). The GUI is stable in 11, there's just an _option_ to use the redesigned, beta UI.
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
Pentadactyl/Vimperator will soon stop working, I believe at FireFox 57. Firefox is removing the ability to run XUL extensions, which will effectively be the end of the awesome VIM plugins for FF :(
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
I'm somewhat of a coffee snob, and have had quite a few _very_ expensive cups of cold brew from both the best locally known shops as well as some of the more "famous" shops in California. At best, I can't tell the differ
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
First time I bought a mattress I wasn't aware of this. Second time, I got the bedframe, box spring, and mattress protector included, and still managed to knock ~ %20 off the price. I try to negotiate everything now, and have had some
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
Your example is just one way of exercising, though. There's no getting around it requiring some time, but you can likely do a decent bodyweight-style workout without a gym membership, without a commute, using only implements you can f
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
I think your average speed of 50mph is incredibly unrealistic, unless the car is driven almost exclusively on the highway.
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
Where "very usable" == "sounds exactly the same as lossless", unless there's some double blind study showing that people can reliably tell the difference between v0/320 mp3's and lossless... I've neve
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
In my experience, this always seems like a cool idea until you use it with keys that an end-user can define. Then you get to watch your code blow up when they override some other function you've defined on the class.
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by johnbrodie 9y ago
The reality is, as far as I can see, there's just not much benefit in using Docker in a crappy (read: small) pool-of-app-servers-on-top-of-a-database webapp. I've had a lot of newer devs pushing to use Docker. I haven't had
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by johnbrodie 10y ago
I _just_ built a FreeNAS box, and was relying on Corral to let me do virtualization. The box is overbuilt for home NAS use, and the plan was to use Corral to spin up docker and/or Debian VMs to give me a more familiar base in which to
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by johnbrodie 10y ago
I agree. The cost of nginx Pro is a drop in the bucket at many larger companies. In the proper situation, I'm all for throwing some dollars at the people that make our infrastructure possible. Most companies aren't altruistic e

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