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by lscotte 7y ago
My electric company requires one to login - but only after a the browser session expires and I have to login again anyway.
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by lscotte 7y ago
It works, just not well in my experience. Meet is about the only thing I still use Chromium for.
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by lscotte 7y ago
> Anyone else done something similar? I'm not, but now that you mention this, I think I will. I already use direnv all over the place, and this would be a pretty natural extension. Thanks!
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by lscotte 7y ago
Good thing SF banned plastic straws! Great to see they've got their priorities straight!
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by lscotte 7y ago
I used to be a fan of keepass as well, but I moved to bitwarden maybe 18 months or so ago. For $10 a year for the paid version I get MFA and some other features. I find it a much more seamless experience than keepass/etc, as it works a
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by lscotte 7y ago
I had the same recollection - I'm pretty sure I used a Sun Workstation with an optical mouse back in the late 80s. Clearly Microsoft did not invent the optical mouse, but the early ones required a special gridded pad.
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by lscotte 7y ago
The light polution glow from cities can be seen from about 100 miles or so, so it's not a localized problem.
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by lscotte 7y ago
Except that AZ is gray in the right graph and we already do MST year round with no plans to change. And then Nevada is listed as N/A for proposed time zone which makes no sense. So, yes it is confusing, and a bit incomplete - thanks fo
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by lscotte 8y ago
When crossing two-way streets in countries that are opposite my own, I found it's trickier than it sounds due to some subtle subconscious thing even when you look both ways.
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by lscotte 8y ago
That went into the 70s - when I was in school we learned both metric and imperial because the USA was in the process of switching. Wish we had followed through...
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by lscotte 8y ago
I remember mine being gray too, but I don't know - that was a long time ago!
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by lscotte 8y ago
I am also reminded of a game, I think it was Rescue On Fractalus that was manufactured with an Atari version on one side, and C64 on the other. I thought that was pretty clever.
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by lscotte 8y ago
Thanks for that link, I'll definitely be trying that out.
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by lscotte 8y ago
I use a combination of stow and git via a script I wrote that I call stash - https://github.com/scotte/stash - it's very basic and simple, but has served me well.
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by lscotte 8y ago
It absolutely is "a thing" in the US, depending on ISP.
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by lscotte 8y ago
We called them flippies.
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by lscotte 8y ago
I don't know if they handle this case better specifically, but I found almost all GitLab page functionality is better than GitHub - plus it's more generic, you can wire any static page generator into the built-in CI/CD, not j
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by lscotte 8y ago
Syncthing is indeed great, and works across all my platforms very well. It's also still actively maintained.
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by lscotte 8y ago
I like and use OneNote, but "all platforms" isn't quite correct - there is no native Linux client, so I have to use the browser version, which isn't nearly as good as native versions.
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by lscotte 8y ago
Yes, the law is the law.
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by lscotte 8y ago
Diesel engines are also significantly more efficient at converting that energy into usable torque. That's why an idling diesel consumes almost no fuel - it isn't doing any work.
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by lscotte 8y ago
Not all TDI that were part of the emissions mess use urea, they also have a system that injects diesel into the particulate trap and burns out all the particulates at high temperature. Look up DPF regen. Note: I owned one of these cars, thi
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by lscotte 8y ago
Aside from the annoying popups, another issue for me is that medium is profiting by monetizing your content. Blogs aren't hard to host with gitlab or github pages (gitlab and hugo is especially nice, in my opinion), among a ton of othe
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by lscotte 8y ago
My son worked in a chip fab for a couple of years. The only devices allowed in there must be certified to have no cameras, including phones. They issue modified phones with out working cameras to employees. All devices must have a big certi
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by lscotte 8y ago
I believe it's illegal in the Bay Area, I seem to recall someone getting in trouble for doing so.
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by lscotte 8y ago
Don't worry, they won't give you any of that back, unfortunately. We moved out of California last year, but during the drought we cut back like everyone. How did the water company reward us? Oh, they didn't make enough money
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by lscotte 8y ago
How so? The only operating system mentioned in that post is Windows.
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by lscotte 8y ago
I had something like this happen to me while getting a phone plan. I have great credit, and was working for a well known silicon valley tech company with great pay, but because I couldn't remember the exact month I started a job over 2
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by lscotte 8y ago
Maybe because it's Paice, not Toyota that holds all the hybrid patents - Paice sued many car manufacturer and won - Toyota, Ford, Kia, and Hyundai (and others?) - all had to "license" from Paice.
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by lscotte 8y ago
I don't find this all that surprising, sadly - inside the Apple reality distortion field there are only Apple devices.

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