madphilosopher

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by madphilosopher 3y ago
I rotate two 8 TB USB hard drives between home and my locker at work, every month or two. Full-disk encrypted, of course. This covers my entire system and media files. For /etc and my source code repositories, I use restic and cloud st
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
Unrelatedly, I use Chrome for websites where I need to be logged into a Google account (gmail, youtube, google docs, google maps, etc.) and Firefox for everything else. I like keeping the two activities separate.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
First, they phase out the service part of "customer service." Then, the customer part falls away naturally. Or, at least, that's what we would hope for.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
Search for ephemeris software. For all my projects, I use the Swiss Ephemeris[0]. Their commandline swetest will give you the data you're after. [0] https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephinfo_e.htm
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
Why would a fuse box / circuit breaker panel on its own stop radio frequencies from traveling down the wires in all directions? Filters would be required for that.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
Ex-Twitter, in other words.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
When I was in high school (1990s), my friend Mark removed the top sheet-metal ceiling from his locker and discovered a phone line going past. So he tapped into it and, to my knowledge, became the only kid in school with a phone in his locke
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
When I worked an office IT job, for a few years, I asked my boss if I could come in an hour early in the winter. In actual practice, I kept my watch on DST and woke up and commuted to work at the same time relative to the Sun. I watched my
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
Possibly close to what you describe, gqrx (a GUI SDR Linux app) has a remote control protocol that can be typed by hand or scripted over telnet. And it has the option to stream the audio over UDP to a remote host. For a demo of the remote c
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
I'm really hoping a wiki will arise that will show how to disable network (radio) communications on all modern car models.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
Conditional grace is not grace. The human experience of grace is so much larger than what you describe.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
I would love to run TAI on my devices. But where can I find a public NTP server that offers TAI, or a GPS module that gives the same? Do these exist? Or is this the wrong approach?
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
They left me alone in the exam room before the doctor came in to do the eye exam, and I just read my PD off the computer screen that was showing my patient record. :)
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
I wish the back button would bring back the rendered view of a page from a cache so that it would be (a) instant, and (b) not make any network requests. It seemed to me that older versions of the Opera browser did this, and the text-based
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
Canada does not have a housing supply problem. That is the big lie told by governments to make themselves look good. It's mostly a cost of money problem. When the cost of money was near zero for so long, especially during the pandemic,
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
The 220k is the value of the mortgage and not the original purchase price; there was most likely a downpayment at time of purchase. Or, they recently renewed their mortgage and the remaining amount owing is 220k.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
If you ran a carpentry shop, you wouldn't retain employees who lacked a basic understanding of their woodworking tools and how to use them. Yet we tolerate this of "information workers" the world over. Why is that? Is it beca
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
I've run amateur dream groups, where people get together and tell each other their dreams, and then each participant interprets the dream back to the dream-teller. One method was to start one's interpretation by saying, "If t
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
There's the Roland GO:KEYS with regular-sized keys, or the much smaller Yamaha reface CP with mini keys. Both have on-board speakers and can be battery-powered. The reface would be the perfect size to play in an airplane seat, for exam
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
Further to this, I also put the following snippet in front of my web-scraping cron jobs so they start at a random time between the minute boundaries: perl -le 'sleep rand 60'; It's the most compact code I could find
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
And keep them in groups of 4 so I can easily and deftly land on F5 and F8, which are to the extremities of the group.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
You can remap the key combination "jk" to ESC in order to switch effortlessly from editing mode to normal mode. inoremap jk <esc> ("jk" doesn't normally appear in English and is easy to type)
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
In my entire computing career, I have never locked my Caps or unlocked my Num! That's how I roll.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
The Bitcoin whitepaper is one of my cherished reads. The other is the BitTorrent whitepaper. Both technologies changed the technical and non-technical worlds, and the fundamental protocols are clearly explained in their respective papers.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
Illegal but not immoral.
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by madphilosopher 3y ago
I often compose fun little melodies while noodling around on the electric piano. So I always have my Sony MiniDisc deck hooked into my mixer, ready to record. It just takes two button presses to begin recording---convenient and reliable. An
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by madphilosopher 4y ago
Indeed! Dumping this recovery.jsonlz4 file on the command line is how I inspect and archive all my tabs and windows. You can do this on remote systems, too, and Firefox does not need to be running. The scripts I use to do this can be found
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by madphilosopher 4y ago
I started using Forth because I wanted a Reverse Polish Notation calculator at the command line. It turned out to be very practical and extensible. For example, I created many words to perform unit conversion, such as temperature: : 2
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by madphilosopher 4y ago
If you focus multiple mirrors on a single spot, you can set things on fire. Depending on one's application, this is a feature, not a bug!
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by madphilosopher 4y ago
foobar2000 on iOS is game-changing. Thank you so much for your recommendation! The iOS Music.app is so bad. I've suffered long enough with it.

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