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by mdip 7y ago
Many older laptop batteries are simply a set of 18650 batteries wired together. I've "fixed" about 30-40 batteries. (1) Carefully take the battery pack apart, (2) Visually inspect the cells for any that are bulging or just,
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by mdip 7y ago
This is the second "Find X on Amazon more easily" sites that I've come across in the last week or so (the last was a USB hub filtering site). Including eBay in the mix, it's the third such site[0]. I love these site
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by mdip 7y ago
Caveat: I don't use RAID[0]. In about 4 years of running it on a couple of servers and countless virtuals/desktops, I've never had a reliability issue that was directly related to btrfs. I do not have my servers plugged in t
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by mdip 7y ago
I tend to agree with you here -- reliability has been a non-issue for me, though I've never configured `btrfs` in its RAID configuration. Performance becomes an issue in certain cases, but in every one that I've encountered, adjus
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by mdip 7y ago
I've been a `btrfs` user for the better part of 4 years despite, at the time, a very vocal group providing advice against it[0]. I'll be the first to say that it isn't a silver bullet for everything. But then, what filesyste
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by mdip 7y ago
While I agree with the overall feelings that the author expresses -- that people misunderstand "Premature Optimization is the root of all evil"[0] and in doing so treat optimization as something that is "evil" rather t
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by mdip 7y ago
I can't help thinking about the late, great Douglas Adams when reading this (and just about any scientific article). In the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, upon firing the Infinite Improbability Drive while trying to escap
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by mdip 7y ago
I wouldn't dream of using my current dishwasher. The heating element cannot be turned off and it outright melts some less expensive (barely dishwasher safe) plastic-ware. Probably good for cooking crab legs, but would likely warp the
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by mdip 7y ago
Those were excellent and I know we used them at one point. I want to say the brand we settled on in the final years of the business was a Nokia 17" that used a -tron variant. I'm not positive[0]. I had one of those from the mid
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by mdip 7y ago
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised[0], we used to clean our sneakers in the dishwasher. And about a decade ago I had a crab dinner served at a friend's house. The guy knew how to cook -- easily the best crab legs I've had
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by mdip 7y ago
> I feel like heavy switches save me from a situation where my brain wants to type a letter, but upon feeling the start of applying force, it thinks "that is not the letter you want". I've run into this, myself, but never
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by mdip 7y ago
I think every one of my comments has mentioned this keyboard. IMO, it's the best keyboard that was ever made and I'm seriously considering buying one on ebay (along with all of the stuff required to plug it in to current hardware
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by mdip 7y ago
Thanks for the write-up. I'm going to look into the Healios -- I've been wanting a heavy, mechanical, keyboard but I'm in an open office environment and don't want my co-workers to hate me. On the fatigue side, it might
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by mdip 7y ago
Yes, please . It's so much easier to hit the right F-Key (without looking down), especially when combined with ALT/CTRL, when they're on the left. I wish this was still an option these days. Thanks for the link. Damn, I h
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by mdip 7y ago
I used to work with a guy who used the original Model M that he had with the PC he was given in the late 80s/early 90s. It's survived multiple coffee spills and at least one case where it was repeatedly picked up and bashed again
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by mdip 7y ago
Reading your comment, I thought either "nobody is going to believe this guy" or "people are going to think he's nuts". Actually, I thought it sooner than that, because I almost shared a story about how I used to cl
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by mdip 7y ago
Somewhat topic-adjacent -- I'm looking at getting a new keyboard. In my early 20s, I used this specific keyboard and while I liked it (as my other comment points out), it's super loud . Does anyone make a heavy mechanical keyboa
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by mdip 7y ago
I just saw one of these on Craigslist. I used one of these for years at my first "real job" and loved it, but wow is it noisy. In the 90s, my dad and I built custom (higher-end) PCs for small businesses and individuals. We car
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by mdip 7y ago
Ah, another person experiencing `ffmpeg fatigue`. Holy cow is that a language-in-a-command-line. I ended up using 11/17 graph paper to write out a mess of notes trying to understand how everything is put together. There are some soli
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by mdip 7y ago
Thanks for this - that's exactly what I was hoping to find when I clicked into this. While I didn't find a whole lot of the content I had intended, I think what I did find was interesting, none-the-less. The general opinion her
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by mdip 7y ago
Which covers, reasonably, people who have an idea of what the product is and enough motivation (i.e. working in the space, or a serious hobbyist) to click in more deeply. Myself -- little more than an enthusiast -- clicked the homepage link
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by mdip 7y ago
I wish regulations that used this kind of wording were reserved only for the most necessary / dangerous situations. Did they define what the "geographic areas established under this rule" are, or is that something that the
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by mdip 7y ago
Honestly, that covers my entire use case , today. I purchased a drone last year with the desire to toss open-source auto-pilot firmware on it, but I've always operated it within line-of-sight... at least, I've always intended
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by mdip 7y ago
My dad was a licensed pilot (IFR with several other certifications, but small plane). My understanding of how the FAA handles regulations is that they tend to be onerous. I skimmed the doc, but going by that understanding, I'm not at
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by mdip 7y ago
I'm curious about how dramatically this will affect the price of drones. I did a skim-read of the PDF but couldn't find specifics about what size of craft/properties of the craft this would apply to. Would it apply to the li
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by mdip 7y ago
Thanks for the reply -- I guess what I'm wondering is how can reliably alert about execution of unsigned code on a system that cannot prevent the kernel/OS/firmware from being replaced by something evil. Based on your reply,
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by mdip 7y ago
AFAIK, it wouldn't be able to unless Python or Ruby provide a way to verify the signatures of the code they're executing, but even then ... that's not really what code signing can do/is for. Start with Intellicode&#x2F
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by mdip 7y ago
The second time I read your comment, I read it a little differently, and I the second part of your response sounded AMAZING. monitoring cuts an immediate sev-2 [on systems that cannot be configured to block execution of unsigned code] if
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by mdip 7y ago
Thanks for that -- I love MS security practices/stories; interesting. Yes, Linux does have ELF signing. I'm guessing you are speaking more generally about ensuring that "only signed code is allowed to execute", rather t
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by mdip 7y ago
Reminds me of the first job of my career. We had a 30-day password reset policy enforced by Active Directory group policy. I couldn't have told you what rules were required to get the system to accept the password, but it well beyond

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