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by mdip 2y ago
I've been advocating for this for 12 years, now. I figured it out by accident after watching my 2-year-old niece on a "balance bike" and was like "duh, no pedals!" My 3-year-old and 5-year-old learned in one day an
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by mdip 2y ago
I have to say that nothing in my life compared to having children. I have a 15 and a 17-year-old, today. I think the biggest factor was the shift in self-preservation instinct. Before my son was born, I had "believed" that I&#x2
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by mdip 2y ago
IIRC there was something with the way zparseopts worked that caused it to not be able to parse the CLI I had setup -- I can't remember what the drawback was, though, and it's one of those one-liners I've just used blindly aft
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Abuse ZSH Parameter Expansion to Expand GNU-Style Arguments(matthewdippel.blogspot.com)
26 points by mdip 2y ago|3 comments
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by mdip 2y ago
Uncoolness is a bigger factor than people give credit to. I remember when I was about ten years old my parents having a conversation with the new neighbors about cars which bled into how they'd "never ever own a Station Wagon.&
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by mdip 2y ago
I have some pretty strong feelings against government bans of these kinds but I had an experience at ALDI, yesterday, that caused me to reflect a little bit on this. Bear with me (if you wish) for a second ... I love ALDI -- mine even has
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by mdip 2y ago
> Nighttime is stigmatized I think this is a stronger factor than we give credit to. For example, I live in a very suburban, low crime, safe area. Crime mostly centering around property theft. When I was younger, a few cities
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by mdip 2y ago
Well, that'd be too easy, then, wouldn't it. :) Due likely to extensions in Firefox, I get empty image previews on X (I believe I deleted my account several years ago). It's not always clear when there's more than one s
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by mdip 2y ago
I had no idea what this was, so I did a quick search. They include a prompt in their job listings instructing LLMs to write Banana[0]. Thought I'd share in case others were lacking context. :) [0] https://www.msn.com/e
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by mdip 2y ago
At a former employer of about 15K employees, two tools come to mind that allowed us to do this on every Windows host on our network[0]. It's an absolute necessity: you can manage Windows updates and a limited set of other updates via t
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by mdip 2y ago
Kind of a big thing most people don't understand about the various forms of "Business Insurance." For the most part, businesses have whatever insurance whatever they are doing requires them to have. Those requirements are s
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by mdip 2y ago
It's funny how that works. Leave FAANG and most internal developers at large corporations are running Windows. It wasn't until I started at a smaller shop that I found people regularly using Linux to do their jobs, usually in a d
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by mdip 2y ago
While I appreciate the advice and I've always felt my diet qualifies as an "eating disorder". Here's the problem I have, though. I'm in my 40s and this is a circumstance of my life that I've experienced since
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by mdip 2y ago
My son is struggling with this right now and it's entirely my fault. I've never been outside of 15 pounds what I weighed in High School and I was underweight in High School. As a man in his 40s, I'm in better shape than I wa
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by mdip 2y ago
Michigan's housing prices vary pretty dramatically and we don't have a terribly low cost of living in parts -- especially real-estate. It's no SFBay, but it's rapidly getting worse. You mentioned the 300,000 on 5 acres,
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by mdip 2y ago
I've lived here since I was born and I'd say I feel that way a lot of the time. There's a lot of downside: tight ties to autos (where I live) mean that a lot of employers -- even if "technically" they aren't a
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by mdip 2y ago
Who'd a thunk there'd be so many Michiganders on Hacker News? I'm with ya, I tend to rise with the sun and 5:00 AM gets very old. Morning's like "Can I just sneak by you? Ope[0], sorry 'bout that, didn't
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by mdip 2y ago
Setting aside the concerns with this specific implementation and thinking more of "the idea" I think the biggest concern is this sort of application causing legitimate software to fail to run[0] and how one would "white-list&
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by mdip 2y ago
That's where I wonder about a tool like this interfering with legitimate software. For example, I believe the anti-cheat software used by games like Fortnite looks for similar things -- my understanding is that it, too, will refuse to
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by mdip 2y ago
Outside of the authorship/open-source fears[0], this is one of the more interesting ideas to surface in anti-virus. Facing reality: anti-malware tooling is inadequate -- so inadequate, I haven't found a reason to purchase it for t
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by mdip 2y ago
Kind of sparked a thought in another comment but my thinking is that the best action in this situation is to simply not reply to the scammer. The author didn't explain "how the scammer was texting her". I don't own an i
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by mdip 2y ago
It's why I have the "general rule" of: Don't reply to any text from anyone that I don't know. And if what I'm receiving "seems off" reply with a subtle "challenge" (mention a fictional
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by mdip 2y ago
I have to go back to around 1992 or so for this one ... not that I don't have plenty of newer humbling learning moments, but this is the one I tend to think of as the most obvious "how did I do all of these things without knowing
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by mdip 2y ago
I had 2589620 ... I have the password, somewhere. :)
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by mdip 3y ago
Anyone keeping current with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed got a update...downgrade. Prior to `zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change` I had 5.6.0, now I'm at 5.4.6.
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Halo CME Detected – Associated with X1 Flare on 23 March UTC-Day(swpc.noaa.gov)
11 points by mdip 3y ago|2 comments
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by mdip 3y ago
Just keep hanging around here and you'll start understanding more of them ;)
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by mdip 3y ago
They've been in use since the 90s, actually[0]. My understanding is that the earlier rolling code systems are easily defeated and I think this can be done (possibly with stock firmware) using a Flipper Zero. Prior to that, garage doo
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O'Reilly Auto Part 121G(oreillyauto.com)
62 points by mdip 3y ago|7 comments
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by mdip 3y ago
Of course -- and all of that has lead to the display technologies we take for granted these days and a number of other advances (low cost, low energy, high output LED lighting, for example). This is an example of the reaction to any new tec

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