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by pbnjeh 3y ago
There is a mustard museum in Wisconsin. "Museum" is perhaps a bit of a misnomer, but very alliterative. They sell and ship a number of unusual varieties. Ordered my friend's husband some for his birthday -- no complaints. L
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Will these, like previous models, have varying SSD performance depending upon how many chips are populated resulting in varying parallelization of SSD operations? If so, knowing those configurations would be useful. I have a friend I recen
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Amongst other things, you have to define a system of calibration that will stand up in court. I've read about speeding tickets getting tossed for lack of same. That said, for all these communities surviving on / leaching off of ti
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Further testing shows deletion does happen when I close Focus normally. The files are all there until I delete tab history or choose the last open ta, whereupon they are deleted. This did not happen, previously. Browser history would disapp
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Ask HN: Has Firefox Focus started deleting downloaded files on close
1 points by pbnjeh 3y ago|2 comments
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
It was posted to HN a day or two ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168603
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
P.S. Just the other day, I ordered a new book from Thriftbooks ( for reasons) and it arrived in that cut to size thin but stiff sticky on one side cardboard, when two pieces are slapped together around the book. That seems to work rather we
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
I've placed a number of orders with them, and many come through ok. But the shipping damage is often enough to be frustrating. I had one hard-to-get DVD arrive with the typical DVD plastic case shattered in one area into many pieces fl
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
I've had a few outright duds with them, but mostly their product has been as expected. EXCEPT, they ship mostly in plastic envelopes. And the items not infrequently get damaged during transit. I have a set of "very good" Magn
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
They also ship books in oversized boxes with no padding. If you're "lucky", they combined your book order with your order for something hard and heavy that can help beat the book up while the box tumbles. Not always, but ofte
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
More and more of their offering has been moving to their Freevee ad tier, anyway. And if they run the Prime tier ads like they've been running the Freevee tier ads, for me, that means "forget about it". Freevee ads, last time
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
IIRC, that is based on the utility potrace. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrace potrace worked just fine for me when I needed to digitize some drawings that became a prominent part of a business's graphic desi
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
I've been rather happy with Librera, although when reading foreign languages, I prefer KOReader for its locally installed dictionary lookups (you have to add them). Note that these are both reader software, first, and not advanced libr
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Notice to Customers of Data Security Incident [Xfinity via Citrix] [pdf](assets.xfinity.com)
1 points by pbnjeh 3y ago|1 comments
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Fallout from the 10/2023 Citrix incident. Somehow, I missed this, until I went just now to pay my bill. Since I keep up with the news fairly well, I'm wondering whether others also missed it. AFAIK, this is U.S. centric. Note the
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
The first pages have drawn me in -- thanks! And likewise, if and as it doubtless holds up to further reading, I'll be recommending it to some friends who will rather enjoy it. :-)
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
I didn't realize the settings were that fine grained -- that's on me. I thought it was all or nothing, for auto-correction. Thanks! Hmm... Upon reflection, I may have a vague memory of seeing that -- well before the brand name cap
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Over 20 years ago, a small software company named Kaylon made a bookmark manager called PowerMarks. Cross browser, handled thousands of bookmarks lightning fast, pretty damned good automated indexing that could be manually supplemented or o
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Keep in mind that these companies fight tooth and nail against public network infrastructure. Then, they turn around and selectively deploy. Charge and arm and a leg for any deployment that isn't convenient. And, regardless of cost o
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
A few years ago, the default Android keyboard started interpreting most anything that could match a brand name or trademark as such. I got really sick of backspacing to remove capitalizations. My interpretation: The trends and ads and marke
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Message from my former self. For years, I balked at the prices of the Bose. In retrospect, I wish I'd paid it much earlier. I'd tried some inexpensive ones, and I'd read about how nothing can cancel all noise. Nonetheless, th
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
They have an extra-sticky variety. Now my notes don't "grow legs" or fall off the wall.
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
I thought you were going to tell us it has an erratum on page 116. (A reference to the 1946 film version of "The Big Sleep", starring Bogie and Bacall. If you haven't seen it, it's an excellent movie. It even has a use
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
A friend still uses their iPhone 6 as their daily driver, with its original battery. The battery has lost some capacity, but not so much that they are constantly worried about recharging it. And yes, I've told them they need to replace
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
I have a ThinkPad X1C6. I think that's about the same timeframe as your T480. My CalDigit TB3 minidock's initial connectivity with it is somewhat flakey. Once it all does come up successfully, though, it's stable until reboo
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
I may well be wrong, but I have a vague recollection of reading that some devices can enable/share an Ethernet connection over their HDMI ports. I worried a bit about this when I was deciding to provide content to my unnetworked Toshib
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Exposure to cigarette smoke was also considered a candidate or reason, when I was younger. I haven't kept up with the thinking on or about this, but I believe it's still considered valid. Remember, a few decades ago, a lot of the
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Ages ago, there was TextPad -- a commercial product. Back when I was munging textified order histories for a multinational (lots of orders, ergo huge text files), it was great up through version... 4.7.3, I seem to recall. Then, they start
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Been noticing this, myself. E.g. for a local used bookstore that's reasonably popular and has been there for decades. I know the owner and can guess -- though I haven't asked -- that they aren't giving Google much if any mone
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Recently discovered I'm going to have to boot into a DOS environment in order to use a utility, that I had to ferret out of old web pages, to change the IDLE3 setting on some Easystores I have, in order to stop them from aggressively p

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