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by peckrob 5y ago
Yup, Facebook has their tentacles in so many places that walking away from it is difficult, especially if you are involved in local community activities. My neighborhood exclusively uses Facebook for neighborhood communication. My kid'
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by peckrob 5y ago
It's hilarious to me how much Google is hammering on content layout shift as a web vital for ranking websites when they're one of the most annoying offenders. I can't tell you how often I have accidentally clicked that "
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by peckrob 5y ago
My wife and I were talking about this a few weeks ago. I've basically stopped listening to terrestrial radio because it seems like the majority of it is ads. A trend I've noticed over the last few years is that gas stations specif
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by peckrob 5y ago
Monastic live is actually pretty varied. There are orders large and small, in cities and in the countryside. It can vary from your traditional idea of a monastery to a shared house where people all work jobs but live a communal life. A good
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by peckrob 5y ago
I haven't thought about .plan files in years. This takes me back to setting those on the HP-UX account I had at college, and fingering my friends' .plan files daily. That was my first real encounter with actual multi-user, family-
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by peckrob 5y ago
Danger doesn't require an active desire to exploit resources. I mean, let's be honest, if a species possesses the resources to cross interstellar space, we are not going to pose a threat to them. To me the bigger concern with rega
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by peckrob 5y ago
Dude, holy cow, I would love to see an interview with your Dad about doing that kind of work at that age and I bet it would go over really well here. That is amazing. Being in my early 40s now I have been increasingly thinking about what
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by peckrob 5y ago
Yeah, this is me too. I have essential tremor, so soldering anything takes a great amount of effort. I'll always pay extra for the ease of using the pins.
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by peckrob 5y ago
I do. That's why I was trying every possible way to do this using SDR or some other non-noticeable way. FWIW it's not even really attached to the port, because the port itself is behind the glass, it's just that the IR LED in
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by peckrob 5y ago
I use mine all the time for experiments. They're super useful for doing quick one-off experiments to see if something will work. Sometimes I'll keep using them, other times I'll switch to a different platform. Friday I was tr
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by peckrob 5y ago
The DC-3 is a rugged, durable, proven airframe that is especially well suited to harsh environments. It is straightforward and simple to maintain for a reasonably knowledgeable aviation mechanic and there are lots of spare parts, even today
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by peckrob 5y ago
This absolutely can happen. A few years ago I discovered [0] Atlanta Airport's public WiFi was injecting ads into non-https pages. A malicious actor changing download links is not a far fetched possibility. [0] https://twitt
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by peckrob 5y ago
This website is awesome and has been around for more than 20 years. I know because we once used this in college to find a cool place to go hang out! Back when I was a student at Auburn University (southern Alabama, USA) in the early 2000s,
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by peckrob 5y ago
Alaska has lots of places that are only reachable by air or by extremely difficult overland routes that may only be passable during certain times of year. Supai, Arizona [0] is only accessible by helicopter or an 8-mile hike from the neares
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by peckrob 5y ago
Frankly, even as poor as our rail infrastructure is, there's still a lot to be said for train travel. A couple years my wife and I went Birmingham to New Orleans for $150 round trip on Amtrak. Airfare on the same route was $600, and I
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by peckrob 6y ago
So interesting story about this. We originally didn't know Lithium-7 would be useful in thermonuclear weapons. It was assumed that it would be inert and that only the Lithium-6 would react with neutrons from the fission primary and bre
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by peckrob 6y ago
I've posted this before, but I figure I'll share the story again. I was a big player of MUDs back in the 90s. I probably spent way too many hours staring at green text (when I should have been studying), but I wouldn't trade
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by peckrob 6y ago
Where I live (southeastern US) it's $0.089/kWh. There's additional taxes on it that make it functionally closer to $0.10. But yeah, fairly cheap. Which is a good thing because we have electric heat and it's been a very
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by peckrob 6y ago
I used to use cheap Wyse Winterms in a configuration like this years ago. They could be had for about $20 a pop used on eBay 15 years go. A quick look now confirms they can still be had for about $15-20 each. Pair with xrdp on a server and
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by peckrob 6y ago
I can think of exactly one time in my life I have upgraded anything on a laptop, and that was probably more than a decade ago. Back when they still came with 4200rpm 2.5" hard drives, and I put a newer drive in a then 5 year old Dell b
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by peckrob 6y ago
For me, it's about safety. I live in an area [0] prone to severe weather and especially violent tornadoes. The local Skywarn [1] repeater is probably the best source of immediate first-hand information when things get bad. There's
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by peckrob 6y ago
Running Gentoo you learn a lot about how Linux works at a deep level. I'm glad I have that knowledge I gained running Gentoo and it's saved my bacon a few times over the years. But after about the third time that upgrading my syst
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by peckrob 6y ago
To be completely honest I haven't been involved in the Windows ecosystem in probably 15 years so I am not really sure. I switched over to using Macs in 2005 or so. I just Googled it and poked around and, yeah, at a high level it looks
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by peckrob 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Man I miss VB6. For rapidly prototyping an idea, I have yet to find anything that was as good as VB6. Drag a button, write code. Want to change things about the button? Use properties, that live update the GUI
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by peckrob 6y ago
Social pressure can play a role in the demise of regional accents. As someone who grew up in Appalachia, there are certain biases that come with that accent. It's is one of the reasons some professionals from the region try very hard t
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by peckrob 6y ago
Yeah, I would not suggest DIY'ing anything that's directly connected to mains power unless you are super sure you know what you are doing. That's a really good way to cause you problems with your homeowner's insurance if
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by peckrob 6y ago
Anecdotally, I can tell you that I am definitely getting up later. Between not having to be get my daughter to school by 7:20 and then a 45 minute drive to the office. I can roll out of bed about 7:45 and still be at my desk by 8ish. Honest
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by peckrob 6y ago
More to the point, there's no need because we're already very close to hitting the theoretical maximum flight distance - the point at which you could connect any airport to any other airport - which is slightly less than 13,000 mi
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by peckrob 6y ago
So a long time ago I worked volunteer IT for a fan convention. This is roughly mid to late 2000s. Among many other things, I was constantly looking for ways to speed up the registration line. And rather than have reg workers type things in,
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by peckrob 6y ago
I was stationed out of south entrance (Snake River district). Closest town was Jackson, Wyoming. There was a small convenience store at Flagg Ranch about 4 miles away, but anything you couldn’t get there required driving to Jackson. About

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