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by pridkett 3y ago
…and Whitehurst was pretty explicit that he left because the board gave the CEO job to Arvind Krishna[0]. He also forfeited a large stock award when he did that. [0] https://wraltechwire.com/2021/07/07/whitehu
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by pridkett 3y ago
They may be referring to the changes to PurpleAir API [0] that introduces paid requests that you can rip through quickly when doing large scale analysis. In the United States, AirNow.gov includes most PurpleAir sensors, although they are an
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by pridkett 3y ago
A superpower of doing Time Machine backups to a Synology is that you can put it on a BTRFS drive with automatic snapshotting. About once a year something seems to happen that causes Time Machine to give a “whoopsie, gotta start over from th
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by pridkett 3y ago
My child has learned that when a package says “JFK” on the return address to shout “more fun stuff from China!” But yeah, that’s what they do for a lot of shipments. Repackage and mail them from New York. Occasionally get something from Mem
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by pridkett 3y ago
You might have to dig for it - I didn’t know this feature was available before this post. You need to click on the map button then toggle the air quality layer. Seems to cover most of the US, Canada, Mexico. Western Europe is largely presen
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by pridkett 3y ago
As it took me a while to find it, here’s Almalinux’s statement: https://almalinux.org/blog/impact-of-rhel-changes/
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by pridkett 3y ago
They’re pretty clear. Switch to Firefox. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox for a number of reasons: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
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by pridkett 3y ago
I use both VS Code and Emacs. One of the things I love about Emacs is that if you put enough work into it, it will be like nothing else. There are times when I’m writing code, a text file, or even managing git commits with magit that I can
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by pridkett 3y ago
I know how to program. I understand lisp. What I have problems with are all the built in functions and variables in emacs-lisp. It has dramatically improved the readability of my emacs configuration and also taught me about some new ways to
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by pridkett 3y ago
They’re not stopping selling the Y or 3 with RHD, just the much more expensive and increasingly out of date S and X. Tesla’s best bet right now to “sell hundreds of millions of teslas” are the Y and 3.
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by pridkett 3y ago
If you’re a diver, cormorants are a ton of fun. Nothing like being 40ft under water and seeing a bird just swim by like there’s nothing to it. Works with both the normal kind and the flightless kind from Galapagos. Just a lot of fun to see
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by pridkett 4y ago
Blink Shell for iOS did something similar. I was very pleased - especially as I don’t use the app super often, but it’s really handy when I need it for 30 seconds here and there. Now, because I have the “Blink Classic Plan”, I won’t get eve
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by pridkett 4y ago
Ventura (current MacOS release as of April 2023) is the first major version of MacOS that does not run on a 2015 MacBook Pro. Security updates are still happening.
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by pridkett 4y ago
No. The point of the article, as I understand it, is to show how much easier upgrading OS versions has become. OS upgrades used to be rare and slow, because you needed to buy the CD. You used to need to make sure everything was backed up, o
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by pridkett 4y ago
Power prices vary dramatically in the United States - and are even higher in most of the rest of the world. Here’s the prices for the United States - https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
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by pridkett 4y ago
I live in a rural part of New England with an electricity company that everyone dislikes because it's super expensive and sometimes things go bad. Since 2010 we've had the following major outages: * October 2011 Snow Storm - Lost
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by pridkett 4y ago
UTM had me at “here’s a pre-built Solaris image”. It’s also how I sadly learned that M1/M2 chips don’t support nested virtualization. So no WSL on Windows on Arm under Mac OS Ventura. At least I could never get it to work.
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by pridkett 4y ago
It was a haul and I'm realizing now that I don't have it properly documented in my notes. But, that was a haul over the course of a couple years that had me experimenting with external USB network cards, virtual switches, and more
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by pridkett 4y ago
That's awesome! I just kinda write stuff that's interesting for me and put it up there on GitHub. Super happy that it helped someone else. Also, super happy that it still works with Home Assistant. I built the MQTT support for Hom
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by pridkett 4y ago
One of the most unexpected and wonderful things about my Ambient Weather station is that within its settings app, you can configure an additional URL for it to send periodic pings to. In my case, I whipped up ambient2mqtt[0] as a way to cap
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by pridkett 4y ago
It works well enough for me to not worry about dual booting. Windows tends to claim some of the GPU memory - about 1.5GB on my 3090. If I do anything performance sensitive I’ll still do it in the cloud - but it has made my gaming/fligh
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by pridkett 4y ago
Not in this case. Yahoo was part of Verizon until it was purchased by a private equity firm (Apollo Global) in a transaction that closed in September 2021. That was the point that Jim Lanzone was brought in as CEO. Laying people off and sel
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by pridkett 4y ago
Definitely was a 286. I had a 486sx and loved the game. I took it over to a friend who had an 8086/88 but had a CD-ROM, which was quite cool at the time in the very early 90s. Even now, 30 years later, I remember the screen saying it n
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by pridkett 4y ago
There's something really fun about programming directly for a DOS machine. Mucking around with the interrupts, copying whole off screen rendered pages to the video RAM to show the new page, needing to think about RAM consumption, divin
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by pridkett 4y ago
Maybe - if you're just looking at keypress to character on screen. But you're missing a ton of other advancements - higher resolution screens, better colors for syntax highlighting, intellisense, robust debugging, and, of course,
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by pridkett 4y ago
> This does indeed require some fancy touchscreen super thermostat thing though, so that's probably the crux of this. And that's where things start to, in a technical term, suck. I added a forced air heat pump to my house two y
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by pridkett 4y ago
I’m in a rural area in New England. There are multiple Amazon warehouses within 20 miles (25 minutes driving) and more than a dozen sighing 40 miles - including a major Amazon air freight hub in Hartford. Shipping times for most items are 7
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by pridkett 4y ago
I’ve got the same thing. I did a bunch of tests last year to figure out relative performance and costs of heating my house at various outside temperatures. This included doing fine grained electricity monitoring with an iotawatt and rough f
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by pridkett 4y ago
Congresspeople don’t get to skip security lines. The number of times I’ve seen senators and reps flying from DCA on Thursday night get annoyed because the pre check is long and I blast past them in Clear is huge. My favorite was when it was
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by pridkett 4y ago
This is a great solution. But it’s a rough one for people to comprehend. I live in a small town with a lake and a popular local swimming beach. During the summer parking is $25/car. When the geese end up closing the beach due to their

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