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by raintrees 3y ago
I run my IT business this way, and it feels very similar. Many times I say "yes" then I have to figure out how to make yes true. Integrity is one of my targets. And I mostly sleep well at night.
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by raintrees 3y ago
For my smaller clients, I have been migrating them to Synology Directory Services (LDAP/DNS/SAMBA)... I import AD, switch the DNS on the workstations, good to go. Test it out, if curious - Pretty straight-forward. And a heck of a
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by raintrees 3y ago
Yes! This! I'm in!
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by raintrees 3y ago
I traded 5 hours of IT labor for a Bally Sea Ray table (1971). Tuning it up was interesting (electro-mechanicals use many solenoids and relays) and the end result was a blast... Now I have a client who is asking to hire me to get their old
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by raintrees 3y ago
Browne wrote a number of books I found helpful, such as How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. http://harrybrowne.org/ (corrected title)
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by raintrees 3y ago
For those interested, a fairly comprehensive book on backyard metalcasting from scrap (from the ground up) is David Gingery's Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/build-your-ow
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by raintrees 3y ago
And we are still building fires in the wood burning stove to keep warm in Northern California. Mid-July.
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by raintrees 3y ago
I use metaphors like this when talking about programming: Any system of systems complex enough can easily be anthropomorphized... But they both come back to basics: What is the overall model of how it should work? What are the symptoms? W
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by raintrees 3y ago
As all things in this world, school has changed. I bailed out of high school with a GED because I was skipping so many classes, I was going to fail. I went into college for a short while (Architect), but the lure of employment and the wag
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by raintrees 3y ago
University of Reason and No Agenda Social for online. The rest in the real world, playing music with others, putting on musical concerts of other musicians, garden club, permaculture club. Helping neighbors with their property projects, t
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by raintrees 3y ago
Two words for a recent real life example of decisions that can be made by governments about electronic bank accounts: Canadian Truckers. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Whose turn will it be next?
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by raintrees 4y ago
Instead of force, maybe voluntary? Publish/promote a set of standard measurements for consumers, then let consumers drive the manufacturers. "The Market" will follow the consumer if the consumer is strongly inclined about i
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by raintrees 4y ago
I not only run one of these in my office, but am also converting smaller business clients to this platform. It is able to do quite a few services on its own (in addition to the Microsoft AD structure I have been nursing along for over 30 y
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by raintrees 4y ago
I use a Cross with their refillable ink cartridge. Couple of bottles of a beautiful dark-blue (blue-black) hue of ink from Japan. And when traveling, I converted a medicine losenge tin (think similar to Altoids) to hold a possible spent r
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by raintrees 4y ago
For me, powering up my vitamin D3 consumption eliminated most of the symptoms of SAD. I now cruise around 4000 IUs per day or so. Based on my reading, taking too much results in a return of the symptoms, and I have not reached that level,
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by raintrees 4y ago
https://nitter.net/jagarikin/status/1593771091738374144
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by raintrees 4y ago
Salmon are also the mainstay protein for the Yurok tribe. No salmon, no tribe, was their recent statement on the matter. Edit: Sorry, wrong tribal name, it's the Yurok here at the mouth of the Klamath.
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by raintrees 4y ago
Don't use twitter. So not jumping ship, mostly avoided it in the first place. Too much politics in the way it is run, for my taste. Been using Mastodon for the last year or two, once NA fired one up. ITM!
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by raintrees 4y ago
Exactly. Sales is solving other people's problems, which we find out about by asking a key question or three, and then listening. IF we have a good fit, we see if the other person is even interested in resolving the problem. THEN we
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by raintrees 4y ago
Gladwell biased his measurement to experts in their field, did he not? 20 hours can be enough in many things to get started, 150 hours decent enough to begin to command income from those efforts, and if it is pleasurable to you and provide
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by raintrees 4y ago
Ah, but 8" floppies made better frisbees - personal experience :) I used to work in the disk duplication industry, both at a copier (DisCopyLabs) and then later at the robot manufacturer, Mountain Computer, which was eventually bought
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by raintrees 4y ago
Our property business (side hustle) provides nice places for people to live, where they do not have to worry about the larger maintenance and upkeep that comes with all property, not to mention the financing arrangements now required due to
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by raintrees 4y ago
after I get done with a bicycle rise (I do push while I ride, like pulling on my cleats/toe clips, not just pushing - And I rarely coast) so a shower is usually recommended for me after (to give anyone a sense of my exertion). And duri
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by raintrees 4y ago
This clicks for me. I have numerous barely started journals, along with varying levels of guilt about not writing every day, and a lack of feeling anything is coming out of the process. I am now inspired to open one back up...
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by raintrees 4y ago
I love it: "Author will like to apologize for bad english in docs. A rand() function putting articles (the, a, an) will probably be more accurate." I may start using that for my code doc as well...
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by raintrees 4y ago
I did not really think I was the only one who gets frustrated, but wow - My rants are not quite that inventive/descriptive...
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by raintrees 4y ago
Still available: https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/sharpening/files-...
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by raintrees 4y ago
Calibre, for me - And then choice books to read. Finished quite a few in the last 6 months, topics ranging from Linux internals, to philosophy, to financial management, to health... I choose to invest my electronic time in learning more sk
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by raintrees 4y ago
pretty slick. extra bump for pen used for tool housing... pen-testing :)
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by raintrees 4y ago
Surprisingly, a quick physical workout can help my mental state, and assist me with energy to push through blocking situations.

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