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by raudette 1y ago
No one has mentioned Calgary's inter-office skyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_15 10 miles/16 km. I've actually never been, but saw it featured in a CanCon movie, waydowntown, where a group of of
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by raudette 1y ago
My issue with corporate laptops isn't so much the PC's hardware but the antimalware. I'm not even sure what the antimalware does, and I think, at one time or another, I've probably had all the major ones installed, and
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by raudette 1y ago
I don't think it was so much the business practices, but the market that shifted - I think it was a viable business for most of the 90s - there were a lot of these shops, but most have disappeared. It made sense to build for a use cas
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by raudette 1y ago
In high school, I worked at a local PC store in Ottawa - Dantek Computers, 1994-1996. Prior to leaving for University in August 1996, I built myself a Pentium 120, with the Asus P55T2P4 motherboard mentioned in the article. The way our sto
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by raudette 1y ago
I was reading some of the Amiga 1000 material that was surfacing earlier this summer for the 40th anniversary - the Infoworld review ( https://books.google.ca/books?id=cC8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42&redir_... ) had the follow
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by raudette 1y ago
I love this. My great grandmother, who lived into my 20s, wrote a 10 page memoir about growing up - life stories, people, places etc... And I found it super interesting - I built a vacation around the places last summer. I asked her daught
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by raudette 1y ago
Mounting a modern phone to a bicycle will damage the cameras - they can’t handle the vibration - see https://support.apple.com/en-ca/102175 I have an iPhone that I believe was damaged in this way. So you’d probably wan
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by raudette 1y ago
I second this - for me, it was the browser - it was usable with normal websites. It was SO much better at browsing than my BlackBerry at the time. Though I vastly preferred all messaging on my BlackBerry.
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by raudette 1y ago
I love reading about projects where someone has taken a combination of used bicycles, bicycle parts, metal tubing, sometimes batteries & electric motors, aerodynamic skins, and built something new: a bike for transport, a recumbent, som
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by raudette 1y ago
General feedback: - I want something like this - I have built crude air quality monitors (sensors + micro-controller) but would prefer something I can buy - I love the openness - I love the form factor. I would like the ability to carry it
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by raudette 1y ago
Patrick McKenzie has an interesting perspective on this: I think this is underappreciated by almost all writers. You should be doing something very differently with your life if you assume that as opposed to a generation earlier or even fiv
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by raudette 1y ago
I love the photo... what appears to be a Commodore C64C given permanent desk space off to the right, the familiar Stewart Calculus textbook sitting on the shelf...
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by raudette 1y ago
Yeah - I think the big problems are solved, and then you start moving into more and more niche cases. I really love being able to flash firmware on ESP32 devices with webserial! The use of USB authentication devices (FIDO2) is also interes
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by raudette 1y ago
Have you considered adding an IMU/motion sensor?
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by raudette 2y ago
Yeah - this is really really cool, but if you have code running on the target device, why relay its location via FindMy? If you are already talking to an external server to get pre-computed keys, there are easier ways to share location tha
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by raudette 2y ago
When Microsoft shut down its eBook store, you could no longer read the eBooks you purchased. They did refund their customers. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47810367 Also, there are examples where a company arbit
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by raudette 2y ago
Ultimately, one of the cameras in my iPhone 7 failed, and I replaced it with an SE3 - which was indistinguishable from the 7 - but another issue was patches. With very little skill, I found I could duplicate this issue on my iPhone 7 runnin
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by raudette 2y ago
I was interested in a self published book that was only made available by its author on Kindle. I actually bought a used Kindle solely to remove the DRM from the content I bought from Amazon using this method. Then I could read the conten
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by raudette 2y ago
I maintain a blog that I write myself, and a blogging bot on a separate site/domain, which I run as an exercise/sandbox. They both get traffic. Neither site is optimised for SEO. Looking at analytics (Matomo on my blog, Google A
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by raudette 2y ago
I ran a very small personal webserver with limited storage on Ubuntu on EC2 for a while. The EC2 instance, likely the smallest configuration available at the time, hit an inode limit just running updates over time.
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by raudette 2y ago
I actually did write this up if it helps anyone... I did something similar, my WordPress site only had ~100 pages, so I just put the page map in a table in the js: https://www.hotelexistence.ca/something-mildly-different&#x
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by raudette 2y ago
I wrote an article on how to resolve ink blobs smearing onto a page for Epson Expression printers years ago - just based on the people who've written me (which is just a fraction of the number that have found and viewed the page), I&#x
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by raudette 2y ago
A technique not covered here is setting up a wifi hotspot to impersonate a device. I wanted to reverse engineer the protocol used by an inexpensive action camera. I ran the Android app through a decompiler (JADX), and the app supported ma
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by raudette 2y ago
Last year, I moved my small WordPress blog (~100 posts) to Hugo, and tested a couple of these - I can't remember if I tried Wp2hugo, but ended up using wordpress-export-to-markdown ( https://github.com/lonekorean/w
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by raudette 2y ago
I've used BackInTime since 2010. I loved that, even without using the tool, you could just poke through the file structure, and get an old version of any backed up file.
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by raudette 2y ago
I used WordPerfect for the Amiga. I was in high school, so I didn't use any features beyond what you'd need for an essay or report - it seemed equivalent to the equivalent DOS version (4.x) from this perspective. One of the chall
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by raudette 2y ago
Supporting... I remember this Freakonomics interview with Ballmer about his statements about the iPhone: "There’s two things: What would I have said differently and what would I have thought differently? They’re actually quite differe
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by raudette 3y ago
Which version? Or what enables it? Version 41 (the one bundled w/Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) does have this behaviour from Notepad++
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by raudette 3y ago
Is anyone aware of an editor in Linux that has this behaviour?
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by raudette 3y ago
For creating games/entertainment/radio drama, allows 1 person to voice act multiple roles

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