rwbaskette

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by rwbaskette 8mo ago
Funny, I found flameshot years ago looking for a Linux to Skitch. What’s lacking in the built-in tool?
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by rwbaskette 1y ago
I’ve done this by making every passcode a phone number for someone important. Mom’s phone number unlocks the computer, Dad’s phone number unlocks the tablet.
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by rwbaskette 1y ago
Liturgically, the day begins at sundown and both the Holy Week and Paschal services are moved to the beginning of the Liturgical day “in anticipation”. So the Lamentation service of Holy Saturday will have been said on the calendar-Friday a
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by rwbaskette 3y ago
I’ve managed to upgrade an i7 T480 with a new display, glass trackpad, WiFi 6e, 2xNVME SSD and 64GB ram. It has 2 USB-C ports, on of which is thunderbolt. I also have an actual dock for it and batteries for hot-swap. If they made anything c
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by rwbaskette 4y ago
εὖ : well/good κατα- : back/against στρέφω : I turn/twist It looked funny pairing for bit of Greek I know until I read the link and realized it wasn’t really Greek.
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by rwbaskette 5y ago
People who found this interesting may also be interested in historian David Hackett Fisher's book "The Great Wave". He examines the possible correlation of consumables prices to societal upheavals from the mid 1200s on.
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by rwbaskette 5y ago
I don't suppose you remember the "IBM OS/2 Fiesta Bowl"?
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by rwbaskette 6y ago
I’ve been surprised with what you can accomplish with data URIs. Embedding a MP4 can work great, but your text editor will likely hate it.
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by rwbaskette 6y ago
What I’ve noticed in my years with various databases is that many SQL parsers error on ambiguity and not necessarily strict compliance. In the case above the parser is likely dropping the parentheses where in the union there’s ambiguity bec
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by rwbaskette 7y ago
Where are these datacenters? I live in Ohio in the area of two of the points on the home page at https://sia.tech/ One appears to be a private residence or a farm. The other dot is literally on a golf course fairway, is a p
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by rwbaskette 7y ago
I use the olkb plank ( https://olkb.com/planck?category=eotw ) both at home and at the office. It started as fun to build, solder, and program but I soon realized that I was less fatigued after typing all day. My wrists don&#
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by rwbaskette 7y ago
Also, the standard library for ASP.NET either had gaps or somewhat incompatible implementations of features. I’d give time to attempt a port of a mid-size web forms app every couple years but ran into a number of issues each time. It was an
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by rwbaskette 7y ago
I think one of the overlooked things of the process-per-request CGI scripts we ran back in the day is how you might run out of PIDs. I remember this happening once, but I think(50/50) it was because the PID was a 16-bit value at the ti
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by rwbaskette 7y ago
As a matter of fact, I think he actually answered the question: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=36423 “One danger of the MsgWaitForMultipleObjects function is calling it when there are already messages wa
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by rwbaskette 12y ago
I have not had luck finding an equal to iTerm2 on Linux. While there are many to choose from, few combine all the features (color support, themes, layouts, configurable hot-keys for navigating panes, etc.) in one package. The one thing I mi
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by rwbaskette 14y ago
Given that homebrew tends to occupy /usr/local, I've grown comfortable with making my own ~/local folder with src, bin and app/server folders. I tend to use it for just about everything one might want in a /usr/local directory.