slantyyz

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by slantyyz 6y ago
What profession are you in? I'm in IT, and IIRC IT is one of the professions where salaried FTEs are not entitled to overtime in Ontario, but all of the salaried FTE contracts I've ever signed since the mid 90s had a specified num
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Substitute the girl using the treadmill with one of the parents. The kid with the ball still gets caught, although the treadmill could get stopped sooner. Unless supervision means the child never gets further away from the supervising adult
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by slantyyz 6y ago
It's been a while since I used it, but IIRC, it seemed OK to me when I tested it, but you can always try lowering the resolution to reduce the latency.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I have a Shure MV7 USB/XLR microphone, and while pricey, I like it a lot, as it's very easy to tune how you sound using the ShurePlus Motiv software. It also has a headphone jack that you can use for monitoring. Unfortunately the
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I'm using my retired Samsung A5 Android phone's rear facing camera connected via USB to my PC using DroidCam (costs a few bucks). DroidCam also does wifi, but I find USB to be better. The quality is pretty good from the A5, but if
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Nice Work! I have a MagneTrainer, which is made by the same manufacturer as the DeskCycle, and uses the same "trip computer" as the DeskCycle. When I bought the Magnetrainer years ago, they had some Windows games they could link t
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I can't emphasize how much this needs to be done (granted, the population in the age group that needs it the most is shrinking). The current seniors phone are utter crap. I've tried a bunch for my dad. My dad, 80+, can't figu
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Imagine being an 80+ senior who doesn't have a computer or Internet and being told that the only way to register for a COVID vaccine is online. That's how our initial rollout was handled (Ontario, Canada).
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by slantyyz 6y ago
IIRC, the biggest clone maker (I think that was Power Computing?) had great ads. They seemed more enthusiastic about selling Mac clones than Apple did about selling Macs.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I was basically the same, although I think we upgraded it somehow to 16K. I remember typing in source code from magazines (Rainbow, in particular). I thought MS Extended Basic on the CoCo was pretty cool. Ended up moving to Apple ][ a few y
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Well, I think the decision is a little more complicated. If you are upgrading, OS inertia may prevent you from choosing a machine that doesn't run the OS you're currently on. So a lot of Windows users may not even consider a Mac,
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by slantyyz 6y ago
At this point, isn't comparing it to any non-Mac meaningless? The only way to get an M1 is to buy a Mac anyways. Unless/until you see a mass exodus of people from x86 based OSes the comparisons don't matter. Sure, new Macs wi
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by slantyyz 6y ago
There's also Launchbox [ https://www.launchbox-app.com/ ]. You can also get Steam's Big Picture to do something similar, although it might take a little bit of work.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
You can now buy EA games on Steam though. EA's Origin client also knows which EA games you have that were bought on Steam as well.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> Except in the real world when we see games offered in multiple places (e.g. Steam and the Epic Game Store) they are usually the same price. Is that really true? Legitimate Steam keys are sold by stores other than Valve's Steam sto
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by slantyyz 6y ago
You can do some interesting non-code things with CodeMirror. HyperMD[0] is probably the craziest (in a good way) thing I've seen done with CodeMirror. [0] https://laobubu.net/HyperMD/#./docs/zh-CN/RE
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AMD Ryzen 9 5880HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested(anandtech.com)
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by slantyyz 6y ago
If you're not dead set on the mobile chip, Lenovo makes a ThinkCenter M75q Tiny Gen2 with a Ryzen 4750GE [1], although the ship dates look ridiculously far out at 5 weeks or more. I just ordered the larger SFF model (M75s Gen 2) this w
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I loved the end to the second season and while there are so many questions I'd love to see answered, I felt like it also made for good series finale.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
That's an oldie but goodie. I was on that bandwagon pretty early around 2000, although back then it was mainly to be able to test sites on older versions of IE than whatever was out back then. Crazy to think my smartwatch is probably m
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I've used it wired via USB to Windows, and it was usable for live conferencing.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I recently switched from Droidcam to Filmiic Pro (~$20), and it's pretty good. Filmic Pro supports clean HDMI out from the rear facing cameras on iPhones and some Android phones. You do need a capture card, but if you have a Camlink or
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> But yeah, TV over the fireplace is still terrible. I think it ultimately depends on the individual situation and layout. We had our last TV over the fireplace for 12 years. Our seating was ~15 feet away, and we did not need to crank o
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I think it depends on a bunch of factors - how often you use the fireplace, whether it's a gas or wood burning fireplace, etc. We had an LCD TV over our fireplace (gas, vented directly outside horizontally) for 12 years. While it just
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by slantyyz 6y ago
For me, it's simply grouping lights. Example: in the winter months if I'm waking up to take out my dogs, it's pitch black on the main floor, so a command like "Alexa, good morning" will turn on the lights for the pa
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by slantyyz 6y ago
The book version of Connections is also very good.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> It tells you if the person can't communicate beyond bullet points in a resume. I guess it depends a lot on the industry. Most of the cover letters I've seen when hiring are following a template or pattern gleaned from a websi
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I like that cloud access is free, and Alexa integration works for me, although I prefer to keep my automation stuff relatively simple. For me, I like the OpenHAB scripting, I personally found HomeAssistant to be too complicated to do some t
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by slantyyz 6y ago
There's also OpenHAB https://www.openhab.org/
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by slantyyz 6y ago
You must have had a reason to get it though, i.e. specific titles. As long as you can get them all for decent prices, I don't think there's much to regret, because if they're using any of the 3DS exclusive capabilities, you&#

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