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by smitelli 2y ago
I used ST2 for like five years in its unregistered state. (I rationalized that by telling myself that nothing I used it for made me money, but I still feel a little gross about it.) In practice it was no problem. I paid for an ST3 license,
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by smitelli 2y ago
Seems like as good a time as any to show off this cursed thing I keep in my dotfiles: # Allow .. through ........... (yup!) to cd up some number of directories. for i in {1..10}; do spaces=$(printf "%${i}s")
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by smitelli 2y ago
I never understood why they encode stuff that way. Most streams that I've looked at devote literally 98-99% of the bits to the video, and the audio stream is just scraps. The film's sound department worked really hard on that stuf
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by smitelli 2y ago
According to MDN [1] there is a <portal> element but hell if I know what it does. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/po...
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by smitelli 2y ago
Just a PSA for anyone unaware, you can get checks printed anywhere and using a huge variety of designs. It is not mandatory to order them from the bank where the account is held.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Pro Tip: While the YouTube player is paused, the comma and period keys move back/forward by one frame. (Memory aid, < and > but without using Shift -- assuming US PC keyboard layout.)
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by smitelli 2y ago
I've had some luck by misusing older hardware designed for network appliances. I picked up an older Protectli Vault used on eBay for something like $65 and it's more capable in practice than I would've thought. (Makes sense I
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by smitelli 2y ago
I think(?) you're thinking of "Adaptive Recovery" which has a few manufacturer-specific aliases. The behavior is broadly as follows: Consider a thermostat heating schedule that is programmed for 64F overnight, increasing to
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by smitelli 2y ago
Tiny PSA: The official Kodi app (at least on iOS) has built-in WOL commands.
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by smitelli 2y ago
In RTP NC, GFiber's $70 pricing beats equivalent speed plans from the other two symmetric fiber providers in the area, AT&T and Spectrum (if you live on the right streets). It's not _dirt_ cheap, but it's the cheapest we
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by smitelli 2y ago
Plain old markdown image syntax also works, although there is no way to preprocess the file or add any additional HTML attributes beyond what you see here: ![add a description here](my cat.jpg)
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by smitelli 2y ago
It's a case-by-case thing. Sometimes in this big world you see people asking things like "how do I write a firewall wildcard rule that blocks all IPv6 addresses starting with the number '2'?" and you just want to re
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by smitelli 2y ago
Ah yes, perpetually flagged by every corporate firewall that did substring keyword matching on DNS queries. Incidentally, the amount of sheer content-masking garbage on their pages was what originally prompted me to install and learn (IIRC)
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by smitelli 2y ago
Is this hypothetical person going to build a municipal water and sewer system for their toilet too? Or will they just dig a well, which requires no skills or effort at all? /s
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by smitelli 2y ago
It’s worth pointing out that the “Agile” philosophy is literally 4-5 lines long: > Individuals and interactions over processes and tools > Working software over comprehensive documentation > Customer collaboration over contract neg
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by smitelli 2y ago
I mean, I’m not really a fan of the spaceship whine that the newest Honda CR-V models put out in electric mode. It’s going to be hard to please everybody on this planet.
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by smitelli 2y ago
> I unsubscribe to everything I do not absolutely need. This right here is one of the greatest quality-of-life improvements I ever adopted. Every single email you get, if you don’t absolutely want it, find and click the unsubscribe link
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by smitelli 2y ago
I bought a hub nut for a washing machine from Amazon once (don't judge, it was an emergency situation and next-day shipping factored heavily into the choice). Years later, they are still suggesting repair components for appliance model
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by smitelli 2y ago
Speaking only as myself, usually when I find myself having the scrolling problem the function/method is crying out to be broken down and refactored anyway.
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by smitelli 2y ago
E2L11 “Lunatic Fringe.” The map has an outer ring containing 720 degrees of hallway. Surprisingly disorienting even when you know that’s what’s going on.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Early on I heard the k8s controller ecosystem described as “a half dozen concurrent `while true` loops all fighting with each other.” Can’t say I disagree.
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by smitelli 2y ago
This is the secret level (E1M9) that you'd normally encounter after E1M3. By this point in the regular progression you'd have found a shotgun, chaingun, rocket launcher, and probably some armor. Starting this level with just a pis
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by smitelli 2y ago
Your English is actually pretty good, for what that’s worth. Not sure how long you’ve been speaking it or what language(s) you’re coming from.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I’d try to drop requirement 3. Any insights made could be beneficial to somebody else working on the code (especially in closed-source environments only touched by people employed by your organization). Re: critical tone, instead of saying
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by smitelli 2y ago
Management and communication is evidently quite a bit harder.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Maybe give my arteries a quick scrape while you’re in there.
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by smitelli 2y ago
The Battlestar Galactica reboot had a few scenes in the locker room/shower/toilet area. Pretty spartan, but probably familiar to anyone who served on a navy ship.
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by smitelli 2y ago
The fun way to do it is to pull the deflection yoke off and shear the neck of the tube. I was pretty far away the only time I experienced somebody do that, but it sounded like a rifle round.
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by smitelli 2y ago
The only thing worse than these soldered-in batteries are those motherboards with the Dallas DS1287 RTC “brick” ICs. They had a coin cell buried inside the chip[1] with no way to provide external power should it drain. [1]: http:/&#x2
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by smitelli 2y ago
And I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and really nothing else. I suspect everybody’s threat models and risk tolerance is a little different.

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