tekstar

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   by tekstar 6y ago

   I laughed out loud at the other twitter reply asking ThreadReaderApp to unroll the thread
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   by tekstar 6y ago

   I struggled with this a lot, and was never satisfied, until I spent a few weeks doing CSS & flexbox lessons from Lynda.com (free from my library). Now I can get mostly where I want to go without frameworks and it is very empowering. It&
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   by tekstar 6y ago

   now that Bootstrap uses the system font stack, using it doesn't have to scream "I AM USING BOOTSTRAP" any more
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   by tekstar 6y ago

   I played around with routers and CNCs for a few years in my garage at my old house. A key finding, obvious to anyone with experience, is that routers generate a lot of very fine dust, compared to most saws or drills. And this dust will st
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   by tekstar 6y ago

   What was rushed through? The messaging from my government (not US) has been that approval process rules have not been changed.
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   by tekstar 6y ago

   For some introductory topics that I don't want to invest a ton of money into but want to know more, I've gotten good mileage on lynda.com, free access via my library. Some videos are quite old so for topics that move quick like te
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   by tekstar 6y ago

   2012 Macbook Pro. Get the highest-spec Magsafe laptop you can find.
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   by tekstar 6y ago

   there is also https://snes.party and the rest of that family of multiplayer apps. It's worked well in the past
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   by tekstar 6y ago

   The margin of error in the results is greater than the difference between the groups.
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    Username checks out :)
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    I was running a little go app called fathom that provided this functionality. It works well! https://usefathom.com
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    Link?
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    Yes, unless they are invisible in the sky. Put a barrier in place to force innovation.
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    I'm generally a technologist however I am completely appalled at a private company getting the right to significantly impact humanity's view of the night sky, the original source of wonder.
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    https://www.zuora.com Zuora seems to be a bit like Stripe? Maybe it's their outage, or maybe someone at Zoom forgot to pay the Zuora bill..
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    Shopify's storefront is based around a liquid renderer instance. If you look up how objects are added to the liquid context that is pretty similar to the overall pattern (or at least was back when I worked there, hi pushrax :)
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    I donate the money I make from my side project apps to climate charities. The amount of money I was making was too small to motivate me for purely financial reasons, but as a means to help the environment it adds an additional source of mo
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    I haven't researched it fully but to me it seemed like a utopia.. For the device makers, and dystopia for the customer. Imagine all your wireless IoT except you can't block them or filter from the wifi network, they are always con
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    by tekstar 6y ago

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    by tekstar 6y ago

    [Big Spoiler] The best line of the book, a big reveal, is hidden in the last line of the story.
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    I think I've got you beat. My first job out of university, the sales guys would desperately throw every feature they could dream up into the contract to try to close a deal, then we'd have to build it before they committed to purc
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    I've had good luck writing ruby scripts that just shell out to Sox because I didn't feel like learning the API
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    Hey man.. you sound maybe depressed? There's a lot going on right now and I feel some similarity. It's not just remote work. Things closed, oh and a global pandemic to worry about. I don't have any solutions except I try t
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    The command line application is also quite useful. Usually you wouldn't need to go into a programming language at all to wield its power
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    Probably a dumb question to some but why does a soldering iron need more than temperature regulation?
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    He was the right mix of gruff, smarmy, shady, and heroic to go pretty far at that company. That company no longer exists except as a line item in some other company's deprecating assets
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    I used to work at a ~100 person company that provided satellite equipment, mostly to media companies - radio stations, movie distributors, that type of thing. A senior customer service rep realized he had VPN access to a customer's, li
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    The scammer doesn't need to know the IP, they just send them to the root domain which automatically loads the ip of the viewer.
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    I wonder how long before scam extortion emails link directly to this website in an attempt to add legitimate data to their extortion attempt
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    by tekstar 6y ago

    That's the colour of visited links.