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by tfvlrue 3y ago
Oops. Yes, an average of 3 cycles per day, not per year! I have the spin down timeout set to 20 minutes. But this is a desktop PC with intermittent usage (and different usage patterns over the years). They used to be in a RAID1+0 but now th
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by tfvlrue 3y ago
Probably a lot. My anecdata: I have had four Seagate HDDs in my desktop PC since 2007 and despite a couple of remapped sectors, they're still working fine. I often power it on and off 1-2 times a day, and the drives are set to spin dow
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by tfvlrue 4y ago
Reminds me when I did something similar back around 2008. The motherboard was made by ECS and came with a "Top-Hat" -- essentially a second flash memory chip that you can snap on top of the board. No desoldering required! More det
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by tfvlrue 4y ago
I use Keepass2Android on Android devices and Strongbox on iOS devices. They've served me well.
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by tfvlrue 4y ago
> FDA saying to throw out pans from before 2013 Do you have a citation for that? The closest thing I can find from the FDA is https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/and... which says essential
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by tfvlrue 4y ago
Along those same lines, I found this an interesting read: https://danluu.com/car-safety/
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by tfvlrue 4y ago
Interesting. Did a little more digging and it looks like both are used for air dusters, with 134a being marketed for "energized circuits" because it's non-flammable (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005DNR
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by tfvlrue 4y ago
I'm glad to see someone taking the initiative to mitigate this problem. I also wonder how much "canned air" dusters contribute overall. If I recall correctly, they're commonly just HFC-134a in a can. But because it'
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by tfvlrue 4y ago
Nice! I was in a very similar situation. Got the EPA cert and all the equipment and replaced our central AC. Glad to see I'm not the only one crazy enough to go through all that trouble :)
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by tfvlrue 4y ago
Same here. I got two of the Das Keyboard 4 (one for work, one for home) over 7 years ago and they're still going strong. I like the brown switches personally. I hadn't realized how much using membrane switch was causing RSI until
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
The ironic thing here is that traditional duct tape should _not_ be used for attaching HVAC ducts together. The adhesive doesn't withstand the temperature extremes, and it has undesirable properties if it catches on fire. UL-listed foi
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
Same here. I cannot imagine using Windows with the default "combine taskbar items" behavior, I've turned it off ever since it was introduced in the XP days.
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
Again, I have no first-hand experience with this device so I can only infer things from the articles and documents we have available. I fear I am being overly pedantic here, but to me, "override" implies that the device is circumv
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
I don't have any first-hand knowledge of what the Kytch device did. But nothing I've read about it ever gave me the impression that it was overriding lockouts. It was intended as a remote monitoring device and troubleshooting tool
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
I've been following this story for a while. When people say the soft serve machine is "broken", they really mean "unavailable to serve ice cream to customers". That could mean something as innocuous as performing a
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
I tend to agree with this. My expectation from reading the headline was that it would be code from the backend (which admittedly seemed odd, since that's not public). I can't recall ever seeing someone use the phrase "X'
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
Thanks, these are great. > * Exterior door frames should be installed fully to the studs (e.g. use 3-4" long screws) I'm almost scared to ask... how else would you install an exterior door?
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
This is really interesting. It must be region-specific, because I'm in the northeast and have never seen or heard of this practice. Residential power around here is delivered as 240V split phase. Meaning, the service entrance load cent
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
Would you be willing to share some of these requirements? I share your views on construction in the US, so I'm curious about some specific examples.
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
I've been playing this for a couple weeks now and have really enjoyed it. Well done!
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
The studio I'm at has hopped around a bunch, so I've gotten to do work for a range of franchises over the years. Guitar Hero/Band Hero, Call of Duty, Skylanders, Crash Bandicoot, Destiny 2, and most recently Diablo II Resurre
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
> Game engines are a lot like programming languages in the sense that once you learn truly learn how one works, picking up a new one isn't that difficult. As someone who has worked as a AAA game dev for almost 13 years, can confirm
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
> The U.S. government agreed to drop all charges filed against Sklyarov, provided that he testify at the trial of his company. I think the confusion is that there were charges filed against both him and the company he worked for, the for
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
Can confirm that I have experienced the same problem you've described (sometimes it just doesn't send the cookies upon initially navigating to a site, and after a refresh suddenly I'm logged in and everything is fine). It&#x2
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by tfvlrue 5y ago
Funny thing about Fidelity -- if you call them to deal with an account issue, the automated phone system asks you to enter your account password using the phone keypad. And it's quite impatient (I wasn't a third of the way through
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by tfvlrue 6y ago
Ha, first thing I noticed before even reading the article. Can't decide whether it's just a coincidence or a subtle commentary (leaning towards the former).
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by tfvlrue 6y ago
Even though I've since switched all my networking gear to Ubiquiti stuff these days, I still have fond memories of using DD-WRT on the WRT54GL. Being able to configure dynamic DNS and host a VPN server was an amazing thing when you had
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by tfvlrue 6y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to fault the Unifi software for using a self-signed SSL certificate. I think the only theoretical security risk here would be that Ubiquiti could decrypt the traffic between you and your Unifi controller, if
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by tfvlrue 6y ago
Hmm, there could be some context I'm missing, but his comments on this come across to me as a bit ill-informed. But I'm just an avid DIYer who has taken apart and repaired many appliances, so take as you will. > toxic plastic I