thedanbob

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by thedanbob 1y ago
> I also had this idea to turn this into an IoT device that has 5 RGB lights and sits on your desk. It would light up when each friend you have delegated joins your Discord voice channel and you could customize the colour for each friend
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by thedanbob 1y ago
This is what I do, except the dynamic DNS service is just a script on my server that updates Cloudflare DNS with my current external IP. In practice my address is almost static, I've never seen it change except when my router is reset&
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by thedanbob 1y ago
That sounds more like someone who was looking to be offended, not necessarily someone who finds "crap" offensive specifically.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
> Why is this so frowned upon? Maybe because while ad tech these days is no less shady than crypto mining, the concept of ads is something people understand. Most people don't really understand crypto so it gets lumped in with &quot
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by thedanbob 1y ago
Agreed. I get asked to repair electronics for people quite often and I charge drastically differently for labor depending on whether I will enjoy the job or not.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
Fair enough. A favorite of mine is "sidewalk ends", which around where I live are so ridiculously over-the-top[0] I can only conclude someone sued once and now the state isn't taking any chances. [0] https://imgur.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
> Sometimes I play a game while driving, seeing how long I can go without seeing a sign or warning. If you had to hold your breath between each one you'd be in no danger; you could drive hours with no risk of passing out. This struc
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by thedanbob 1y ago
A few years ago I was helping run sound at a conference which involved recording and rebroadcasting multiple audio streams simultaneously. The provided equipment included a Linux computer running a real-time kernel and routing was handled b
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by thedanbob 1y ago
I don't know about other languages but Ruby is similar in that you can name a function with any string (though you might not be able to call it in the standard way) and the Rails default test framework takes advantage of that.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
I used to never finish personal projects. Then I realized that the biggest thing preventing me from finishing them was (perversely) my sense of duty to get them finished. Once I decided that I was under no obligation to anyone to work on th
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by thedanbob 1y ago
> Hanover ... did agree, on the basis of the photos, to pay a reasonable amount for the damage to cargo. > I’m still unhappy with Flat Rate: they charged me a good deal of money for services they failed to deliver, and never paid for
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by thedanbob 1y ago
I just finished a small personal project: a self-hosted web app which stores and indexes my archived emails. None of the existing options I tried were very good so I made my own. A simple Rails app that ingests .eml files and stores the tex
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by thedanbob 2y ago
> It was actually just yesterday when I decided youtube shorts are no longer a fun way to kill time. There's a lot of amazing stuff to watch, but it's no fun any more, because anything you see that seems amazing is likely to be
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by thedanbob 2y ago
I've dabbled in microcontrollers and enjoy how the limitations force me to find creative solutions, but this is truly next level. I'm not great with a soldering iron but I'm seriously considering assembling one of these.
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by thedanbob 2y ago
I hated high school chemistry but both this series and that book are among my favorite scientific reads.
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by thedanbob 2y ago
Basically. The questions were easy enough that they were doing it in their heads. She figured it out when she made them show their work, and their "work" turned out to be just plugging the right number into the equation.
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by thedanbob 2y ago
My wife teaches Algebra 1 and this is something she’s encountered with a few of her students. They’ve been able to get by more or less by using what we refer to as “advanced arithmetic” e.g. figuring out the variable in an equation by inspe
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by thedanbob 2y ago
Huh... TIL I've been pronouncing it wrong. Either the Fresnel equations never came up while I was studying physics or my professor(s) also mispronounced it lol
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by thedanbob 2y ago
> Also sea hash turned out to be sea sharp. This irked me when I learned it as I'm into both tech and music, but it never once occurred to me to apply the music convention to a tech name.
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by thedanbob 2y ago
In my experience, browser extensions are more one-and-done than network-level ad blocking like pi-hole. I can’t think of any time I’ve had to override a UBO rule but many popular pi-hole blocklists have a fair number of false positives.
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by thedanbob 2y ago
> AI-assistance will be particularly helpful and powerful in large codebases (think 100k+ lines of code). It’s simply impossible for any human being to fully understand that amount of code in detail… Even PROs/craftsmen who enjoy wr
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by thedanbob 2y ago
9% is reasonable. I've got pretty strict filters on my home DNS and it's currently blocking 12%. I imagine that number would be much higher if I didn't have ad block extensions on all my browsers and IoT devices on a restrict
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by thedanbob 2y ago
I've encountered fewer show-stopping bugs in Linux than macOS lately. And of the software that I use on both, the macOS versions have more problems. Honestly, the main thing holding me back from replacing my M1 MBA with a linux laptop
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by thedanbob 2y ago
Not just proper nouns. Often it tries to autocorrect a real but less-commonly-used word to a more common but completely different word.
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by thedanbob 2y ago
For the last 10 years or so I've pendulum swung between the positions "privacy at all cost!" and "what's the point, you can't win". Well, I'm tired now and the pendulum is stuck on the latter. All I c
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by thedanbob 2y ago
I'm getting really fed up with all the bugs in Sequoia in particular. I know the usual advice is to not upgrade macOS major versions until .1 or .2, but we're up to 15.3.1 now and it's still terrible.
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by thedanbob 2y ago
That was my biggest criticism. Maybe I could have suspended my disbelief back when I was single, but now I'm thinking "my wife would be holding an intervention for me after the first day, if not sooner".
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by thedanbob 2y ago
> Chromecast support is flaky. Most of the time when I cast from my Android phone, the app immediately "forgets" that there's something playing back on the Chromecast (even though it's still connected to it), so I can
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by thedanbob 2y ago
I tried KDE Wayland a few times over the years but always had to switch back immediately because something I needed was broken. Then just a week or two ago I tried it again and didn't have to switch back. Everything finally worked, or
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by thedanbob 2y ago
In fact, I'm pretty sure this already happens and the results are exactly what you'd expect. Some of the "alternate routes" Google Maps has suggested for me in the past are almost certainly due to other people making uns

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