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by ydant 3y ago
I bookmark this page and load it whenever something starts circling/passing overhead: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?SiteLat=##.####&SiteLon=##.#... Regular plane noise is a regular thing where I live - I'm r
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by ydant 3y ago
This all reminds me of my friend, who doesn't really have a programming background, but uses Tasker (an Android app programmed through a UI) to automate tons of stuff and is incredibly happy with it. Meanwhile, I've had tons of id
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by ydant 3y ago
> oxalic acid The benefit of using oxalic acid for cleaning, apparently, was discovered as part of the process of cooking rhubarb: https://barkeepersfriend.com/oxalic-acid-magic-of-bkf/
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by ydant 4y ago
Currently there's a dedicated fuse for the OnStar system. You can pull that and the consumer facing OnStar functionality stops working (remote monitoring, etc). I assume it's really actually fully disabled by the fuse, but I can&#
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by ydant 4y ago
My household has 3 EV Chevy cars - Volt, Bolt, Spark. Buying another Chevy EV at some point was certainly a possibility. I even use Android, and don't personally care that much about Apple support, and I'm still unhappy about this
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by ydant 4y ago
See my comment above about the aux jack.
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by ydant 4y ago
For my car, I solved the radio issue by plugging in a headphone plug (no cable attached) into the aux input. The car prioritizes android auto/BT->aux input->XM/FM, so by having this plugged in the radio never plays automatic
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by ydant 4y ago
duckdb and being able to write: select a,b,c from '*.jsonl.gz' has been a huge improvement to my workflows.
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by ydant 4y ago
I still don't buy it - looking at these two in isolation: https://rotatingsandwiches.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/banh-... https://rotatingsandwiches.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/shrim
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by ydant 4y ago
There are multiple attack vectors that 2-factor helps with, and storing your 2-factor alongside your password does still help in some, just not all. For the more common attacks I expect to encounter, namely a single password being leaked, a
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by ydant 4y ago
I use and pay for Kagi, but more as an effort to support what I want to see (alternatives to Google) than specifically being 100% in love with it. It's pretty good, though, and definitely provides a bit of an alternative lens on the we
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by ydant 4y ago
One example - my shopping profile runs the extensions Rakuten/Honey to find coupon codes. I don't want those running on every single page I load outside of the shopping intent, so I use a separate profile. Firefox's containe
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by ydant 4y ago
You can't (as far as I can tell, and I'd love to be wrong!) set add-ons to only activate on certain containers in Firefox. You have to setup separate profiles, which are fully isolated browser contexts and only install extensions
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by ydant 4y ago
I tend to use worldtimebuddy.com as a very practical way of representing timezones when scheduling things. As cool as this pole clock is, it's not as useful to my mind as the more linear representation worldtimebuddy.com uses.
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by ydant 4y ago
I had something similar to that on my MacBook and ended up giving up on it. I frequently ended up tripping a soft-fuse or something and the port would stop working until I either put the MacBook to sleep or shut it down (I forget which). On
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by ydant 4y ago
It's carved out as a specific permission on the privacy page now - https://www.strava.com/settings/privacy - and also explicitly mentioned as turned off for "only you" activities, but no mention if it&#x
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by ydant 4y ago
This existed as a massive data-leak for a really long time. The "API" didn't have any meaningful protection, and the service was opt-in. It was really easy to download flyby exports for any activity and do analysis. I had a s
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by ydant 4y ago
That's what I'm doing - exporting bookmarks, links from my notes (markdown, etc), HN/Reddit upvoted links, starred github projects, etc - and then having YaCy index them. In theory, this means I can use this as a search engin
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by ydant 4y ago
> Decathlon Interesting recommendation, I haven't heard of them. I checked out their MTB shorts, and this model[0] is basically identical to a pair I've bought on Amazon from various "Chinese" retailers of different n
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by ydant 4y ago
Thank you for sharing! Another similar project is PDF Sandwich. http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/ I'd like to find one that uses AWS Textract or some other similar OCR - for my rare use-case, it's so muc
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by ydant 4y ago
Based on some testing just now, it looks like for synchronous mode single-page PDF is supported, but if you try to OCR a multi-page document, it throws: An error occurred (UnsupportedDocumentException) when calling the DetectDocumentTe
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by ydant 4y ago
Textract really does do a good job of balancing cost, ease of use, and quality, at least for my hobbyist needs. I was inspired by another recent comment you posted on HN, and after some testing of the Textract console [0] I wrote a simple &
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by ydant 4y ago
For me the big advantage of ripgrep is it defaults to searching recursively so I can just do "rg term". And the plugins support, which enables something like ripgrep-all, which can then search PDFs, etc. If I'm scripting, tho
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by ydant 4y ago
Thank you for the response! I saw you make that suggestion on this issue - https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/issues/525#issu... ---- Thinking about it, this does solve the issue as I described it.
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by ydant 4y ago
healthchecks.io is a great service (and apparently can be self-hosted - https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks ) that I use for both personal projects and at work. It works really well for cron jobs - while it wor
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by ydant 4y ago
I had tried to switch from Emacs to logseq and had massive performance issues earlier this year. I have since migrated to Obsidian, but I'm finding I really want the structure of an outliner. Obsidian is great for some types of minds,
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by ydant 4y ago
It's really a shame that org-mode is constrained to Emacs (and the problems that come with that), because it really does already do most everything you mentioned here. It scratched so many itches for me - I just wasn't able to ove
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by ydant 4y ago
I've always been able to use the in-browser client, but you have to download the client once or twice before the page will update to show the alternative "use browser". It's definitely an intentional dark pattern.
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by ydant 4y ago
Basically everything you wrote above is what I'd say - except I haven't submitted a bug report or feedback to Kagi... Basically, when I used DDG, I found myself frequently using !g to search Google instead. For Kagi, I haven'
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by ydant 4y ago
Fastmail is a really good choice. I've been happy with it. I use a wildcard for my personal domains, so I haven't tested how +suffixes work.

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