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by ytjohn 4y ago
On the amateur radio side of the house, we had what we called phone patches. A radio repeater with a phone connection. Operating a radio with a touchpad, you would enter a code to enable the phone patch, then do the dialing. This was in no
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by ytjohn 4y ago
I've been doing a good bit of research and planning for self-hosted Functions as a Service (also marketed as Serverless). Now, right off the bat, setting up one of the frameworks in kubernetes to accomplish this is going to be more com
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by ytjohn 4y ago
Our team has pipelines that builds, runs, and tests our code in containers. We like to approximate this locally with docker compose. This helps eliminate things like forgetting to update pyproject.toml. Additionally, since the pipeline uses
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by ytjohn 4y ago
I was going to recommend DevSpace for kubernetes, looks like Telepresence has a lot of similar capabilities. I'll have to check that out as well. https://www.devspace.sh/
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by ytjohn 4y ago
This only happened to me once, but I was leaving BWI airport and asked Google to drive home. I really only needed a bit of help getting onto I-70 because some of the signs were confusing. Well it started navigating and after a few turns, i
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by ytjohn 4y ago
GDP makes some good fits for this. I'm partial to the MicroPC, but I mainly use that when troubleshooting network issues. They have a whole lineup, each geared towards a different market segment. https://gpd.hk/gpdmicro
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by ytjohn 4y ago
As someone that worked at a dial up ISP and had an ISDN connection at home, modem bonding was really fascinating. At the ISP side, these were all T1 lines, so every line was technically 64k capable. The analog 56k modems rarely made a true
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by ytjohn 4y ago
I've seen rust used in a lot of bicycles. More seriously, most ebike firmware is written in C.
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by ytjohn 4y ago
http://www.nncpgo.org/Comparison.html This is really amazing stuff. Years ago, I was heavily interested in scuttlebutt [1]. I'm interested in grid down and "occasionally connected" communications. I particula
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by ytjohn 4y ago
This reminds me of Angelfire's ftp setup. You got free hosting, but to upload, you had to upload to their open ftp server and use the control panel to copy files into your webspace. The files on the FTP server had an expiration of so m
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by ytjohn 4y ago
I have a user agent switcher extension for Firefox. I have a linux machine for development work, and a Windows imaged laptop for email. There are some work related sites I have to switch the agent for. I know one of the sharepoint sites was
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by ytjohn 4y ago
I remember IRC a bit differently - mostly with it being tied to dialup. When we were on irc, we were on. We might be "afk" for a bit, but generally would be back soon. If you saw someone's nick on irc, it was very likely that
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by ytjohn 4y ago
I've used fldigi between two computers in the same room. It's also made for amateur radio, but when we do training, we just get operators to setup their laptop in the same room. If they have external headphone, that works best si
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by ytjohn 4y ago
As an update, I decided to try GnuCash out and enter the last months. It's really nice. The first month is going to take you the longest. But entering these really gets you thinking about where your money goes. For someone starting out
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by ytjohn 4y ago
I don't do this much these days, but when I was doing full time freelance, I honestly only did most of my "accounting" a couple times a year. In the first years, I used Quickbooks and paid banks extra for their OFX service. T
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by ytjohn 4y ago
That was the first thing I looked for as well. I have a service monitor (combination tracking generator and spectrum analyzer) witch CGA output. There's a fair amount of old engineering equipment with CGA out. They typically have green
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by ytjohn 5y ago
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. Software Engineers are prone to this. @lunasorcery has a talk on this subject. https://twitter.com/lunasorcery/status/1278984875190689798
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by ytjohn 5y ago
One of these I really like that has been around forever is https://robohash.org/ You can generate different variations of robots, cats, and humans. The source is available as well, and it's also a python module, which
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by ytjohn 5y ago
I've looked into this approach in the past. For me it really breaks down if any of your sites require you to ever change or rotate your password. Then you have to memorize or record the differences.
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by ytjohn 5y ago
Thanks for these tips. I have often resorted to making symlinks to hidden folders (dotssh -> .ssh, dotconfig -> .config) because I don't feel like looking up the KB shortcut. One additional note: after setting the defaults, if yo
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by ytjohn 5y ago
Thanks for the Forklift recommendation. I've used Path Finder off and on for years, and it has some advantages over regular finder. But it doesn't seem to have enough differences, and their distinguishing features are not readily
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by ytjohn 5y ago
I haven't seen Soulver, but it looks very similiar to the one I use on Mac, called Numi. On Android, I use an app called CalcNote which works in a similiar way. Neither does graphing, but you can do common formulas and functions like c
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by ytjohn 5y ago
It's basically a restricted access linux server. You're given access to SCP/RSYNC/WebDav but no interactive shell, no applications under your control. AFAIK, you can't host a web site on it, as all access requires a
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by ytjohn 5y ago
There's another factor going on in housing right now, which is corporate home ownership. There was some pressure on the market when landlords moved from long-term rentals to short-term airbnb style rentals. But last couple years saw an
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by ytjohn 5y ago
With Beanie Babies, you actually own something. You might not be able to sell it for what you paid, but you still have something to display or give away. With NFT, you own a URL to an image, but you're relying on the NFT marketplace to
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by ytjohn 5y ago
This is absolutely incredible. I have been wanting to do this as well, but I was going to approach it from the computer vision approach (blueiris and deepstack ai). Or a dedicated camera and pythoncv. I never even thought of having cameras
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by ytjohn 5y ago
I had started out the same way, especially if it was a new app and I wasn't familiar with how I really wanted to run it. Some containers expect a fair number of environment variables and multiple mounts. Once I got everything working,
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by ytjohn 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed response! I did poke around a bit and noticed none of my changes were having any impact. I never really messed with webgl, so didn't notice that was what was doing the rendering. Is webgl MAX_RENDERBUFFER_SIZE s
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by ytjohn 5y ago
I was thinking the same thing, even considering going into dev tools to try and change the font. Didn't realize it was a firefox on mac thing. I went ahead and opened it in Chrome. It's still pretty difficult font to read, but it
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by ytjohn 5y ago
Our team used it to provide instant excuses/root cause. We also had a list of just about every Rebecaa Black "Friday" parody. The "downside" is that these custom responses were global, while a slackbot can be chann

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