Brian-Puccio

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by Brian-Puccio 7mo ago
On MacOS and iOS, two dashes (i.e., the -- characters) automagically turns into an em dash (—). No special commands needed.
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by Brian-Puccio 10mo ago
Can I ask why it will produce terrible color rendering? In addition to commercial scanners that used narrowband trichromatic (RGB) light sources, hobbyists are creating their own RGB light sources to digitize color negative film claiming su
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by Brian-Puccio 2y ago
WP is a fork of b2/cafelog. So b3/bistrolist? (There’s also b2evolution.)
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by Brian-Puccio 2y ago
Credit unions are nonprofit, member/cooperatively owned financial institutions. Banks are for profit (and likely publicly traded).
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by Brian-Puccio 3y ago
Yes, screenshot things. But also export your config because you will inevitably forget to screenshot a thing or seven and you can poke around the config export for that port number or IP address. Worst case scenario, you can spin up a VM of
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by Brian-Puccio 3y ago
So 6,400 Gb/s compared to 409.6 Gb/s once you convert units?
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
I’ve been using BorgBackup since it was Attic. Been thrilled with it.
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
> My eyes instinctively moved to the ad away from the puck. At some marketing meeting this was brought up and was promptly considers a feature, not a bug.
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
The first line of the fifth paragraph reads: > In overt cases, this is known as ‘constructive dismissal’: when an employee is forced to leave because the employer created a hostile work environment.
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
Mine mnemonic is use e.g. when you could say “for eg-zample” and use i.e. when you could say “that is” — ie to is. Admittedly, the second half isn’t as good as the first. : )
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
I’ve taken this concept to its fullest conclusion: everything north of the Long Beach Bridge (or Cross Bay Bridge if you live there) is “upstate”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach_Bridge https://en.w
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
As well as direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
> The inhabitants don't lose. > > Play your scenario out. > > A bunch of poor people buy 100 acres of land for $1, and they turn it into a paradise. Yeah but instead it’s people who cannot buy land who rent their homes
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
Obama in 2007: first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act, essentially codifying Roe Obama in 2009 (the same year he had a supermajority in the legislature): eh, that’s not so important I have zero faith in Democrats
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
> The split of pro/against is really close to 50/50. I’ve searched and I cannot find data that say half of America wants abortion made completely illegal (as it is in several states right now and will be in more shortly due to
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
That’s my memory, too. Linode for a long time didn’t have a product at that very low price point.
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
I’m also a happy Linode user since … a decade? more? I remember the phpBB forums for their customers from forever ago. I’m sure there are cheaper out there, but given the already pretty low cost, I’m not interested in jumping ship. I hope t
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by Brian-Puccio 4y ago
I am not a modern react/angular/vue developer, but this is still new to me. Thanks!
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
> You cannot compare these two levels of violence. Or if you compare them you should add a [fractal] distance between them. I didn’t intend to. Just that the land of the free isn’t so free when police are charged with randomly (or not so
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
So the ends (gun crime reduction) justified the means (stop and frisk, subway bag searches, etc.)?
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
While I’m super opposed to this, people from the West and especially Americans shouldn’t forget that the NYPD has for years used programs like Stop and Frisk [0] and subway bag searches [1] that were seen as valid crime/terrorism fight
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
And GitLab since v10.3: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2017/12/22/gitlab-10-3-rel...
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
The docs seem to indicate that if you have a directory structure (say over NFS share) you want to backup to tape, you must first back it up to a datastore (read: local storage on the PBS), that you cannot backup the files straight from a di
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
For a sample size of one, go ahead and ask them: https://twitter.com/hwitteman/status/1015049411276300289
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
> A flamboyant YouTuber known as Omi in a Hellcat was charged with illegally selling copyrighted TV shows and movies through an online service, prosecutors said. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/us/b
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
> Home owners are more likely to maintain homes well (and efficiently). That property owners aren’t willing to maintain property well if they don’t live there is not an indictment of the renters, but of the property owners. The renters p
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
I’ve stumbled across this in databases I’ve inherited before and while I appreciated that I could easily do filtering and stuff without joining across tables (and based on the comments here, more easily shard when things scale), it seems to
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
If you like some of the art others have mentioned in this thread, the very analog and mechanical art by James Gandy might also be of interest: http://www.jamesnolangandy.com
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by Brian-Puccio 5y ago
https://www.linuxatemyram.com/ is one of my favorite single-serving sites.
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by Brian-Puccio 6y ago
Same with a mid-90s Audi with my grandmother picking up someone from the airport. Took us a minute to figure out we weren’t in her car because both were immaculate inside. Though it was a while ago so I’m thinking they both just shared the

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