HankB99

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by HankB99 3mo ago
I just checked my closest Microcenters (in Illinois.) 12 in Westmont and 25+ in Chicago (for $18) Zero W were 13 and 25+ respectively at $15. Long gone are the days when they would sell a Pi Zero for $3.14 on Pi day.
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by HankB99 3mo ago
> Not sure what that has to do with the owl--"teasing" I wonder if they're just amusing themselves (by being little jerks.) One day in early spring, I thought I heard a Red Tail Hawk screeching in a tree directly above me.
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by HankB99 5mo ago
I already do: https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-c3 The tool chains that Espressif seem to work pretty well with these as well as their earlier (some sort of RISC) processors. I have had some co
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by HankB99 5mo ago
I suspect they're looking at the cost of implementing a one time refund/credit vs. reducing prices without the need to implement anything special. Yes, I'm being charitable but not having to spend part of the refund on an ext
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by HankB99 9mo ago
Would it make sense to consider anything that prevents a process from completing it's intended function an error? It seems like this message would fall into that category and, as you pointed out, could result from a local fault as well
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by HankB99 9mo ago
> A good old ICE car will be cheaper to make than an EV How much of that is the result of the relatively maturity of the technology? We've been continuously improving ICE based transportation for well over a hundred years. It's
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by HankB99 11mo ago
Our kids have a Rottweiler that loves to chase a ball, Bring it back and then dare us to try to take it away from her. She can drop if convinced. Or I have a second ball that is more interesting, causing her to drop the other ball. She ca
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by HankB99 1y ago
I was thinking of that in terms of siloed web sites but your description of walling off information is broader and more appropriate.
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by HankB99 1y ago
https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic looks like it is no longer maintained. Is there something more recent for syntastic? Agreed WRT shellcheck.
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by HankB99 1y ago
Coincidentally the 2.5 admins podcast just published an episode on ZFS basics: Why ZFS https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-256/ ZFS relates to backups. In my case (among the many things I like about ZFS) is that it preser
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by HankB99 1y ago
It shipped in the release version but was disabled according to a note on Wikipedia. > Microsoft disabled the AARD code for the final release of Windows 3.1, but did not remove it so it could be later reactivated by the change of a singl
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by HankB99 1y ago
I'd like to emphasize "Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets" because I don;t and I suppose anyone not intimately familiar with this particular munition and the task
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by HankB99 1y ago
> A lot of that power currently gets discarded instead. How is power discarded? I would expect peaking generation to be cut back or perhaps even base load plants can reduce output. (AFAIK "base load" means they are expected to
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by HankB99 1y ago
> sword I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but I bet a fair bit of metallurgy was learned producing a better sword.
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by HankB99 1y ago
> customers always wanted to change "something" ... > multiple drafts after each other with the first one being the "lightening rod draft". This reminds me of something I learned in a developmental psychology class
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by HankB99 1y ago
Will I be struck down or downvoted into oblivion if I mention man2html? Definitely not light weight since it also installs Apache, but I do like to view man pages in the browser. I think 'python3 -m http.server' could be substitut
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by HankB99 1y ago
The budget for the NPS is so small that if they shut it down, the effect on the deficit would be too small to measure. But someone would still need to manage those properties so it would be "necessary" to sell them off to privat
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by HankB99 1y ago
> I'll take a Lexical editor with SQLite to store my data any day. Do you have tools that do this or an example? I'm pretty happy with Markdown and mkdocs (on Linux) to manage and format my notes. VS Code does a pretty good job
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by HankB99 1y ago
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wEJJAqsyXVjhT5jW7 Maybe jumping spider? The iridescent colors were spectacular.
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by HankB99 1y ago
> > this is more like "requesting the data to be deleted". > Ideally the court can compel the purchaser(s) to destroy the data. I suppose a court order holds more weight than checking a box on a web site, but I'm not
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by HankB99 2y ago
As a teen I worked in a pet shop and a Mynah - the shop pet - had learned to imitate a squeaky hamster wheel.
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by HankB99 2y ago
> Blue Jays imitate the calls of Red-tailed, Red-shouldered, and Broad-winged hawks, for example. I've seen this. We've had Red Tailed Hawks nesting in the area and used to hear them calling every morning. (True fact: Most &quo
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by HankB99 2y ago
> DDR5 memory training. That makes sense. I also have a newer host that uses DDR5 RAM. The first time I powered it up, I thought it was not working. While I was sitting there trying to figure out what to try nest, It finally came up. It
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by HankB99 2y ago
I have an old server motherboard that does not support UEFI. Otherwise it still runs fine. I came here to ask why it matters to the GPU how the host boots. Does it need to load some drivers or firmware before the host OS? The only thing I f
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by HankB99 2y ago
Before that I tried to get to the moon. I climbed the nearest tree. Good progress at first ...
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by HankB99 2y ago
> What would be found here in a thousand years much less a million? Possibly an advanced civilization that says "No, not ours."
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by HankB99 2y ago
Wasn't planned obsolescence invented with the incandescent bulb? The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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by HankB99 2y ago
> I blows my mind (and often aggravates me) how rude some people can be. That seems to be a general characteristic. I strive to be cheerful and helpful whenever I'm asking for something. I feel like (sadly) it sets me apart from th
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by HankB99 2y ago
That may be true for pools that never get scrubbed. Or for management that doesn't watch SMART stats in order to catch a situation before it degrades to the point where one drive fails and another is on its last legs. With ZFS on Debia
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by HankB99 2y ago
Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm on a Gitea version that will migrate easily (and have confirmed that) and will not upgrade or migrate until I have decided. (I am leaning toward migrating to Forgejo.)

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