JeffDClark

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by JeffDClark 5y ago
I have spent the last two years learning about galls on plants as well as botany (mainly Oaks). I even built a website for helping ID and catalog the various gall forming species that occur across the US and Canada. https://www.g
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by JeffDClark 6y ago
Erroneous 503s. I would get a 503 on every call. Uploading a single file with a single call would immediately 503. I never once got a successful upload. I simply switched the endpoint URL and credentials over to AWS S3 and it worked first t
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by JeffDClark 6y ago
I tried, and tried to use Spaces for image hosting related to a site that I am building but it never worked for me. DigitalOcean support was responsive but useless. I got the same basic response over and over again for days on end. I did fi
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by JeffDClark 6y ago
Piling on the Blackboard is horrible train, my kids school system uses Blackboard, Fairfax County, VA, FCPS. Its true awfulness was on full display when the school system tried to switch to FT remote schooling back in the Spring. Parents, s
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Interior Cites ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ to Drop Bird Proposal(news.bloomberglaw.com)
1 points by JeffDClark 6y ago|0 comments
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by JeffDClark 6y ago
A piece of fiction that has never failed to make me think every time I read it, is: The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Stanislaw Lem. One of the tenets of getting your mind bent is reading things that are antithet
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by JeffDClark 6y ago
I canceled mine after dragging my feet for years and paying way too much all that time. I have been dreading the call required to cancel but it went pretty smoothly. The lady asked why I was canceling and I said, "I only pay for this f
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Food Safety and Coronavirus: A Comprehensive Guide(seriouseats.com)
14 points by JeffDClark 6y ago|0 comments
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by JeffDClark 7y ago
I just setup Windows on a machine for the first time in a decade, it was a very gross experience indeed. I do recall it asking a series of questions about sending data to MSFT that were all by default, opt-in. One of those options sounded a
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by JeffDClark 7y ago
I have been using NewsBlur for years (ever since Google killed Reader). I quite like it.
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by JeffDClark 8y ago
Having grown up in Bradenton, which is even warmer than Tampa, I understand the heat. However, your statement about 100% humidity and 100 degrees is not possible. If it were everyone would be dead after being outside for even a short amount
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by JeffDClark 9y ago
I was driving back from South Carolina to Northern Virginia the day after the eclipse. The first hours were uneventful, by the time I hit I-81 things got crazy. I had all 3 nav apps running (Waze, Google, Apple), Waze kept routing me off of
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by JeffDClark 9y ago
As did I, then I saw the sub-headline of "For one thing, you won’t like IPAs." and I got sad for myself.
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How does your team deal with chat/chatops during SaaS chat outages?
5 points by JeffDClark 9y ago|4 comments
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by JeffDClark 9y ago
Its good the be aware that one component of higher efficiency in an AC/Heat Pump is thinner tubing. Thinner tubing is more prone to develop leaks and costly coil replacements and refrigerant refills. This seems to be primarily an issue
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by JeffDClark 10y ago
When the arcades left the malls I stopped going. Then again I also got old and the world changed.
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by JeffDClark 10y ago
Speeding things up would only make it worse for all of the wrongly convicted. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-d...
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How Opening a School Is Like Building Software(ideaventionsacademy.org)
1 points by JeffDClark 11y ago|0 comments
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by JeffDClark 12y ago
I just finished the book Acid Test ( http://www.amazon.com/Acid-Test-Ecstasy-Power-Heal/dp/039916... ). The stories about the progress that the lucky individuals, who have been part of MDMA therapy studies for PTSD,
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The Martyrdom of Weev(medium.com)
6 points by JeffDClark 12y ago|0 comments
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Akka Clustering, Step by Step(tersesystems.com)
2 points by JeffDClark 12y ago|0 comments
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by JeffDClark 12y ago
How do you only pay ~$5 for a DC-Baltimore commute?
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by JeffDClark 12y ago
What about the, "I never trusted Facebook and continue to not use it." option?
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by JeffDClark 13y ago
Is this the talk that you are referring to? http://slideshot.epfl.ch/play/suri_stonebraker
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PRISM: The Amazingly Low Cost of Using Big Data to Know More About You(highscalability.com)
138 points by JeffDClark 13y ago|28 comments
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by JeffDClark 15y ago
Looking at the word cloud linked from the article ( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3077/youporn_passwords.jpg ) I am brought to puzzlement over just why 'melinda' is such a popular password.
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by JeffDClark 15y ago
The only reason I am even considering an LLC for my one person software company is patent trolls.
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Abolish LLCs?(theagitator.com)
2 points by JeffDClark 15y ago|2 comments
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by JeffDClark 15y ago
I guess the uproar over the sleaziness of patent trolls, and Lodsys in particular is over. A shame. I wish that these stories would stay in the news and at the top of Hacker News everyday until a positive change to the system is made.
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by JeffDClark 15y ago
I have had articles in my list that have become unavailable. No amount of trying to re-download them works. What you say makes sense but I am unfamiliar with the exact way that it works.

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