alsobrsp

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by alsobrsp 2mo ago
This is the main point. I bought Backblaze too early in its post IPO phase. It's a good company and I am a customer, but I am down $15k on the buy.
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by alsobrsp 2mo ago
I live in a smallish city, we have a lot of stores I can shop at and a Costco within a 30 minute drive. For me, incremental marginal cost of the delivery is negligible compared to me driving to a couple stores, not finding what I need, and
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by alsobrsp 4mo ago
Everything old is new again. I wouldn't be surprised if there were people that thought GitHub invented git.
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by alsobrsp 4mo ago
I watched it. I am not dead, in a nursing home, nor retired.
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by alsobrsp 1y ago
I love my Voron Trident. It might not be under $1000. I have about $1300 in it, I start with the Voron Tap tool head which added a bit plus other stuff.
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by alsobrsp 1y ago
Quite sad really
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by alsobrsp 1y ago
I have seen him speak several times. Does anyone take him seriously?
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
I have a Thinkpad P1 Gen 4i with a RTX 3080 16GB running Debian. I run ollama and it works quite well.
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
I am newly diagnosed with HH. How do you monitor your ferritin levels?
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
Excellent answer.
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
We hired the guy who said it was a dump question, he became our manager. He then decided to retire and we had to replace him. One of the candidates answered the 5 cli question with terminal eye candy, not functional commands. He was not hir
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
Thank you. I took it as both. :)
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
> My experience differs a lot. Many insanely skilled people are somewhat "weird" (including possibly I am actually a bit weird myself, so I can relate. > What you consider to be "skilled people" is what I would rat
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
I mostly skipped the technical questions in the last few interviews I have conducted. I have a conversation, ask them about their career, about job changes, about hobbies, what they do after work. If you know the subject, skilled people tal
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
Look at fancy pants input button over here. I have a ~2022 Samsung OLED, and it doesn't have an input button that I can find. I have to go into the home ribbon menu to find the inputs.
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
In the 90s domain registration was all handled through email. You emailed from an approved address, with a specific format, to change anything about the registration. This included where your name servers were. Made self-hosting interesting
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
We get our eggs from a specialty butcher, their meat prices are rather high. Their organic, locally sourced eggs are a good $4 cheaper than the big box groceries regular eggs. I was quite surprised.
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
Lack of collaboration and proper git support are a big hold back for me. Otherwise, it is not bad.
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
I had a Sun as my desktop until 2010 when my Solaris admin gig was eliminated. It was running KDE on three displays. Loved it.
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
I manage phplist for a small doctor's office. Works well with 4k subscribers. Open Source. https://www.phplist.com
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
I have two Palm Vx in the garage. I love that game too.
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by alsobrsp 2y ago
> There wouldn't be a docking pilot on board nor would there be any tugs. There is likely a pilot onboard until it leaves the Chesapeake, well past the CB Bridge-Tunnel. When I worked on cruise ships, a pilot boarded a few miles out
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by alsobrsp 3y ago
I only buy and recommend Brother. Always just works.
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by alsobrsp 3y ago
I would change your b to, your project needs a lot of scalability. You will pay big salaries to make sure it is run correctly.
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by alsobrsp 3y ago
Corporate implosions of the dot-com era are fantastic reads. I was a part of the Northwestern Corporation, Expanets, Lucent fiasco. It was crazy the decisions that were made. I spec'ed a million dollar Sun Hardware purchase, my boss tu
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by alsobrsp 3y ago
I have been using refact.ai on my laptop, it has been quite good. https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact/blob/main/README.md
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by alsobrsp 3y ago
I don't do much work in Kate anymore, but in the last 10 years or so it has become my virtual note pad. There is almost always an instance running with a dozen or so unsaved documents open. The one feature I use the most is the ability
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by alsobrsp 3y ago
It did, they state that right in the summary.
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by alsobrsp 3y ago
> Perhaps one ought not take sysadmin advice from a blog post with a first sentence that reads "I’m not a sysadmin, and I don’t want to be". That's just perfect.
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by alsobrsp 3y ago
My stepdad had one of these, it was still working in the early 90's. Very cool "tech".

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