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by cutchin 2y ago
I wish they'd have given more examples for traditional bikes than bottom brackets. Yeah, bike shops have to deal with lots of different BBs, but that's because they deal with bikes that might be 30 or 40 years old, from all over t
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by cutchin 2y ago
Personally, I love my smart home stuff. Homeassistant has been utterly reliable, automating things in node-red is easy and fun. I can use IKEA's stuff or buy from any of dozens of other Zigbee manufacturers. My plant lights go on and o
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by cutchin 5y ago
I don't know much about the flute world, but there's a guy on youtube who's been extending his contrabassoon's range to absurd new lows for years now. Here he is seven years back: https://www.youtube.com/
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by cutchin 5y ago
Zwift is great. I've been on it about three months and it really feels like the most productive training I've ever done. It's hard to get a decent ride in where I live but zwift is always available. They've managed to ga
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by cutchin 5y ago
I have a hard time agreeing with the central premise here. The article states that the Taliban had a protection scheme (possibly legitimate, possibly a racket) going on to effectively tax all trade through their regions and that made them a
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by cutchin 5y ago
The "OS as a service" era was also when they really ramped up the advertising and telemetry in windows. It would be nice if they decide whatever revenue that brings is not worth the loss of good will people had for Microsoft befor
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by cutchin 5y ago
I don't want to over-romanticize WSB, but this all seems fairly wholesome and even old-fashioned. A hoard of like-minded investors put a lot of money into AMC because they felt it was under-valued and with a little push could ride out
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by cutchin 5y ago
I've been primarily a linux user for some time, so I've gotten pretty desensitized to various applications looking vastly different on the same system. But in the last several years that's mostly gone away - Gnome knows how t
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by cutchin 5y ago
I don't understand how this would work. You would tax corporations based on actual income? So money-losing businesses would have to pay taxes on their income even though they operated at a net loss? And low-volume/high-revenue bus
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by cutchin 6y ago
Since I mentioned Gradle aggravations, I'll share a couple: 1. Bizarre and inscrutable syntax. They say things like "build scripts are just Groovy code", but some things, like how you define sourcesets or configurations, don&
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by cutchin 6y ago
This is an oddly unconvincing little write-up. Firstly, learning gradle doesn't mean you are learning Maven simply because most dependencies use pom files for their metadata. I just means there's a little XML document embedded in
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by cutchin 6y ago
Yeah, I came here to say exactly this. I would guess that most people's schedules are based on wall clock times and DST doesn't matter, but I'm not really sure. The author doesn't owe me anything, obviously, but I wish h
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by cutchin 6y ago
This makes a lot of sense to me. Most of Docker's products are being superseded by other tools in the linux/enterprise world (buildah, podman, kubernets, etc), but the one area I think Docker still provides actual value to the ind
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by cutchin 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree much with this. When I first started learning Java I had six or seven years of programming experience and I still found dealing with matters of classpath and javac remarkably complicated. I had things down well eno
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by cutchin 7y ago
This happened to me recently and it was pretty embarassing - I copied a two paragraph snippet from a psychology paper and the website put an ad for CBD oil in my clipboard above the paragraphs. The segment I copied was just long enough that
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by cutchin 7y ago
This story has stuck with me for years. Any time I've over-promised what I could deliver or stand to miss a deadline or am otherwise stressed out by situations of my own creation it comes back to me. This website often focuses on ambit
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by cutchin 7y ago
I think you are underestimating how difficult it is to get a long-term visa for most European countries. Someone who is not employed or is soon to retire without an extraordinary amount of wealth has virtually no change of gaining entry out
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by cutchin 7y ago
A minor correction - the article makes a couple of mentions of "Handbrake donation[s]", but I think the author was referring to the donations made to KDE and Gnome by the Handshake project. https://www.gnome.org/ne
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by cutchin 7y ago
I don't see much in the way of recommendations or best practices in this article, so here is what I can offer: 1. As mentioned already, get custom-molded in-ear monitors. They're wonderful. I dropped like $1500 on mine but someone
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by cutchin 8y ago
The methods might be a bit more sophisticated now, but this has been going on for many years now. A single call center may take calls for hundreds of consumer retail products, but if you call the 800 number for your high annual fee, high-ba