dustinmr

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by dustinmr 2mo ago
The accounting is very similar. The processes are not. Small businesses continue to be special snowflakes in terms of how they do their work. Both for good and bad reasons. I’m surprised an open source accounting package hasn’t popped up th
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by dustinmr 7mo ago
It’s the Department of Defense
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by dustinmr 9mo ago
I have one I bought in 2008. My parents still use it. Replace batteries and filters. Works fine. Gets stuck on cords and in corners. So does the one I bought in September 2025.
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by dustinmr 1y ago
I have a few of the THINK notepads that I found in my grandfather’s things after he passed away. He was an IBM employee in the 50s and 60s. I remember picking the first one up and saying out loud, “that’s where the name came from!”
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by dustinmr 1y ago
The author is identifying a technical problem (it’s become so cheap/easy to insert ads they’re everywhere). Technical answers? How about require that it be easy to opt out, or simply remove the ads from the content. Codify ad-blocking
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by dustinmr 2y ago
Here’s a good thought experiment: https://www.thebigquestions.com/2024/07/21/the-next-democrat...
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by dustinmr 5y ago
And I like to give them kudos when I see Digital Ocean mentioned. I run a business in Puerto Rico, and host our ERP and some other services with DO. After Hurricane Maria in 2017, I wrote off island suppliers asking for any support they cou
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by dustinmr 6y ago
I believe the complaint is that I have to renew that decision regularly.
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by dustinmr 7y ago
Also known as not a free market.
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by dustinmr 7y ago
https://regolith-linux.org/ solves much of what you’re asking. If windows don’t behave, I put them in floating mode with Super-f or Super-shift-f to toggle. As you say, full screen when they shouldn’t be, or vice versa. In
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by dustinmr 7y ago
Maybe try changing the paradigm completely with a tiling window manager. Take a look at https://regolith-linux.org/ I tried i3wm, a tiling window manager a few years ago, and it just sort of clicked with me. Eventually I se
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by dustinmr 7y ago
Seems like an important detail to number one is to properly manage the way that gets presented to the client. In the OPs case it sounds like if they do that, they won’t realize a benefit. Their client will expand the work to fill the availa
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by dustinmr 7y ago
Sometimes known as the “Golden Arches Theory of Diplomacy”
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by dustinmr 7y ago
This arrived in my RSS feed today. Seems to fit the bill. https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2019/12/generate-images...
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by dustinmr 7y ago
In the US, you already have to report the cargo’s arrival date before it leaves its origin port. So the information is there. Graduate the port fees based on average speed for arrival.
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by dustinmr 7y ago
You can also install Crostini and install Firefox inside the container.
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by dustinmr 7y ago
The other problem is that even within one government there isn’t really “the” government. There’s office A and task group X and the prosecutor for this area and that special envoy and this law enforcement agency and that law enforcement age
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by dustinmr 7y ago
I also don’t particularly know if a restaurant pays tips to their wait staff when I pay a bill with a credit card.
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by dustinmr 7y ago
Another Mac refugee to Linux here. I first installed a minimal Debian install, and you begin running into lots of things along these lines: https://cravencode.com/post/essentials/enable-tap-to-click-i... And you n
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by dustinmr 7y ago
Yes, but if your grandmother rebuffs me, I’ll think, “what the hell?”
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by dustinmr 7y ago
I’m relatively new to meditation. About 5 months, most days but not all. The thing is, you don’t notice that those voices aren’t you until someone points it out. And you see it most clearly through meditation. Because when you think your mi
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by dustinmr 7y ago
Now that we have the answer, I wonder what the question was? And why is that mouse looking at me?
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by dustinmr 7y ago
I passed through Toronto twice last week. Had a fantastic meal here: http://www.nourishmoi.com/ And you’re right, I don’t regularly keep vegan. But I do like the option sometimes.
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by dustinmr 7y ago
I got an email about this book the other day: https://gumroad.com/l/kjHSa From the writer of this blog: https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/
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by dustinmr 7y ago
Examples?
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by dustinmr 7y ago
I can’t really speak to that specifically. But I can say it doesn’t really fit with either my government contracting experience nor what that particular engineer was explaining to me at the time. In general, it matters very much how the mon
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by dustinmr 7y ago
In addition to what everyone else said, about a year ago I was chatting with an engineer who was in San Juan bidding on work with PREPA. One of the things he pointed out was that the entire grid is ancient. And aside from the typical proble
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by dustinmr 7y ago
Can you point to any tutorials/articles/documentation? I got off Mac for Linux or Chromebook with the whole keyboard horror. About the only thing I miss is a full keyboard for sms & iMessage. And I have an old Mac Mini laying
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by dustinmr 7y ago
And they recently published updated results: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/ne...
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by dustinmr 7y ago
You can turn the little red bubbles off. Go to Settings Search for notifications Go to the specific app and turn off Badges My normal routine is that turn them all off, then go back and turn on the specific ones I want. But it turn off the

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