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by faster 8d ago
My CPU load goes through the roof after a minute on that page. Chrome 154.0.8037.0 on Linux. WTF does a cable review need to do that works my CPU so hard? I bought some of the official Pinecil silicone cables but haven't tried burning
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by faster 2mo ago
Doesn't the Flint 3 require a binary blob to run the broadcom chip? If so you'll always have a locked down black box inside your "open" system. I got the Flint 2 to avoid that, and I'm really happy with it for the r
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by faster 6mo ago
I worked on the shuttle for a summer a long time ago, and my group's admin was obsessed with the toilet plumbing so she had engineers stopping by with specs and diagrams a few times per week. True story: there was a component in the li
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by faster 6mo ago
I love my 7506s. And I have a recurring event on my calendar to remind me to buy new pads every 2 years. That's almost exactly how long they last. I've tried 3 brands and they've all lasted almost exactly 2 years. The origina
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by faster 7mo ago
Growing up on the Atlantic coast of Florida, we kept a can or Renuzit solvent in the garage to wipe tar spots off our feet after coming home from the beach. I'm sure that stuff was toxic. The tar was everywhere for a few weeks, then go
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by faster 10mo ago
The best business writing advice I ever got was "always answer more questions than you raise". It's usually clear when something is going to raise questions. I'm with you wrt guessing what questions readers will have, bu
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by faster 10mo ago
Sounds like you were expecting fuckedcompany.com. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
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by faster 1y ago
I didn't leave books out for her if I didn't want her to have the option to read them. She cared more about cruelty than violence at that time, and that hasn't changed much. She's had very little physical risk in her lif
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by faster 1y ago
I want to believe that my kid is exceptional but based on grades in school and accomplishments since graduating, I'd say that she has a talent for languages and is solidly above average but not otherwise exceptional. She has traveled a
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by faster 1y ago
My daughter learned to read english before her 3rd birthday and French before her 5th. We started with sounds but not the phonics instruction that I got as a kid, just matching letters and letter combinations to sounds, and vice versa. But
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by faster 1y ago
You can self-host ntfy.sh but then you need to find a place outside of your infra to host it.
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by faster 1y ago
I bought Levi's 501s at a farm supply store in the 80s, $12 on sale. About 10 years ago I gave away my two remaining pairs. They were a little thinner but still intact, no holes anywhere. Modern 501s are made of much thinner fabric; I&
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by faster 1y ago
The US has trade sanctions on Iran too, and Iran is on the tariff list. I don't think that's it. Some transparency would be helpful.
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by faster 1y ago
Here's a dashboard. https://www.project2025.observer/ Not a substitute for reading the doc but good for a quick overview.
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by faster 1y ago
The data seem to show that at the end of Biden's term, ICE enforcement actions were very low. But for some reason, the stats page doesn't show Trump's previous term. https://www.ice.gov/statistics Looking at
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by faster 1y ago
I recently started reading a great book called "Democracy for Realists". Voters may believe that they are electing someone who will represent their principles, but that is not how it works. This is a good summary of the book: htt
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by faster 2y ago
Why `source .venv/bin/activate` with direnv? I use `layout python` in my .envrc and direnv activates the venv on entry to the directory.
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by faster 2y ago
A long time ago I worked for a company that had a "cost plus" contract to build and operate a thing. I took a management class while I was there and one of the people in the class was a consultant who had been hired to map the div
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by faster 3y ago
When I saw the headline I thought it was from the author of "Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight".
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by faster 3y ago
I struggle with this. I work with devs who think that a function with 3 side effects is fine, and suggestions that it would be more maintainable if it did one thing (and even more offensive, that the function name should be a clue to what t
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by faster 3y ago
One data point, but it was only 2 days ago. I needed a place to quarantine while I was the only one in my family who caught covid on a trip, so I went to the hotel a few blocks away and asked about their rates. They told me that the lowest
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by faster 3y ago
A friend of mine who worked as a very high level consultant for years once said that consultants are often wrong, but never in doubt. Having just graduated doesn't really change that dynamic, as long as you have the confidence to pull
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by faster 3y ago
I bought one of the KSGER stations a few years ago fully intending to apply all of the safety fixes. When I opened it up, they had all been applied from the factory. Still worth checking, but maybe not an issue for new stations?
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by faster 3y ago
If your print dialog was set for color then it requires working color cartridges. Even if the document is only black and white. I've been buying Brother printers for over 20 years and I've run into that a few times.
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by faster 4y ago
In a certain range of company sizes, this works. I have been contracting since 1998 and have had a C corp since 2000. I'm currently doing work for a Fortune 100 company and they were quite unwilling to hire my company; I have to work
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by faster 4y ago
Why do you think the majority of Floridians are OK with this? Does it matter to American politicians that the majority of Americans are in favor of access to abortions? The noisy people and PACs who donate to campaigns are against it and th
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by faster 4y ago
Mostly the same here. Physical servers in a colo since 2000, same IPs the whole time. I host a few domains for friends, too. It's really not difficult to keep email running smoothly. I look at a summary report every day (less than a mi
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by faster 4y ago
I think standards in general are confusing to the average person. The average person doesn't care about standards, they care about completing a task: can I use this cable to connect my Mac to a 4k Monitor? Can it pass all the power tha
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by faster 4y ago
My daughter was a little younger than that when we bought a pile of dead DVD drives and disassembled them. Then we build a little driver circuit and hooked a laser diode to it. She was so excited to come home and take those drives apart aft
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by faster 4y ago
I get 5-7 hours on battery from my X1C7 FHD running Ubuntu. I carry a power bank in my bag that gives me that much again.

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