ioman

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by ioman 3mo ago
Mine was using VScode with copilot. Previously I had used tab completion and thought it was pretty neat. This time I began with the comment for a function I wanted to write. And the entire function just appeared below the comment. Written
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by ioman 2y ago
1Password has shared vaults, 1Password for Business has the concept of groups.
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by ioman 3y ago
Elon goes off on government subsidies, just not his.
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by ioman 3y ago
Oh, look who has a fancy cable modem! Back in my day, we had to do it with 14.4 kbaud modems (really) after walking to school, uphill both ways in the snow (not really).
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by ioman 3y ago
Further, apparently it's going to start up whenever I log in. Why?
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by ioman 3y ago
Looks cool. I downloaded it, moved it to the applications directory and opened it. It's asking for Administrator access to install the command line. Why?
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by ioman 3y ago
Went and checked my 1Password. Apparently, I have nearly 1,800! My oldest remaining password was created in 2010, so I've been using it for a while.
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by ioman 3y ago
I have the same thing. However, my office is in my garage and it's quite cold in the winter. I have my smart plug set to start it up at 4:00 AM to warm it up for me.
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by ioman 3y ago
I've bought a Kinesis Advantage about every three years since 2003 (I think). Still the best keyboard out there despite being USB-A and the lack of bluetooth. I really want to like the Kinesis 360, but the lack of a function key row
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by ioman 4y ago
This is a market I wish I understood better. If I understand this correctly, the target market is airlines that need to sell flights online and that don't have (or don't want) the staff to do it in house. According to Wikipedia,
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by ioman 4y ago
I'm assuming that the cost of building and launching these balloons is lower that launching fighter aircraft to shoot them down with missiles. I wonder if we're about to see thousands.
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by ioman 4y ago
You can find devices like this online by googling "670 nm led"
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by ioman 4y ago
AWS is the 800 pound gorilla in the cloud space. Are any of the other cloud providers better with customer honesty?
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by ioman 4y ago
Doors. Get doors on the racks and screen print them with the company logo. It looks sharp, doesn't cost much, and hides a multitude of sins.
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by ioman 4y ago
CodexDF | Greater Seattle Area or REMOTE | Full Time | Multiple roles We are a small, rapidly growing, high leverage team. Our expertise is in enterprise software, operations and most important, customer focused solutions for the complex ta
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by ioman 5y ago
I don't miss it. I still use my iPhone 8. When it dies, I'll get an iPhone SE. I will keep TouchID until they pry it out from under my cold dead thumb.
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by ioman 5y ago
Pretty much anything by Neal Stephenson but especially: The Baroque Cycle trilogy Anathem
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by ioman 5y ago
My local pizza place in Seattle has moved the technology the other way. Here’s the dialog when I call. “Pagliacci Pizza, how can I help you?” “I’d like to order a pizza” “Sure thing. Is this John Smith?” “Yes” “Do you still live at 1234 Ma
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by ioman 5y ago
I mostly don't use Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit. I have reason to log into my Facebook account a few times a year. The only reason I log into Twitter is when I get a link to a Twitter thread, same with Reddit. I'm no paragon of
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by ioman 5y ago
Fast, excellent customer support.
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by ioman 5y ago
My Dacor oven goes down to 100 F.
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by ioman 5y ago
I was quite happy for a time helping my mom by using GoToMyPC. Then they got purchased by private equity (I think) and tripled their prices while adding spammy offers every time you logged in. Now I use Splashtop.
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by ioman 5y ago
At a previous employer they wanted me to install some work software on my iPhone. Nothing particularly invasive as far as I could tell, just Okta, gmail, etc. I told them up front that it violated my personal security policy to install an
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by ioman 5y ago
I have been waiting for this keyboard for 20 years
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by ioman 5y ago
I remember the sense of deep satisfaction and virtue when I defragged my hard drive. Then I learned FreeBSD. I kept trying to figure out how to defrag the partitions. When I learned that the filesystem took care of it continuously my mind w
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by ioman 5y ago
I have been using Kinesis Advantage keyboards for close to two decades now. The keyboard wells and the placement of the space, enter, delete, backspace, and modifier keys I find amazing. I haven't been able to find anything else near
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by ioman 7y ago
Candide by Voltaire It was the first book I read for school that made me laugh out loud and realize that some of these old boring books were actually pretty awesome (which is why people are still reading them centuries later)
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by ioman 7y ago
I got a few Aeron chairs in the dot bomb from friends who helped clear out offices of failed companies. This was in about 2002-2003. I've used one every day since and it is both perfectly comfortable for full day sitting and has held
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by ioman 8y ago
Windows XP. I still miss XP.
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by ioman 8y ago
Microsoft MapPoint. This was a phenomenal piece of mapping software and had features I haven’t been able to find in any of the online map replacements. When getting directions, you could designate a number of areas on the map as “avoid are

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