itsananderson

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by itsananderson 7mo ago
As someone whose spouse knits, it gave me a chuckle to see knitting mentioned as a low-cost hobby :)
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by itsananderson 1y ago
> because they prefer flexible schedules Any theories about why they might prefer flexible schedules?
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by itsananderson 2y ago
Google also finds these names confusing. Whenever I try to search for something Stream Deck related, Google returns results for the Steam Deck. It's quite annoying.
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by itsananderson 3y ago
Oh, I had read about Centralia being the inspiration for the movie and assumed (or perhaps saw someone incorrectly claim) that it was also the inspiration for the game. Thanks for the correction!
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by itsananderson 3y ago
Centralia, PA which is mentioned in the article, is also the inspiration for the town in the Silent Hill games/movie. The real-life town has been burning for 60 years at this point, and it's estimated that it could burn for up to
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by itsananderson 3y ago
It can be hard to understand complex legal issues. Let me explain. He was convicted of US Code 18 Section 241 which describes 2 or more people conspiring to deprive victims of their constitutional rights. Simply tweeting something that is f
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by itsananderson 4y ago
When I used TikTok on Android, it was the most infuriating in-app browser experience because it had no way to open the URL in your real browser. Not even a way to copy the URL to your clipboard. I guess now I understand why
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by itsananderson 4y ago
+1 https://www.youtube.com/c/PaulSellersWoodwork I started watching his videos about 10 years ago, and while I've shifted a bit toward using more power tools in recent years, I still use his foundational hand tool
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by itsananderson 4y ago
Rather than exhaustively list mine, I'll just list the ones I don't see mentioned in other comments. - Swag - Nginx reverse proxy for my other services. Similar to other reverse proxies people have mentioned, but it plays nice wit
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by itsananderson 5y ago
I feel like half of Ngrok's value prop is being undervalued here. Namely the fact that it captures requests for inspection and replay. That feature is an absolute game-changer for developing things like Webhooks. First, it lets you eas
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by itsananderson 5y ago
Because vaccinated people mostly don't believe they're immune. We believe we have a strong protection against infection and a stronger protection against death, but that doesn't mean immunity. My wife and I have been fully va
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by itsananderson 5y ago
I bought a copy shortly after it came out. I think I've played it twice for a cumulative play time of perhaps an hour. I expect I'll pick it up again here and there for some stress free fun, but even if I don't I feel it was
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by itsananderson 5y ago
I used power delivery from my Dell monitor for the last year, but occasionally under heavy workloads it couldn't keep up and my battery would slowly drain. I may have had something misconfigured, but if so I never figured out what it w
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by itsananderson 5y ago
Untrue in practice. High income individuals have several loopholes they can use to make Roth IRA contributions. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/backdoor-roth-i... https://www.forbes.com&#x2
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by itsananderson 5y ago
It requires a permission request, but yes there's a browser API to read the clipboard contents https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/r...
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by itsananderson 5y ago
True, if an attacker has control of your device you are probably screwed anyway, but there are still different degrees of screwed. There are more and less privileged portions of your system, and keeping sensitive data to less secure areas i
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by itsananderson 5y ago
If an attacker is on your device, they very likely have access to your clipboard, so how is that more secure? I cringe whenever my password manager's autofill fails and I have to fall back to copy/pasting, because I know that I&#x
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by itsananderson 5y ago
Have you stopped beating your wife? Edit: this is the typical example of a loaded question, not an actual accusation against the parent comment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
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by itsananderson 5y ago
"idiot" may have been a relatively innocent medical term, but "mongoloid" has a very racist history as a way to describe people with Down Syndrome ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy ), i
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by itsananderson 6y ago
Potentially even more interesting information further down the tweet thread: https://twitter.com/DaveLeeFT/status/1347724205379309568 Trump's campaign claimed $69k in email marketing expenses paid to SendGrid
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by itsananderson 6y ago
You may find the "Make No Law" first amendment podcast interesting. It's created by Popehat (Ken White), a well known first amendment lawyer. In his podcast he talks about the history of "fire in a crowded theatre",
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by itsananderson 6y ago
When applied for house arrest, ankle monitors are pretty expensive, with the expense borne by the person being monitored https://www.propublica.org/article/digital-jail-how-electron... Unless a different payment scheme
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by itsananderson 6y ago
Oh? https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/covid-19/learn-about-covid-...
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by itsananderson 6y ago
For anyone wondering about quarter-sawn wood, this article has a pretty good rundown of what it is, compared with other lumber cutting techniques and their properties. https://www.grandior.net/what-is-the-difference-between-
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by itsananderson 7y ago
It's a great idea to have a template for writing secure Electron apps, but this particular template should only be used with caution. I don't think it has been reviewed or endorsed by the Electron team as actually following those
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by itsananderson 7y ago
My grandfather was taken in by a Ponzi scheme a few years before his death. He poured tens of thousands of dollars (his entire savings) into the sceme, despite my father's protestations. At one point my father gathered as much info abo
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by itsananderson 7y ago
While it's fair to assume most Electron apps are probably running old Electron (and thus Chromium), Electron itself has done a bunch of work to get caught up. Their 6.0 release was the first release to be shipped on the same day as the
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by itsananderson 7y ago
I believe "cronyism" here refers to government interference on behalf of certain companies or industries, driven by lobbying etc. It may be a common failure mode for capitalism, but it's hardly "what makes the market fre
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by itsananderson 7y ago
Cool idea. I see some weird rendering issues on my retina Mac. Is that a known issue? https://www.dropbox.com/s/uq18mm1q9braipa/Screenshot%202019-... Mainly what I see is the face cards are rendered HUGE and the p
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by itsananderson 8y ago
My understanding of that shift is that the average "user" has become less savvy, because of improved UX and an overall increase in the percentage of the population who are "users". This is because over the last 30 years

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