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by jd3 24d ago
Google Workspace has one of the most perplexing interfaces I've ever had the displeasure of getting to know and use. Namely, it seems impossible to archive users despite the fact that we have a business account and have already archive
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by jd3 4mo ago
> You contribute to projects run by others with the understanding that others run the project, is this not the default assumption others have too when contributing to FOSS? There are certain unspoken rules you don't break out of a o
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by jd3 4mo ago
I wrote a multi-page essay about this for our condo association last year. There's lots of complexity and externalities here — Pepco grid modernization, PJM interconnection cap auctions, AI buildouts in NOVA, etc; it's a really co
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by jd3 5mo ago
The US app is still laggy (even on the iPhone 17 Pro) and constantly logs you out. My theory is that they set the login timeout to a low number to make it harder to accrue points.
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by jd3 5mo ago
We dealt with this headache for 7+ years at my former employer. Thanks so much for this.
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by jd3 6mo ago
> ability to stream US TV when abroad (by exiting from my home network) Should note that Tailscale does not work natively with hdhr for mpeg television streams b/c wireguard doesn't natively support udp multicast/broadcast
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by jd3 6mo ago
The effects aren't too far off from reports of the maduro raid, though my understanding is that the US just used a standard LRAD
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by jd3 8mo ago
I stopped reading when I realized it wasn't a deep dive into the most interesting question I had, which is the technical hardware design process and finding a factory to actually take your design and manufacture it.
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by jd3 8mo ago
I discovered X-Face[0] through gmane! Such a blast from the past. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face
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by jd3 8mo ago
I noticed this and modified the .car to just make window corners sharp. It looks a bit jarring, but functionally speaking, it feels like a big improvement.
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by jd3 9mo ago
Thanks, typo; updated.
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by jd3 9mo ago
Dennis Ritchie running Rob Pike's acme editor on Windows back in July 2002. https://anders.unix.se/images/dmr_screenshot.gif https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-develo
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by jd3 11mo ago
My mom's father died in his early 30's while working as an engineer for Mack Trucks in Hagerstown, Maryland in the '50s and '60s and my mom, to this day, attributes his rapid health decline to mesothelioma/industria
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by jd3 1y ago
We bought a Google Workspace subscription for a building I help manage and I was shocked when I found out that you can't archive emails for discovery/legal purposes unless you buy a more expensive subscription that has access to t
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by jd3 1y ago
Tried using the "Online Media" built-in plugin for a couple of trivial test cases — Youtube and archive.org — the former worked, while the latter failed, so I disabled it and switched back to yt-dlp in Settings => Network =
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by jd3 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AyEzA5ziE0
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by jd3 1y ago
took me longer than i'd care to admit to figure out how to install whisper as a user/system package on macOS w/o brew (which pulls in all of llvm@16 during install) brew install uv uv tool install openai-whisper
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by jd3 1y ago
> What is especially remarkable, however, is how quickly the Fox News report appeared and then vanished. Internet sources say that when someone stumbles upon evidence of a possible conspiracy, such as the ones noted above, most journalis
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by jd3 1y ago
Was going to make the same comment. https://i.imgur.com/EGyYmkX.jpg https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/16/science/the-benzene-ring-...
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by jd3 1y ago
I'm a fan of the tiles/patterns from DESQView/X https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16044021
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by jd3 1y ago
When working for my former employer, we rolled our own help center, but after awhile, it was deemed easier and cheaper to just cut it and transfer everything to zendesk.
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by jd3 2y ago
I'm Irish and this is the correct answer
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by jd3 2y ago
I tried using tailscale to share my hdhomerun prime tuners over the internet, but sadly, it doesn't seem to work due to Tailscale's lack of support for mDNS lookups[0][1]. You can't just forward the port b/c the hdhr dev
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by jd3 2y ago
sublime still has the lowest latency compared to any other major text editor i've tried
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by jd3 2y ago
Many of the best engineers that I have worked with over the years have a discerning constitution which seems to innately allow them to identify high quality software, which is essentially a matter of taste. The problem is that this disposit
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by jd3 2y ago
https://github.com/stephenafamo/bob supports both CTEs and JSONB in the psql (postgres) dialect https://bob.stephenafamo.com/docs/query-builder/psql/example... https://github.
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by jd3 2y ago
I was not tech lead on that part of the project and did not contribute to any of its initial research/implementation, sadly; I was brought in post-hoc to help with perf issues/cleanup. To directly answer your question, though, wit
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by jd3 2y ago
A week before being laid off last month, I solved a decade+ old open problem at our company which first occurred since Django doesn't natively support CTE's, leading to years of technical debt from the ersatz sql/query plans
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by jd3 2y ago
Had the same initial thought; the site design is simple and straightforward, but info dense and easy to navigate, similar to craigslist.
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by jd3 2y ago
I didn't notice the twitter decline until after musk bought + interceded in the algorithm. It used to feel much more curated/tailored to my more esoteric interests, but now I get ai slop, race baiting, "breaking news" wh

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