jgoewert

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by jgoewert 3mo ago
> “I know I’ve heard from a lot of people that this is low-grade work. ‘It’s not what I need to be doing,’” Ziegler said, according to the transcript. “I need you guys to think about this from a different perspective.” > He said emplo
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by jgoewert 5mo ago
Batteries? You mean like digging a hole/making a wall and pumping water? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Power_... Or we could just spin some rocks around. https://www.torus.co&#x2
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by jgoewert 5mo ago
Reminds me of the PGs in Bengaluru, but way worse since there aren't sound dampening walls.
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by jgoewert 6mo ago
Haven't looked at the full pc part picker breakdowns. But this is at least a good sign. Still WAY more than I want to pay. https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0BZHTVHN5
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by jgoewert 7mo ago
Hey, the uptime for oxygen is 99.9% this month Why are you complaining about the half hour of no air? Did you suffer some sort of brain damage? (<-- that's the joke. look up "hypoxia" if you didn't get it. Oh, and try
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by jgoewert 7mo ago
Really? I think Joel is the one full of it. Human directed selection is a thing. Have you ever seen a pug or do I need 58 articles with a bibliography 20 miles long to tell you they exist?
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by jgoewert 9mo ago
This kind of crap is why I stopped buying from NewEgg years ago and don't buy anything expensive on Amazon anymore. They got bought by that company that decided on quantity over quality and enshittified it by adding "market"
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by jgoewert 1y ago
Dang. I guess kagi is about as useful as a cuecat with a synopsis like that.
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by jgoewert 2y ago
This and Strike Commander are why I used a really weird serial port mouse driver I found on a BBS but used like 1/10th as much memory as the default mouse driver that came with the mouse. But it got over the last hurdle of not having e
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by jgoewert 2y ago
This came up at pretty much the perfect time for me to try out. I started learning OpenSCAD over the weekend to try out an idea to 3d print a 70" dome to make my own Star Wars Battlepod after seeing that video on making the replica Spa
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by jgoewert 2y ago
When I was in college in '93 getting my BA is CS, my mother once told me: "You should email Cousin Mark. He does stuff with computers and I bet he has an email address." I figured he was just any another software developer. K
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by jgoewert 2y ago
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by jgoewert 2y ago
I know people remember his voice for Vader. But I think Thulsa Doom from Conan was a prime character he portrayed. Intimidating and soft. Scary, yet beguiling.
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by jgoewert 2y ago
>> move slowly and moderate heavily Yep. This is what is really needed for civil discussion. It is hard to work with otherwise as you get what my local small town FB feed normally is like. We are past the limit of peak assholery tha
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by jgoewert 2y ago
I am a fan. But not in the way it is mostly being used. A lot of the songs that Suno generates are "good enough". I've been using it recently to do two things. First is to make a set of instrumental songs I call "Canoe C
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by jgoewert 3y ago
>> She fears much may be at stake: "(I) lose my view. I lose my health. I lose my safety." No one tell her about the nuclear plant that she can see from her kitchen window - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by jgoewert 4y ago
This is due to contracts. When we get a movie booked for our 1 screen theater, we are stuck with that movie and only that movie for the time we run it. 1 screen = 1 movie. We aren't allowed to show anything else during that usual 2 to
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by jgoewert 4y ago
Cool! I was hoping someone would make a better catalog for these. Searching thangs for specific things got really murky. I made a ton of the 2 grid 3 bay windowed bins to hold M3 and M4 screws and nuts and small but numerous lego pieces. Wa
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by jgoewert 4y ago
I work at keeping our small town single screen theater going. So, my experience is from a viewpoint of that, not from some mega 24 screen behemoth that some of his rules could apply to better. 01 - We enforce. Mostly. During kids movies, ha
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by jgoewert 4y ago
This is giving me CompUSA flashbacks of going in to get a new Processor/GPU/MB and having the one salesman with the key stuck in a never-ending conversation with a customer who ends the whole thing with "Thanks for the info,
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by jgoewert 4y ago
I've read this one a few times and each time I see it I keep getting more and more pissed at Stripe. Customer: Hey, someone is using your product to steal money as I am seeing a ton of fraudulent donation transactions. Can you undo the
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by jgoewert 4y ago
Should watch the video they did just before this one where they did a live popup shop and had people trying to torque the hell out of this and it stands up. Or even during this exact video where he says that if you hit the max torque that t
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by jgoewert 4y ago
I could grab a handful of leaves of a tree and shove it in my face hole for lunch. It would be cheaper, but I prefer a salad made of lettuce.
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by jgoewert 5y ago
“There are better ways to go about this,” the regional supervisor replied. She had been thinking about boosting pay at the Bradford McDonald’s, she said, but she was not going to give into threats or give up control. Because of the petition
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by jgoewert 5y ago
>> you'll almost never see CNN write an article critical about Democrats I can name one CNN reporter right off the bat who does and his post is nearly always in the headline section for the topic being covered: Chris Cillizza Fin
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by jgoewert 6y ago
So, why should news organizations give credit to a story whose primary source is a very out of scope Rudy and even the editor who wrote the initial story wouldn't pen their name to it because when they even tried doing basic preliminar
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by jgoewert 6y ago
I installed to try to use it to prune through all my bookmarks. I figured at the worst, import/prune/export back to my bookmark bar. Exporting and syncing isn't a feature and won't be a feature, so uninstalled. Glad that
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Starfucker – A GitHub API exploration(github.com)
32 points by jgoewert 6y ago|14 comments
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by jgoewert 6y ago
Switch to Android?
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by jgoewert 7y ago
The workers for the Standard Oil Company's TEL building would like to have a word with you. Admittedly, they did have a way higher exposure than anyone else, but we definitely were spewing enough into the atmosphere to affect everyone.

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