ledbettj

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by ledbettj 2y ago
. Location: Atlanta Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Rust, C, JavaScript/TypeScript, Postgresql, Redis, etc. Résumé/CV: https://resume.johnledbetter.com/ GitHub: https
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by ledbettj 2y ago
Certainly has an impact, but the embargo is also used by the government as a scapegoat to cover up poor policies, corruption, etc. I have heard from some Cubans they would love to see the embargo lifted just to expose how many of the proble
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by ledbettj 3y ago
Actually, it's my own fault -- I assumed the area in the preview that said I hadn't uploaded any images yet was the drop target, but it's not, that's over in the sidebar. Cheers!
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by ledbettj 3y ago
Pretty cool! I tried to list my app but the screenshot upload doesn't seem to work -- it won't accept any files I've tried via drag/drop in Chrome or Firefox. I've been able to upload files to other sites without a
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by ledbettj 4y ago
the old wifi (Gogo Inflight) is slow and terrible. The new wifi being rolled out (ViaSat) is better, the speedtest screenshots I've seen have been 50-150 Mbps down.
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by ledbettj 4y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1521489115585421314.html
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by ledbettj 5y ago
Zoom happily supports screen sharing on Wayland/gnome, even using the flatpak version.
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by ledbettj 5y ago
> Obscuring your location from your employer could be a thing This seems fairly unlikely... Your employer needs to do some really basic things that require knowing where you live, like withold your state taxes, ensure they are abiding by
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by ledbettj 5y ago
When I worked at Cisco years ago fresh out of college, they offered an Employee Stock Purchase Program -- you could put up to X$ towards purchasing Cisco stock over the quarter, and the stock was issued at the end of the quarter at min(star
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by ledbettj 5y ago
> "bundle update mimemagic" should fix this... assuming your codebase is ok with an MIT-licensed dependency suddenly becoming a GPL-licensed dependency.
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by ledbettj 6y ago
It also worked as drop in replacement for PulseAudio for me, except all my audio now had stutters and pops. I ended up going back to Pulse. I got suggestions that I could go tweak buffer sizes stuff in a config file somewhere, but for my s
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by ledbettj 6y ago
Just a warning that although it claims to support Linux, on launch I got two options: * Run without wine (Linux) * Launch with wine The first one took me to a black screen. The second took me into the game but the colors were entirely wron
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by ledbettj 6y ago
librsvg uses cairo under the hood to actually draw things, at least at the moment.
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by ledbettj 6y ago
How about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster ?
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by ledbettj 7y ago
Because when the courier is Fedex, contacting them would be even more futile than Google. I also use Project Fi; I also ordered a Pixel3 when it went on sale last month. Fedex attempted delivery when I wasn't home; I had important me
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by ledbettj 7y ago
How much do you want to bet the LA Fitness contract includes binding arbitration?
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by ledbettj 9y ago
The process I followed was: * create an account on binance.com * transfer the stellars there, making sure to follow the instructions about the MEMO_TEXT. * convert the lumens into bitcoin * transfer the bitcoin to coinbase * sell it. There
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by ledbettj 9y ago
Does not seem to work under Wayland. You can see the mouse pointer, but the rest of the screen is black. Haven't tried it under X yet.
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by ledbettj 10y ago
Can you talk about what the existing procedures are for refugees from these countries, and why they're not sufficient? I would Also be interested in knowing how many terrorist acts have been committed in the US by refugees.
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by ledbettj 10y ago
I used to feel the same way you do; I grew up here, moved away, and eventually came back. Atlanta is a much different place now. I wouldn't choose to live "just outside" of Atlanta either, for all the terrible traffic/c
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by ledbettj 11y ago
I really like the concept and the mobile app is great, but I have to agree. The desktop version seems like it doesn't even get tested before it gets released. After every new version I open it up and immediately find obvious issues.
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by ledbettj 11y ago
> If you want working multi-monitor support you will pretty much have to compile your own kernel, add custom repos, and manually configure X. I don't think this has been a problem in years, and even 10 years ago I never had to compi
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by ledbettj 11y ago
Could you elaborate on 'the symlink problem?' I just installed 2.2 and symlinks seem to function as expected to me.
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by ledbettj 12y ago
You can restart systemd on the fly with `systemctl daemon-reexec`.
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by ledbettj 12y ago
I was under the impression that Yik Yak had already blocked all highschools [1] after the last incident (I think it was a bomb threat?) [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-graber/yik-yak-app-maker...
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by ledbettj 13y ago
Keeping in mind that strncpy has it's own problems, like not null terminating the buffer if it would overflow.
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by ledbettj 13y ago
Where are you getting the player images from? I had a project recently where I wanted to pull NBA player images but couldn't find any freely available. Ended up hotlinking to NBA.com and hoping noone noticed.