quaddo

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by quaddo 1y ago
I was a huge tilix fan for ages, but ran into an issue with long URLs being unclickable.
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by quaddo 1y ago
Circa 1997 a coworker lamented that he had signed up for some email list, and attempts to unsubscribe weren’t working (more of a manual thing, IIRC). I made the suggestion to set up a cronjob to run hourly, to send an email request to be un
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by quaddo 2y ago
I’m in a similar situation and hadn’t thought of it that way. My take on the email I receive is that they fall into one of these categories: a) genuinely intended for me (and not spam), b) spam, c) genuinely intended case of mistaken addres
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by quaddo 2y ago
I do something somewhat similar which has evolved for myself and in part for my team. What follows is heavily abridged in the interest of time. I use Obsidian as follows: 1. Daily log in bullet-point format. Title in YYYY-MM-DD format. Bott
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by quaddo 2y ago
Is it possible they’re trying to separate out candidates who studied English literature as a matter of typical high school education vs those who studied ESL back in their home countries?
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by quaddo 2y ago
Back around 20 years ago I was with an MSP. We depended heavily on having a well written - as current as possible - prod guide for all operations. At some point it occurred to me that there was likely a way to draw upon the experiences of t
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by quaddo 2y ago
Sci-fi drama? Also: man, I really enjoyed that show.
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by quaddo 3y ago
Random: is the Niche Duo made by a US company? Asking, as I noticed the power switch on the side: the "|" symbol was at the top, which doesn't jive with the UK's "up is off, down is on" typical switch.
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by quaddo 3y ago
As someone who is something of a coffee nerd (QM67 machine, Fiorenzato grinder w/ timer), I'll admit to balking at doing any of the more fiddly/fussy things. But out of curiosity, how much time does the coffee nerd community
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by quaddo 3y ago
I've heard you get better results if you spritz them.
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by quaddo 3y ago
I used to think that isopropyl alcohol was the last word in cheap-and-convenient surface sterilization, such as hands. For better or for worse, watching a handful of YT videos from doctors saying "just wash the wound with soap and wate
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by quaddo 3y ago
>TANSTAAFL Man. Way to rustle the ol' memory tree. I think the first time I saw this in print was in Programming Perl back in the mid-1990's.
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by quaddo 3y ago
Don't forget traffic calming features, to help with slower speeds eg in suburban areas. Not everything needs to be regulated in such a way as to encourage or require more policing, and the associated budget increases.
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by quaddo 3y ago
Earthquakes.
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by quaddo 3y ago
Once we get settled at our new house, I plan to send out some postcards with a quick note on them. It's been a pretty big move. I figure that's enough of a lost art that someone might actually think "oh cool" and either
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by quaddo 3y ago
At the risk of going too far OT, here's a story of how I did something different that wasn't expensive but was still seen fondly by all concerned. So ~15 years ago our son had been invited to his best friend's birthday party.
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by quaddo 3y ago
Some knots are only useful under tension; absent that, they can get sloppy without too much effort. I'd say the clove hitch is one such example.
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by quaddo 3y ago
It's also possible that someone in debt would do something dishonest against the company, if a bad actor offered them money to do so.
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by quaddo 3y ago
When I was about 30 and wanted to scratch the same itch, I found an introductory electronics course being run at my local community college. From distant memory, it definitely covered off resistors, capacitors, coils, Ohm's Law, then w
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by quaddo 3y ago
Check out Vivaldi...?
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by quaddo 3y ago
Pictures/visuals just communicate differently. A well-done graph can communicate data and the desired message quickly. At the opposite end of the spectrum, we have poorly done or deceptive graphs. An illustrated magazine will communica
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by quaddo 3y ago
"A picture is worth a thousand words" or some such. That said, I've certainly heard that different people prefer different ways of learning/consuming knowledge. I myself will choose video for some things, illustrations&#
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by quaddo 3y ago
Not who you replied to, but I was wondering if I could get your take on my use case. I work on the systems test automation side of things. I use TF to deploy EC2 clusters, including the creation of VPC, subnet, SG, LBs, etc. Once done, I te
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by quaddo 3y ago
I'm trying to tell from your comment as well as the others' comments whether you're running screen locally, and what benefits that brings above and beyond iTerm for local shell sessions. For anyone else using tmux locally, I&
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by quaddo 3y ago
I had an office job ca. 1985-1988 during which my manager asked me for my thoughts on installing a pneumatic tube system. The office was located on 2 floors, ie, the 18th and the 39th. I don't quite recall her motivation and reasoning,
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by quaddo 3y ago
I remember when the news came out that AOL was going to connect/gateway to the internet at large. There was a concerned expectation that there would be a distinct drop in the quality of USENET posts. They did not disappoint.
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by quaddo 3y ago
My wife fell in love with metal sculpting years ago, thanks to the local college offerings. Each of her courses exposed her to various approaches, such as welding and bronze casting. Her favorite by far was the once-a-semester iron pour. Th
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by quaddo 3y ago
I just scrolled a little further in the DDG results to see a hit on Amazon. After my unexpected laughter, I had to click. The first 2 hits align with my prior misunderstanding - cue more laughter. One is a t-shirt with a graphic of a very h
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by quaddo 3y ago
Thanks for clarifying "hair shirt". I'd seen you mention it at least 3 times previously in comments, and was trying to unpack it without doing a search. Thoughts such as "they're quite fond of stylish hair and t-shi
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by quaddo 3y ago
I found I had to tap on the image (long tap, open in new tab), then tap on the image in the dedicated post. Pinch-zoom available after that. But yeah, I'm generally puzzled when sites disable that very useful feature.

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