romdev

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by romdev 7y ago
When asked my age I say 'I identify as a 15 year old.' But it's a joke.
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by romdev 7y ago
I have chrome updates restricted by my organization and can't use this feature. Instead I'll occasionally use this bookmarklet to invert colors on very bright pages: javascript:(function() { var tag = document.createElement('
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by romdev 7y ago
I loved my Sansa e200 and installed Rockbox. Just pulled it out of a drawer and remembered what a great piece of hardware it was - hadn't been used in years and the battery still had a charge. The hardware wheel selector is a lost pie
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by romdev 7y ago
I frankly prefer a chat(bot or not) because I have a transcript of what has been discussed. Also, it's kinda fun to guess if it's a bot without offending. This is a real excerpt at the end of a helpful chat with Comcast: guest_
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by romdev 7y ago
Shop around - it's a competitive market. Many checking accounts with an initial deposit of less than $1000 or confirmed direct deposit are free and have no minimum balance. Some (TD for example) will even pay $150 - $300 to open an acc
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by romdev 7y ago
'I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13.' - Douglas Adams
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by romdev 7y ago
Those aren't bevel gears in the video. Sheldon is talking about an older design that had cone-shaped gears which would suffer from the design flaws he mentions.
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by romdev 7y ago
In my Toyota, a wired connection from a phone's headphone out to the car stereo aux-in sounds terrible. The amplifier in the phone just can't send a loud enough signal to compete with the noise. Even a lossy Bluetooth connection f
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by romdev 7y ago
Bookmark https://mbasic.facebook.com to get the messenger features in a readable format on smaller screens.
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by romdev 8y ago
I used to work in the main office at the college I was attending. For my senior project I wrote a contact manager application that would also help with transcript analysis - allowing transcript data entry, prerequisite mapping, and schedule
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by romdev 8y ago
I'm less concerned about Alexa saying nonsense than understanding nonsense, like commands hidden in a popular song or TV commercial with unintelligible background noise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16255680
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by romdev 8y ago
Depends on the attacker, but it's probably accounted for at least partially. In some passwords where I don't care much about security I'll use this technique and some personal, site-specific mnemonic - if their logo reminded
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by romdev 8y ago
Can't be found, but you can enter them by hand by holding down alt while entering the ASCII code on the numeric keypad. I wonder if they'll survive posting a comment: 28∟ 29↔ 30▲ 31▼ Edit: looks like they do survive. Hmmm... Now
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by romdev 8y ago
Many of our larger clients use https://www.splunk.com for enterprise-level monitoring, alerting, and log analysis. It's proven effective to debug issues in environments where I don't have direct log access.
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by romdev 8y ago
Also (mostly) unrelated to the story, but the first thing I thought of when hearing about kinetic energy storage was a story I heard several years ago about a data center that protected itself from catastrophic power surges by using a massi
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by romdev 8y ago
What about a bad guy that turns on your camera to watch your keyboard while you're on a shopping or financial site? It seems like a more valuable target to capture banking and email passwords than knowing the specific shape of your bod
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by romdev 8y ago
Yep - electrical tape prevents the latest version of webex putting my +10 casual image into a formal business meeting when it automatically starts the video feed. The fact that I never seen any other crusty visages on the webex face list te
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by romdev 8y ago
Slightly off-topic: I wish they'd started the merge from Office 2010 instead of current versions where they've removed essential features like a real dark mode and slimmer to-do bar. Every Outlook release since 2010 has been wors
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by romdev 8y ago
It's hard to imagine using a stripped down browser-based feed reader after using an excellent dedicated application like NewsBlur. Did FireFox synchronize your read stories across devices?
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by romdev 8y ago
Changing the width or zooming in and out changes the number of columns (nice!), but the max seems to be 4. Is that a hard limit? Seems like a responsive UI should respect wider screens in landscape. Nice work, btw.
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by romdev 8y ago
This is a similar conversation with the same confusion about checklists versus ToDo lists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15799539 For ToDo lists, Google tasks has everything I need. There is a good app and very simp
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by romdev 8y ago
The Sets feature linked in the article sounds more interesting. https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17510344/microsoft-window...
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by romdev 8y ago
Interesting that it's spelled as a single word. There's another place in NZ with a long name that's fun to visit: Te Whakarewarewatanga O Te Ope Taua A Wahiao which shortens to Whakarewarewa. The locals there live on an act
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by romdev 8y ago
What they should really bring back is the TrackBall Explorer. I have two and have been using them exclusively at work and home for 15+ years. They're showing age, but still going strong. Try to find one today and you'll spend $700
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by romdev 8y ago
Sexual reproduction selects either the fittest available mate or the most compatible with the group, to create offspring that is likely to be either more independent or more compatible with group living. Natural Selection favors throttling
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by romdev 8y ago
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so" - Douglas Adams
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by romdev 8y ago
Geez, that thing is as big as a whale! I'd say it seats about 20.
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by romdev 8y ago
Third recommendation for Pluralsight. My company also pays for it. I've watched 4 classes and they were all information-dense and easy to follow, although I found myself hitting pause and rewind a lot to take notes. At the end of each
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by romdev 9y ago
I'm assuming you mean podcasting apps. I would also use one if it exists. There's no way I'm switching from Newsblur, but curious: does Feedly store your last listened position, so you can switch from phone to desktop like yo
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by romdev 9y ago
+1 vote for Newsblur. I was using Google Reader start to finish and also tried several others before settling on Newsblur. It's perfect in almost every way, but has a curious/arbitrary number of stories preserved per feed, sometim

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