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by stuporglue 1mo ago
For the last year I've been on well water for the first time in my life. High iron, manganese and iron bacteria - safe, but tasted eggy and ruined shower heads, dishwashers, clothes, washing machine, kettles... I just finished installi
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by stuporglue 2mo ago
It might have to do with our 120V electrical standard. I know our kitchen kettles and irons are lower wattage than European ones. I miss how fast our German kettle heated water :-(
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by stuporglue 6mo ago
I started college with a white G3 iBook. By the end of freshman year I had installed Yellow Dog Linux, then Suse, Mandriva and eventually Gentoo. Now, 20+ years later all my home computers are running Linux (Debian though), and my kids grew
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by stuporglue 7mo ago
That's the freedom we're talking about when we say "land of the free".
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by stuporglue 8mo ago
Doesn't the baking powder makes its bubbles and run out, leaving behind flat batter?
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by stuporglue 1y ago
For 1:1 conversations I think you're right. Having multiple channels for communication is fine. Where it breaks down is for group conversations. If Person A won't use Signal and Person B won't use WhatsApp, you can't eas
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by stuporglue 1y ago
A live image is an operating system image which you can boot from and use vs. an install disk which can only install, but there's no usable environment available). A reproducable build means you can get the same source code and compile
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by stuporglue 2y ago
Suburbs are for standard of living, for me. I want more space, both in my home and in my yard, than I can get in the city. I want a 2+ car garage where I can build and drive a go-kart with my kids, fix my own car and have a little workshop
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by stuporglue 2y ago
My daughter is 11 and has been making simple games on Scratch. There's a lot of assets (images, characters, backgrounds) already in the system. The sending signals and receiving signals wasn't intuitive for her at first, but now s
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by stuporglue 3y ago
I moved to Germany a few years ago and my kids have to use fountain pens for all their school work, even math. It's this way for grade school and high school.
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by stuporglue 3y ago
Raspberry Pis also get put in to all sorts of places where an embedded board could be used, but the Pi is so much easier. I want to build a digital picture frame with an e-ink frame that pulls photos from a server. The right way would be a
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Fastback Photo Gallery(github.com)
2 points by stuporglue 3y ago|1 comments
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by stuporglue 3y ago
I made Fastback Photo Gallery for my family and wanted to share. We have 200,000+ family photos (including scans of parent's and grandparent's photos and slides) and needed a good way to easily enjoy them. Fastback sorts all the p
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by stuporglue 3y ago
In 2003 I was in college with a Mac G3 iBook. A room mate showed me Linux and I wanted to try it out. Yellow Dog Linux (A fork from Red Hat) was the stable/best option for PowerPC newbies. I loved YDL but quickly realized that everythi
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by stuporglue 4y ago
Maybe that's true up until you have a kid. Once you have a kid, spending expands as the kid does. Baby require nothing but clothes, cheap food and love. Teenagers require all sorts of things for school and activities. I mean, technical
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by stuporglue 4y ago
I'm in a suburb of Cologne right now. Looking on PicNic, an online grocery delivery service I see: Medium Eggs: €2.29 for a 10 pack (US$2.92/dozen) Whole HTT: (heat treated) box milk: €1.15/liter (US$4.46/gallon) Gala Ap
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Show HN: Compare movie ratings (certifications) between countries(stuporglue.org)
3 points by stuporglue 4y ago|0 comments
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by stuporglue 4y ago
Does a PostgreSQL plpgsql function count as a script? https://gist.github.com/stuporglue/83714cdfa0e4b4401cb6 It's one of my favorites because it's pretty simple, and I wrote it when a lot of things were fina
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by stuporglue 4y ago
Maybe. With programming though, the amount of actually new stuff I woukd learn with a new language is relatively small. With an MBA at least I'm learning every day because I'm newer to the topics.
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by stuporglue 4y ago
A few years ago I just felt tired at the thought of learning another fad language. I ended up getting an MBA and switching into procurement. Now I just code on personal projects and it's fun again.
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by stuporglue 5y ago
I went back to school for an MBA, emphasis in Supply Chain. The math and software side of my tech skills are valued because I'm pretty good at numerical analysis and learning the various odd software the company uses. Pay can be pretty
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by stuporglue 5y ago
I've read them multiple times over my life, but slowly (like a chapter or two a day). This year I'm trying to read them all within the year, which has me reading a lot more than in the past. Seems like individual verses hit harder
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by stuporglue 5y ago
I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I read scriptures every day (Book of Mormon, Bible, Doctrine and Covenants) for 10-30 minutes. I turned 40 this year and have a goal to read all of those scriptures cover