titusjohnson

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by titusjohnson 9mo ago
About 5 years ago or so I was able to collect my Dad's C64 collection from my Mom's house, buy some new cables and an official C64 monitor off of eBay, and gift him his old computer back for Christmas. I can't speak to casset
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by titusjohnson 10mo ago
I used to budget the bulk of my yearly tax refund for a PC upgrade of some kind. A bit over $1k every year. Something was always due for a replacement in an endless treadmill of avoiding total system obsolescence. Now, shit just lasts forev
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by titusjohnson 10mo ago
I take the pants that have insufficient pockets to a tailor, and ask them to extend the depth of the phone pocket. You can even ask them to do the extension in phone size if you want to restrict its movement in your pocket. On average I&#x2
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by titusjohnson 11mo ago
We need mandatory licensing. It worked for Radio, it can work for Streaming. There's no reason Netflix and Hulu couldn't both have ALL media available. Then they could actually compete on features and capabilities, not on media ca
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by titusjohnson 11mo ago
I'm a big fan of tasteful remakes/remasters/updates. I don't mind paying again. I liked the Monkey Island update, System Shock, Myst, and Oblivion. They hit the right balance of QOL changes to take advantage of modern co
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
Emoji, Emoticon, Smiley, to the average user these are all the exact same thing. They mean "fun inline image in my text". Technical people dismissing the Robber or Seahorse emoji as a Mandala Effect is actually a great example of
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
Apple doesn't advertise this as the intent, but until the Air I felt that the Phone+Case combo is the complete phone, as it is intended to be used. Add any of Apple's official cases, leather, silicone, whatever, and that's th
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
The problem with Art is Art is whatever the Artist says it is. There is no concrete definition of Art, it is wholy subjective to the perspectives of the creator and the appreciator. Comics & Manga certainly fall under the umbrella of ar
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
Woah... gonna be honest I really thought I was using a v4. Well, Things 3 is fantastic and I highly recommend it.
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
Not who you're talking to, but there is none. Browsers have had "Bookmark all tabs" functionality for ages, which completely replaces tab hoarding. Especially now that the content of the page you visited 5 months ago isn&#x27
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
For work I use Logseq, but I treat it like a .txt file. 90% of my use is the daily journal pages, adding NOW and LATER todos, notes, whatever. The ability to link nodes to other pages or nodes is just good enough to beat out a .txt. For my
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
Everyone I know charges all their devices over night. Nightstands everywhere have charging docks for all the batteries you cary about your person. The hotels I have stayed at have USB ports about 2 feet from your pillow. Bluetooth speakers
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
I have an old Mac mini in a closet that runs Ubuntu and serves as a Dokku [1] host. My side projects run for free and are accessible inside my network or if I'm on VPN. If the project gets enough love eventually it'll graduate to
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
> The problem seems to be that my brain gives me a dopamine buzz for merely _imagining_ accomplishing the project, whether or not I eventually implement, publish, and get users for the it. I get this same buzz from talking about my proje
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
I might have to give that a try. It's been decades since I tried a netipot.
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
I had proper Flu this year, and almost exactly 4 weeks later caught COVID for the first time. Prior to these events I had a 5 year streak of being completely illness free, not a sniffle, not a head cold. Both illnesses completely K.O.'
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
> Because even with hygiene products, people buy them before they need them and stock up. One would think so, but in my experience this is not the case on average. Of the half-dozen long term relationships I've had, only 1 partner w
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by titusjohnson 1y ago
> I truly have no idea where all that energy was going. Growing your body. I was the same in my late teens and early 20's. Family called it the POW Aesthetic. 6'1" & 150lbs, couldn't put an lb more on. I was stron
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
Just ban loans against ephemeral assets. Loans must always be backed by concrete things. No funny money.
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
Growing up on a farm here in the US, electric fence wire (I think 14ga, not 8ga) was always useful. I almost always had a roll & some snips nearby when doing any maintenance. You can fix some broken electric fence, re-bind the fence pan
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
In my opinion this is how we shed good coders who are bad developers.
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
In my experience this aspect is chronically underestimated by devs. The change needs testing. Change Management might need to create artifacts. Help articles might need updating. Certain clients may need a heads-up. All the PMs need to be b
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
I've been on both sides of this table multiple times, as the IC and as the Manager of an eager IC. Here's a list of all the reasons why I as your manager would also flat-out say No to this situation. (These are of course heavily t
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
I've never thought it was anything but that. Work hard and be rewarded, that's the American Dream.
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
Why do you let your toddlers run the house, aren't you the parent?
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
Spam DVD logo upgrades as fast as you can. Open your browser as big as it will go. When the DVD logo gets close to the top, start shrinking the browser slowly. I think the DVD positioning is calculated from the bottom of the page, there&#x2
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
When you remove profit from the equation, you also remove the incentive to increase supply. Uhhh, what? What kind of wongo bongo thinking is this?
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
My 2024 Mazda CX-5 has a heads-up display and I quite like it. It presents in the windshield right above my hands on the top of the wheel, shows current speed, cruise status, and lane detection. I feel like I don't have to take my eyes
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
Can't say that about the USA.
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by titusjohnson 2y ago
Unlike jewels or greenbacks, you can get value out of cheddar over time by eating a cheese heavy diet. I imagine the tough part here is storing that much cheese for long enough to provide a large impact to your monthly grocery budget.

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