weirdkid

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by weirdkid 7mo ago
I no longer smoke as a habit, but when I have to travel solo (like for work) I sometimes will buy a pack just so I have an excuse to strike up a conversation with other humans without being called a creep or weirdo. "Hey, you got a lig
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by weirdkid 2y ago
But you don’t have to run pi-hole on a pi. I run it in an Ubuntu Linux container on my Proxmox server.
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by weirdkid 3y ago
Awesome advice and a great way to prepare for unexpected death or incapacitation (if you are the one in your family who usually handles all this stuff). I only would add that if you do go ahead with this, use tools or a medium that mere mor
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by weirdkid 3y ago
This is great stuff. I’ve had this bookmarked in my browser for almost 20 years! I should see what else I have in there…
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by weirdkid 3y ago
But… Hawaiian pizza?
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by weirdkid 3y ago
But with 600% more smug. This doesn’t even really need reporting when every rando-vegan out there is running up to people they don’t know to announce shit like this. Downvote me, but you know it’s true.
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by weirdkid 3y ago
Ah yes, the “they were asking for it” defense.
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by weirdkid 5y ago
Not an expert, but I did recently upgrade the pickups in an older guitar. I learned that not all pickups are wired to the guitar the same way. Seymour Duncan HotRails had to be connected differently than Seymour Duncan VintageRails, for exa
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by weirdkid 5y ago
Like the old Cauzin Strip Reader.
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by weirdkid 6y ago
Man I wish 9-5 were acceptable here in the midwest. I wish I could move (I'm in my sandwich years now, caring for parents and teens in high school). Everyone here works farmer's hours and suggesting otherwise is equivalent to admi
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by weirdkid 6y ago
WFH orders during COVID19 have been a kind of blessing, with regard to my DSPD. I can sleep in an extra hour or two and hit that 8AM meeting 5 minutes after I wake up. When we have to go back to the office in June, I'm going to have a
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by weirdkid 7y ago
This is how to learn to mimic a new language and avoid actually learning it. It’s the difference between carrying around a French phrase book and being able to converse like a native.
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by weirdkid 7y ago
Credit is due the executive assistant who informed the CEO of the call instead of triage-ing it to the bit bucket.
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by weirdkid 7y ago
Yet some products are clearly, specifically designed and marketed to addicts. Consider fortified wines (aka “bum wines”). Night train. MD2020. Thunderbird. I think it's possible to do the same with any product, including video games.
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by weirdkid 7y ago
"Scientist". "Architect". "Engineer". Even "Developer". Bah! All borrowed titles that try to make what we do sound more important to those who really do those things. Coder. Programmer. You're ei
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by weirdkid 8y ago
Yes, you can. Get to the final signing then refuse to pay it. Tell the dealer you'll walk if it isn't waived. I do it every time.
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by weirdkid 8y ago
Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet Robert X. Cringely's follow-up to Triumph of the Nerds was pretty good. It looks like you can watch the whole thing fit free on line now too - check the links at the bottom of the Wikipedia
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by weirdkid 8y ago
As long as you remember the first rule of Best Buy (never buy cables at Best Buy), you can find prices as good or better there than Amazon, and I have to say, the people there are very helpful and friendly. I especially liked their Magnolia
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by weirdkid 8y ago
My guess is the guy worked for a Tier 1 auto supplier. It's probably the biggest reason why any company would open a field location in Detroit that's large enough to warrant the presence of several director-level staff. Also, it&#
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by weirdkid 8y ago
What's the setting in httpd.conf for that?
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by weirdkid 8y ago
I've got news for you. Unless you own the business, your work of any kind is a cost to be repressed.
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by weirdkid 9y ago
Or, it's the sandy base you get when geographically surrounded by water. Or, it's the laws that removed weight limits for the trucking industry. Or, it's the lack of funds in poor areas. Or, it's the extreme changes in t
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by weirdkid 9y ago
This is great stuff, but the decision will likely be made based on where Amazon execs in Seattle can get a break from Seattle weather. That ain't Detroit.
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by weirdkid 9y ago
Or perhaps based upon a kernel of truth? https://www.wired.com/2000/08/rocketcar/
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by weirdkid 9y ago
Willie Horton was used in this way to have an incredible negative impact on the Dukakis campaign in 1998. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton
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by weirdkid 10y ago
I would probably be considered high income/moderate wealth. I started tracking everything with Quicken back in the 90's when I realized I was just pissing it all away. I switched to MoneyDance when intuit started screwing with the
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by weirdkid 10y ago
I remembered reading this on bored.com back in the 90's when, well, I was bored. Here the original story from the Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/19971210082324/http://www.dnai.co...
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by weirdkid 11y ago
I don't see a way to do triplets with this notation.
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by weirdkid 12y ago
I've seen this before. Capital Factory in Austin had a quiet room just like you describe. It was full of people when I was there.
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by weirdkid 12y ago
So, in other words, an AI that can pitch a book?

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