Viewing profile — quaddo

I was a huge tilix fan for ages, but ran into an issue with long URLs being unclickable.

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 u…

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 s…

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 …

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 cou…

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 t…

Sci-fi drama? Also: man, I really enjoyed that show.

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 i…

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, …

I've heard you get better results if you spritz them.

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…

>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.

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,…

Earthquakes.

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 mi…

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…

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.

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.

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 cove…

Check out Vivaldi...?

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 d…

"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 choos…

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, includin…

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 ses…

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 3…