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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 :-(…

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 c…

That's the freedom we're talking about when we say "land of the free".

Doesn't the baking powder makes its bubbles and run out, leaving behind flat batter?

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 Pe…

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 b…

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-k…

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 si…

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.

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 fram…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 mi…

I recently moved to Germany, with kids (teens & pre-teens), where Netflix etc. show movie's ratings with the local rating/certification system. This led to questions from my kids a…

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 wh…

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 newe…

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 an…

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 v…

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…

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 yea…