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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 with…

But you don’t have to run pi-hole on a pi. I run it in an Ubuntu Linux container on my Proxmox server.

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 yo…

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…

But… Hawaiian pizza?

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, b…

Ah yes, the “they were asking for it” defense.

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 con…

Like the old Cauzin Strip Reader.

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 ho…

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…

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 nati…

Credit is due the executive assistant who informed the CEO of the call instead of triage-ing it to the bit bucket.

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…

"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. Progra…

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.

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 no…

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 …

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 pr…

What's the setting in httpd.conf for that?

I've got news for you. Unless you own the business, your work of any kind is a cost to be repressed.

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 …

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.

Or perhaps based upon a kernel of truth? https://www.wired.com/2000/08/rocketcar/

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