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What is "How can I make mailers more complicated? for $400 please, Alex?”https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionMailer/Parameterized.htmlMaybe I'm just an old, but I like when code goes in order...
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I just used the index of the paper version of @noelrap's (awesome) update to pickaxe.I knew there was a way to destructure a hash by keys. "destructure" wasn't in the index, but I saw “rightward...
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I have been to https://containers.dev/implementors/spec/ many many times. I have tried to read it. It is, to me, incomprehensible. It reads like a spec that only the authors could understand and...
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I like the idea of a directory of "how to install some tool", but look at this: https://github.com/devcontainers/features/blob/main/src/node/install.shThat is not how nodesourece documents how to...
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I want a cheap Windows laptop to run Docker via WSL2. Here is the information I had to hunt down:• How much RAM?• WSL1 vs 2?• Why is there both Windows 11 and 10?• What is SLAT and does rando intel...
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Current status of my analog music journey[1] is that I have ordered a mixture of belts for a cassette 4-track in hopes one fits the broken one it just spit out. Can’t fast forward and I’m fresh out of...
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Oh great, Plex raises capital. Maybe they can hire, say, one person that listens to music....
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Got my Lenovo IdeaPad this weekend, to set up WSL and Docker to make sure my docker book (https://devbox.computer) is working on WSL the way I expect and to provide any platform-specific info.The setup...
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Of note, the instructions to install WSL were so un-Microsoftian, I didn't think it would work. But it did. Here they are:wsl --installKudos to whoever made this happen
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I had bought some crypto MANY years ago to see what the experience was like (it was then, and still now sucks hard). I liquidated all of it last year just be done with this ridiculous industry....
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In the name of security, Lively is adding a password for voicemails, meaning my parents will no longer be able to use voicemail. I don't understand why tech companies are so obsessed with passwords....
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My wife—who is not an elderly person with cognitive challenges—inadvertently made her amazon account inaccessible by saying "OK" to their passkey nag. Fortunately, her description was enough to make me...
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I realize security is risk management and these are all tradeoffs, and people would likely not make the right tradeoffs if given the choice. But FFS this is all just a nightmare. I thank god every day...
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If anyone could make something worse than probate court, it's tech companies.
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re: wealth preservation and access - if you have kids or anyone that you want to have access to your money after you leave this mortal coil, create a revocable trust now. Even WITH a trust in place,...
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Anyone else notice more and more personal blogs are using fixed-width fonts? Often, these blogs DO appear to have been designed somewhat thoughtfully i.e. it's not just some careless default. I don't...
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I have just discovered that you can set icons in the UNIFI admin and so this is what I'm doing today
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It's tax season here in the USA. I just read the 1099-MISC closely, and here are some of the types of income that form captures:📕 Royalties (why I get one)🏚️ Rents🛥️ Fishing boat proceeds🌾🏦 Crop...
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Buying a windows laptop and boy are there a lot of growth hack nonsense. I’ve unsubscribed from at least four mailing lists, disabled ads in the preferences in at least three places. What a nightmare
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