weirdkid
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22 days ago
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on: How to talk to anyone and why you should
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 light? What brand you smoking? How are you liking the conference so far?"
weirdkid
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1 year ago
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on: Pi-hole v6
But you don’t have to run pi-hole on a pi. I run it in an Ubuntu Linux container on my Proxmox server.
weirdkid
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2 years ago
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on: Writing documentation for your house
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 mortals are familiar with. Assume the person who needs to read it only knows git as a Larry the Cable Guy reference ("git 'er done!").
weirdkid
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2 years ago
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on: Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages
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…
weirdkid
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2 years ago
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on: I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
But… Hawaiian pizza?
weirdkid
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2 years ago
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on: Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-meat diet, major study
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.
weirdkid
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2 years ago
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on: Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
Ah yes, the “they were asking for it” defense.
weirdkid
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4 years ago
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on: Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups
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 example. This would be a complicating factor to any hot-swapping system.
weirdkid
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4 years ago
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on: Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (2013)
Like the old Cauzin Strip Reader.
weirdkid
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5 years ago
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on: Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night owl’ sleep disorder
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 admitting you are a slacker.
weirdkid
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5 years ago
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on: Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night owl’ sleep disorder
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 problem though.
I work in tech, but I live in Michigan and work for the auto industry where the norm seems to be to wake up at 4 and start work with the farmers at 6 AM. I'm a "late" morning person since I prefer to start at 8 or 9.
This has been held against me my entire 25 year career. 15 more to go and then I can sleep how the hell I want.
weirdkid
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6 years ago
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on: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
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.
weirdkid
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6 years ago
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on: A janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2017)
Credit is due the executive assistant who informed the CEO of the call instead of triage-ing it to the bit bucket.
weirdkid
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6 years ago
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on: Former Fortnite UX lead digs into ethical game design
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.
weirdkid
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7 years ago
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on: I'm a Data Scientist and It's Not My Passion
"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 either encoding logic or data into something a computer program can use. Even if all you do is draw fancy diagrams.
Off-topic whining. Downvote to oblivion.
weirdkid
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7 years ago
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on: Trump Just Signed a Law That Changes Life Aboard Airlines
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.
weirdkid
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?
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 article.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerds_2.0.1
weirdkid
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7 years ago
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on: Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
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 store-within-a-store concept for higher-end audio products.
weirdkid
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7 years ago
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on: Forgotten Employee (2002)
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's quite typical that an auto OEM would contractually require a supplier to have safety inspectors at each site, so he may not have been as forgotten as he thought.
Just a theory.
weirdkid
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7 years ago
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on: GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
What's the setting in httpd.conf for that?
