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codazoda
4,739karma·1,614submissions·March 24, 2014
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Software engineer, entrepreneur, serial hobbyist, and writer.
Over 500 technical articles on joeldare.com generating over 10k monthly views. Creator of Neat CSS, the minimalist CSS framework with over 700 stars on GitHub. Author of Write & Publish Your Book, rated 5-stars on Amazon.
Joel Dare
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I cut my teeth on POV-Ray. It hasn't been updated in some time but being able to code scenes has a lot of advantages. For product design I use OpenSCAD. Maybe POV-Ray made this style of design po…
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Did you forget a /s tag? I feel like the penalties are so small for the big companies that they just become small expense lines that need to be passed on to the consumers (airlines in this case).
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I was surprised to see that company is still around. I used to love their cameras because of their limitations. Unless I’m mixing them up with a similarly named company.
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I never understood the newspaper format. Seems like a paperback would be a better format though I guess that would be a magazine.
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I created Ponder, which does something similar. Mine was inspired by the Alpha Smart, so it has 10 “files” and it saves to local storage, so it might not be loss proof, but I use it as a scratch pad a…
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That’s interesting, I’ve never noticed them used. Do they still do this? I’m aware of the bands but I never noticed the magic moments stuff.
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You keep them for the next trip to Disneyland or a Disney Cruise or share them with friends who are doing the same. I only charge mine about four times a year, so I doubt the batteries will last too l…
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I don't know how productive I'm being but I'm using Llama3 via Ollama on a M1 Mac. It's as good as Copilot and Gemini for most things and I'll use those models if I need a lit…
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Based on the name and email address this email address was probably setup just to troll people.
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I don’t know if my understanding is correct but I always thought of a switch in contrast to a network hub. A hub broadcasts incoming packets to all its ports while a switch keeps a table and broadcast…
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This is a lot like I imagine “readme driven development” to look like. I’m curious if the author started with docs first.
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Requiring cash is there in the article, at least now it is. > The refunds must be issued within seven days, according to the new DOT rules, and must be in cash unless the passenger chooses another …
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I haven’t built amazing things, but I had opportunity for success even though I had children early in life. I’m now 48 and my youngest child moved out last weekend. Being an empty nester will give me …
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No license typically means copyright with all rights reserved in the U.S. Perhaps you want to release this into the public domain (see SQLite)?
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They have tried a bunch of methods like demand based pricing, ID verification, electronic tickets, and lotteries. I suspect these things only work a little and each has its own problem side-effects.
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Anecdotal, but I have CPAP and MAD. MAD never worked for me, although I wish it did. I still snore with it and don’t get good sleep. On the flip side, I can no longer sleep without CPAP. I wish it was…
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Self-published author here—I agree with these points and I hate DRM myself. I write DRM free books and I publish them on Amazon for the Kindle. Since they ask authors, I presume they share the DRM sta…
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I took a quick peak at this last time it was mentioned and it had dozens of my own repos of unlicensed source code in it. All of that was published on GitHub and made public, but much of it has no lic…
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I wrote an instructional book about how to publish your own book. It gets good reviews but not a lot of reads due to a lack of promotion. I’ve been thinking about writing a second edition that would b…
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I haven’t had success writing fiction just yet but I just read The Snowflake Method and I hope to give it a go. It’s a really interesting read. https://a.co/d/gJrLsyM This also g…
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This is timely. I just completed a few experiments and wrote a little about doing OCR on my handwritten notes. https://notes.joeldare.com/handwritten-text-recognition Tesseract was on…
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> This FAQ says customers can set up free fraud alerts from credit bureaus Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion I once subscribed to one of these and then was surprised by monthly charges a year or so…
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Many of these, however, should just be doors. For many of them the alarming of them seems unnecessary.
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I don’t know if it will save me but I purchase a domain of my own, use an email address from that domain, and forward to Gmail. I could easily forward to any other service. When Google locks me out of…
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Random Riff generates random guitar riffs in the Minor Pentatonic scale. Seems similar to some of the ones in this list. It’s more so you can tweak them on your guitar than listen to them, although yo…
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I primarily fly Delta and at least part of the reason is that they don't buy the Max. Prior to the last couple years I primarily flew Southwest, who does fly the Max. That doesn't mean I…
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What does SingleFile do? The intro tells you how to run it, but not what it does.