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Fun fact: if you have "bold text" enabled in iOS settings, then copy a message… when you paste the message, it will also be bold. (Normally, only text that the sender had intentionally bolded would be bold after the copy. In WhatsApp's case, all of the…
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Math Notes, are you OK?
For context - I had a block of items like icloud = $10*12 arcade = $50 developer = $100 then a totals section, like total = icloud + arcade + developer total = $270 When I adjusted the amount of an item in the top section, I was hoping that the total…
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bulk data exploration not search! although algolia points out that a properly structured faceting system can also power search exploring data: select the fields that you care about, then add filters to exclude even more chaff. pick one, many, or all…
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nas mounts
ooh could/should I use syncthing to "mount" a folder from the nas well probably not for the media… but for like, small project folders? I'm thinking about the results found in https://blog.ja-ke.tech/2019/08/27/nas-performance-sshfs-nfs-smb.html
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Running Tailscale on a Synology Router (SRM)
(1) Enable the SSH service on the router (2) SSH into the router: ssh -p 2022 router-username@<ip> (router-username is the username you use to log into the web UI) (3) Download the Tailscale aarch64 package from their website # cd /var/services/tmp #…
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outside UNIX
I’m a broken record on this topic, but there’s a ton of non-Unix prior art to learn from. Many minicomputer systems had a separation from programs and commands, with the former being not directly invoked latter being what the user called. For example,…
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Quote: Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
This post is a quote that I got from somewhere. Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've…
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a blog…
a blog, is a blog
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on cats
… and why they manage to tangle themselves into knots while being fed Let us reference the following meme: First, we have an image of three full food bowls. Then, we have an image of a gordion knot of cats[^1] eating from those bowls. In my experience,…
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Thinking some deep thoughts
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altafiber is now altafiber
Context: Cincinnati Bell rebranded to altafiber in 2022. I've found posts citing the (expected) "Cincinnati Bell is now altafiber" title… So in my head, some unpaid intern got tasked with updating all old marketing posts, and the find/replace got a…