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Continue reading →: More Self-Quarantine Options DoorDash, and Drizly
OK, with self-quarantine the new meme, here are some notes about how to minimize contact: In Singapore, when you go out, you leave your shoes at the door, change out and wash your “outside” clothes and switch to indoor clothes. I already posted about ordering stuff (TL;dr, Costco, Instacart, Amazon…
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Continue reading →: Great coding practices from a genius
Well the smartest person I know (ok I’m biased one of the three smartest people amongst the Alex, Calvin and Grace crowd). But Calvin did a great job summarizing on his new blog (he’s imprisoned in his own self-quarantine). But he has some great summaries of how to be really…
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Continue reading →: Argh when your Windows machine dies
I haven’t used Windows much these last few years. Most development has been on the Mac and Linux. But getting back to it because of gaming and I had completely forgotten how delicate Windows can be. We have a Dell Alienware Aurora R8 computer and it tries to work like…
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Continue reading →: Bitcoin and cryptocurrency Tax Accounting
If you have bitcoins the rules are pretty strict although I’ve no idea how they enforce it If you buy and sell they are like any other assets so short term and long term gains Since cryptocurrency is property rather than a financial asset. Every time you buy something there…
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Continue reading →: Multiple nVidia Cards
Well in the old days, there was a thing called SLI which basically had two video cards and they each took a line of a display, so you could get them to really cooperate. Today, nVidia has taken the idea farther and generalized it. Now they have something called NVLink…
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Continue reading →: Turn in your leased car at home
Auto blog has good advice. We had never leased before and were completely noobs. Lessons are The lease Company has a contractor who inspects your car. Meet them in person preferably at home. So u can see the report. If u have damage it can costs thousands. Yes the tires…
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Continue reading →: When to use Instacart, Costco, Amazon Prime Now, Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods and Amazon.com
It’s a little confusing, but Amazon has no less than three different places to buy things. From someone who used to work there, here’s how you should think about where to go. But in life where there is a huge delivery shortage. Make sure that you just have them drop…
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Continue reading →: When you Kodi breaks on an Nvidia Shield
Kodi (formerly XBMC, formerly Xbox Media Connect) has been an awesome tool for us to have a nice front end so that handles all the DVDs and other things we have digitally in the house. Since nVidia Shield is really an Android device, this is really an Android application. It…
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Continue reading →: Beware when buying from Corsair.com of 22 day hold
ARgh, yet another fall out of the Corona Virus that they don’t talk about much, but if you are buying from Amazon, getting things from China doesn’t seem to be a problem. But that’s not true for all shippers. I ordered something directly from corsair.com and this came directly from…
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Continue reading →: Data Integrity at Home : Data Scrubbing and Hashdeep
OK, when you have terabytes of data at home, you definitely will. have losses. I’ve had a bad RAID array that corrupted a bunch of JPEGs and it is super sad. So what’s the solution to this: If you are using BTRFS, then you can turn on bit scrubbing. This…