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Author Archives: Jeremy Zawodny
Interesting Reads and Watches for April 8th, 2021
Here’s a short collection of interesting things that have crossed my radar: Finding From Particle Research Could Break Known Laws of Physics (NYT) 1 in 3 Covid survivors suffers neurological or mental disorders, study finds (CNBC) Particle mystery deepens, as … Continue reading
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Interesting Reads and Watches for March 22nd, 2021
Stuff I’ve found and read or watched recently: Ham and Split Pea Soup Recipe – A Great Soup (AllRecipes) we made this the other night and it came out great. Why use old computers and operating systems?E (HackerNews) which pointed … Continue reading
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Dishy (Starlink) Custom Mount on Standing Seam Metal Roof
The new house we’re nearly done building has a shallow pitch standing steam metal roof upon which I needed to mount Dishy for my Starlink backup Internet service. TLDR: I ended up with something like this one. To get started, … Continue reading
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Interesting Reads and Watches — I should blog more (again).
It’s been a long time since I used by blog. It’s time to stop being lazy and get back on the wagon. To start, here’s a recurring I might do–post a list of Interesting Things that I’ve read recently. I … Continue reading
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Home Depot is a lost cause…
A couple weeks ago I decided to order some new tools for current and upcoming yard work. I decided that a set of devices that all use the same 40V rechargeable batteries was the way to go and, for reasons … Continue reading
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Chrome and Firefox Ad Blocking and Privacy Addons
For a while I’ve been using AdBlock Plus and Ghostery in both Chrome and Firefox to reduce the amount of shitty ads I see and also reduce the number of “trackers” that I’m exposed to on various web sites. But … Continue reading
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GNU Parallel and Block Size(s)
I’ve been a fan of GNU Parallel for a while but until recently have only used it occasionally. That’s a shame, because it’s often the simplest solution for quickly solving embarrassingly parallel problems. My recent usage of it has centered … Continue reading
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I’m blogging again…
All the post Trump election crap in my Facebook “news” feed finally motivated me to spend less time there (just long enough to post links to my blog and look in the 2-3 groups I care about) and start writing … Continue reading
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Today’s lame sales pitch…
I’m going to paste the full text of an email message that recently landed in my inbox and unfortunately wasn’t tagged as spam. But I won’t paste it in one blob, I’ll do it piece by piece so it is … Continue reading
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