stilldavid

Joined 17 years ago

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Jun 18
I'm david. I like the Internet.

Email is (me) at my username dot com.

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Comment · 13 days ago
My company sells a 4-20mA sensor and I always wondered why. Thanks!
Comment · 2 months ago
One of my favorite apps is PeakFinder, it shows local topography in an AR style UI. It also shows where and when the sun will set given the mountains around you! Well worth the few bucks.
Comment · 4 months ago
I wear mine to sleep and that's where I get tremendous value out of it! I have small kids who are up one or more times overnight, and it's the first thing I check - is it midnight? Closer to 4am? Helps me make immediate decisions about how to handle the situation.
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Seconding fastmail.

I have a catch-all and can reply from any address I please. If I reply from an email sent to [email protected] it even auto populates the "from" address for me with "retailer", or I can choose to reply from one of my named accounts. It's really slick.

Comment · 1 year ago
I've been pretty happy with Betterment.
Comment · 1 year ago
The Coleco Adam was my first computer. I was too young to appreciate it other than the hours spent playing _Pitfall_, but those are fond memories indeed.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm a longtime rock climber and climbed a tower professionally back in another life. With most things, it's practice with the gear that builds trust in your system. I can do most anything at a height these days because I know that I'm safe; it lets me push that lizard brain feeling away. I similarly experienced this learning to SCUBA dive a few years ago - it's horrifying! But the more time spent doing the thing, practicing the systems, failure modes, etc... let me relax and enjoy the fish rather than freaking out that I'm 70' underwater.
Comment · 2 years ago
With a robust used market, as well. I laughed at the battery life goals for this - the inreach mini I use lasts _days_.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
... but it is back-uppable.
Comment · 2 years ago
My wife and I went to Kauai and specifically rented a Jeep so we could take it on some moderate trails to see waterfalls and whatnot. We were somewhat dismayed when we arrived and found we had been "upgraded" to a BMW X5 and there were no actual off-road vehicles available from the company. It was a nice car, for sure, but not what we had wanted.
Comment · 3 years ago
I believe this post covers the most common use case of Twitch, which is live streaming. You don't want to be a minute behind the video when chat is live.
Comment · 3 years ago
I run Sway and I can set a 2x scale per output easily. Not sure about other WMs.

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