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Video Conferencing with Zoom and Keeping your Internet Speed Great
Well now that so many of us are at home, figuring out how to keep your video and other calls running well is more important than ever. Since yesterday, our network speeds have been horrible. Before the crisis we were getting 190Mbps upstream and 5Mbps downstream. But starting yesterday that had dropped to 30Mbps/1Mbps and…
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Covid and Helping Others Part I
Well hopefully everyone is ok, but there are millions who aren’t. Here are some notes about what you can do to help others. Not a comprehensive list, but some good resources: OpenTable Gifts has a limited number of restaurants that take their gift cards. For now, they are eliminating all fees to the restaurants, so…
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Apps for Self-Quarantine from Houseparty to Netflix Party to Goodreads
Well, hopefully everyone is safe and sound during this epidemic. Now that we are self isolating, what are some things to do (besides watch the news, help those in need and stay safe yourself). Beyond Slack, Teams, Zoom and Messaging Ok there are the usual suspects (and I don’t count Facebook or Twitter by the…
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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 Prime Now, then Amazon Prime,…
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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 productive and the comments are…
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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 a sealed box. I got…
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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 is a taxable event. If…
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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 which looks like a really…
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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 can’t be bald, the windows…
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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 it off at your door.…