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Why are all these numbers so close? Relationships, genetic diversity and survival minimum
Genetic diversity shows you need need 50-500 people to maintain enough diversity to prevent gene drift and too much inbreeding Social relationship. The number of relationships you can keep in your head is about 150 called the Dunbar number. The number is actually between 100-250. So surprisingly close. Tribal relationships. The smallest size is 50…
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Best CO Detectors, replacing Kidde CO and Smoke Alarms, Chopping Boards
Ok I’ve been busy so this is a combo post of all the questions I’ve been asked this week: Smoke Alarms. Our Kidde COSM-IBA finally started beeping. It wasn’t the battery, turns out that it will die seven years after being plugged in so you need a new one. I don’t know if this is…
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Comcast downgrading is hard a guide
Wow, they are such a piece of work. First of all during this COVID-19 thing, suddenly the bill rises 40% without any notification (I’m sure I rolled off of some plan). It is so difficult, here are some things to know: Add a notification on auto payment. Comcast does not provide any notification when you…
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More Vim tricks with Python
Well using Python quite a bit more and while my Vi was well tuned for Javascript there are some things to know with Python. First somethings that are reminders of features of Vi that I don’t use enough: gqq which means reformat the current like, this let’s you do rewrapping properly particularly in README.md files…
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If you are doing a quick resume
Not that anyone should need it any more, but LinkedIn does a nice job of spewing your profile into a PDF, it’s available in the More tab of your profile. If you then push this into Google Docs, they can read PDFs decently well and you can hack from there.
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iPod and iPhone Nostalgia
Well, I’m finally having (no) time for old projects, but sometimes they beckon. In this case, I have a very early iPod with a Touchwheel. Actually, I have two. But the very most original one from the original HP partnership seems to have a crashed drive. But the second with the original skin and songs…
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Silicon Valley Bank Discounts
Wow, SVB sure has a great collection of discounts for startups. These are mainly about existing programs, but there are some good ones: AWS. They have a startup program that gets you $1K off on the first charges. Google Cloud. Similar one, up to $100K depending on how much they like you. Zoom. 20% you…
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More Vi tips get the pipe output of a command
OK, this is kind of a neat trick. If you want to get the output of a shell command into Vi for further editing, there is an extension to the read command where you can say take the output of a pipe. What this says is to do a read like a traditional file, but…
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Editing Markdown with Vi and copying in Email
Many times, when you are documenting a project, you just want to copy in some email. This turns out to be quite difficult to do, so here’s a guide: If you do a simple copy and paste into a text file, the indents are going to be horrible as is the word wrap. A simple…
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Using DocuSign as a repository for startups
Well, if you are not going to pay for DocuSign in all it’s glory, here’s a simple way to manage critical documents. That is things with signatures for your startup that you are worried about. Send from admin account but don’t sign there The process is a little convoluted because you want to make sure…