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Continue reading →: Why are all these numbers so close? Relationships, genetic diversity and survival minimumGenetic 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.…
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Continue reading →: Best CO Detectors, replacing Kidde CO and Smoke Alarms, Chopping BoardsOk 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…
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Continue reading →: Comcast downgrading is hard a guideWow, 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…
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Continue reading →: More Vim tricks with PythonWell 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…
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Continue reading →: If you are doing a quick resumeNot 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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Continue reading →: iPod and iPhone NostalgiaWell, 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…
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Continue reading →: Silicon Valley Bank DiscountsWow, 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…
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Continue reading →: More Vi tips get the pipe output of a commandOK, 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…
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Continue reading →: Editing Markdown with Vi and copying in EmailMany 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…
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Continue reading →: Using DocuSign as a repository for startupsWell, 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…
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