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Continue reading →: Using Google Colab with GithubOk this is a pretty awesome tool, you can use a free virtual machine with GPUs and TPUs for small Jupyter notebooks. Some quick notes on how to be successful with it: They include full version control in the Jupyter Notebook itself, but if you want full version control, the…
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Continue reading →: Google Calendar does not handle multiple identities wellOk, this thing is super confusing because Google Calendars are super unclear on how auto accept invites works. They change in April 2019 their options, so there is no more specific “auto accept invites”, it just says “yes” accept which The current defaults for in https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r/settings and you can see…
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Continue reading →: Cleaning your Black & Decker Hand VacuumIt seems nuts in this crazy time of COVID and unrest to talk about your Vacuum cleaner, but maybe that’s because I have to find something to do. First of all, we’ve had this for ten year and have always shaken it loose But finally there is just no suction.…
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Continue reading →: Qi Charger Buying GuideWell now that I’m spending so much time at home (who isn’t), there always seem to be some things that were optional but which seem like necessities. One of them is never having to plug your phone in. So with Qi chargers getting so cheap, it makes sense to have…
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Continue reading →: Do not use MacOS Calendar on CatalinaYou would think that after 50 years of the calendaring madness that it would end, but with two non-profits, a for-profit and two personal calendars, like is just not easy and conflicts are happening everywhere. So starting at 2AM last night, I finally resolved to try to fix this problems,…
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Continue reading →: COVID-19 MusicOK, in these times, sometime it seems like a good music playlist is just so vital, so here are some that we’ve been listening to: Hotel Costes Curated Lists. If you sometime need to feel like you in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, there is nothing like the playlist that…
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Continue reading →: Memorial Day Sales and buying HomePod, AirPod ProWell there are some decent Memorial Day sales, but when you are buying electronics, you also have to pay attention to obsolesce because sometimes the reason for the sale is that they are going to get rid of the product. So with that said, what are some pretty good deals…
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Continue reading →: What happens if a submodule repo name changesOK this is kind of an edge case, but if you have a submodule and someone upstream changes it’s name, what should you do? First you probably want to change the location of the module, so you can now just do a git mv old_name new_name and it will be…
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Continue reading →: iPhone SE vs iPhone 11Wow Apple has actually made it pretty hard to figure out what to buy. The iPhone 11 is pricey but has premium features. I think that for most regular users, the iPhone SE is super compelling if you really need a new phone. And of course we are about 4-5…
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Continue reading →: Finally fixing AFP vs SMB on MacOSOK, we know that AFP is not a reliable long term protocol. When I try to do a long running rsync for instance, it fails after a few hours. What you want is to use SMB but it isn’t easy to force it. There are two ways that both involve…
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