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fgonzag··on Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
It seems quite doable but you'd need scripting skills to set it all up. Read the incoming queue, pass it to wkhtmltopdf then pipe the result to the mail command. For windows I believe I once used a java smtp server (apache james) that allowed you to set custom code as an incoming email handler. After that the conversion and email sending is trivial.
fgonzag··on Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online
Essentially PKI, store a certificate signed by rolex and it's corresponding private key in the enclave.

The only thing you need is the root Rolex certificate and you can authenticate the watch. You also need to have a signed copy of the serial inside the enclave so it can't be transferred (inside the certificate)

fgonzag··on Developer account removed by Apple
Are you a national of a country currently at war and heavily sanctioned by almost every large economy in the world?
fgonzag··on Snaps. Why? Please Stop
Are you sure about that? AFAIK both mint and pop completely purge the base distro of snaps
fgonzag··on Should I replace my 56k modem with a 28.8K Modem? (2001)
I can hazzard a guess you weren't around back then. Computers weren't something everyone depended on... They were novelties
fgonzag··on Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record
At least in my house in Mexico, solar panels were mounted on custom made structures that maximize your house's power generation. That can't be cheap in a high labor cost country. The panel might be cheap but mounting it is expensive.
fgonzag··on Justice Dept Says Collusion Suit Against Apartment Owners Should Move Forward
If vacancy is at 0%, you increase supply and vacancy is still at 0% you should absolutely not expect prices to fall. In fact, you should expect exactly what is happening, the market will reevaluate it's prices upwards until vacancy reaches some positive value. It's economics 101. This software just makes the process hyper efficient, where as normally it'd be far slower as landlords would not have perfect information.

The only way to fix this is to drastically incentivize building to the point that supply is higher than demand.

fgonzag··on Wegovy's heart benefits due to more than weight loss, Novo says
and you are assuming that something that worked for you works for everyone, telling the world how everyone else is wrong even though you are prescribing the faddest diet of the 2000s that every overweight person has already tried
fgonzag··on Wegovy's heart benefits due to more than weight loss, Novo says
Have you tried both to compare? I have and I would say my experience is contrary to everything you state. Keto weight loss was slow and temporal, ozempic makes me feel like a normal human.
fgonzag··on Failed Seattle trucking firm Convoy sued over layoffs, may be selling off tech
The same risks is quite an exaggeration, as much as saying they take no risks at all
fgonzag··on Why isn't dotnet core popular among startups?
ASPNET core razor pages or MVC for web pages, web API or minimal API for http apis (depending on needs)
fgonzag··on Why isn't dotnet core popular among startups?
As someone who uses both very frequently, tooling on dotnet is better. Jetbrains has Rider.

Library support is pretty great too. Honestly they are pretty much interchangable and I'd choose based on my team's proficiency.

fgonzag··on Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard
Can you quote where he said he fed it internal code?
fgonzag··on Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux
Why compatibility? Or inertia for that matter? Switching DEs in Linux is generally as easy as installing a package and switching the DE at login, and you can use any app compiled for a certain toolkit in any other DE. The default choice is usually done for either pragmatic or preferential reasons (Developer preference, easy of upstream collaboration, flexibility, stability, bug fix schedule)
fgonzag··on XML Appliance
And he specifically gave examples of where it is used... Search for IBM Datapowers and the like
fgonzag··on Ask HN: Is it worth learning C# and .NET in 2022?
For Linux, the best way by far to install jetbrains products is to use the toolbox.

I had the same issues you had until someone recommended installing through the toolbox, and it's worked flawlessly in multiple PCs since then.

fgonzag··on Hardware Raid Is Dead and a Bad Idea in 2022
Does it though? As someone who used MD raid for absolutely everything for over 10 years, were now switching to HW raid. EFI / GPT disks just don't work that well with OS level raid, because the motherboard is well within it's right to modify the EFI partition, which if you have raided at the OS level will cause massive issues.
fgonzag··on Customer who defamed BC company on Google, Yelp ordered to pay $90k
What do you mean? He would obviously know if he placed the order, and if he was charged for it. Either he's lying or his not, but he can't be mistaken.
fgonzag··on Ford surprises F-150 Lightning owners with adapter for charging stranded Teslas
Then this is very obviously not the vehicle for you.
fgonzag··on Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life
The ecobee3 solves this particular problem by having remote sensors. I'm absolutely in love with it since it takes an average of all the sensors as the temperature.
fgonzag··on Goldman told TWTR Elon’s $54.20 offer was too low but has a sell target at $30
You want to buy 100% of the stock (think about what that does to the volume of buy orders). That obviously has a much higher price than the normal market dynamics. Both things can be accurate, the price sticking at $30 on normal trading, and a full takeover requiring a significant premium.
fgonzag··on Mexico truckers protest new Texas inspections, halt trade at border bridges
We're really picky about fuel efficiency. We have aerodynamic equipment on all of our trailers, we give our drivers bonuses on mpg, and also give them 10% of the discount on the fuel cards as a bonus so they actually get on the app and find the cheapest fuel with the most discount. I've heard some fleets have $1+ per mile cost on fuel. Our equipment isn't new though, we bought used 2015 trucks in 2019.
fgonzag··on Mexico truckers protest new Texas inspections, halt trade at border bridges
I'm part owner on a small freight company and those aren't the numbers I'm seeing. Our current costs are about 80-90cpm on fuel, 65cpm for drivers (60cpm base rate + performance bonuses), about 15cpm for maintenance, and about 15cpm for insurance, tolls, plates, etc. For a total of $1.75 per mile more or less. Before diesel prices spiked the cost of fuel and driver were about even.
fgonzag··on Mexico truckers protest new Texas inspections, halt trade at border bridges
The inspections are political. Tx gov started them because Biden removed title 42 expulsions. He simply ramped up full inspections for 100% of trucks entering the state (under tx dot authority) instead of the random system they had before.

Abbott is using the inspections as a political bargaining chip to regain title 42 expulsions.

fgonzag··on Mexico truckers protest new Texas inspections, halt trade at border bridges
More specifically, they are protesting the wait times (up to 12 hours now), not the inspections themselves. These wait times are generally unpaid, I believe they get a single flat fee per border crossing.
fgonzag··on You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine
That makes sense. 2 x 6 core Xeons were cheap even back in the day. And it came without storage. Again, as someone who actually buys straight off FB and Google when they dispose servers (as the companies who you buy from off eBay), I'd really like to know where he got that specific 64 core (which would be a quad socket if it's older than 2015) 192 GB 24 TB server because I'd like to order more than a few. Your server is not even worth 1/20th of what his is worth.

The closest I can get a disposed server with those specs is at least 8k

fgonzag··on You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine
Explain how you got a 64 core 192 GB RAM 24 TB server or workstation for 2k please
fgonzag··on Fedora 37 Looks to Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support
My biggest gripe with UEFI Linux systems is Raid-1 with mdraid. With legacy it's quite easy, set up the mirror, install grub on every partition, and you're done. With UEFI it's far more complicated, having to manually clone the EFI boot partition and then manually add it as part of the EFI chain. You have to remember to redo this whole process if you ever change a disk. Does anyone have a better way to do it?
fgonzag··on End the Streaming Struggle with Plex
It has to be setup for local network streaming (and requires a network connection to do so the first time). Plex is far from perfect but its pretty much the best local media service I've found, so I'm not too mad at some of its idiosyncrasies.

Getting plex pass is a must if you use it regularly in order to support hardware encoding.

fgonzag··on $44.52 is the average price of an 1/8th of cannabis in the US
People often forget that part. Sure it is just as expensive as before, but it's also so so much better than the brick weed you were able to get before.
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