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Dan Bennett

@nonodename

Brit by birth, Yank by choice. Opinions own. When not working as a CDO ether parenting, sailing, skiing or running. Blogging at URL below

 MN, USA
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Joined March 2011
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⁦End of the line for TripCase. @Sabre_Corp⁩ It’s customary and nice to let people export their data when you’re nuking a platform. Any plans to let us do that?
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Buy connected wall charger for connected features. Get one year of usage and then this. Thanks for nothing ⁦@EnelGroup⁩ ! #internetofshit
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Those signatures! That’s awesome. The True Last-Ever Pontiac Has Been Found, And Thankfully It’s Not A Total Wreck theautopian.com/final-pontia…
This Is The True 'Last Pontiac Ever Built' - The Autopian

This Is The True 'Last Pontiac Ever Built' - The Autopian

Last year, what was thought to be the final Pontiac was found. A museum found the real final Pontiac, and it's a fitting end for Pontiac.

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Started using Vi in 1991. Still using Vim weekly. Thank you Bram arstechnica.com/?p=1959426
Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers

The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62.

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Hey ⁦@Hertz⁩ why does your website look like this on my iPad?
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Isn't this what Vader sees when he first gets fitted for his goggles?
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Help ⁦@BMWMotorradUSA⁩ ! The email never arrives - even to junk mail. How do I recover my account?
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⁦@TheEconomist⁩ FYI latest build is giving this error. I’d use the in app feedback function but…. 😉
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If your competition is electric this is a great way to drive your customers to them jalopnik.com/watered-down-ga…

Watered-Down Gas Causes Costly Repairs For Minnesota Drivers - Jalopnik

There’s a new thing for people in Minnesota to worry about other than what’s at the bottom of all those lakes. CBS News reports that the Minnesota Department of Commerce is putting out a warning to...

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⁦@Avis⁩ where am I supposed to put my Zip code? It’s already on my profile
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And this is why we live in MN!
Derek Sharrer (@DerekSharrer) profile pictureDerek Sharrer@DerekSharrer22 Apr 2023
Baseball weather in St. Paul…
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Tonight, I was @CookingWithQue
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New post. nonodename.com/post/allmodel…
All models are wrong

All models are wrong

... but some are useful

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Used car pricing getting out of hand
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Kid unexpectedly in hospital. Kudos to @Marriott Courtyard for charging me for only one night after my necessary and unexpected checkout at 4pm as I race home.
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Interesting new feature in @msexcel that has some interesting possibilities (imagine an internal REST API that returns an image with params passed in formula) but where’s the SVG support team? techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
Insert Pictures in Cells with the IMAGE Function | Microsoft Community Hub

Insert Pictures in Cells with the IMAGE Function | Microsoft Community Hub

Using the new IMAGE function, pictures can now live in the cell and be the cell value instead of floating on top of it!

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This past weekend we released our first set of open data under a Creative Commons license at dunl.org/ Our units of measure, conversion factors and holiday calendars in machine (CSV/RDF/JSON) and human readable formats. Use Accept header to get the variant you want

DUNL (Data Unlocked) - Open Data Portal | S&P Global

DUNL (Data Unlocked) is S&P Global's open data portal, sharing reference data and schemas with customers, stakeholders, and partners under a permissive open data license.

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Kudos for this guide. Note the hinge might be held on to the handle by a T15 not a crosshead. Took me 90 minutes and only bleeding from one knuckle! ⁦@FIATUSA⁩ both doors now: You should produce a retrofit kit with a hinge that doesn’t seize. fiatworkshop.co.uk/Fiat_500_…
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Come on @WIRED, that’s a sensationalist headline. It does make sense: - SMS costs Twitter real cash - It was once the only 2FA, so assume lots of users are on it - Code generator 2FA has no opex impact Therefore, move as many users to it ASAP = save cash wired.com/story/twitter-sms-…
Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication Change ‘Doesn't Make Sense’

Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication Change ‘Doesn't Make Sense’

The company will soon require users to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription to get sign-in codes via SMS. Security experts are baffled.

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Perhaps the Chinese strategy is one of financial ruin? $400k missile to take down ~$5k balloon? jalopnik.com/why-the-u-s-is-…

Why The U.S. Is Suddenly Shooting Down So Many Balloons - Jalopnik

At 2:42 pm Eastern on Sunday, February 12, mere hours before the Super Bowl kickoff, a pilot flying an F-16 fighter jet shot an AIM 9X missile at an airborne object 20,000 feet above Lake Huron. The...

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