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by 13of40 3y ago
In fact, only two or three decades ago it was standard for the telephone service to print everyone's name, address, and phone number in a big book, distribute it to every house and charge you $5 a month extra if you wanted to opt out o
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by 13of40 3y ago
Ick. As a six-year-old I was allowed to walk to school because the eight-year-olds would walk with me and make sure I was safe.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I think it was more of a dry feeling on the tongue and palate than an actual flavor, kind of like a tongue depressor. At any rate, it was a weird experience for someone who grew up using stainless steel.
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by 13of40 3y ago
One company I used to work for went through a saga of finding the best compostable material for disposable cutlery. I think the first attempt was some black plastic thing that melted if you used it to cut an orange. Next was pressed bambo
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by 13of40 3y ago
Seems like there were three options: 1. Ship Word with Windows and not get paid for it, even though they had hundreds of engineers working on it. 2. Ship no word processor with Windows, and make the end user find one on their own. 3. Shi
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by 13of40 3y ago
It's not a totally meaningless check box. If the key for decrypting the disk is in the TPM, this fixes the case where the drive gets pulled and thrown in a recycle bin, then someone recovers data from it later.
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by 13of40 3y ago
"Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious" That, Sir, is none of your business.
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by 13of40 3y ago
There's a house down the street from me who had a "free stuff" pile sitting outside for a month or two. Just a few things, but they got replenished over time, and I'm sure the ones that were never picked up went to the
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by 13of40 3y ago
What it's ripe for is for someone to put up a box that accepts cash and credit cards then works as a proxy to one of the other services.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Interesting - the service my team runs has had chronic latency problems with South Africa, so I wonder if I can see a difference in the metrics.
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by 13of40 3y ago
During a cave tour one time the guide told us that the darker strata in the marble(?) in the cave walls was from microscopic life in an ancient seabed, and the lighter ones were from periods of...not sure if extinction is the right word, bu
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by 13of40 3y ago
"The PC register on the 8088 points to the next instruction to be fetched - often pointing past the address of the currently executing instruction. In fact, the IP 'register' you may be familiar with is not a real register at
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by 13of40 3y ago
Yep. They (edit: in Costco, Walmart, or whatever in the US) don't care, and half the time they're happy to point out that it's OK what you're doing and please just calm down. My wife didn't grow up in the US, so w
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by 13of40 3y ago
Trying to do the "right thing" in opposition to what your boss is asking for is the killer. Two things you need to understand are: 1) Your boss has a broader perspective than you and knows how your work fits into the bigger pictu
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by 13of40 3y ago
> trash literature From a business perspective, maybe it should be trash literature. (Edit: I mean in the "It was morning and the sun came up, which made it less cold." sense.) When I code, I try to write all of the comments
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by 13of40 3y ago
Fun fact: Vodka is usually distilled to a high purity close to everclear using a reflux still, then diluted with water to get down to 40%.
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by 13of40 3y ago
So go see the Hermitage. You probably need to spend more for the visa and transit through Turkey or Egypt, but odds are you aren't significant enough on the world stage to get picked up and harrassed for it. There's always been
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by 13of40 3y ago
Consider the old joke... Q: What do you call a person with 18 years of education and a freshly minted certificate declaring them a distinguished Master in their field? A: That new guy.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Hopefully correct, but I read a post saying the big banyan tree didn't burn. Also hopefully when they rebuild it, Lahaina stays accessible to locals and doesn't end up as a big resort or condo blocks.
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by 13of40 3y ago
The thing that kills it for me is that where I work, before COVID it was a massive faux pas to schedule a meeting before 10:00 AM, but now I typically have multiple invites side-by-side at 9:00. In the past I could get to my office, grab s
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by 13of40 3y ago
Several years ago I bought a sailboat that was sitting on a rusted out trailer, and I decided to build a new trailer for it from scratch. Proud moments were when I finished that part that the bow of the boat sits on with the crank thingy a
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by 13of40 3y ago
> Why two FNCLEX? There is a behavior on some CPUs where "out 0xf0" can leave IGNNE# active, but you can clear it after the "out" by running "fnclex". Why are there two of them? Either the "out 0xf0&qu
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by 13of40 3y ago
I've never been to one of those conferences, so just a second hand anecdote: A couple of years ago some friends of ours invited us to lunch with a couple of their relatives who were in town for a cardiology conference. They (the relat
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by 13of40 3y ago
That's the kind of heuristic rule that's going to come back and bite you when you try to scale up to half a billion attachments a day.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I find it a little bit dubious that this social engineering evasion is what caused the false negative in phish detection. This guy expects the automated scanner to render the filename graphically, OCR it, then use the backwards result to gu
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by 13of40 3y ago
I used to work in a place where every office on the floor was connected to the same ethernet hub. We also tested a server product that became a DHCP server if you checked the wrong box, so periodically everything would stop working until t
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by 13of40 3y ago
When I was in Korea in the 90s you could get LG RAM for about half what it would cost in the US. I had a scheme to buy a bunch of it to sell when I came home, but in retrospect it would have been the nerdiest case of "guy goes door to
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by 13of40 3y ago
The essence of a canary is you can't say they did, but you can stop saying they didn't.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I wonder how pedantic you could legally get with that. Cloudflare has never been compelled to give up information to an agency called AAA. Cloudflare has never been compelled to give up information to an agency called AAB. ...etc.
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by 13of40 3y ago
That's the way PKZip archives work. The directory is just stored as part of the filename. It's a little bit of a pain because it uses / as the separator character and a lot of Windows zip APIs will "fix" that for

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