ADent

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by ADent 6y ago
I was getting several sites not working properly with AdGuard. Yeah you can add whitelists and such, but it’s annoying. Some of was it Safari not working. In the end I just use a browser with built in blocking (AdBlockBrowser or now Brave)
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by ADent 6y ago
Just got one of those annoying alerts on my phone. Saying “Loccal cell phone carriers are experiencing outages” and an alternative number for 9-1-1 calls.
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by ADent 6y ago
I thought they only had U.S.A. licenses at this time.
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by ADent 6y ago
When I worked retail, employee theft was the big deal. From pocketing cash to a dock guy bringing up stuff for his buddies during busy times to the Theft Prevention team doing something to all get fired I think the employees did more damage
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by ADent 6y ago
“In the event you arrive at the airport without valid identification, because it is lost or at home, you may still be allowed to fly.” From https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification From my pre-
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by ADent 6y ago
But since most people buy monthly payment (not total price) lower interest rates drive prices up.
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by ADent 6y ago
Only 6.4% of Americans got a high school diploma in 1900.
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by ADent 7y ago
My Volvo wagons can take a few 4x8 sheets diagonally from the store.
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by ADent 7y ago
Looks good. I have too many bookmarks for this. Might be interested if you can add folders and ways to access them for infrequently used items. I miss foxmarks. I pay for another service, but you have to log in at least once. Firefox accoun
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by ADent 7y ago
Every 737 has multiple AoA sensors. (Reportedly each computer is only wired to one though).
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by ADent 8y ago
Seems like in Colorado it can only last until full retirement age - 67.
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by ADent 10y ago
Why is the most expensive BMW listed less than the average cost of BMW?
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by ADent 11y ago
The EU standard is micro USB. Why would Apple switch to Type C, then include a C to micro adapter? Or are the Swiss picking a different standard? Or is the EU switching, or allowing two standard ports?
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by ADent 11y ago
They also expected the 787 to be snapped together and spend only 3 days in assembly. Ooops. I assume the pricing curve was based on this quick assembly and why we are 300 units in and still losing money on each unit.
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by ADent 11y ago
Our department was mandating 20% OT for the last 6 months. I switched to a new program and the management really would like about 10% OT (8%-12% band). Oh we used to get some pay for OT, but they took that away. 6 hour workday - how do I ge
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by ADent 12y ago
From a comment at the link: "NIOSH does not recommend nor endorse a particular commercial product. The data from our study “Evaluation of smartphone sound measurement applications” is available in the journal article referenced at htt
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by ADent 12y ago
Yes, I still pay by the SMS. AT&T wants $20/month for unlimited SMS ($30/for all phones on my account). They used to offer $5 & $10 plans, but dropped those options. It is nice to be able to iMessage w/other iPhone us
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by ADent 13y ago
My work laptop w/XP is less than 4 years old and has an i5.
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by ADent 13y ago
Here is another idea - they follow the constitution. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, b
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by ADent 13y ago
Their customer service could be better. I had one that went bad in less than 24 hours (my only SSD that needed a warranty claim). I tried to return it to them - filled out form, still had to call them and talk. In the end the guy suggested
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by ADent 13y ago
At $11,125 per student in total funding (not counting $359 food services fund) I wouldn't call our local schools cash-strapped. They do call themselves cash strapped though.
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by ADent 13y ago
It is a shame it is dead. Hey wait I just read this in Reeder in my iPhone via RSS. I must be dead too?
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by ADent 14y ago
Somebody on another site got paid in counterfeit bills on a used iPad.
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by ADent 14y ago
A coworkers 50 year old brother (whose wife is a nurse) went the ER on Friday and was dead by Sunday night of cancer. Looking back there were a few symptoms (like weight loss), but nothing major. PS Please leave a list of your passwords. Th
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by ADent 15y ago
>The lack of government funding for a space exploration program makes me as sad and angry as anyone Lack of funding??? NASA gets 17 Billion a year and typically around 10 billion is for manned space flight - 2011 has 9 billion. How much
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by ADent 15y ago
I had a decent spell checker on my Apple //c - 128K RAM (64K commonly usable) and had to fit on 140KB floppy. While slow it worked better than about 10 years of MS Word.
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by ADent 15y ago
His assumption is invalid. There are many cul-de-sacs around here. But some subdivisions still have good access to the surrounding streets, and some are hard to get in and out of, both seem to have about the same number of cul-de-sacs.
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by ADent 15y ago
What percentage of all those flash capable desktops are running FlashBlock (or equivalent)? A year and a half ago Lifehacker was up to 6% not installed and DaringFireball claimed 32% of its users didn't have Flash. http://daringfireball.ne
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by ADent 15y ago
So where does Cash become involved?