C1sc0cat

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   by C1sc0cat 7y ago

   I realy don't get this fetishization (and I am using this in its medical sense) of macs as laptops/workstations for developers. You PC (Mac or Wintel) is just something to run your editors xwindows what have you like company C
2. 602.▲
   by C1sc0cat 7y ago

   I recall one of my colleagues at British telecom who told a story that when debugging random noise on the line. It turned out to be the subscribers (a little old lady) budgie swinging on its perch was causing the problem.
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   by C1sc0cat 7y ago

   So don't buy from shit listings just on price and always check if you can buy it direct from the lister on their own web site.
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   by C1sc0cat 7y ago

   I just don't do online banking apart from my backup NetWest account that only has £50-100 in it.
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   by C1sc0cat 7y ago

   To play devils advocate You can get catastrophic battery failures and fires in crashes etc - not very simple to put out.
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   by C1sc0cat 7y ago

   Expending and improving your national grid to support that - is not going to be cheap or easy.
7. 607.▲
   by C1sc0cat 7y ago

   Increased BP is probably not a good thing I switched to decaf for that reason.
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   by C1sc0cat 7y ago

   War was also much less intense and drawn out even up to say the Napoleonic war. If some one had started in the dunes in Flanders and gone through to Waterloo the amount of time in actual combat would be measured in hours - as opposed to D D
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   by C1sc0cat 7y ago

   I was told that virtually all of the cables running into Carney Warf in London went over this one bridge - including the backup cables :-)
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    Happens in the developed world as well I worked for a UK telco and they had internal security people dedicated to this sort of crime - its also a problem for railways.
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    I don't think most consumers of content use patreon to get at the creators content eg I use YouTube to watch forgotten weapons.
12. 612.▲
    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    I thought it was secondary infections that where a problem especially with older patients and those with pre-existing conditions like myself
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    Its normally partipants with bad mics, headphones, AGC and the crappy audio support in windows. I do a number of actual play games and it's the players trying to use the built in mics/headphones that have difficulty hearing the gr
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    There was a hack to force a call over cable I used to use when I did a lot of international calls for BT when I worked on international interconnect for x.400
15. 615.▲
    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    Really just buy a place with two extra rooms (assuming a couple ) that not at all practicable
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    Doesn't Louisiana derive some laws from the code napoleon
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    Also the problem is most houses don't have a separate room for WFH let alone if a couple are both WFH
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    Like other EU countries :-) the Isle of Man is still part of the EU
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    No offence you might want to brush up on your Maths and how log scales work.
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    Member of a past bidder for .org here (Poptel) 1 .org is not a non profit and is not just for us style "non profits" 2 What ICANN (or ICANT as those of us that have had dealings with them call it) stinks to high heaven. What shoul
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    You needed to know the dialling hack to force it via cable rather than satellite. I think it was adding an extra digit to the dialled number - I have forgotten the details as it was a long time ago
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    None of those comments really help explain why the bottle necks. If the form has to go into a mainframe well just set up an asynconous Queue
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    How small if its over 5 or so They do know that consumer internet is asymmetrical and not practicable for real work. FYI ELM (ethernet last mile) at 70Mbs in the UK costs about £70 pm
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    In 86 that's what industry was using
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    Exactly in the mid 70's there where better courses for programming in some schools in my CSE! class we did Assembly language using CECIL and learnt about half adders etc. For Younger and non UK people CSE where the exams for those tha
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    I wasn't clear I want to route the output of a programs like Abeltron, Audacity etc and maybe route more than one audio source And don't get me started on the total Goat Rope that Windows Audio seems to have turned into - for what
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    Yes this isn't like using the "N in the wood pile" quote which is obviously offensive
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    Comedy duos still have a straight man today its literally the suggested completion in google. Sounds like some one had done a diversity course and missed the point, to be kind. There are other less charitable conclusions that could be drawn
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    It can happen I recall a student where I worked, broke his leg in an evening cricket match, he died before morning.
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    by C1sc0cat 7y ago

    But my point was its not a quick half day fix for some minor formatting on a website - which you can out source offshore. Your talking windows audio /video internals which is not a common skill