CDRdude

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by CDRdude 4y ago
"Drink driver" and "drink driving" seem to be the British phrases.
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by CDRdude 4y ago
That’s not an “instead”. What you are describing is what jury nullification is.
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by CDRdude 4y ago
I’m being a bit snarky instead of being helpful, but your post brings this XKCD to mind: https://xkcd.com/2170/
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by CDRdude 4y ago
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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by CDRdude 5y ago
It seems to be German: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
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by CDRdude 5y ago
You only need both hands on the handlebars when starting from a stop. It is very easy to ride with one hand even at slow speeds, and bikes can be ridden with no hands at moderate speeds.
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by CDRdude 5y ago
That’s a good point, I hadn’t considered that.
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by CDRdude 5y ago
I don’t see this. Many people in my country are religious, and believe that God (the Christian one) has a plan for them—-the exact opposite of nihilism.
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by CDRdude 5y ago
The Suez War, the Six-Day War, and the Yom Kippur War, I guess?
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by CDRdude 5y ago
Can you provide an example of an article that you feel has a clear political slant?
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by CDRdude 5y ago
I don’t understand. Why did this freak out a bunch of FBI agents?
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by CDRdude 5y ago
> 190cm (6'3) being a threshold for "manliness", as you say, has no bearing on actual human average sizes and might just be your personal bias showing. Of course it has no bearing on a actual sizes! That’s why the commente
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by CDRdude 5y ago
I think slashdot’s voting system was well equipped to avoid that problem, but they faded anyway. Maybe it was the redesign? I think many of their innovations in 1999 would go a long way to resolve political downvoting today—-new accounts we
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by CDRdude 6y ago
One point to longer passwords is passphrases. Passphrases are easier to remember than complicated passwords, and often longer. I can remember the 37 character passphrase “This passw0rd is far too long for me.” much more easily than the 20 c
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by CDRdude 6y ago
It seems to be compatible with tree style tabs. I'm not sure how to import, but this seems to do a reasonable job of exporting: ls | xargs -I {} paste {}/url.txt {}/title.txt
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by CDRdude 6y ago
You can make an AppleScript thing and call it from bash. I think this is the sort of documentation I used at one point: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/La...
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by CDRdude 6y ago
> or, in the case of macOS a horribly outdated one. The latest version of macOS defaults to zsh instead of the outdated version of bash.
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by CDRdude 6y ago
What do you mean, too weak a president? The president can’t push back on that—-the senate confirms justices, that’s in the constitution: ... and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassad
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by CDRdude 6y ago
Adverse possession is a specific thing in some jurisdictions where if you visibly and openly occupy a piece of land for long enough without a challenge from the original owner, it becomes your property and the original owner loses it. htt
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by CDRdude 6y ago
> I agree with the part about smart kids being disadvantaged by the SAT going away, but nonconformists and smart people are not the same thing. In this context, "smart noncomformist kids" refers to the intersection of "sma
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by CDRdude 6y ago
TouchID doesn’t work with my gloves
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by CDRdude 7y ago
The search results I see indicate that Corona sales are up (along with all other beers).
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by CDRdude 7y ago
It was passed by Congress. Bush just signed the bill into law.
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by CDRdude 7y ago
> apparently 'cat error.log | grep 'ERROR:' | wc -l' is not how real programmers find error count, Perhaps real programmers would 'grep -c 'ERROR:' error.log'. I’m not sure what kind of overhead th
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by CDRdude 7y ago
I didn’t think CH waxes had fluorocarbons at all. Their LF (Low Fluoro) and HF (High Fluoro) lines certainly do.
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by CDRdude 7y ago
The parent poster did specify “call battery life”. I can listen to music for hours, but a call with two-way communication drains my AirPods battery very quickly.
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by CDRdude 7y ago
You can put the grep flags at the end? All these years, and I had no idea.
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by CDRdude 7y ago
The newspapers will charge you to run the ad. They have no reason to print that info for free.
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by CDRdude 7y ago
> Like with rear-view cameras, it's not uncommon in heavy snow for it to be obscured. In heavy snow, this can also happen to mirrors and your rear window. Usually you open the driver door so you can look behind you.
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by CDRdude 7y ago
> TL;DR: .... Science (a famous journal) refused to publish the null replication. They refused to send the null replication out for peer review. I think that is an important difference. The optics make it look more like suppression, rath

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