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by HankB99 6y ago
"exclusive" From the second paragraph of the article "The show will hit Spotify September 1, and become exclusive to the platform later in the year." Doesn't this mean it will no longer be available via the RSS fee
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by HankB99 7y ago
Thanks for distilling that down. I didn't read the article. I agree that the current POTUS is more a symptom than a cause. I suspect that empires, much like organisms, are born, grow, mature and eventually succumb to senescence. Part o
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by HankB99 7y ago
Apologies if this is a dumb question. I glanced at the linked document and it is not obvious to me if this is for testing bash or for testing bash scripts.
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by HankB99 7y ago
I thought that Ubuntu was already capable of doing this in the latest release (19.10.) There are third party scripts to accomplish this. I would look at https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/zfs-installer . The only reason
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by HankB99 7y ago
"Take any solid element that doesn’t vaporize, and heat it to, say, 700 degrees and you will find it emits exactly the same spectrum of light as any other solid element also at 700 degrees." Is this really true? I thought that the
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by HankB99 7y ago
> but even on the desktop you can now see how a block in IO hog app can visibly freeze your system for few seconds. Or worse. I ran into an issue when copying an image from an NVME drive to a USB drive using `cat` (e.g. `cat somefile.im
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by HankB99 7y ago
> AMX 2S is an absolute downgrade Add to that no place to store the dongle. And no easy way to switch back to the dongle (unifying receiver) once Bluetooth is configured. You have to use the app to do that. I'm on Linux and there is
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by HankB99 7y ago
I've always been a bit disappointed in the weapons available far into the future. I tried watching one series and the opening scene involved good guys shooting at bad guys and hiding behind boulders and such. It just looked so much lik
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by HankB99 7y ago
Interesting. I didn't know that red/green color blindness could be partial. In the case I cited, the person was completely unable to distinguish red/green LEDs so I assumed his condition was complete, but perhaps it was just
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by HankB99 7y ago
That would be a VPN, no?
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by HankB99 7y ago
The other problem with that is that I don't think it will block malware embedded in the ads. Every once in a while I get a page that buries a CPU core. It's either bad Javascript (most likely) or something mining cryptocurrency on
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by HankB99 7y ago
I think the tests provide an objective measure of color blindness (or maybe better described as color acuity.) I was more interested in the subjective experience. How can someone know what they're missing if they have never experienced
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by HankB99 7y ago
Somewhat? I wonder how you would measure that. Many long years ago a co-worker was explaining a control panel to me. It had red and green LED indicators. He had them backward as he pointed them out. I asked him if he was color-blind. His re
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by HankB99 7y ago
Or "DROP TABLES"!
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by HankB99 7y ago
For one of the examples provided, rustup.sh, there were not complete packages the last time I looked for them. There were some packages on Debian and Fedora but I ran into problems configuring the Rust plugin for VS-Code because it assumed
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by HankB99 7y ago
I get pictures of the delivery on my front porch. I wonder if that is to prove to me that the package was delivered or to prove to Amazon that the delivery person delivered. If the photos are taken with a cell phone app/camera they wil
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by HankB99 7y ago
Probably someone like me who's old but still keen to learn.
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by HankB99 7y ago
Pleased to meet you!
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by HankB99 7y ago
I have a small device in my pocket that provides access to nearly the sum total of human knowledge. I use it to get into pointless arguments with people I don't know and look at pictures of cats. (I wish I could claim that as original
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by HankB99 7y ago
I don't think I've ever met a developer who didn't want to rewrite their predecessor's code and that includes the one I see in the mirror. Doing it in a different language would definitely be more interesting. Do we admi
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by HankB99 7y ago
I recall a study that IBM did on S/W defects decades ago. My recollection is that they concluded that the more defects had been found, the more still remained. That sounds like a corollary to "the longer it has taken, the longer i
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by HankB99 7y ago
I think that's definitely a factor. I came into a project once where that had happened. The initial estimate was a mistake and the contractor decided to up the estimate incrementally whenever they reviewed status. The client became ann
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by HankB99 7y ago
I'm satisfied to know that there are people who need something like this.
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by HankB99 7y ago
My personal experience is that no discipline is better at pointing out my weak spots than trying to write instructions or otherwise document something.
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by HankB99 7y ago
Similar experience here, perhaps. Wife and I run and our training involves running in the morning before work. I've done a couple runs, up to ten miles, before breakfast and not eaten afterwards until lunch (typically 1100-1200.) I was
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by HankB99 7y ago
How many companies provide a company phone and allow the employee to use it for personal stuff? I thought that was the norm. I would question any company that expected me to provide my own phone to perform their tasks. Of course if they pai
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by HankB99 7y ago
That's the present situation and I've used it before. Some recent Pis can boot directly from a USB drive without the need for a bootloader on the SD card. That's still in the works for the Pi 4 as I understand, but network bo
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by HankB99 7y ago
> ... and it seems that 1GB of storage would be enough for the RPi and would not necessarily be so expensive. Enough for what? A typical Raspbian install not takes a bit more than 4GB. I don't think that the Lite version (no GUI or
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by HankB99 7y ago
And what brand are you buying? FWIW I have several Pis running 24x7 and have not had a single SD card failure. I usually buy high end cards but I also buy cheap cards (4GB cards)and a few Micro-Center house brand, for which I don't kno
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by HankB99 7y ago
It is surprising how easy that can happen. I returned to a client to help with the next generation of a product they were developing. I helpwd with the S/W for the earlier generation. The people working on it when I returned had the so

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