JTbane

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by JTbane 8y ago
UWP is dead in the water.
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by JTbane 8y ago
> Do I think I've gotten $1k of enjoyment from the game back when I was playing it? Yes. Not trying to be negative, but this sounds like rationalization. There are better games for much less money.
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by JTbane 8y ago
>Cups for cold drinks still entirely made of plastic >Bans a straw Bravo, SBUX
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by JTbane 8y ago
Yeah I have to go through this at work every day: >Install the TFVC (Team Foundation Version Control), wait or is that VSOVC (Visual Studio Online Version Control)? on the SCVMM VM MS is super bad at naming things.
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by JTbane 8y ago
I remember getting that notification- my knee-jerk reaction was that I had contracted some malware on my phone. Not a great prank by any means.
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by JTbane 8y ago
Consider your sampling bias- the only people that regularly call support are the bottom of the barrel.
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by JTbane 8y ago
I still eat too much chocolate as an adult sometimes- the stomach aches remind me not to indulge too much.
518.
by JTbane 8y ago
I'd definitely agree: -Buy your kids a simple dumbphone for emergencies (Nokia et al) -Let them work part time for their own smartphone
519.
by JTbane 8y ago
100% agree. It's all about the money.
520.
by JTbane 8y ago
Or eat farmed fish.
521.
by JTbane 8y ago
I really struggle to imagine how a world with no weapons could come about.
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by JTbane 8y ago
A workaround is to prepend " http://facebook.com/l.php?u=" to the WSJ link
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by JTbane 8y ago
BOHICA is a great one for DevOps
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by JTbane 8y ago
Maybe people would not leave these positions if you gave them a promotion of more than 2-3% from time to time.
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by JTbane 8y ago
I agree with this law, as many of these sort of services are very difficult to cancel. Many gyms require "certified mail" stating you wish to cancel the renewal of your contract.
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by JTbane 8y ago
>i think i issued the format c: command within days of the first PC arriving in our home back in the day I did the same thing!- good thing we had some OS floppies lying around
527.
by JTbane 8y ago
>performance and optimisation are evil and useless; now let us ship our 12MB webpage please Web 2.0 in a nutshell
528.
by JTbane 8y ago
The open office meme needs to die.
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by JTbane 8y ago
Swift (aka wire transfer) is both slow and somehow has very high fees. It's trash, I'd rather bypass US banks and use crypto at this point.
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by JTbane 8y ago
>Otherwise gas stations have been automated for decades. Except in New Jersey and Oregon.
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by JTbane 8y ago
It seems there is a moral hazard involved here- administrators pressuring professors to pass more students, which leads to grade inflation. All this to retain students and keep the tuition money flowing. I'd love to hear from front-lin
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by JTbane 8y ago
Better idea- expand the lanes but give them to a light rail system instead.
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by JTbane 8y ago
>This skepticism is borne from living a life of being gaslighted and conned in a high-demand religion, and breaking away. That kind of statement begs for a story.
534.
by JTbane 8y ago
It is pretty ridiculous to suggest caution after the fact, in this case. "Be more careful if you decide to text and drive" makes sense "Be more careful in getting this notorious troll off a blog site" really doesn't
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by JTbane 8y ago
The problem is that owners of property want their holdings to increase in value, so they will always torpedo any laws that would make it easier to build affordable housing.
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by JTbane 8y ago
Can't agree more. In tech, the prime mover often becomes the standard.
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by JTbane 8y ago
My own experience- got offered more to work for a company that heavily develops Windows applications vs one that does not. I heavily prefer free software and cross platform solutions, but money talks.
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by JTbane 8y ago
>Actually, you can reach actual human representatives at Microsoft. Maybe you can reach an outsourced rep from India after waiting a few hours.
539.
by JTbane 8y ago
>I've been backing up entire channels for fear they'll one day disappear because global policy or legacy media conglomerates won't allow for it. Not a bad idea, as entire channels have gotten the boot for much less, from Y
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by JTbane 8y ago
As my ECON 101 teacher said many times, the way to handle negative externalities is to tax them. The free market cannot handle this. Look at it this way- say you can make a ton of money manufacturing widgets, but you also make a ton of CO2.

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