Krisjohn

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And it relies on Windows's built-in RemoteApp server: "We will need Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise or Server to use RDP apps". I guess it streamlines launching apps?
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"Writing a game nobody plays discharges your energy and creates the feeling of achievement, but it's all empty calories and then your car falls into a sinkhole." I love this quote. However, the correct interpretation is not t
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That doesn't sound like it would have slowed down the craptiplex even more at all.
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That would be a valid answer if all of senior management didn't regularly ask for, and receive, non-standard computers (usually lighter or more powerful laptops, sometimes just more expensive ones for no good reason).
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The NFT market is made up mostly of people that got accidentally rich by, by chance, "investing in" (playing with) a new thing called cryptocurrency before it blew up. They likely didn't gain any marketable skills doing this.
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It's entirely possible for someone experiencing racism to be sexist. It's entirely possible for someone being oppressed from outside their community to be privileged within it. It's entirely possible for for someone to have
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This feels like a metaphor for something
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Software: Directory Opus, Connectify, PTFB Pro, DisplayFusion, ClipboardFusion
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Yoink
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There are a lots of good reasons not to go cordless if you honestly don't need to. This is one of them.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Directory+Opus%22+site%3A... About 190 results
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We have a customer that was using ports directly exposed to the Internet to get to embedded VNC servers in some plant monitoring gear. I set them up a Guacamole VM from Bitnami or Turnkey on their environment and turned them loose on it. Si
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... and use it to photograph a "close ad" button.
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"I'm a synthesizer designer, so I'm a bit biased towards knobs." Plenty of those still on the roads.
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boolean did_customer_cause_fire(); Returns TRUE.
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Black People "Loot;" White People "Find" https://www.aclu.org/blog/smart-justice/mass-incarceration/b... https://web.archive.org/web/20101030015416/http:/&#x
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"When an external display is disconnected, stop using it. If the lid is closed when the external display is disconnected, go into suspend mode." Yeah, that doesn't sound simple anymore. I'm not sure I've seen anythi
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Paraphrasing: It doesn't matter how much shit gets piled on you, how little support you get, how stupid the deadlines are, or how bad the communication is, if you get visibly upset you lose.
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Seeing the mess my 4k "smart" TV makes of 1080p video with parallax scrolling (say a car driving between two rows of trees, filmed from the side), I think we're well past linear interpolation in consumer devices with upscalin
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You know how some companies have a rapid process for re-imaging any PC that's not working properly, rather than trying to troubleshoot it? Same thing.
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I have a Samsung smart TV. I was using Pihole before I got it. I also had to implement a rule on my Mikrotik router to force all DNS queries on my network to go through th Pihole. Then the ads on the Samsung disappeared. Unfortunately, it a
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If you start at 7:30, why is there anything after 4:30?
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No, it's not. Chia is just "proof of prior work" and as such has the same arms race problem as bitcoin. People aren't just buying a few TB, farming it and being content. They're building farming rigs and piling on t
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They're going to just start using "The".
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Budget/Avis are at best shit customer service and more likely regularly dishonest. Few businesses are on my permanent shit-list, but they're one.
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If someone dies, thereby leaving a job without applying for unemployment benefit, and someone on benefits replaces them, thereby leaving the unemployment stats, does that count as a job being "created"?
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A screwed hiring system is something most companies appear to be able to afford, given how many have one. When that same experience is flipped around to the employee, they can't afford it and it's a disaster. Few employees want ze
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Wow. Ok. A lot to unpack here. Sydney's current virus problems are due to a slow, reluctant, partial and piecemeal lockdown. Meanwhile, other states doing a rapid, hard, comprehensive lockdown have far fewer cases, with some that had t
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Then the problem is not Instagram. When IG first arrived it was basically Flickr for mobiles. It didn't have a horrible algorithm or any real novelty other than being a slick mobile interface for sharing the same stuff that was being s
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Crap article. The problem is that the maths doesn't work anymore. Wages have been flat for so long that the slight increase in costs, distributed around a person's life, caused by the pandemic pushes McJobs into "working ther

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