OrangeMango

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by OrangeMango 6y ago
I suspect that this is actually a bug in iPadOS. I've had issues with the USB-C to 3.5mm dongle, including a period of time in which it was completely non-functional. But then a week ago I noticed out of the corner of my eye that my i
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Yeah, so my thought when I bought it was to offer to sell it back to Disney for $25k or something. I could most likely get a pro-bono defense while Disney would pay a lot more than that in a lawsuit which I would most likely win. Most lik
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
At a rummage sale a few years ago, I bought a book published by Disney in the 1960s or 1970s which had instructions on how to make Mickey Mouse puppets. It also said to "have fun" making them. Selling things for a profit is a lo
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Interesting, that must be why the coax port survived from engineering to production.
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Back in the day, almost all cell phones had a miniature coax port on them. They were "hidden" in that you probably had to pry off some nondescript part or open the battery cover up or something. This is how we tested mobile netwo
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
> Developers are your biggest cost This is unlikely to be true. Bad decisions are your biggest cost. An employee has a "return multiplier" - for every dollar you spend on them, what is the return to the business? Sometimes it
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
It's a good thing there is a limit to nested replies, because this could go on for a really long time.
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
I guess the issue I have is that you have mentioned "cheap gamble" and "if things work out". This is not what they are claiming, except in the fine print. Institutions that last a long time plan for changes in managemen
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
I think that this is a pretty fair rebuttal, but I'm not sure I personally am convinced. First of all, this entity is inviting the comparison and second, they are saying that $10 is all you need to have something stored in perpetuity.
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
The term that I think you are looking for is called "deaccessioning" and Wikipedia has what I believe is a good page about it. Sometimes there are conditions, and the museum may have to go to court to be allowed to move forward (
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
People who give money to museum and university endowments typically attach conditions that are very much meant to be litigated if they are ever violated. The recipient expects this. They don't make promises to donors, they sign contr
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
The Swift Playgrounds app has meant that a swift compiler has existed on the iPad for years. Will the XCode app mean just Swift, or will it allow for Objective-C and C/C++? It will be interesting to see how this progresses.
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Many smartwatches have the hardware to measure oxygen saturation, though not all have it enabled. For example, all Apple Watches have hardware for it, and rumors (from before Covid was declared a pandemic) suggested that the next OS versio
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
And you get the entire month of may to take delivery. If you become an accidental owner of crude oil tomorrow, you still have time to arrange a solution with someone that can take it. Financially, it doesn't sound like a good situati
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
In the aftermath of 9/11, nobody wanted to live in skyscrapers. But that fear soon faded and prices went back up. It's probably too early to tell if this is a lasting trend.
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Sometimes I wonder if we will ever reach the point at which the people that Amazon would never employ combined with the people who would never agree to be employed by Amazon leaves them with fewer people than they need.
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Tax Increment Financing. A city designates a geographic zone and all property tax money collected in that zone above a certain baseline amount goes into an account that is separate from the city budget account. The city then spends that m
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Interesting, thanks. I'll look more into that :)
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Isn't this what Groupon started out as?
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
It's likely to cannibalize sales from their higher-priced phones, but better to sell a cheaper phone than to lose the customer entirely. I noticed that if you scroll down to the bottom of the press release, they are also accepting orde
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XyRdJr4LSc FYI, the reason that song means something is because this is the train line that Abraham Lincoln signed legislation to create and has been running daily service almost
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
And the Apple Watch already has rudimentary controls for iPhone cameras built in. Without too much effort, it should be possible to have some broadcast-focused control in place, possibly even coordinated/controlled by the broadcaster.
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
I personally never trust anything that says lifetime guarantee. It just can't happen except in very unusual circumstances. I do have an anecdote that disproves my theory, however. My grandmother used to be an AT&T telephone opera
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
> Many small mom and pop shops are not coming back. Yes, many of the ones that shut will not reopen. But new ones will be started. Over time, not all at once.
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Part of my day job is maintaining our home-grown data processing system on an old VMS (Itanium) cluster. We've been trying to get rid of it for close to 7 years now but don't seem much closer than when we started. For things that
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by OrangeMango 6y ago
Cluster-wide batch queues built-in, a cluster-wide file system, etc. Samba support is awful, though.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
This is awful; it's a way for TurboTax to collect more information about people. They need an address and banking information and conveniently they mention for-profit services to "help" with this. The actual IRS and Treasury
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
I found a couple of old iPods in the bottom of a box in my closet a month or two ago. My kids were interested so I dug around until I found one of those 30-pin cables. Plugged it into my Mac; it worked fine. I transferred a bunch of song
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Exactly. A pandemic scenario was modeled/tested just last year [1]. Some participating states appear to have learned from it, other not so much. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Contagion
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
My wife prefers the SE as well, and I got a couple spares by offering whatever the trade-in value was plus $10 or $20 for great condition phones. You might be able to still find some and at this point they'll only cost you $50 or less.

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