OriginalPenguin

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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Unless Amazon decided that they want to give DropBox a huge discounted rate for the PR, it would simply cost too much to have stayed on the Amazon cloud.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
The problem is it worked extremely well on older Macs. People assume since it worked great on their old Mac, they can do it on their new one.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Yes, tearing off a small piece of a post-it note seems ideal.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Both S3 and Google offer file storage where you can set that it can't be overwritten or deleted until a certain date. So you get the best of offline and online storage.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
I have no idea for System 76, but for less than the cost of AppleCare, you can get next business day onsite service for your ThinkPad. I find that more convenient than taking your laptop to the store.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
But perhaps the manufacturing costs do reflect it? In which case the profits would be much, much higher than normal drives.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
You employ licensed caregivers to yell at you in the morning? Can you explain more? Are you implying you are paying a nurse to open your door and yell at you "get out of bed sleepyhead?" Or is your insurance paying? Do they actu
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
For a bunch of reasons, but one of the most important was it had Google's backing.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
You're eating raw meat? Like high quality beef carpaccio? Or supermarket meat you don't cook, or?
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Ironically your best bet to get it fixed is almost certainly to post your real address here as part of this thread.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
If awk's syntax was a subset of either python or JS, wouldn't it be better to just use python or JS?
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Or use a uuid4 for the suffix.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
What do you use instead of Google Keep?
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
What 4k kvm switch do you use? Do you like it?
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by OriginalPenguin 7y ago
Luckily Android has that mode. They call it "Lockdown". Here's some info on it: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-use-android-9-pi...
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by OriginalPenguin 7y ago
I don't know how many stores they currently have worldwide, but 160 new stores across the entire world is nothing. That's less than one new store per country on average. To put it in perspective there are 37,000 McDonald's an
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by OriginalPenguin 7y ago
Google has to be careful giving too much favoritism to their own products, because it invites regulation for abusing their monopoly. So it's often better to just play the same SEO games for their own products that everyone else has to
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by OriginalPenguin 7y ago
I think it can be simplified even more: "we sell non-alcoholic beverages". Especially because they own Minute Maid, and Minute Maid concentrated orange juice is still a thing. In fact Minute Maid's very name alludes to it no
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by OriginalPenguin 8y ago
Apple sold 2.2 billion iPhones and 360 million iPads before they stopped reporting numbers. Assume for every phone or iPad they sell, they average one extra cable (for work, for the car, because it breaks, whatever..) Apple charges $19 for
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by OriginalPenguin 8y ago
USB-C is rated for at least 10,000 disconnects. That's four connects/disconnects a day for more than six and a half years.
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by OriginalPenguin 8y ago
Why the MPL license? Have you thought about releasing under the same license as Go instead/in addition?
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by OriginalPenguin 8y ago
The desktop version is free and open source. You'll want to start with the desktop version anyway, because it's easier to make your cards on a computer than a phone. After a while you'll know if it's for you or not. Then
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by OriginalPenguin 9y ago
I don't see why an original battery would be a fire hazard. But many laptops will run without a battery just fine.
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by OriginalPenguin 9y ago
Thanks for posting this. I'm hoping now that Esperanto is on Duolingo, we will see an uptick in Esperanto speakers.
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by OriginalPenguin 9y ago
Definitely empty space!
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by OriginalPenguin 9y ago
That's not minor, it's an order of magnitude difference! ;)
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by OriginalPenguin 9y ago
Sure, if you have a reliable internet connection, and a desktop computer and a server that you both control, you probably don't need this or mosh. But mosh (and presumably this program as well) really, really shine with a laptop that y
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by OriginalPenguin 9y ago
I don't have any suggestion for an iPhone. But Humble Bundle has had fantastic ad-free bundles of games, where you pay what you want. Maybe get your four year old a cheap Android phone or tablet and some Humble Bundled games? Then yo
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by OriginalPenguin 9y ago
Why would you think Marissa would be a good fit?
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by OriginalPenguin 9y ago
Yes, they can cut their burn rate. But if they cut it too much, they'll stop growing. The problem is they need to sustain their 70 billion dollar valuation for investors to be happy. To be worth 70 billion they have to be either: Growi

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