R_Edward

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by R_Edward 13y ago
First, I like the kid's methodology. You can eyeball the various differences between font X and font Y, and see that the same passage printed in one is going to take more ink than the other, but how do you quantify the difference? He
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by R_Edward 13y ago
The fellow across the street from me saw the gutters going up on my house, and decided he just had to have gutters too. The contractor he called did a sales job on him, and he sprang for the so-called gutter helmets in addition to the gutt
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Lastpass used to work like that for me. Now it causes me about as much hassle as it saves me. It does not do a wonderful job of handling multiple accounts on single sites; I frequently find multiple entries in the vault for single account
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by R_Edward 13y ago
What it is , versus what it does ?
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Now that dimmable 60-watt equivalent LED bulbs have dropped into the sub-sawbuck range, I was examining the packaging at my local Home Despot store. I remarked to the salesman who asked to help me how the iconography on the front of the pa
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Some useful tips, yes, and some not-so-useful. The Unicode trick isn't exactly a Microsoft Word trick--it's more a Windows thing. The Hidden Calculator left me flat; I'd rather use the Windows Calculator, but YMMV. My only
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Salesmen, who make their living by selling luxury items, don't emphasize the negative points of the thing they're selling? Color me surprised. Call it victim blaming if you want. I call it being realistic about the premium you pa
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by R_Edward 13y ago
When you buy a piece of bleeding-edge technology, you're kind of signing up for a few problems that require attention. Goes with the territory. The real question is, once you identify a problem, how is the company doing at fixing it?
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by R_Edward 13y ago
No. In a civil case, often a defendant will compare the cost to defend themselves to the cost of settling, and will opt for the latter, including in the settlement documentation that the settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing.
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by R_Edward 13y ago
You cannot just buy your way out of a theft charge. If that were the case, can you imagine how thefts would skyrocket? Steal as much as you want, and when someone catches you, give back the specific item(s) they're missing and keep t
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Most users are as you describe, but I made it my mission to educate them on what they were asking for when requesting a software change, and why one change might take two or three days, while another takes a month or more. I'm not did
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by R_Edward 13y ago
"Domain names have been actually been available for 28 years – yes, before you even knew what a computer looked like." Guess I'm not part of domainholdings's target audience. I've been programming computers for 33
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by R_Edward 13y ago
I didn't realize anyone else heard chords with multiple-key presses. For me, the [Ctrl] is an A (435), the [Alt] is a C(5), and the [Del] is an F#(5), so it's a D7 minus the root. A fairly bland chord, when it comes right down t
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by R_Edward 13y ago
The lavish white wedding dress and all the Bridezilla-esque trappings?
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Eggs don't cause gas? All I'm gonna say to that is that you do NOT want to be within 4 cubicles of my co-worker during the couple hours after he has an omelet for lunch!
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Heh... as a pianist, I'm used to unusual hand positions. I use my left hand, put the thumb on the right-hand [Alt], left index on the right-hand [Ctrl], and then left flipper, ring, or pinky, depending on where [Del] is located. I&#x
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Done. I will not buy your book on Amazon. Glad to help.
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by R_Edward 13y ago
TFA does go on to reference "reflectors in the Sea of Tranquility (Apollo 11), at Fra Mauro (Apollo 14) and Hadley Rille (Apollo 15), and, sometimes, in the Sea of Serenity. There's a set of mirrors there onboard the parked Soviet
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Zero is not technically a number? It has been a long time since my grade school days, but I seem to remember zero being an element of Reals, Rationals, and Integers. Granted, zero is not an element of what we used to call "Counting N
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by R_Edward 13y ago
I think it's a reference to abortion.
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by R_Edward 13y ago
My point is simply that swapping batteries is not a simple, do-it-yourself process. The batteries are heavy, bulky (at least for now), and inconveniently shaped and mounted, necessitating additional labor, tools, and time to swap. And a b
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by R_Edward 13y ago
A) Consider the technological acumen of the average filling station worker. Is that the guy you want to be in charge of determining whether any given battery is fit for reuse? B) Consider the weight of an average automobile's starter
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by R_Edward 13y ago
That's the thing, isn't it? I've just charged up my battery, so I know I have 200 miles in my "tank." And it's 170 miles to the next Supercharger. So when we spot a billboard in the distance advertising some
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by R_Edward 13y ago
I did just about everything wrong by this author's lights--posted plenty of photos and updates, gave them their own e-mail and social media accounts, etc. It didn't even occur to me to weigh their poops or do any sort of qualitat
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by R_Edward 13y ago
I've thought about it, but as soon as I do, I think about all the paperwork inevitably involved in making sure my medical history follows me, my pensions and other financial records get updated, and all that other nonsense, and, having
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by R_Edward 13y ago
At home, I only pick up for known numbers, and let the answering machine screen the rest. At work, they kind of expect you to identify yourself when you pick up the phone. But yes, what you suggest is a workable alternative, where allowed.
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Growing up, my parents called me by my middle name, as I share a first name with my dad. (I'd rather be an Edward than a Ralph anyway.) When giving my name to someone, I tell them I'm Edward <Lastname>, as telling them I&#
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by R_Edward 13y ago
You may be right about exactly one space following a sentence-ending punctuation mark, but generations of students were taught, by very reputable typing curricula, to use two spaces after sentence-ending punctuation that was not at the end
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by R_Edward 13y ago
I'd defend the practice, but there's a certain attractiveness to just showing me what my financial liability is. You start with sales tax, then you exempt certain classes of consumer goods from sales tax, then you impose an extra
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Well, yes, that's the way they did it before computers, but no, the safeguards really weren't there. They used carbon paper to transfer the number from the card to the leaves of the receipt. So when the carbon gets discarded, it

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