Sylamore

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by Sylamore 4y ago
Roku with captions on replay is my goto way of dealing with muddy dialog
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by Sylamore 4y ago
Ironically, it was PWC that came in after Deloitte and reported accounting irregularities to the board of Royal Ahold back in 2003 that lead to one of Europe's largest accounting scandals: https://www.sec.gov/news/
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by Sylamore 4y ago
Back when I used Visible (North American MVNO) for my phone, you could get substantially faster speeds and less latency by enabling Warp because it bypassed their traffic shaping and limited egress points, for example if you viewed Netflix
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by Sylamore 4y ago
Spectrum Mobile, you have to also be a spectrum internet customer. Before them I was on Visible (also Verizon), which was actually cheaper due to party pay but it was so heavily de-prioritized as to be unusable pretty frequently.
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by Sylamore 4y ago
I pay $99.98/mo for 3 lines with unlimited talk and data, including 5G data and a smartwatch with cellular access - that includes taxes and fees, on the Verizon network. That's $29.99/line + $10 for the smart watch. No way i
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by Sylamore 4y ago
https://www.unddit.com/r/webdev/comments/wdqqq0/dear_auth0_f...
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by Sylamore 4y ago
Bing does it too
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by Sylamore 4y ago
I've had that happen but I just change the unaliased email, update the catch-all target and block the old unaliased email.
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by Sylamore 5y ago
I suspect they had the knowledge, considering Ukraine was where one of their early nuclear research facilities were - they were able to reproduce early fission experiments and made a proposal to leverage the ability in bombs in 1940 but wer
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by Sylamore 5y ago
That heart has been transplanted so many times from the client formerly known as Skype for Business, formerly known as Lync, formerly known as Microsoft Office Communicator, formerly known as Live Communications Server, formerly known as Ex
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by Sylamore 5y ago
"it depends". The v2 box we had back in ~2009 was Intel and Linux on the compute side but SPARC and Solaris for the storage side. It had horrible throughput though for the 1st year or so that we owned it, but it eventually got bet
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by Sylamore 5y ago
Just spent 3 nights sleeping on one in a hotel and it confirmed my tester impressions when mattress shopping that it would lead to a bad nights sleep. I'm sure there are maybe some wonderful to sleep on foam mattresses but they all see
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by Sylamore 5y ago
Thunderbird can do this with some configuration for replying to emails - set the pattern of the "Reply from this identity when delivery headers match" value of Account Settings. It's not as good as the addon Virtual Identity
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by Sylamore 5y ago
This is the primary reason I use the fastmail app instead of mail.app, because it uses the incoming email address as the reply address.
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by Sylamore 5y ago
Well, growing up I remember my grandparents describing how they used to get milk, soda, beer and household chemicals in glass containers instead of plastic. I grew up long after that was common, but as a kid it was still profitable to colle
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by Sylamore 5y ago
And yet today we are so quick to throw out old methods and ideas simply because they are old, not because they are inferior to new replacements.
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by Sylamore 5y ago
Honestly, I appreciate that I will finally be able to browse videos to watch in Amazon and actually be able to have at least a link to the Amazon site to buy them directly instead of having to jump through hoops like I would now where I go
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U.S. judge in 'Fortnite' case strikes down Apple's in-app payment restrictions(reuters.com)
86 points by Sylamore 5y ago|31 comments
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by Sylamore 5y ago
We used to go to Red Robin at least once a month. It would cost us about $30-35 to feed all 3 of us before tip. We stopped going regularly and recently went back on a whim. Our bill was for $60 for 3 burgers and (non-alcoholic) drinks, s
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by Sylamore 5y ago
In the US, State occupational licensing laws for one. You can't cut someone else's hair without a license in most states. In my state you can't even dog/cat sit for someone for money unless you are going to their house
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by Sylamore 5y ago
This is one of the reasons why companies like Sysco and US Foods have been pushing more and more pre-prepped packaged menu items that restaurants can just heat up and serve. USF calls these Scoop items: https://www.usfoods.com&#
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by Sylamore 5y ago
a wireless power source if you will
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by Sylamore 5y ago
Many many moons ago, when I hung out in a group that ran CBs with linear amps, we used to win bets with people by saying that we could light up a florescent bulb without any kind of power source... which we did by holding the bulb near the
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by Sylamore 5y ago
heat pumps aren't common in the US?
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by Sylamore 5y ago
That really shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody, certainly no one who has been through a corporate merger before. The aquiring company always makes promises they won't change the aquired company, the aquired company's m
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by Sylamore 5y ago
Was awakened one morning by a horrible shrieking noise coming from somewhere else in the house. When I got up to check what had happened my wife was freaking out because there was something under one of the orange trees in the back yard th
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by Sylamore 5y ago
I've been a paying customer for a few years (since Dreamhost shutdown catch-all support) and when I 1st migrated I tripped over a bug in their IMAP implementation that made thousands of messages disappear from my mailbox. Their suppor
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by Sylamore 5y ago
Allow me to introduce you to season 1 episode 3 of Letterkenny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1IAUWIWjo8
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by Sylamore 6y ago
I have had Oracle, CA and Cisco sales teams do this to me, and I had one consulting company another manager brought in to work on AD forest consolidation start a campaign to get me fired after I outed their supposed SME as having no actual
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by Sylamore 6y ago
>Nobody of any consequence or real size has ever used it for network monitoring. At least one of the big 3 telcos uses it very extensively for network monitoring, inventory, device configuration enforcement and alert generation.

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