TheVikingOwain

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by TheVikingOwain 7y ago
A few months ago I some high school kids job shadowing me to see if they wanted to get into development. I was showing the Web dev part of my job and was asked if I went to college for that. After thinking about it I realized the img tag
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by TheVikingOwain 7y ago
In fact I’d argue it means they have to track you. And telling them your preference gives them another data point on you.
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by TheVikingOwain 7y ago
They’re asking for money at the top of the article, but they say “...plans to show off power...”. I’m all for paying for journalism but they need to pay for goddamned editors.
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by TheVikingOwain 8y ago
No worries, I just thought some clarification was in order.
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by TheVikingOwain 8y ago
The pope leads Catholics. As an Anglican, Methodist or God forbid (pun intended) a Quaker if the pope leads them and they’d get a good laugh. There are absolutely Protestant denominations that accept biblical stories as absolute truth.
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by TheVikingOwain 8y ago
The width is almost exactly the width of a pack of cigarettes. If those marketing folks know anything it’s what to make something feel good in your hand.
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by TheVikingOwain 8y ago
That depends on how the companies determine “the same network”. If it’s external IP based then a guest network is of no use.
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by TheVikingOwain 8y ago
How can a city zone what’s stored in rail yards? I thought that was federal turf like in Vermont. https://vtdigger.org/2017/12/11/railroad-prevails-road-salt-... And I believe there’s one about oil in rail
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by TheVikingOwain 9y ago
I always get a little tick when I read the nosql is a new thing. Pick databases like Unidata/Universe and mvBase have been around for a long time and experienced a lot of the problems that newer nosql implementations have/had.
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by TheVikingOwain 12y ago
"He heard the clicking of the torque limiter, but the bolt wasn’t moving. " I thought they were on space walks, not in the pressurized cargo bay.