TurkTurkleton

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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
Supposedly, though Nintendo's USB PD implementation in the Switch is a little jacked, as long as you use a charger that implements its PD support with an actual dedicated PD controller, you should be safe. The Nyko travel dock that in
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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
Not all splitters are surge protectors, but most surge protectors are splitters (though single outlet surge protectors do exist). It is likely that when OP said "surge protector", they meant something like this: https:/&#x2
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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
I have $FIRSTNAME@$LASTNAME.me. Not only do I get people being like "...dot me ...dot com?" when I speak it aloud, I've actually encountered one municipal government whose email address validation _actually rejects it_. Tha
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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
I was going to say "found the Velcro employee"-- excuse me, I meant "employee of the company Velcro BVBA"-- but surely a Velcro employee would know that Velcro BVBA makes Velcro-branded hook-and-loop-fastener cable manag
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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
Ten years ago was 2009, dude. I definitely had an Android phone and used apps for navigation and music back then. In my car, even! Just via an aux cable instead of Bluetooth and Android Auto. (Of course, now I have a Mazda 3 and an iPho
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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
> Windows 95 didn't need a special 'dark mode' supported by the OS, because you just changed your colors in the GUI tool for changing colors and fonts and you were done. You're over-romanticizing the past. There were
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by TurkTurkleton 8y ago
Out of legal necessity; see this comment from HN user bitcrazed, who worked on WSL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697918
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by TurkTurkleton 8y ago
Like tjalfi said, it's SAIL [0]. It was an ALGOL derivative. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIL_(programming_language)
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by TurkTurkleton 9y ago
> taking an excellent bowel movement in one's own toilet On the other hand, as the saying goes: I make a nickel, boss makes a dime; that's why I poop on company time.
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by TurkTurkleton 9y ago
The corollary to "tak[ing] good ideas that were never implemented properly and do it properly", clearly, is taking good ideas that were implemented properly and completely fucking them up.
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by TurkTurkleton 9y ago
"Cop button", by analogy with "boss key": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key
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by TurkTurkleton 11y ago
> In door games, turns were limited to prevent players with more spare time from dominating the game And to prevent them from tying up what was very likely the BBS's only phone line.
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by TurkTurkleton 11y ago
I didn't have any problems using StartSSL for any of my domains, and they all have whois privacy.
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by TurkTurkleton 11y ago
> I don't think BMW, with their slogan "The Ultimate Driving Machine", shares your notion of what it means to be German, then. Or maybe they understand that different marketing approaches are required in different cultures