Vexs

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by Vexs 10y ago
You're absolutely correct, but largely when someone thinks of fruit yogurt they largely think of those cone-shaped packages. It really doesn't help that so many things are advertised as healthy-low-fat stuff either. Fat in large q
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by Vexs 10y ago
You can get a lot off rom chips, it's always the second thing I go for after serial ports- and if you run into a password on the serial port, than it's probably (often hardcoded) in the rom. Sometimes they don't include heade
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by Vexs 10y ago
Excel is one of the best, and most misused tools in the world. I know one, maybe two people besides myself that do anything beyond using it as grid paper or to render graphs, and that's a shame. The MS office classes around here, from
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by Vexs 10y ago
Libreoffice calc is the only bit of libre software I've ever found inferior to the non-libre version. Excel is just that good, and most people use it as "Microsoft Grid Paper 2016"
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by Vexs 10y ago
I mean GPS repeaters are a thing, but there's even better options, you could install small radio beacons in the tunnels and triangulate using those. Much more precise, and cheaper than GPS repeaters.
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by Vexs 10y ago
I mean, not too much changes with apple upgrades. Sure, someone in the know can pick out generations, but I (and most people) sure can't. Win10 is a drastic change.
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by Vexs 10y ago
I mean it covers 99% of what most people do with their computers, and in a simple, lovely way. Word? Check. Excel? Check. Photos? Check. And, most importantly, browser, check.
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by Vexs 10y ago
There's a pretty sizable difference between chrome updates and updating from 7 to 10. The fundamentals of chrome remain the same, and for 99% of users they don't notice a difference. Granted, they've never really done a &quot
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by Vexs 10y ago
You can run a email server off a raspberry pi these days.
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by Vexs 10y ago
Someone pointed out that if you talk to a CS rep and try to say that off, they'd just hear gibberish- meaning if someone tried to get at your stuff, they would just have to spout off gibberish and the CS rep would probably accept it.
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by Vexs 10y ago
Huh, never thought about it, but that's a pretty good argument against random security questions.
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by Vexs 10y ago
Realistically you could also just limit it to the first 10 characters.
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by Vexs 10y ago
The checks made no sense in the first place, it's a loose-loose on all ends for occulus. A closed ecosystem basically does not work when it comes to PC gaming, and with hardware this expensive it's not like you could buy the valve
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by Vexs 10y ago
I suppose you could do it by appendage, but then a humanoid robot would be 4 persons.
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by Vexs 10y ago
Pron. Bing is better at pron.
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by Vexs 10y ago
+1 for google keep- simple one-line notes are organized easily, attached webpages are handy, and I can store images too- plus, it syncs to my pebble, so if I make a grocery list it's right there.
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by Vexs 10y ago
I played with a friends one over a couple days, and it's at the top of my must-buy list right now- I rigged up my own cardboard setup, but it's still not the real thing. Mass VR is literally right around the corner, and some of th
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by Vexs 10y ago
Yeah, that's poor writing- if you just swap exhaust for intake though, it becomes accurate.
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by Vexs 10y ago
At this point there's not much reason to use it- linux game torrents are slim pickings.
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by Vexs 10y ago
Is it just me, or does the TV show "Person of Interest" seem to get one step closer to reality every day, minus the all controlling AIs.
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by Vexs 10y ago
All these are viable, and I use a handful of them- however, there's a lot of software that's windows exclusive, and if you're in a corporate environment chances are you're using a bunch of webapps that are IE exclusive.
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by Vexs 10y ago
Probably is- but if the RFID tag says a box weighs 50 pounds, and it comes in weighing 45 pounds, then you can throw up flags. Of course, there's always going to be ways around this sort of stuff, but you just have to raise the cost of
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by Vexs 10y ago
The most recent graphics cards (1080/1070) have 3 DP ports, one HDMI, and one DVI. Also, every laptop I own/use/know of has a mini-DP port too, across roughly 4 brands. HDMI got their foot in the door first, but I think we&#x
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by Vexs 10y ago
Difference is that there's huge variance in laptops, but phones are all largely similar, and build off each other. If they start swapping off 3.5, it's gone. You can still get ultrabooks with fold-out Ethernet jacks, which while a
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by Vexs 10y ago
I mean the best way to explain it is to say "I put my vote on several pieces of paper, and give it to several people. One person could edit it, but that would conflict with everyone else. Everyone can see who I gave my anon vote to, an
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by Vexs 10y ago
That's great- earlier it led nowhere, now it leads to rickroll. So now there's an actual cellular company rickrolling people.
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by Vexs 10y ago
See, I actually like the idea of smart guns. The only thing it really does (or should do) is prevent you from getting shot with your own gun. If someone steals your gun out of your house, they could remove the smart part. If you're t
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by Vexs 10y ago
I never really thought about that aspect- smart guns only really prevent someone from picking up your gun and shooting you with it. I mean that's basically it, it's safety for the gun owner and nobody else.
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by Vexs 10y ago
What's kinda funny is that's very similar to what's actually going in computing, especially with encryption most recently.
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by Vexs 10y ago
I agree. I like ripping on these as much as the next guy, but as long as it gets people talking that's enough. Also, one of the best ways to learn something is to find out that the teacher was wrong. People love that.

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