Vivtek

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by Vivtek 11y ago
Ahem. That brings back some shameful memories.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Possibly Torvalds can learn from good advice, then?
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Now here's an interesting little tidbit. I'm deuteronopic colorblind and I've always had troubles with color identification under odd lighting. I have no idea which of the blocks in the top two pictures are supposed to be red
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by Vivtek 11y ago
American yogurt is bland because if you let it ferment all the way it's got a kick that Americans tend not to like. Has very little to do with the milk, and everything to do with lactic acid.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
"Enjoy your two-week paid fishing trip."
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Make that two. I started in the translation industry by responding to everything that matched my skills on ProZ.com. It was years before I got to the point where I didn't need to because I'd established myself, and I still keep my
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Oddly enough, I've had exactly the opposite experience. I'm locked into Windows due to industry standards (translation tools are all Windows-only, and the vast, vast majority of business documentation runs on Microsoft Office), bu
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by Vivtek 11y ago
This might be a stupid question, but doesn't "spread" imply metastasis? It just has better rhyming options. If it's metastatic, you've had it... doesn't quite trip off the tongue.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
This is one of those questions that's hard to answer, because by framing the answer you're already analyzing the UI, thereby making it less confusing. One irritant was getting the phrasal popup repeatedly. Once it's appeared,
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Yeah, this would be my recommendation as well. Others have taken this approach and it just makes people like you even more because they get to feel like early adopters who are being rewarded - and you actually then lose nothing at all.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
I have to agree with this. I'm a language junky myself - I live in Budapest, have lived in Germany and Puerto Rico, and last year I discovered and fell in love with Duolingo (why yes I do want to be practicing and learning six langua
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Well, so was I, of course, but since I failed to take careful dated terminological field notes, I can't really say much more than feeling that I would have understood it at the time. But frankly I don't know. It just doesn't
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by Vivtek 11y ago
I would guess that to the guy who did the copy protection it was his master work in decryption routines, funded by the sad necessity of putting a game written by some talentless hacks into it as the ultimate payload.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
The term "bare metal" goes way back and wouldn't have been out of place in 1982 (IBM was Big Iron, after all). I don't think "automated tools" was in use, certainly not in everyday use, although I think we woul
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Good Lord. Yeah, that's messed up.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Not if they want to comply with existing European privacy law, which the European courts have no problem at all interpreting in maximally draconian form - up to and including forbidding access to the European market. Even if the US governme
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by Vivtek 11y ago
And Mexico will become the new Brazil, completing the cycle.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Ha. Back when our son was having regular lab exams, we were in the States. When we asked Bloomington Hospital for a price for one lab exam, the receptionist asked us, "Why? Don't you want the best for your child?" Yeah, lady,
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by Vivtek 11y ago
The alternate universe where Tom and Jerry made it in is someplace I could spend some money...
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by Vivtek 11y ago
You obviously have a blind spot towards American-brand Christianity. Speaking of scary numbers and scary access to nuclear weapons perfectly capable of killing you, me, and the other seven billion of us.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Yeah, that supposed NSA guy is even inexplicably using single quotes.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
They were provided to the students with the plausibly deniable implication of higher income. I think you'll find, should you actually look at any printed material, that nowhere is there any promise of higher income. (That's how
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by Vivtek 11y ago
For a while I ran a Markov chain blog poster that drew on my own notes and posts on a site I ran for a while. A phrase in one of those posts ("Only a matter of seeing simple data structures and designing lightweight tools that can cros
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Given that the original freakout on the part of the English teacher was precipitated by the alarm going off while the clock was in his bag, I'm thinking it was battery-powered, not plugged in. Power cords are cheap, easily accessible w
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Yeah, it's easy to chase that dream without giving a moment's thought to the reality that would have to pertain for the dream to work.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
This is the exact same lesson I learned, painfully, with rental property. I think it probably applies to everything. In my case, despite owning property in a college town (which you would think would be a sure win), I lost a lot of money an
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by Vivtek 11y ago
The ancient art of bullshitocracy.
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Eeyowtch.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Not like the TSA they don't. I'm an American with a Hungarian wife and we travel a lot . For the last ten years or so, every year entering the United States has been more and more like entering an armed camp. Really it's a w
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by Vivtek 11y ago
The article never actually explained where the beef is. The mystery of the missing cattle is apparently still unsolved - and that's a lot of cow!

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