WhiteOwlLion

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   by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

   The pings times may not be as good to France (or Europe in general), but the bandwidth provisions are much more generous than the USA. They have peering agreements with other ISPs, so hopefully a lot of the transit of that bandwidth ends up
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   by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

   Most likely 10Gbps shared pipe.
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   by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

   Euros is not the same as US Dollar 569 Euro equals 613.73 United States Dollar
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   by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

   https://in.mashable.com/tech/11062/those-apple-cards-are-loo...
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   by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

   PayPal is the more mature product and is accepted in more countries. You can opt to keep funds in the native currency, or perform the cross border conversion when the payment is received. Stripe is supported in fewer countries. It really de
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   by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

   I have about 30 Android smartphones I am using for volunteer distributed computing (BOINC). Most are running Android 4.x
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   by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

   You could use Bitcoin SV to store the actual file on the blockchain, but SingleFile creates an enormous HTML file. So, you're better off printing the page as a PDF, encode in the blockchain, and only spend 10% of what you would have sp
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   by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

   This was actually taken seriously. How many Christians have actually died for Christmas as well? Have a fuckin' spine Microsoft. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
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   by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

   Do you have to re-apply the labels each year? If the battery dies, this wouldn't scale well for the labor involved to replace the labels each year?
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    I was looking at HelloSign too. I volunteer with a non-profit that has forms for adopting orphans abroad. The amount of paperwork is insane. Being able to leverage same data points (date, name, address, etc) and apply it to multiple forms i
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    Can't get Twitter to work.
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    Filemaker had a real opportunity to become an easy to use web based database SaaS but they just couldn't make the transition to web in a meaningful way I feel. I know so many casual business users misuse spreadsheets (Excel, Sheets, or
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    I ran a online ecommerce shop selling electronics. It ultimately failed because I couldn't scale up. You need buy with cash directly from China and order at least a container at a time. If you can't do that, then you're releg
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    Ghost used to be available on Softaculous but the requirements changed: https://www.softaculous.com/news/scripts/ghost-support-to-be... That's likely one of the biggest reasons you can't get a shared hos
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    They've stated GBoard is local only and predictive suggestions are generated from usage history within the device itself. https://www.macworld.com/article/3070767/googles-gboard-does... Obviously GIF suggesti
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    If you already have IT staff in-house it ends up being a duplication of roles and an added layer of complexity. I get some servers and/or resources can benefit from autoscale. USGS gets slammed after a major earthquake so having autosc
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    This wasn't that well received by sysadmin's on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/bvrlh6/i_created_...
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    Join a Christian church.
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    Those that forcibly suppress of opposing thought on pronouns share characteristics that define fascism.
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    My favorite Dropbox feature is folder point in time restore. It saved my hide a few times.
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    "Create as many users, organizations, and repos as you want." Sounds like unlimited to me. What happens when someone actually creates 100k repos and stuffs them with 5GB each?
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    I got sick of textedit and installed open source atom
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    I just remove the password with a command line tool without needing to know the password.
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    how does stack exchange do it? they have aliases of tags that merge into the authority tag
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    You'd think Google AI could easily block audio ads with TensorFlow. Oh, conflict of interest. Never mind.
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    I think you want something like this instead: https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/read-reddit-deleted-comments/ There are services that track deleted comments.
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    I don't appreciate English words being used as a standard. How many people around the world do not speak English as their native tongue? It is just another form Western digital imperialism. I'm getting behind Plus Codes ( https:&#
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    If GitHub Wiki could get image pasting like issues, or GitLab Wiki could make it your own domain name, something simple like the wiki could be really useful for non-techy crowd that wants a simple web presence where they can insert/upd
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    Good article on keeping DNS resolution more stable: * Longer TTLs * Secondary DNS https://medium.com/@brianarmstrong/youre-probably-doing-dns-...
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    by WhiteOwlLion 7y ago

    att even has a $25/mo online plan with unlimited talk, text, and 8GB data. or get an android tracfone under $50 and pay a monthly prepaid. or get a free flip phone. the ui for the light phone is simpler, but even my mom figured out and