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by abakker 6y ago
For some of us, having a locked down, reliable, secure, and pure phone is a great solution. I don’t want iOS on my random experimental project laptop, for that I have Linux or windows, or vms. But, cellphones are not something I need to hac
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by abakker 6y ago
I mean, the fact that you need to say “pure android” kinda says it all, though. All iOS is pure iOS. That’s the selling point for me, at least.
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by abakker 6y ago
I think Mervyn King's take in "The end of Alchemy" is a better approach from a practical perspective than Taleb's though. Essentially that we just need to stop kidding ourselves that we can predict the tails, and to buil
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by abakker 6y ago
Yeah - the person I knew who had it had cancer, and was dying of it. It is not common, and speaks of major organ failure.
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by abakker 6y ago
If you’ve never encountered someone with low blood albumin, it is a very serious problem. You get terrible edema all over. Albumin helps you not retain the water in your cells, and instead to get the fluid back into your bloodstream for exc
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by abakker 6y ago
to make matters worse, all the shipping involves wet wood, which makes the whole process more intensive, as you move a lot of water around, and then ultimately the water contributes negatively to the energy output when processed and burned.
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by abakker 6y ago
Air powered die grinder, drill, or impact gun. Or, if it sounds real choppy, maybe an AC TIG welder. I’d bet die grinder. They’re not used all the time, and they have VERY high rpm sounds which are always terrible.
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by abakker 6y ago
Why should companies plan to weather this kind of thing? Honestly, holding huge amounts of savings is a suboptimal deployment of capital virtually 100% of the time.
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by abakker 6y ago
Profit is what's left over after salaries. Break-even sports would still be paying plenty of people for their time and giving them jobs to feed their families.
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by abakker 6y ago
Just makes me think of that Futurama episode where the robotic wash bucket switches bodies with Amy...
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by abakker 6y ago
Do they own Rackspace? I know they bought SoftLayer, but I think Rackspace is owned by Apollo?
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by abakker 6y ago
This all depends on what you're hanging. If hanging art worth more than $100, use steel cable. Museums and galleries all use steel cable because it is easier and nicer to work with. dyneema is strong, but not chemically stable and will
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by abakker 6y ago
FWIW, if you airdrop files from phone to desktop, they come as HEIC, and it isn't always easy to convert them once you've got an HEIC file in my filesystem instead of my app.
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by abakker 6y ago
I've been waiting for the integration of active directory and linkedIn. It seems only a slight stretch to think of using corporate data and social data for cross-validation of true Identity.
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by abakker 6y ago
yes, because for most user choosing between security and functionality is not a choice they are prepared to reason about. I'm no expert, but I am computer savvy. My experience is that more security ALWAYS limits functionality that I wa
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by abakker 6y ago
If you have a machine more than a year old, take the bottom cover off and clean the fans. It really helped my 2018 MacBook Pro.
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by abakker 6y ago
I will use this immediately. I loved Airtable, but the pricing was a non starter for our business. We already have office635, and we’re likely to use this all over the place.
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by abakker 6y ago
the depressing reality is that most users who are pissed off still don't take their business elsewhere. There are few other choices for similar products that work as well.
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by abakker 6y ago
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco. As with anything he wrote, the writing itself is amazingly good, but the thoughts really get to you, too.
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by abakker 6y ago
Yes, because kids care about football, but nobody cares about a schools IT department. For schools (and many businesses) IT is just a utility.
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by abakker 6y ago
If you move the heat away from a small area quickly, you can easily spread the heat out into a MUCH bigger radiator which will cool more efficiently with air. A nice water cooling loop effectively increases the radiating surface area, with
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by abakker 6y ago
So, I'm a consultant, and the primary research lead at our company. My buying cycle is longer than your software has existed. I like the idea of the tool, but, I never heard about it. You didn't find me and tell me about it, none
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by abakker 6y ago
This works, but it is risky since I've seen it damage the screen coatings on some of the iMacs. Some of the older ones seemed to have softer coatings.
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by abakker 6y ago
My experience backs this up as well. Schools don’t have the budget to do it right or to care, so they make do.
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by abakker 6y ago
Yeah, you need some suction cups to do it easily, but drive swaps on iMacs are trivial. If you prepare. Get the tools for $5 and go for it.
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by abakker 7y ago
If the effect size is large, the benefits of randomization go down. A very effective treatment would be evidently very effective without the burden of statistical proof. The randomization is critical when you are looking to differentiate sm
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by abakker 7y ago
Obviously, you use the Lysol like an inhaler. No need to inject. Just get Lysol to make those little asthma puffers, but in fresh rain scent. /s
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by abakker 7y ago
Relevant recent experience: I have had a 2019 MBP with vega graphics card for a while. I noticed that recently it was running VERY hot all the time. I popped the bottom off (you need that damned pentalobe screwdriver), and found tons of dus
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by abakker 7y ago
My sister is a veterinarian. Honestly, I think I’d rather have her give me stitches than most doctors. She’s had to give so many more than most doctors.
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by abakker 7y ago
This might not confound things if current consumption of Nicotine is the protective element. people who quit previously are not currently consuming nicotine.

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