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by abruzzi 5y ago
The is actually kind of annoying behavior. My work's phone system emails me voicemails as a sime email with a wav file attached (why wav? arent we 30 years past that for spoken text?). When I tap the wav file to listen to it, fine, b
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I defintely find "large" phones to be very uncomfortable and cramping to use for more than a few minutes. Thats why I haven't upgraded from my first gen iPhone SE. Thats even a little too big--the iPhone 4 and previous iPho
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I still use floppies a lot. I know, why? Well there is a lot of hardware from the 80's and 90's that, unlike simple PCs, does not really obsolete.* I know this affects a lot of areas, but mine is synthesizers and samplers. Syn
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"If those students can be identified..." It sounds from the statement that they don't know who they are at this point. This sounds to me like an initial statement before a full investigation has completed. I would also say
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How to Scare an Invasive Fish? A Menacing Robot Predator(nytimes.com)
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I was a huge Peter Jackson fan prior, due primarily to Meet the Feebles (still my secret guilty pleasure), and it was just so bizarre to see him move from low budget camp like MTF and Dead Alive, to a $300million dollar massive endeavor. Fr
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by abruzzi 5y ago
Cisco Duo SSO/MFA was also out this morning during the AWS outage. I guess usable redundancy for these services is a difficult problem.
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I think the exhibition should include the Van Meegerens. The fake Vermeers are famous enough that seeing them alongside real Vermeers would be fascinating.
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this always baffles me. If my search terms return zero hits, THAT is helpful and meaningful to know, when they change my search to enable hits, that isn't helpful, because it 99% of the time will not have the information I want, and f
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I have a huge list of movies (and a few TV shows) that don't seem to have made the jump. Some are great (the BBC series of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People), some of them are very cult (Meet the Feebles), and some
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by abruzzi 5y ago
Its funny, but I never watched broadcast TV or Cable primarily becuase "just watching whats on" meant a 99% chance of sitting through dreck that I can't stand, so I never did it. In 1995, I had a collection of over 200 VHS t
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Yeah, this one was hard to buy, unless there are a lot of billionaires that want to live in houses the size of a college dorm room. The cost to get to mars, and to live on Mars seems to me to be absolutely prohibitive at this point. A numb
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by abruzzi 5y ago
It is a delicate balance maintaining the right number of sub fora. One of my favorite a decade ago (electro-music.com) is still there but is very very dead, I think because they have something like 100 sub forums, so you would need a 1000
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I fequently see the comment that forums are dead, and there is no one on them, so i want to ask--what type of forum is your experience with? i.e. what is the topic or field the forum is dedicated to? I ask because the 5 or 6 forums I freq
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by abruzzi 5y ago
to me this is huge. HN, Reddit, twitter all encourage (or enforce) strict limits on post size. This seems to encourage a conversational aproach to discussion, and discourage longer discourse. HN certainly does have long posts, and I appr
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by abruzzi 5y ago
as an amateur pianist, I've played pianos with and without ivory keys, and the feel of ivory is a bit better. I'm not sure why, but it seems like it doesn't get as slick from sweat as you play. Of course, piano keys are not
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by abruzzi 5y ago
Corner cases happen every day where I work. Specifically, we have an internal domain, and many users, rather than typing finance.pdq.xy.pg (made up domain) we like to type finance to go directly to the correct server. But we can't be
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by abruzzi 5y ago
The primary reason I got my license wasn't to talk--something I do very infrequently--but rather I was interested in the technlogy behind shared locations tracking, but without infrastructure requirements. (think all the phone apps tha
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This is interesting. I've always worked off the assumption that while english legal documents look like english they are actuallysomething a little special. These words get tested in court cases and opinions are written about them an
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I've actually known quite a few people that liked the society depiceted in the novel. I had one friend that felt that it was ideal because what was depicted was a less painful version of the mindless drudgery that most of the world sp
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‘Saildrone’ Footage Offers Rare Peek Inside a Category 4 Hurricane(nytimes.com)
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I moved from Safari to Firefox a year ago (never used Chrome as my primary browser.) The reason I moved may sound really really dated, but I discovered that I can configure Firefox with separate search and URL fields. I //HATE&#
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its interesting that there seem to be cables connecting locations on the North Alaska caost, but nowhere else. I would have thought those locations would be too remote for land based connections, unless there is fiber running from Prudhoe
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A secretive Pentagon program just ended. The mystery has not(washingtonpost.com)
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I'm surprised that the author doesn't see modern usage of coined names, maybe we read different things. It is very common in almost all of Pynchon's novels. Vonnegut used it often as well."Benny Profane", "Oe
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by abruzzi 5y ago
Also, prior to BFS, in the earlier beta builds of BeOS, the file system was much more database like, but it ended up having performance issues (IIRC), so in a later version, they replaced it with BFS.
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The university I went to had an option for the required math course that all students had to take--there was one "self paced" version of the class you could select. You did eveything yourself, and took all the tests for the class
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by abruzzi 5y ago
Definitly a good question, given that pedal bikes exist in a grey area of traffic definitions in many areas, but I will say in my area (small urban area of 150k population) 95% of bike lanes are in areas without sidewalks, just dirt shoulde
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This is not unheard of in the US as well. When you go into deteriorated urban neighborhoods, one of the reasons for the many vacant homes is that the accumulated property taxes on a particular home are far more that the value of the home.
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thanks for that link. Thats what I expected.

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