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by acomjean 2y ago
Its hard to imagine that they didn't know this would happen based on the USA recent past history with phone pricing. There was a time (when I was young) where there was just one phone company in the USA. Prices were high for long dist
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Cloudstrike outage causes worldwide business disruptions. Airlines, broadcaster, banks and McDonald’s effected. “Shared” link: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/19/business/global-tech...
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Global Tech Outage Grounds Flights and Hits Businesses(nytimes.com)
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Flights have been delayed/canceled. Not as critical as the OP hospital, but not good. Effecting airlines/brodcasters and banks. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/19/business/global-tech
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They send an email. “You're receiving this email because you turned on Location History, a Google Account-level setting that creates Timeline, a personal map of your visited places, routes, and trips. You can view, edit, and delete thi
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I’ve read the “mysteries” book too, and would recommend. I think it’s the first book from Waterson since stopping Calvin and Hobbs. It’s quite different from Calvin and Hobbs, heavier but really thought provoking. I found myself thinking ab
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by acomjean 2y ago
Things running the browser makes Linux really practical for all my “office/outlook” tasks. The web as a stable platform seems to enable cross platform work. When I worked at a hpux shop we had to go to a separate machine use some Citr
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It seems that in the US there has been a trend to "de-regulate" or let businesses regulate themselves. It works for a while, but eventually it seems to go south. I think "regulatory capture" is the term. I think of B
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Fonts are a funny thing. Like recipes they were often cloned, some companies sold sets. I bought a Mac clone and it came with a cd of fonts from “bitstream” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Inc “The company
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by acomjean 2y ago
We use the slightly simpler vega-lite from the same group. It typically gets us most of the way there quite quickly. Downloads as svg and png is great. They always ask for something out of scope and you have to dig a little through the doc
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by acomjean 2y ago
You know, we have a fair amount of older scripts written in various languages. I don’t love Perl, but the fact the language failed to get to version 6 means that these old Perl scripts just keep working.
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They’re longing for more battery life. I’ve had a few Linux based laptops. The oryx pro I had about 6 years had an nvidia chip set and could game. But the battery life was miserable (2-3 hours). But currently get decent battery life fro
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by acomjean 2y ago
System 76 and a lot of others do the same (rebranding from a contract manufacturer). My recently retired 6 year old machine from them was a rebranded clevo (a fan went a couple years ago and I had to find a replacement). The clevo model# wa
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I started using GIMP again. I used color adjustment and creating images using 5-7 layers with layer masks and not normal blending. It worked well. I always find the program not quite intuitive initially but once I get it, it’s not bad. F
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Thanks: there is a podcast called the "Ted Dabney Experience" which talks to a lot of game developers of the time from Atari and such. I like the old business stories kind of interesting. https://www.teddabneyexperienc
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There is a lot of overlap, but I’d hardly call GIMP low quality. I use Gimp for photos (layers and such) . It wasn’t intuitive but I know how to use it now: I have Krita on an android tablet with a stylus for painting (it’s brushes are am
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by acomjean 2y ago
I took a Hadoop class. We learned hadoop and were told by the instructor we probably wouldn’t’t need it, and learned some other Java processing techniques (streams etc)
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I used to use silex a microframework from symfony. I really liked the limited scope. It’s gone, and they said just use symfony. It’s a jump there are too many knobs, and even though I kinda know what’s going on it can be overwhelming. My s
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by acomjean 2y ago
Or Bette Midler singing for ford. She turned them down. They used a sound alike, she sued and won https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co .
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I don’t think this is a standalone version. It’s a helper tool to replace all the pieces of the board game.
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In somerville MA about 10 years ago someone was selling mini easter-island heads as lawn statues, which I though was a great idea.
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It sounds like they had a foot out the door on this project anyway. You make a point that we shouldn't just cave to any Jerk that comes along and used your code, which makes some sense. There is a silent user majority that appreciates
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I remember that one too. Fulton st landing. It had a steam punky kind of look. https://www.artichoke.uk.com/project/the-telectroscope/
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The fact that telcos are really party to these scams and for some reason aren't held accountable is amazing to me.
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We like Vega lite. I always find it gets me 95% of the way there very easily. It’s the best we’ve used. You can download as svgs too. We use it for our online graphing in its native JavaScript form.
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by acomjean 3y ago
It’s amazing it worked. Especially “electrical” non fiber optic cables. There is a museum on cape cod which was the end point of some early electrical cables (1891). It’s kind of interesting. https://www.frenchcablestationmuseum
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I tried it back in the. It was disorienting. I was always getting lost.
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I would be fun to be able to take a picture of the png and have it load up the application. I know it’s more of desktop thing. But even emailing scripts for work got flagged. This png format would probably avoid that. Also good thing it’s
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by acomjean 3y ago
They recommend that dose if it’s been attached more the 36 hours and it’s less than 72 hours since removed. I fell into this slot last fall and got a single dose of doxycycline. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/resources&#x2F
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“permethrin“ is the stuff that kills ticks. My brother works outside and got Lyme disease. It was awful so his crew wear permethrin soaked clothing. I think they buy it pre treated. I found two deer ticks (one attached) last fall. I alway

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