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by adestefan 8y ago
Andrew Carnegie was a huge supporter of public libraries and endowed over 2500 public libraries world wide with most of them in the United States, Canada, and his native Scotland around the turn of the 20th century. Part of the requirements
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by adestefan 8y ago
Ctrl-[ And turn Caps Lock into Ctrl
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by adestefan 8y ago
The one thing Fortnite did do better than everyone was getting mobile to work well. F2P, good mobile controls, and the community of streams is what made Fortnite take off.
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by adestefan 8y ago
That’s usually an issue with the head unit or a weird interaction between the phone and the head unit. My old car used to auto play Music when it connected no matter what the source was on the head unit. My new one is better about not auto
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by adestefan 8y ago
If you look closely you’ll see it’s a serif font.
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by adestefan 8y ago
I don’t think that people who look at Einstein as a loner in present times. Even today it’s well known that people like Bill Gates and John Carmack will take time away from it allot think and learn new things.
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by adestefan 8y ago
I also noticed this weekend that the iOS Youtube app now asks if links should be opened in Safari or Chrome. If Chrome isn't installed on the device the button says "Install" instead of "Open." I don't know how
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by adestefan 8y ago
DC and Virginia are not well integrated. It was monumental effort to finally get sustained funding for Metro from all three jurisdictions that took over 40 years to accomplish.
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by adestefan 8y ago
Because this is nothing more than attempt to add 4 more Senators that have a chance of being won by Republicans. It's the same reason why "Southern California" includes OC.
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by adestefan 11y ago
At one point in time people said this about Japanese electronic vendors. Most of those companies are now dead. You can point at the Japanese automakers as a counter-point. However, I caution that comparison because they rallied around quali
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by adestefan 11y ago
> Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. When you post "M$" in a reply I automatically mark you as rabidly anti-Microsoft and usually stop reading. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but childish acts such as those have no place in a
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by adestefan 11y ago
It will never happen because both are covered by the GPL. You're more likely to see Google strip out the Linux kernel and replace it with something else.
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by adestefan 11y ago
We do. The S&P 500 is the classic index that tracked, but it's hardly the only one these days.
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by adestefan 11y ago
Then just buy the index fund. I can buy an index fund that has fees of 0.2%. If the managed fund has fees of 1.2% that means it needs to beat the index by at least 1% to come out even. If you can beat an index by 1% while trying to replicat
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by adestefan 11y ago
No. All of your pre-tax IRA accounts across all custodians are used when figuring out the taxes of the backdoor Roth. However, if you have a 401k at your current job that has good investments you may be able to roll your IRA into you 401k
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by adestefan 11y ago
Part 97 is the amateur radio rules in the U.S. Part 15 is the catch all of FCC rules. If it's not define in some set of rules, then it's likely covered in 15.
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by adestefan 11y ago
But that's not the FCC's problem.
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by adestefan 11y ago
Just be aware that some of the moderators have iron fists and like to go ban happy.
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by adestefan 11y ago
There have been 10 Linux kernel CVEs issued in the last 2 months. That includes 4 code execution and/or privilege escalation vulnerabilities. That's not even counting any 0 day's that are (probably) sitting in someone's
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by adestefan 11y ago
> Soldering a crimp really only helps if you've done a poor job of crimping; but it's relatively easy to inspect a crimp. If you solder, you could cause a previously excellent crimped join to be not so great, and it may be hard
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by adestefan 11y ago
How is there no mention of CALEA[0] in this document? They even hint at it in the Executive Summary: Indeed, in 1992, the FBI’s Advanced Telephony Unit warned that within three years Title III wiretaps would be useless: no more than
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by adestefan 11y ago
When it snowed heavily in the mid-Atlantic in 2010 we had a couple giant mounds like that although not that large. Even with the higher spring time temperatures here they lasted well into June. I wouldn't be surprised if it did last un
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by adestefan 11y ago
You're not bulldozing a solid chunk of ice that large. You'll destroy the bulldozer.
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by adestefan 11y ago
It makes for good headlines and boils up the drums of nationalism.
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by adestefan 11y ago
You're right. Board games have rules.
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by adestefan 11y ago
Ever play the game Diplomacy? Friendship means jack shit.
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by adestefan 11y ago
Almost 15 years here and I work 40 hours. Very rarly I'll put in 41 or 42 and that's mainly to help out the people that work under me put in only 40. The secret is to learn how to say "no." People think it's a dirty
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by adestefan 11y ago
If you're doing a substring match, then use a substring function.
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by adestefan 11y ago
I've read it as another attempt by Ars to stir-up controversy to prop up their dwindling brand name. Ars is nothing more than a fragment of what it used to be.
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by adestefan 11y ago
The worse thing that ever happened to game development was the on-demand updates. There is nothing worse than buying a game on release day only to wait for it to download a patch.

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