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   by akoster 7y ago

   I completely agree with you about Micro Center frequently changing. I remember when visiting their SoCal store, the books section was moved to what appeared to be a clearance area and found a large drone display in its place. The Fry&#x27
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   by akoster 7y ago

   Great comment! I recall all those quirks in my fond old memories of Fry's! The multiple trees killed by quote sheets; the lack of seeing anyone patron the Cafe, and the classical music (which I actually enjoyed but clashed with my st
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   by akoster 7y ago

   I imagine the purpose of the turbo button on some PCs was to mitigate this effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
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   by akoster 7y ago

   (At least for public repos) Isn’t this almost a compliment? (Having another person host your code and use it?) xD
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   by akoster 7y ago

   Old work team of 7-8 people used telegram and worked great! We didn't use any bots though - just a group.
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   by akoster 7y ago

   I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series and its running flawlessly (tried with Fedora, Debian, openSUSE, and Arch)
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   by akoster 7y ago

   Back up for me on the East Coast of the USA.
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   by akoster 7y ago

   Having problems getting FB messenger, Facebook.com and Whatsapp to load/connect/deliver messages from the east coast of the US using both my mobile data plan and home internet connection
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   by akoster 7y ago

   Strange, I didn’t realize they had a medium.com version. I originally read it here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex...
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    by akoster 8y ago

    Great links! Reminds of this [0] instance in the wild of using chip art to send a message to those attempting to decap and reverse engineer a design. [0] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/42255/was-ther
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    by akoster 8y ago

    Did anyone else confuse this podcast interviewee with Eric Weisstein at first glance? http://www.ericweisstein.com/ http://mathworld.wolfram.com
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    by akoster 8y ago

    1) New York City, NY, USA 2) 3 in my building: RCN, Verizon FiOS, and Spectrum 3-4) Verizon FiOS: 940Mbps down / 880 Mbps up for ~$94 | RCN: 1000Mbps down / 20Mbps up for ~$65? | Spectrum: 940Mbps down / ?Mbps up for $65? (al
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    The history of Jews, Chinese food, and Christmas, explained by a rabbi(vox.com)

    5 points by akoster 8y ago|0 comments
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    by akoster 8y ago

    I use mobile dictation frequently since I prefer typing on a full-sized keyboard over typing on a mobile phone screen. I find it works pretty well for me (using iOS 12 on an iPhone 6s). If I am in an area with poor connectivity or in a no
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    by akoster 8y ago

    Great work! Reminds me of some things I have seen in this subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/FUI/
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    Red Hat Exec Says IBM Must Keep the Open-Source Culture Untouched(news.softpedia.com)

    1 points by akoster 8y ago|0 comments
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    by akoster 8y ago

    Another awesome list with some command line apps: https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#applications
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    by akoster 8y ago

    Link from raspberrypi.org site: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-product-raspberry-pi-3-...
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    by akoster 8y ago

    I second IEEE Spectrum. Also Slashdot: https://slashdot.org
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    by akoster 8y ago

    Sun Microsystems, especially after hearing more about the company, it’s culture and products from this [0] talk posted in this [1] comment in this [1] thread. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc [1] https:/&
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    by akoster 8y ago

    I wonder how much they paid to acquire that Instagram @palm account (unless someone who works for them registered it early... Let alone the palm.com domain)
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    by akoster 8y ago

    I've had success with spider plants and "Wandering Jew" plants by growing them in water for a while, and then adding soil at some point, and watering every 3-4 days or when the soil gets dry. https://en.wikipedia.o
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    by akoster 8y ago

    I am so sorry to read all these stories of loss of loved ones and so sorry for all these terrible losses of loved ones. Reading this comment about remembering the day of one's death is common practice. The word Yahrzeit (from the Ger
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    by akoster 8y ago

    I hope that issues like this further open a two-way channel of communication apple has with "pro"-oriented users. For most of us, computers are tools, which must meet our connectivity and performance needs (encompassing raw compu
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    by akoster 8y ago

    I hope they keep doing so until a newer model with a descent keyboard comes out.
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    90s-era Web Design in 2018: Kosher4Passover.com(kosher4passover.com)

    3 points by akoster 9y ago|0 comments
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    by akoster 9y ago

    My mom is still happily using her original iPad mini with iOS 9. Some apps these days are not compatible with it but asurprising number are still targeting iOS 9. Lots of popular apps such as Telegram, Netflix, Overdrive books support iOS
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    by akoster 9y ago

    Nice job. Reminds me of wikispeedia: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/
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    by akoster 9y ago

    Indeed, though take a look at their supported device list: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices You may be able to find something more commonly available.
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    by akoster 9y ago

    I had a similarly pleasant travel experience while visiting Moscow on a whim. It was a bliss to get all around the city and back to where I was staying easily. Trains would come often and would have multiple connections (and if you misse