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by alt219 6y ago
Perhaps quotemstr should’ve written “architect” instead of “shape”. A beaver for example could never conceptualize, engineer or build the Taj Mahal—indeed any structure whatsoever other than what the beaver’s biological imperative demands o
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by alt219 6y ago
I take it as the CEO left for reasons stated at the time as other than this incident, when in fact eBay actually knew about the CEO’s involvement but hoped the real reason wouldn’t ever come out.
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by alt219 6y ago
Your story brought to mind this bit of Apple folklore[0], wherein Bill Atkinson, the author of QuickDraw, reported his weekly LOC as -2,000 after implementing optimizations. [0] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Ne
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by alt219 7y ago
Are you thinking perhaps of BonziBuddy? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
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by alt219 7y ago
Okay, I’ll throw my hat into the unsolicited troubleshooting advice ring— I had similar problems and it ended up being that the Sonos Bridge is no longer supported. Once I removed the Bridge from my system and plugged a Play:5 directly int
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by alt219 7y ago
Thanks, I of course didn’t read the article before asking my question. Glad to hear it works well so far. Looking forward to it when it goes live. Cheers!
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by alt219 7y ago
Are you from the future? In all seriousness though, how are you able to enjoy Disney+ currently? It has yet to launch. According to the Disney+ website it launches in just under 23 days from now.[0] 0. https://disneyplus.com
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by alt219 7y ago
> If you suspect your device has been tampered with and need a guaranteed reboot, just let the battery run down and don't use it until it has. Just a (overly paranoid) thought: a sophisticated attacker could simulate a drained batte
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by alt219 7y ago
The process writing to the pipe just blocks until another process starts reading from said pipe.
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by alt219 7y ago
To some degree or another, and some better than others.
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by alt219 7y ago
Interesting! I helped start an ISP in Central Mass in the mid-90s and at least part of the reason we picked the town we did for our POP was because it reached a ton of towns as a local call. For whatever reason, calling the next town over
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by alt219 8y ago
For an incredible read about just how bizarre fixing underground power distribution can become, check out this classic: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/ Here's the tl;dr ver
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by alt219 11y ago
It does seem that Cisco will provide updates if customers don't have a valid SmartNET contract. From the vulnerability disclosure: > Customers Without Service Contracts > Customers who purchase directly from Cisco but do not hol
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by alt219 12y ago
Perhaps if NK doesn't possess the technical resources, they would at least have the financial resources to contract with a Chinese developer.
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by alt219 12y ago
One thing I find myself wanting Toggl to do is allow for entering a second activity while the app is tracking my current activity. As it stands right now, at least with the iOS app, if I want to enter older activities while a timer is runn
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by alt219 13y ago
Certainly you meant we breathe O2.
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by alt219 16y ago
Speaking from personal experience, we found out our daughter was vitamin D deficient about a year ago, and she has subsequently been diagnosed with Type-1 Diabetes, as well as celiac disease. If it's possible that vitamin D deficiency and
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by alt219 16y ago
I highly recommend You-Do-It Electronics Center in Needham, MA for those in the Greater Boston metro area. It's better even than the golden years of Radio Shack. If you need parts, this is your store. http://www.youdoitelectronics.com/
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by alt219 16y ago
With summer coming up soon (for those of us in the northern temperate zone), I'm especially looking forward to trying the iPad out as a 'vacation computer'.
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by alt219 16y ago
Ironic that at the same time a fossil fuel disaster of this scope is occurring, there are folks in Massachusetts still fighting to prevent offshore wind turbines because of concerns over the ecological impact.
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by alt219 17y ago
I've used ServerBeach for five years (as well as RackSpace, Slicehost, and Linode). Generally positive experience; they have occasional downtime as you might expect, but it hasn't impacted my sites to any significant degree. Their self-se
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by alt219 17y ago
That assumes the list only ever is sold (or licensed) once.
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by alt219 17y ago
Cost. Well, besides the need to maintain something that was never designed to be in space for a long duration, I would guess it would be because launching a Space Shuttle mission costs roughly 1.5 billion dollars (according to Wikipedia).
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Librarians Support Communities of Users (or, are librarians useful in social media?)(amelialouise.tumblr.com)
1 points by alt219 17y ago|0 comments
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by alt219 18y ago
The earlier GUI timeline submitted reminded me of the GEM desktop environment. This site also details many other esoteric GUIs as well, with specifics for many of the UIs listed.
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(Another) Graphical User Interface Timeline(toastytech.com)
3 points by alt219 18y ago|2 comments
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by alt219 18y ago
Do you have enough volume to consider A/B testing? Given a large enough sample size, you should be able to determine an optimum pricing scheme. I'm no expert on A/B testing, just my $0.02.