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by asark 7y ago
I just tried and your options are "cancel now", "remind me 3 days before it renews", or "switch to monthly next time it's about to renew". I didn't see a way to say "keep what I've already p
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by asark 7y ago
I almost never use Amazon's streaming because they mix in paid crap with free-with-prime crap so it's hard to browse. Also their UI tends to perform poorly on any given platform, compared with Netflix (I suspect more use of Web fr
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by asark 7y ago
I get 'em constantly. Sure you didn't filter-rule them away years ago and forget about it?
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by asark 7y ago
That $0.19's not pure profit. There are fixed costs to providing service to all these addresses, sure, but even so, bulk mail has to add expenses on top of that, for transportation, storage, and delivery. The fee to end junk mail would
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by asark 7y ago
Back of the envelope (haha) we're talking somewhere in the range of $10-20/person/month, gross. Say half that after costs incurred by actually transporting and delivering that bulk mail (so, 50% profit, which seems high but i
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by asark 7y ago
If you 1) don't plug it in at all for several weeks, including 2) ignoring low battery warnings for multiple days near the end, then you're looking at like 15min of making coffee and taking a walk around the building to let it cha
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by asark 7y ago
I don't get why IRL mail spam is still allowed. It's a fucking nuisance. 95% of the mail I get is junk mail. Another 4% is recurring bill notices or something similarly low-value (yeah, I could probably make some of those go away
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by asark 7y ago
Apple's suite of "office"-type apps is wonderfully lightweight, yet pretty full-featured. Reminds me of using some of the lighter Open/Libreoffice alternatives on Linux, like Gnumeric, except, you know, nicer looking, ea
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by asark 7y ago
Instructors who wanted very specific formatting, then insisted on an editing format for submitted assignments, like .doc, instead of a presentation/print format like PDF, were tons of fun. > The kids are allowed to use any app that
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by asark 7y ago
Google signed an armistice in the Great Spamsite War some time around '08 or '09, to the effect that spam can have all the search results aside from those pointing at a few top, trusted sites, so long as they provide any content a
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by asark 7y ago
And yet most Google results that don't point at one of a handful of major sites are SEO spam :-/ The spammers won. Google gave up and settled for "we like the right kind of spam—the kind that took a little effort, and makes
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by asark 7y ago
> they added the charging port at the bottom of the mouse (facepalm). I thought this was incredibly stupid until I actually used one. The battery lasts so long and charges so fast that it's not a problem, to the point that I wouldn&
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by asark 7y ago
Board Game Geek has the rules, and some good pictures of the initial board set-up. Looks like you could build a board out of grid paper in a matter of minutes, and scrounge some usable pieces from other games or from stuff around the house.
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by asark 7y ago
What do you need to do to be this clueless yet make lots of money and be put in a position of responsibility?
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by asark 7y ago
I'm similarly baffled about the the i, f, x thing. I can think of justifications but they're all pretty dumb. I'm pretty sure that whole bullet point was based on exactly nothing this guy's ever seen in real life.
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by asark 7y ago
I've found it a hell of a lot harder to actually enjoy time with my kids since we went past one. It's frustrating because I'm not getting alone-time or doing exactly what I want to, as one without any kids might, but I&#x27
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by asark 7y ago
I've seen enough over- or mis-charging "errors" from healthcare billing departments that I'm 100% sure a good portion of them are intentionally committing fraud, knowing that if you call them on it they can just go &quot
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by asark 7y ago
Not sure, but maybe-useful point of comparison: I used an RPi2 as a Retroarch (Lakka) box maybe... oh, two years ago or so. At that time, it managed the handful of PSX games I threw at it just fine, which kinda surprised me, but almost no N
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by asark 7y ago
The common factor in most of the jobs that post was about is that bullshit (lying) is so effective in their execution that the bullshitters tend to squeeze out the non-bullshitters very effectively, with some exceptions (...or are they ex
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by asark 7y ago
> It shocks me how many people buy up the “our” team stuff and don’t realize that a lot of the narrative around interviews and sports-talk and drama are just advertising campaigns. I get sports fandom that's fundamentally arbitrary
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by asark 7y ago
This is a pattern one might see if there were a secret, rolling disclosure of some exceptionally-bad software vulnerability, I'd think. Or same of some kind of serious but limited malware infection across devices of a certain class tha
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by asark 7y ago
Ask an old person :-) Canning will go a long way, especially if you plan your garden with that in mind. Used to be (mid 20th c) just about every family grew veggies and canned them for the Winter/Spring, excepting rich city-folk. Old r
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, I think you mostly got it. Same reason people wear clothes with large, prominent brand names on them, or movie references, or whatever. Legible clothing generally. Bumper stickers. Same stuff.
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by asark 7y ago
Plus, if you observe that cultural (economic, political) differences appear to be causing worse outcomes in one society than another, for little to no benefit, then it's silly to just go "oh well, technically people could make ind
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by asark 7y ago
You can't make being a first-rate anything-recordable-or-broadcastable worth less than it is without getting rid of the tech that enables recording and/or broadcasting. First-rate ate all the value of the second-rates and down, an
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by asark 7y ago
Dear Apple: for Christmas I'd like physical, no-bullshit power shutoff switches for your camera and microphone on the Macbook Pro. Other devices too—if you can manage it, that'd be great. Sincerely, the people who put tape over th
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by asark 7y ago
How'd Hollywood do it? Film industry is full of unions, seems to do OK.
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by asark 7y ago
Can confirm. Came in expecting the other Photon MicroGUI ("now there's a name I've not heard in a long time"), was surprised/disappointed. Man QNX+Photon made for a nice GUI operating environment. Rivaled only by Be
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by asark 7y ago
> Given the number of times I've seen insert or remove used where it really, really shouldn't, I'm not so sure the lack of insert/remove is a bad thing. Heavy reliance on such, as if they were free, is a very scriptin
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by asark 7y ago
Group cohesion's hard, and a lot of the techniques for creating and maintaining it are considered distasteful or seem really damn cult-like (because they are). That'd be my guess. Aside from logistical concerns or whatever.

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