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by barking 10y ago
Back then there was no internet and I knew no programmers. I remember seeing the yellow borland boxes at PC World and not really understanding what borland were. Afterwards I bought my first copy of vb secondhand (lots of manuals came wit
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by barking 10y ago
I don't expect MS to ever open source it at this stage. For many years the biggest source of angst for those of us marooned in VB6 was the fear that our applications would no longer run in the 'next' version of windows and re
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by barking 10y ago
Be nice if they could open source VB6 though, which hasn't had an update in 19 years. I'm still using it, which makes me happy and sad at the same time.
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I would really love to know the prevalence of liver disease then vs now. Because now it is apparently at a record high or so we are being told all the time.
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by barking 10y ago
Trump is not doing anything he didn't say he'd do. I don't suppose there was ever a possibility of Jeff or all the people currently protesting, voting for Trump in the first place. So, aren't we just seeing the same peop
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by barking 10y ago
Were things that primitive? "A car phone is a mobile phone device specifically designed for and fitted into an automobile. This service originated with the Bell System, and was first used in St. Louis on June 17, 1946." https:&#x
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by barking 10y ago
That depends on the fire service. The FDNY fight fires aggressively. I know of other fire services where the number 1 priority is firefighter heath and safety, ie above that of the potential victims of fires. They still like to run maratho
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by barking 10y ago
I have never liked FM radio. Far too much time wasted fiddling with telescopic aerials. I've always listened to AM broadcasts in preference. I don't listen to much radio at all any more except via podcasts.
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by barking 10y ago
I only read a bit of that article. Its tone from the get-go made it clear that it was biased. It's about time that this business was sorted out. Could the Swedes not try him in absentia. Have the allegations of the accusers been tested
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by barking 10y ago
I don't know. AFAIK, short men have a higher rate of heart disease than tall men. http://time.com/3815022/shorter-people-heart-disease/
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by barking 10y ago
You sound quite young and naive. How old are you? :)
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by barking 10y ago
You're right! Thanks very much.
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by barking 10y ago
Paypal says I can't change it because it's my primary email address. I prefer using authenticator anyway rather than sms 2fa and yahoo don't offer that it seems
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by barking 10y ago
I'd forgotten my yahoo password but wanted to change it. They sent a code to my phone and I was able to do that. Then I tried to set up 2 factor authentication but I am unable to do it. It keeps rejecting the same phone number as being
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by barking 10y ago
I forgot my password last year for a government taxation site. I called them and the person I was speaking to gave me a couple of clues and I was able to remember it. Clearly she was looking at it. My main feeling at the time was relief tha
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by barking 10y ago
I'm not American and have never been to Baltimore but if its characterisation in 'The Wire' is accurate (a corrupt, drug and crime ridden ghetto) then I am not surprised.
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by barking 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7278198
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by barking 10y ago
If coke came in something like the boxes of wine that used to be around one time, They were in effect a bag of wine with integrated tap inside a rigid cardboard box. As you drew wine through the tap, the bag collapsed.
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by barking 10y ago
So if you do take steps to prevent the bottle from uncrushing would it work then? Some sort of a simple vice, perhaps?
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by barking 10y ago
The squeezable upside down ketchup bottles have already solved this to my satisfaction. I need someone to solve the other great issue our times, how to preserve the fizz in a 2 litre bottle of coke after you consume part of it.
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by barking 10y ago
No I'd have bought many books that I have never gotten around to reading, sometimes they were bought on a whim. Other times I'd start a book and then start another and leave the first one.
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by barking 10y ago
Apart from novels it's pretty unusual for me to read all of a book. It's laziness a lot of the time I'd have to admit.
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by barking 10y ago
My score is 6 (4). I have 6 and read most of 4 of those.
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by barking 10y ago
Nice to see an accurate use of the word, it's becoming a rarity.
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by barking 10y ago
People with different views need to be listened to and debated with rather than silenced. this newspaper article from a BBC journalist is quite thought provoking http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/journalists-are-helping
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by barking 10y ago
That's an interesting discussion and article. I sort of do this already for new features. You really feel the power of it, when after writing a lot of stuff you realise that there's a hitch, rewrite from earlier and shudder at th
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by barking 10y ago
In my experience veracrypt doesn't actually support guid partitions. I had to re-install windows after using veracrypt to encrypt my new machine. FWIW I'd recommend changing your partition type to mbr and using truecrypt 7.1a inst
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by barking 10y ago
I think it's because the context going by the title is earth based for me. Whenever I've heard mention of tectonics it's related to earth and and the only mercury on earth is the element, so my brain zoomed in on that. I reme
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by barking 10y ago
Ridiculously, I never twigged until now that the planet and the element shared a name despite being aware of both, forever.
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by barking 10y ago
Libreoffice now use firebird under the hood I think. Firebird has a more complete support for sql than sqlite has. It also has the advantage of being able to be used both in a manner analogous to sqlite or as a full blown server database.

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