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541.
by bink 5y ago
That sounds like a whole lotta work for very little gain.
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by bink 5y ago
How often do you think utilities like sed, awk, and grep are being updated? They're virtually unchanged for 20-30 years.
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by bink 5y ago
Back before Micro Center or CompUSA we actually got a BBS list from the local library. On the East Coast we had Focke's list. This is an interesting article from 1989 about the culture: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ar
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by bink 5y ago
All this talk of IRQs and DIP switches and no one has mentioned N81 or E71. There was a time when you had to pay attention to the parity before dialing. Also, it looks like 8N1 and 7E1 have become the more common notation now.
545.
by bink 5y ago
You couldn't do anything unless you had software like Desqview. That was a revolution.
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by bink 5y ago
Unless we come up with a way to override the inner ear I can't see future generations being able to mentally process away the sickness that comes with VR motion.
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by bink 5y ago
My experience was similar to yours. It's been a few years but I used to commute weekly from DC to NY. Sometimes I'd take the Acela and sometimes the regional, depending on price. I never had an issue either way. My biggest inconve
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by bink 5y ago
Kill switches sound great in theory until you disable a service used to host a billion dollar company, a hospital admission network, or your biggest paying customer. The solution here is to offer a security notification service, which GitLa
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by bink 5y ago
This was the first thing that jumped out at me as well. I've worked on govt. contracts and when you put >1 contractor on the same project they become competitors. They will sabotage each other in the hopes of winning a larger share
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by bink 5y ago
As long as it was the second half you should be good.
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by bink 5y ago
There are several US companies that provide the same service, though they ostensibly operate under guidelines set by the US government. As someone who was busted for hacking way back in the day, it perturbs me just a little bit that I could
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by bink 5y ago
As I recall it he didn't so much "queue jump" as he used his private plane to travel to another state within a specific window of time from where he lived, which most people who lived outside of the transplant state couldn&#x
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by bink 5y ago
2 is not only a long shot but it's also not like if there were a third world war there would be some asset classes that escaped unscathed. If China went to war and that somehow crashed real estate prices, it's not like stocks woul
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by bink 5y ago
They are, in a sense. You do not receive the capital gains tax exemption if you do not reside in the house for something like 2 of the last 5 years before the sale. You also pay a different tax level if the sale occurs within a year. I&#x27
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by bink 5y ago
IMHO blaming the price increases in nimbyism is equally lazy. There are plenty of places in the US with no shortage of land and no harsh zoning restrictions that are still seeing huge increases in housing prices. I think your second factor
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by bink 5y ago
It's been so long since we've had a real down market. People are going to be shocked when it happens again.
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by bink 5y ago
> Right now, mass firings over vaccine mandates are tearing more people out of the workforce against their will. Had to stop reading when I hit this hyberbolic nonsense. You could just as equally argue that refusing a vaccine while accep
558.
by bink 5y ago
This article from 2019 suggests they use a mix of cloud and a dedicated data center. https://portworx.com/blog/architects-corner-roblox-runs-plat...
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by bink 5y ago
I doubt their homepage is being served from the same DB as their game platform. I think throwing together a static page better than "we're making the game more awesome" would be simple. It kinda makes me wonder if it's a
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by bink 5y ago
It sucks how cheaply kid's toys are made these days, but there are companies that stand out by making things that last. When my kid was little we bought a lot of Melissa & Doug toys because they were actually made of wood and would
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by bink 5y ago
This isn't just an artistic decision though. The product gives the impression that it's an actual functioning record player, like the old one.
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by bink 5y ago
> betting against a company with such a huge war chest is like trying to catch a falling knife. Maybe. But if money could buy product adoption we'd all be using Microsoft phones right now.
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by bink 5y ago
Isn't this what happened to Protonmail? They were required by legal order to start logging activity for a specific group of users. It's not outside the realm of possibility that the govt could try to force a company to either star
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by bink 5y ago
Sounds a lot like the guy who placed an ad on Craigslist to be his cover: https://www.cnet.com/news/bank-robber-hires-decoys-on-craigs...
565.
by bink 5y ago
That would be quite the GAAF.
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by bink 5y ago
Remember this AR Demo from Apple way back with the iPhone 8? https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/12/16272904/apple-arkit-demo... And what commercial applications of this have we seen in the last 4 years?
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by bink 5y ago
The drive stalk and the parking brake, sure. But are you explaining to them how to shift into neutral? How to turn on/off the windshield wipers? Headlights? Pairing phones to use as keys? How to use the valet card? I have a model 3 but
568.
by bink 5y ago
Several people have stated this but none have provided an example. Could you be so kind?
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by bink 5y ago
Wow. I was born in the 70s as well and you just made that connection for me. I had no idea.
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by bink 5y ago
Just don't leave the TV on until HR Puffinstuff comes on. That was nightmare fuel.

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