borgchick

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by borgchick 10y ago
That's what I've always thought, haven't tried it with my parents. Idea is, set up a vm, snap shot it, have their save folder somewhere outside of the VM, and then if they manage to mess up the VM, just restore the snapshot.
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by borgchick 11y ago
exactly, having been in the industry for more than 10 years, promotion is really hard to come by
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by borgchick 11y ago
When I was growing up, this is the sort of stuff I dreamed we, humanity, would be doing in this day and age. This is the stuff Star Trek is made of (probably inspired by). Despite all the madness in the world today, I am glad some others
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by borgchick 11y ago
I'm honestly a little surprised at some of the comments here. I thought most people on here would agree that many of us do suffer from this. I mean, how many of you actually read through the entire article, WITHOUT checking your emai
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by borgchick 12y ago
It's good for light gaming, I play driving games all the time on it, but I would never bother with driving games on my PC. It's good for light computing, I see my husband on the couch with his iPad air all the time writing emails,
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by borgchick 12y ago
yup
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by borgchick 12y ago
this is absolutely amazing!
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by borgchick 12y ago
When I first investigated these personal fitness monitors, Fitbit was a standout (I have the Flex). It made the Jawbone look old and clumbsy. The automatic syncing was really nice. Then, my Indiegogo funded Misfit Shine came, and initial
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by borgchick 12y ago
Perhaps this explains the ebb and flow of the market? Consider for a (rat) trader: - success - get treat - eat treat - loop ... passage of time... - get fat - judgement clouded by excess fat (perhaps inhibiting movement) - less successful -
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by borgchick 12y ago
LOL, you under estimate the cost of the cheese... and the dropping removal service... but yes, for the most part, I think you are right!
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by borgchick 12y ago
Not sure how much that would help even. Look at the Misfit Shine ( http://store.misfit.com/ ), great product, beautiful device. Then a few weeks ago I get this in the email from DX: http://www.dx.com/p/o
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by borgchick 12y ago
I am Jack's 3D hatred.
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by borgchick 12y ago
I loved the idea of the Zeo, but as comfortable as the headband was, I never did manage to fall asleep with it on. I guess I am just super sensitive to things on my head while in bed. I ended up using the Zeo as a toy to do interesting BC
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by borgchick 12y ago
Ah, the classics, love THHGTTG. Served me well growing up as an angry teenager. And still serves me well today making me laugh at how ridiculous this entire life, universe and everything really is.
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by borgchick 12y ago
Anyone else felt like the presentation was done by the Shamwow guy?
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by borgchick 13y ago
Playing around with making projects with Arduino + sensors, it's fun because there is so much you can do with the Arduino platform these days. The hardware course in university was a rush through, and I never really had time to experim
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by borgchick 13y ago
so many kids will become unemployed in China... those poor poor item farmers... won't someone think of the children!
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by borgchick 13y ago
So basically since 1976, the US is only on the positive side of the budget for 4 years (1998-2001). For all other (34) years, there has been a deficit. Yicks. If the US was a person, that person would be considered a financial disaster.
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by borgchick 13y ago
So we've come around full circle. Back to plain old text. NCSA Mosaic anyone? I just hope we don't all go back to <marquee> and <blink>...
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by borgchick 13y ago
Perhaps the drug dealers got smart, "hey, if we hand over the video showing Ford smoking the crack we sold him, doesn't that prove we are drug dealers? damn mo-fo, we outta here!"
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by borgchick 14y ago
I also miss the days when you could just start up a BF2 server on your LAN and have your family and friends join the game for some fun.
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by borgchick 14y ago
security theatre much? face palm
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by borgchick 14y ago
you know the first thing I did upon loading this page is to go buy a bag of Doritos... thanks HN! It was very tasty!
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by borgchick 14y ago
The ones that use the iPhone's camera can get heart rate, but I have not seen one that can get blood oxygen level.
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by borgchick 14y ago
1. I am feeling rather smug that I read through the entire thing, and despite understanding less than 1% of it, feel that it has in some way, opened my eyes. 2. I marvel at the world Sal and Simp live in. To understand all the details they
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by borgchick 14y ago
I dream of the day we can do this in javascript... it'd be the coolest graphing library, in the world!
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by borgchick 15y ago
primary where? at work? linux, at home? windows, on the road? osx