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by briffle 7y ago
My dealership wants to charge me $330 to do software updates to several components in my pickup that will fix some bugs, since its out of its bumper to bumper warranty.
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by briffle 7y ago
> The universities shouldn't be relying on 2/3 or 3/4 adjunct professors, but they're doing it because they can, which is because the system as designed produces way more candidates for professorships than there are p
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by briffle 7y ago
When it works, it's great. When you have to 'prove' a problem isn't yours, and you send tcpdump files to the developer and partner company's networking team showing how the remote firewall is rejecting the packets,
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by briffle 7y ago
Of course not, you need to install Jira as well, so your now Agile.. I was going to use a sarcasm tag, except that is pretty much what my last employer did...
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by briffle 7y ago
Its a university, so more likely "Sysadmins implemented best practices of disabling unapproved macros, but due to an extreme number of complaints from academic staff that all their research would be ruined, had to disable it again.&quo
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by briffle 7y ago
It is amazing, but if your Tall, or Wide, or have any kind of handicap, its miserable too..
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by briffle 7y ago
You know.. RSS killed pointcast. Pointcast was actually much more like google reader, it was an app that would grab news from your favorite sites, and show you in the application, or as your screensaver. it was so popular, many companies b
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by briffle 7y ago
Oh boy, wait until you see the stats about what car ownership does to you and your families chances of dying in an automobile accident!
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by briffle 7y ago
An "M16" shoots a 22 caliber bullet. Its called a 223, but its a 22 caliber diameter bullet.
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by briffle 7y ago
I self hosted with bitwarden_rs a slimmed down version of the API server that runs fast. I found some tutorials online there are lots) and host it on a very small cloud instance. (google cloud f1-micro) All in all, it took me an hour of tim
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by briffle 7y ago
My last town, the bus at busy times would literally stop on every major corner to let on or off one person. Plus, there was no actual place for the bus to pull out of traffic, so every block, it would stop in the right lane. So the bus too
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by briffle 7y ago
Are there any other cross-platform virtualization platforms nowadays? I need something to run Vagrant on that my team can use on mac, windows, and Linux. Ideally all using the same hypervisor, so I don't need to have 3 different sets o
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by briffle 7y ago
Your comment doesn't have any relation to the post, but most of the growth in Oracle Cloud for the last few years, was Oracle's commission structure for sales pushed it hard. So many companies were pushed hard to license cloud an
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by briffle 7y ago
so they can't identify you, until they identify you and get your permission to identify you?
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by briffle 7y ago
How do you currently serve a warrant for a conversation between two people, without alerting the sender or the recipient?
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by briffle 7y ago
In many cases, you can also land at smaller, regional airports, that are closer to your destination/meeting.
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by briffle 7y ago
you can use a tool like snap or appimage to pull down the newest full release of your software.. at least then, all the dependancies are 'bundled' into the image, and your not having people go randomly install crap from around the
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by briffle 7y ago
We don't talk about the lack of affordable AAPL shares do we? That's insane, it's an investment, we want it to go up. The less affordable, the better! Isn't that pretty much what stock splits are for?
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by briffle 7y ago
anyone who is stuck on an oracle databases, and sees how horrible "oracle cloud" is?
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by briffle 7y ago
I like with Google cloud how disk throughput scales with size. It's simple compared to dealing with the crazy multitude of options, striping, and provisioned IOPs AWS uses
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by briffle 7y ago
When I can file malpractice lawsuits against ad-tech companies for leaking my personal data, maybe then, after a few years of lawsuits causing their insurance rates to skyrocket, can we maybe talk about trusting them.
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by briffle 7y ago
In highschool, I had a TI-83, and had fun doing things like programming blackjack on it, so I could look like I was doing work while having fun. I went to an engineering school and switched to an HP-48GX for my years at it, and fell in lov
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by briffle 7y ago
More importantly, the wider wheelbase will be important for towing. Long, tall trailers (like RV's, or long cargo trailers) get a lot of wind force, and on smaller tow vehicles (SUV's and smaller trucks) you can get in a very dan
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by briffle 7y ago
Which is also the case of pretty much any other enterprise calendaring system, like office 365, or heck, even <shudder> lotus notes...
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by briffle 7y ago
Seriously? On Android it's just settings->about phone
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by briffle 7y ago
I get your point your making, but I think your reacting a bit harshly. We don't need one regulation that solves all our problems. We can have 'defense in depth'. Current laws that put microdot detection in color scanners wil
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by briffle 7y ago
a few days? its already hit its limit :)
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by briffle 7y ago
They mentioned this is google cloud, which blocks almost all incoming ports by default. they had to have chose to expose this through the project firewall, and not put in a source filter.
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by briffle 7y ago
I know that no companies ever, ever! had to shift their core tech and workflows away from MSN Messenger to Windows Live Communicator to Skype to Teams.
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by briffle 7y ago
I ran IE (I think it was 3.0) on an HP-UX workstation back around the millennium.

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