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by cagey 10y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-286-00082-Natural-Keyboard-... Have a stash of Model M's and a Kinesis Advantage, but seem to be liking the above-linked MS Natural Elite for now.
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by cagey 10y ago
Accurev: I concurred with the majority of colleagues that it is "defective by design".
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by cagey 10y ago
I tried it on Lubuntu 16.04; it required modification: # mystery one-liner from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13513171 # dpkg -l 'linux-' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | s
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by cagey 10y ago
FWIW TAWK and Thompson Toolkit (and competitor MKS (Mortice Kern Systems[0])) offered this functionality (awk and other unix commandline tools for DOS and subsequent MS OS') beginning in "the dialup era" (your purchase bought
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by cagey 10y ago
I certainly agree with your sentiment. Yet I'm unsure that even C# or C++ _by default_ builds .EXE files that can be copied onto another (same OS) machine and run successfully (for C++ this is almost always possible, but IIRC not defa
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by cagey 10y ago
PolyAWK (by Polytron), which included a copy of this book with each unit sold (see sticker on the cover of the linked PDF), was a _favorite_ tool of mine "back in the DOS (and early Windows) days". It was IIRC developed by Thomps
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by cagey 10y ago
The ads I've seen in Win 10 (Home): (1) (Don't I want to claim my) Free trial for Office 365? (2) MS Edge is faster/better than my (non-MS) default browser (and don't I want to try Edge?). These seem to recur once after
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by cagey 10y ago
Thanks! Just pulled the trigger on this. The monitor-use-case reviews were compellingly positive. ($25 VisaCheckout coupon almost offset CA tax and recycling fee).
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Sunnyvale: another neighborhood requests rezoning to single-story-only(mercurynews.com)
2 points by cagey 10y ago|0 comments
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by cagey 10y ago
In the article (graphic 5/5) it seems to be part of the Las Vegas megaregion.
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by cagey 10y ago
twblalock's description seems quite rational to me. Can you provide a citation describing an actual seniority-based system that operates in a materially different manner than twblalock described (i.e. one not prioritized on (departmen
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California’s Needless Housing Crisis(hoover.org)
2 points by cagey 10y ago|0 comments
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Steven DenBeste, writer of USS Clueless, has died(brickmuppet.mee.nu)
34 points by cagey 10y ago|19 comments
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Bay Area transit system to subsidize Uber, Lyft rides(mercurynews.com)
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by cagey 10y ago
I was fairly confident that buying a fully automatic firearm at a gun show was unlikely to be a matter of "ID + background check" as with buying a semi-automatic (or non-automatic) firearm. See links below (8 and 9 years old; the
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by cagey 10y ago
actually i for "index" ('ix'->'index x'), not "integer"
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by cagey 10y ago
I too abhor single-letter variable names. My personal convention: minimum identifier length==2. {i,j,k}->{ix,iy,iz}, c->ch.
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by cagey 11y ago
* If we fund a "war on climate change", we'll reduce the damage of (or hey, even stop!) climate change.
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by cagey 11y ago
"new" in Nov '15: Dell Inspiron 15 i5558-5718slv; i5-4xxx, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD Windows 10: Nuwen MinGW, IntelliJ for C++, Java development respectively VirtualBox VM's: Ubuntu 15.10, CentOS 7 Pros: cost: $400; 1080p IPS scr
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by cagey 11y ago
Absolutely key to my ongoing information ingestion process. http://www.inoreader.com/ FTW [edit] and I gladly pay a few $/yr to keep them going
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by cagey 11y ago
I have a 30K collection of ebooks, 90% PDF's. Use BRISS[1] to crop to optimize them for the screen space on my 1080p Nook HD+ (jailbroken running CM with "PDF Reader" by Lieo Hi-Dev). Everyone's definition of "qual
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by cagey 12y ago
I had never concerned myself with cell phones since the whole "get a 'free' phone with a contract!" seemed like a total scam, and I didn't need a personal cell phone, so I let my SO "do the needful". Rece
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by cagey 12y ago
Factory refurbs of the (current model) Acer C720 Chromebook, having quite good Amazon reviews, have been available for 150USD for well over a month (variously from Acer as Amazon reseller or on Ebay). I have purchased 2 of these (my first
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by cagey 13y ago
AFAICT (and IMHO peculiarly ) nobody in this "affair" was ever actually charged with "revealing the identities of CIA agents", and Scooter Libby was definitely neither tried nor convicted of same. He was convicted
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by cagey 13y ago
Wasn't it Richard Armitage that did that? "He has acknowledged that he publicly released the classified information that Valerie Plame Wilson was a secret agent for the CIA, triggering the Plame Affair, though he has said it was i
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by cagey 13y ago
Bought a DXG refurb in early 2012 for $207. I use it every day. I would be hard pressed to justify buying these for family members for $300. The fact that they "brought it back" from a significant hiatus without making any improvement to
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by cagey 13y ago
"They lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" Looks like, according to US Attorney General Eric Holder on 22 April 2013, there were vast quantities of WMD's in Iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/22/boston-bomb-susp... "Th
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by cagey 14y ago
> they've been conditioned by film and television to believe that the government has those powers and uses them routinely. My unscientific observation (I don't watch these but my SO used to) is that major (USA) network "crime drama" TV
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by cagey 14y ago
> Crimes do not, as a rule, become "better" or "worse" based on why someone does them. But sometimes crimes are defined by what the perp was thinking or expressing: "Hate Crimes"
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by cagey 14y ago
The first two paragraphs of this article are crap, typical of the "journalism" of today. A groundbreaking study ... has pinpointed a small group of drivers making Bay Area freeways miserable for the rest of us... You mean the oth

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