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The secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death (2017)(theguardian.com)
2 points by cbsks 5y ago|0 comments
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by cbsks 5y ago
date.getYear() 99: 1999 100: 2000 … 122: 2022
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I am in the process of planning something similar at my house. My county requires a land use permit for any new development, as well as a building permit because power will be run. Both of those permits require plans to be submitted and tak
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My wife’s surface book 3 auto-updated to windows 11. She complained to me that games were running slowly and it turned out that the nvidia driver wasn’t installed anymore so she was stuck using the intel graphics card. It was an easy fix f
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by cbsks 5y ago
I went through exactly the same thing. Pre-pandemic I loved going into the office. When our office opened back up last summer most people continued to work remotely. We went from having ~40 people in the office to 4 including me. I continue
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> Investigators say they were able to tie the downloads to Sharp and his work-issued laptop because his Internet connection briefly failed on several occasions while he was downloading the Ubiquiti data. Those outages were enough to prev
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As someone who just went through a dozen interviews, this line of questioning is by far my most favorite one to receive.
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This seems to be a requirement in at least a few states: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Property+obtained+under+this+SPO+m... “Property obtained under the SPO must be placed into use within one (1) year of receipt, unless the co
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Cards Against Humanity pays you $5(getfivedollars.com)
15 points by cbsks 5y ago|4 comments
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Following record-wet October in NorCal, drier and warmer conditions to persist(weatherwest.com)
1 points by cbsks 5y ago|0 comments
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According to this meteorologist “Drier-than-average winter still most likely outcome for most of California” https://weatherwest.com/archives/11748
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Quoted from the article linked above: The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown. “The cessation of proactive policing corresponds roughly to the relative decline in crime tha
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Windows Terminal is very unstable in my experience. On one of my laptops it doesn’t even start anymore. It crashes immediately after opening. On my work desktop it crashed when I was 6 hours into an 7 hour Android build, causing me to need
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by cbsks 5y ago
Interestingly, in 1999 my father worked at Microsoft on the Windows NT kernel but at home he had a Linux server and taught me to install Debian from floppy disks.
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Is there any reason why you couldn't set up the same TOTP authentication on multiple devices?
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I recently went to a concert there! https://hollywoodforever.com/ I was expecting the concert to be held away from the graves, but no, there were tombstones directly behind the audience. It was a little unnerving.
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by cbsks 5y ago
The "chat with agent" option worked for me when I unsubscribed from nytimes a few months ago. They kept asking me questions and I kept responding "unsubscribe please" over and over again until they did it. It took maybe
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by cbsks 5y ago
I’m about 30% through it and it’s really good! I’m having a hard time visualizing what the “hoop” actually looks like. Does anyone who has read it understand it? Or maybe I just need to keep reading and it will be explained.
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I wrote software for that bus! I’m glad it didn’t hit the pedestrian because of a bug in one of the rtos drivers. Instead it crashed due to a bug in the human drivers.
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They already require masks indoors. There isn’t a lot of physical distancing at any school playground that I’ve seen. “CDC recommends that people who are not fully vaccinated wear a mask in crowded outdoor settings or during activities that
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Do you have one that you recommend?
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Here's a link where you can actually view the paper: https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3273... There is also an interactive website where you can play around with some of the data: https:&#x
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You and I certainly do not need to see any more Coca-Cola advertisements to remember that the brand exists when we are choosing what drink to buy. But there are hundreds of thousands of people born every day. If Coca-Cola stops advertising
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by cbsks 5y ago
The Peacock app from NBC is terrible for a different reason. It has a page for each sport, but the first thing it lists is highlight clips named things like "See <country X>'s win in all angles!". Please don't show
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“Yes, we know Facebook is not the only harmful corporation on Earth, but sweet-jeepers-boy-howdy it is a blood-curdling fart in the elevator of existence.” I can definitely relate to this.
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My DC license from ~2012 was just 2 decals stuck to a white plastic card. No raised lettering. The front decal started to peel back after a few years. It sure looked like a fake ID.
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Out of curiosity, where did you intend on selling the nickel? Is there a metal recycler that buys melted down nickel at those prices? Or maybe one of those "we buy gold" places?
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Sure I did. I stopped using the device that was displaying ads for services that I don’t subscribe to. Google will no longer receive ad revenue from me. So far on my Apple TV I’ve only seen promos (“ads”) for movies/shows on services t
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As soon as the ads appeared I voted with my wallet and ditched my Shield for an Apple TV. So far I don’t have any complaints.
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I’d be curious to hear from someone who truly regrets having kids. I haven’t read the book, but searching google (or saying out loud) “I regret having kids” doesn’t necessarily mean that they always , or even most of the time, mean that.

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