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by cdr 12y ago
Magic (at present) is a bit different in that the manufacturer will print effectively unlimited amounts of the cards for the 6-12 months a set is in print, and will actively seek to reprint staple cards that get expensive enough to make the
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by cdr 12y ago
All the storebought smoke alarms I've seen in the past few years have two buttons (or one button with two functions) - one to test, one to shut it off for a few minutes when something besides a housefire is making it go off. It may var
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by cdr 12y ago
Save the juvenile snark for reddit. About 15% of Americans - almost 50M people just in the US - have private water sources like wells. Heavily mineralized water is not "unusable", the taste is just rather unpleasant.
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by cdr 12y ago
My tap water (from a well) is highly sulfuric. The quality and taste of tap water varies greatly from location to location, "developed world" or not. There are all sorts of good reasons to buy bottled water.
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by cdr 12y ago
It's not necessarily easy, but decoding MMO data files can be massively profitable for players. Reams of valuable data are often stored client-side to save on sending it during gameplay. You can maybe learn what items are in the game (
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by cdr 12y ago
I see CCleaner on probably at least 50% of the desktops shown by people streaming on Twitch. Seems so odd to me. Then again, I used WinRAR up until probably 2010 or so, whenever ninite made it easier to install 7zip. A sort of related oddit
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by cdr 12y ago
> fall somewhere on the aspergers scale That's really insulting to people that actually have autism. Don't do that. (And you mean autism scale, asperger's was eliminated as a separate diagnosis.)
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by cdr 12y ago
I've done Amtrak twice. Central NY to Chicago was actually no problem as far as Amtrak goes, just a couple hours of delays each way. Central NY to Columbus in November, nightmare. Maybe an hour in, notice a) the car is getting pretty c
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by cdr 12y ago
I used to use AHK a lot for interacting with a game. Sikuli seemed neat when I heard about it, but it turns out that it only supports pretty much a single method of capture and only a single method of relaying mouse events. This made it com
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by cdr 12y ago
It's about comfort, not cost. Mileage runs are generally done for status. Air travel is miserable, and the extra perks that come with status are almost priceless. Also, there's another huge benefit to sticking with a single airlin
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by cdr 12y ago
Hah. I give up.
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by cdr 12y ago
For any goal, there's only gone to be one (or a best a couple) optimal builds. Among players, the vast majority are going to have one or the same few goals. In a MMO, most players are going to be chasing the most overpowered build. Whi
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by cdr 12y ago
Is Myst not really a game? Or are these people too young to remember "not a game" is not exactly an original accusation?
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by cdr 12y ago
A typical multivitamin is only going to have 500 IU D3. That's very unlikely to help anyone unfortunately. I know a lot of people that see a huge benefit in mood with D3, but you need to take a lot more. Most people I know who take D3
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by cdr 12y ago
"Very good" in terms of minimizing packaging maybe... not always so good when it comes to actually protecting contents. The air bags are sometimes not so good at keeping heavier items from crushing lighter ones, especially when sh
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by cdr 12y ago
Good remote work is more of an employer's market than a typical position. Someone looking specifically for remote is generally willing to jump through more hoops, I think.
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by cdr 12y ago
I don't mod a default, but in my experience it's historically been really easy to get someone shadowbanned for self-promotion by submitting to r/spam. I don't know if it's run by a script or just overworked intern
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by cdr 12y ago
I have a ~ 10-year-old HL-2040 that's somehow still running. I use it for printing throw-away stuff like notes or recipes. It was maybe $30. It predates even the toner cartridge caps being welded on, so refills are relatively painless
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by cdr 12y ago
They're OK in cities where they have enough competition to make them invest in infrastructure. They're effing terrible if you're somewhere there's not enough competition for them to ever invest in infrastructure. My cust
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by cdr 12y ago
I used to know someone making a pretty good living doing COBOL for banks. Some people really do enjoy that sort of thing. Also a bonus of less (or even positive) age discrimination, since he was an older guy.
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by cdr 12y ago
Technically, in theory, yes. In practice, no - every 4K+ monitor I'm aware of using DP uses the 2-monitor hack. http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-4k-monitor-doesnt-exis... Hopefully in a year things will have
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by cdr 12y ago
I've been wanting a new monitor. Ideally a large, high resolution, high refresh rate monitor. Everything I've read though has lead me to hold off for precisely that fact - interconnects are currently completely insufficient to han
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by cdr 12y ago
I've mostly seen the machines in offices. They obviously make a lot of sense for the use case for where you have dozens of people who all want different things at different times of day. Big improvement over a communal coffee pot.
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by cdr 12y ago
When I was in school I was always amazed at how lavishly Microsoft spent at my no-name tech school. A full time local Microsoft recruiting rep (don't remember if regional or assigned solely to that school), quarterly Microsoft events w
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by cdr 12y ago
Months of rumors, which no doubt corresponded to ongoing negotiations, and then about a month ago a single VentureBeat reporter claimed a final deal was "confirmed" by anonymous sources. A lot of people were skeptical of a single
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by cdr 12y ago
Reddit's actual policy is that excessive self-submission is verboten. If you're actively participating in reddit threads, self submission is OK - their guideline is no more than 10% of activity. http://www.reddit.com&
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by cdr 12y ago
If any flight itinerary hits gmail at all, in fact, it ends up in Now - as I've found out from itineraries forwarded by family and friends. Has been borderline annoying on occasion, since I don't generally care much if someone els
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by cdr 12y ago
As a CS student I took roughly 50% CS courses/50% Software Engineering courses. SE is a much rarer degree, I think. At least at my alma mater SE courses were exclusively team based - teams of 3-5 for every course from start to finish -
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by cdr 12y ago
Localized precipitation can be unbelievable when a front stalls over an area, no major event like a typhoon / hurricane even required. The September 2013 floods in the front range of Colorado caused by a stalled front topped out at 9.6
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by cdr 12y ago
"The FDA" would be taken to mean some quality of the organization - a regulation, a standard process. It was not. It was a single stubborn person, working off little more than a gut feeling, and going against standard practices of

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