csharptwdec19

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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I'll be bold and say it's the media industry has a problem. I remember family members having problems/reservations with Weinstein's behavior back in the 90's . People like Corey Feltman have been speaking up for ye
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
IDK what it's like in quebec specifically, but a lot of my friends in Ontario would have multiple space heaters (depending on how many people were around and where they were) that they would use in the winter months for more 'loca
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
>computers are ample fast enough to look up columns by name! Sure, but depending on number of records and/or implementation of the name lookup, it can add up over a large resultset, or have a slightly cost over many smaller queries.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> Admittedly it has a rubbish camera but I don't really take pictures so that's fine with me. That makes me sad to hear. One of my favorite things about the old Nokia (especially the Lumia series) was that they cared about havi
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I somehow remember 'clean installs' being an option with retail Microsoft stores; In fact at one point I think it was the norm.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> Sega Japan were famously strict about the titles they'd allow to be licensed on the Mega Drive. It was Sega America who allowed any old release to be licensed. I didn't know that about Sega in Japan; usually when I think of s
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
When I worked in HFC/Fiber Design (and automation via code), we tried looking into OSM as a replacement for our workflows that used google earth and hack on top of hack (Google earth kept removing parts of the API that were useful for
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
We are lazy. The original Model T could run on ethanol (not perfect, but better than gasoline in many regards for pollution, and back then IDK if they would have noticed) and Henry Ford was fond of the idea of biofuels; at the time I think
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> Ari Fleischer Honestly I got more of a '1 life is a tragedy, 1million lives is a statistic' vibe from GP
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
If it's that global of an update, it's probably something that could be run as part of a schema migration and could just be handled during update rollout. If it's some form of state that needs a global update on the regular,
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
For RDBMS, Firebird SQL has managed to survive well in this sphere, for all of it's warts. You can run it either as an embedded DLL or as a standalone server, and changing between the two is often just a connection string change; It se
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> We already have a loneliness epidemic among the population. The loneliness epidemic is seen by companies as something to be exploited, not corrected.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> The USA today very much resembles an oligarchy (class-based rule by the rich) being pushed rapidly into social media-driven democratic mob rule. Agree with the first part, disagree with the second part. It's going to remain an oli
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
They probably also learned it from their time in the GPU arena, where such shenanigans have been in play for a long time (although usually moreso by the green team)
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Ever since I started getting involved in Tarot/Reiki/Pagan groups, Facebook has started showing me advertisements for products very clearly designed for females despite me being male in both biology and identity.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> new cars are generally more powerful, so tend to accelerate to dangerous speeds on small streets. Yes and no and but... Yes - Broadly speaking most new cars are more powerful than they were in the late 70s and early 80s No - Before the
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> Despite running html5zombo.com for over 10 years now, Thank you for that.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Yep, I wouldn't be surprised if the tax write-offs for this made the 'real' impact far less.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
At least in the US, it's not quite like that. There typically -are- penalties for certain things (i.e. if a loan goes into default or gets paid off via a refinance within X months) as well as regulatory rules and the ever-present GSEs,
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
MSSQL will lock on Reads by default, and can(will) escalate locks to entire pages for reads. Making MVCC Mode 'Opt In' requires enabling Snapshot Isolation, and making it default requires another change. It's also worth notin
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> I find really, really baffling the general position in the US regarding unions. It is like there's a general discourse that they are a bad thing, just like with "that other" thing (cough socialism cough). I'm from t
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Blaming Comcast is a very safe default.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
If the facts are as you said, that you've repeatedly told them to stop calling you, it may be worth talking to a TCPA Lawyer.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Maybe because the horse is still sitting there dead? :)
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I'd be curious to see if another lawyer could turn all of this on the heads of the 'digital market' as a whole. > and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, What if someone starts a streaming servi
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> There should be restrictions on how much DMCA abuse is tolerated before sticking them into “timeout”. And if a legitimate need arises while in timeout, too bad so sad. Absolutely. The legal world even has a term for this already, &quot
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I don't know if it is a fully global phenomenon, but it is certainly not a US-Centric one. For every politician who is in the news for 'bragging' about not paying taxes, there's usually at least one politician finger-wag
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
If it is anything like the Cable TV Industry, Apple absolutely knows and is in on the game. I've noticed a pattern where large companies use a -lot- of contractors, sometimes under many layers. When I worked in Telecom, we were usually
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Wistron is the result of Acer spinning off a bunch of their brands in the late 90s. I remember slinging AOpen (Another Acer spinoff) motherboards and shortly after Acer spun off Wistron, AOpen started offering laptops from Wistron. Dell sho
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Which is it's own form of dog-whistle; "Use our country; our government will help make sure the workers don't protest"

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