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by derekp7 7y ago
And yet they are perfectly content with thousands of inbound jet planes flying into all their major cities. Which could just as easily have any payload they want.
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by derekp7 7y ago
There is actually a lot of art that goes into programming a radio station. One of the radio formats that was out a few years ago had a slogan "We play what we want". They purposefully crafted the playlist to create "train w
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by derekp7 7y ago
The worst hit states are Democrat. Many of the Republican states have lower population density, therefore lower spread.
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by derekp7 7y ago
One of the nice things around here is stores like Walmart that sell groceries (so they are considered essential) also sells everything else (such as office paper).
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by derekp7 7y ago
I guess this is similar to pulling out a sheet of aluminum foil from a hot oven. It is weird that you can grab it with your bare hands.
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by derekp7 7y ago
The original Kings Quest (on my PCjr, at least) had an interesting quirk that anything that was movable was drawn last. So you just had to spot that the rock appeared a second after you entered the screen, or the mushroom suddenly showed u
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by derekp7 7y ago
So how do you work on the toilet (as in, replace the flap or fill valve) without access to a water shutoff?
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by derekp7 7y ago
Also, you can mount /var with no executable set, for security purposes. If you go through the various security guidelines (such as STIG and various others), they give several paths that should exist as individual mount points -- both
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by derekp7 7y ago
I'll often come across shadow banned comments, and when I look at the author's post history (back to the first dead comment, plus a few pages of comments before) I really don't see anything wrong. Is it because the comment(s
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by derekp7 7y ago
Are you viewing it from an office network? Cause I believe that is a MITM https proxy used by a Cisco a/v appliance.
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by derekp7 7y ago
Facebook rumor that TP comes from China, and that the shipments were being blocked. In reality, the stuff come from Wisconsin and we have plenty of pulp.
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by derekp7 7y ago
The article mentioned that the operator has both hands tied up in order to control the craft, so there isn't much else they can do other than observe. Seems that could be taken care of these days by using computer controlled fly by wi
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by derekp7 7y ago
For me, the syntax is ok, however it doesn't always do what you expect. For example: if (some_condition) { x = 2; } x doesn't get set to 2. Or even better, this: x = 2; echo("x = ", x);
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by derekp7 7y ago
What I want to know, is how bright does a light have to be to blind you if the back of your head is facing it.
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by derekp7 7y ago
I'm talking about both work tasks, and personal. Surprisingly I can get through assigned work tasks typically without issue. It is the tasks that I set out for myself that I have a problem with. Which fits in with why I'm prima
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by derekp7 7y ago
For that matter, is there a link between depression and feeling overwhelmed with tasks all the time? Does one cause the other, is it a two way feedback loop, or is there sometimes a separate common cause?
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by derekp7 7y ago
I think you misinterpret what they are saying. What really happens is that even though it was a good move this time, the next time you have the same feeling and make the same move, what you move it into may go down and what you move it out
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by derekp7 7y ago
That was almost exactly what the Cash for Clunkers program was doing. Under the Gov. contact, the dealer had to pour an engine seizing compound through the caurborator to get the discount reimbursement. Kept functional vehicles from endin
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by derekp7 7y ago
I'm having a mental blockage on this, as you can always launch 10 rockets at the same time and get 10 times the payload. Having those 10 rockets strapped together should not change the payload of them flying independently. What am I m
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by derekp7 7y ago
I love comparing apples and oranges too. You can always find an older used car that is cheaper than a new car. Now compare what one of these would cost used in 7 years. BTW, I recently bough a new bicycle that cost more than the first car
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by derekp7 7y ago
I think the argument is that a corporate entity would be willing to lose a large amount of money by extending copyrights on their back catalog, if only to keep those works from competing with their current offerings that make them loads of
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by derekp7 7y ago
I had something similar, then I dug into it and found that my CSS was not specified correctly. After looking into the spec, I realized that what I thought Firefox was doing wrong, was actually the correct behavior. Chrome and Edge just co
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by derekp7 7y ago
If you are referring to a car wash, well the problem there is that car washes recycle their water. They filter out the dirt, but not the salt. So the salt water gets pressure fed into crack and crevices making things worse.
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by derekp7 7y ago
I've always taken it as a proxy for quality. My thinking was that Prime means it must ship from Amazon (I realize now marketplace sellers can qualify for the Prime flag if their shipment is free and fast for Prime members). And then
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by derekp7 7y ago
A couple years back I impulse purchased a Google Chromecast at a local Walmart. When I went to open it up at home, the seal looked a bit funky like it had been carefully pealed back and put back in place. What it contained looked like a Ch
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by derekp7 7y ago
You have just submitted a comment that is an opinion piece. Professional writers make a living writing opinion columns, and they are struggling right now. Partly due to the prevlance of free opinions such as yours. You should stop submit
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by derekp7 7y ago
I would love to see a protocol added, so that when alice composes an email a request is sent to bob@bar.com with a special header to retrieve bob's private key. This in turn would be signed with a cert from bar.com, which in turn is s
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by derekp7 7y ago
The problem is that the heat from the power supply needs some place to go. So installing the bulb upside down traps heat, and putting them in an enclosure also traps heat. Probably 90% of installations is one of these two. I've put i
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by derekp7 7y ago
For me it is a smaller dependancy stack. For example I needed some tooling that worked on RHEL/CentOS, back to version 4.x and 3.x (yes, I know). Also, someone at work wanted me to get into Swift... They had Ubuntu packages but nothi
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by derekp7 7y ago
This raises a question in my mind -- do any of these traits actually make the company more successful? Or more generally, are traits that are undesirable to subordinates, yet desirable to higher management, actually good for the company, a

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