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by dghughes 5y ago
I followed a guide and made my own using OpenVPN on AWS Lightsail not (Digital Ocean). But once my AWS Lightsail trial was over the cost crept up and was quickly getting out of hand. I had to stop it and even delete everything since I was s
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by dghughes 5y ago
Then again the number of people that buy the food is quite high. Farmers need non-farmer people to buy food as much as non-farming people need farmers to grow it.
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by dghughes 5y ago
Exactly! It should be at least a year in jail if not five+. What was the best outcome the person expected? To crash an airplane full of people?
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by dghughes 5y ago
When I was a kid I got an ATARI 600XL I'd type in code for hours into memory just to have it fail due to errors. But I got good at typing at only age 14. Then a few years later as teenagers do in high school I choose typing class since
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by dghughes 5y ago
> For the donation of a single dollar.. x100 channels I may watch. I can't afford to be a patron for all the channels I like. Maybe I'm in the minority for my salary but $100 or $200 / month is not a thing I can afford, or
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by dghughes 5y ago
Ads are OK but it's the tracking of me which is what I hate. An ad you can ignore but tracking is at the least annoying at the worst feels invasive, dangerous, security implications.
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by dghughes 5y ago
Here is what my local government has about disposal: Can potato waste be buried in abandoned or operating excavation pits? No. Potato waste is organic and being that all excavation pits have exposed bedrock in them, which creates an easy a
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by dghughes 5y ago
Patreon has gone from helpful support by a few to an exclusive club.
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by dghughes 5y ago
Common sense in politics is also key. My Canadian province grows different crops but potatoes are the big crop here 25% of all potatoes bought in Canada. This summer was perfect and in the fall it was a bumper crop it was amazing. But then
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by dghughes 5y ago
Video for work, for meetings. Otherwise not so much. Back in the 1990s when when "eyeball cams" were new and black and white nobody wanted to make a video call/chat. Even now if I help someone with an app with a video capabil
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by dghughes 5y ago
About as much as the death of Betty White did. But really it (identity politics) does touch us all in any workplace since HR in every organization aggressively enforces compliance.
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by dghughes 5y ago
> but at the end of the day, Google and FB are advertising companies trying to be more than that. Looked at Netflix clicked on a movie that I though may be interesting, it was overdubbed in English since it was a Korean movie. I watched
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by dghughes 5y ago
I wanted to do something similar but it was related to an idea I wanted to also try. The project was a dashcam that could determine the velocity of other vehicles. Some implementation of OpenCV is what I thought may work. It was the triangu
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by dghughes 5y ago
Like bring up to Amazon level conditions or actually something humane?
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by dghughes 5y ago
I'm pretty sure India and China are not on speaking terms.
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by dghughes 5y ago
A parliamentary system of government with multiple political parties may do well in the US. Here in Canada we have at least four parties; Liberal, Conservatives, NDP, Green. It is more than likely each election will result in a minority gov
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by dghughes 5y ago
Amazon and Apple lure you in but many shows it seems need to be rented or bought. How much disposable income do these companies think the average Joe has to spend? the answer seems to be $10 to $20 to rent or "buy" movies. Which y
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by dghughes 5y ago
Why does an electric airplane need to use batteries for storage? I'd say advance the technology by using other sources of power if possible. Instead of compressed liquid hydrogen which is hard to contain maybe some type of heated metal
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by dghughes 5y ago
Doesn't it go: influenza < SARS-CoV-2 < SARS-CoV-2 delta <= SARS-CoV-2 omicron? At least for how transmissible each is. The disease covid would depend on which variant you contract. Yes I know influenza isn't a corona vir
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by dghughes 5y ago
Pimp/drug dealer car was my thought. "A pimp's love is very different from that of a square"
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by dghughes 5y ago
Because the assumption is as most often is the situation the US won't ask it will just do as it pleases. It may be due to pressure from states, citizens, lack of water seen as a destabilizing threat, no time to debate or negotiate or t
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by dghughes 5y ago
> This isn't about stealing water from the Great Lakes(that's a common worry) Yes and the people who worry we Canadians because we border four of five lakes with the USA. It's often been said if the USA ever attacks us it
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by dghughes 5y ago
> But it was the sheer silence of the place we moved to that unnerved me I live in a small town in Canada and I can travel outside the town just a few minutes and be in rural area. Although it's getting increasingly longer to get ou
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by dghughes 5y ago
Yes but I think the plan is to have any satellite that is over a ground station to be the relay for others. Send up to a sat then sat to sat via laser and then down to the ground. I'm curious how far each satellite is from the other, d
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by dghughes 5y ago
From what I understand Starlink satellites do not communicate between each other yet, maybe that's outdated info. I know there will be inter-sat comm eventually. But they are 500km in altitude and the atmosphere is 100km so they only h
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by dghughes 5y ago
I liked the explanation Dave from Dave's Garage gave in his "Why does rebooting fix everything" video. The hypothetical example he gave of a Canadian word like "colour" versus "color" that u may eventually
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by dghughes 5y ago
I watch his videos they're great fun to watch especially the expired kits. Your link to his channel makes more sense than the NYT article which picked one seemingly at random it is one of his videos from 2017.
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by dghughes 5y ago
I noticed with the first generation Gorilla Glass I could do anything with it. I could put my phone in my pocket with keys and coins no problem. Then the next phone I got and my house key scratched it the very first day. My wild theory was
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by dghughes 5y ago
In a way I did the job for 32 years but 13 of it with that company. I started out at age 14 fixing grey area poker machines, pinball, and arcade games. My first day I drove a manual transmission truck at age 14 to a bootlegger's to emp
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by dghughes 5y ago
Not sure if this counts but I worked at a small casino and the servers managing the floor could barely function. The payment system was a mess too not just due to technical issues but also from "territorial" issues. The servers we

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