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by dingle_thunk 9y ago
Worth pointing out that in most of the schools of thought in Islam, it’s not advisable to have more than one wife, except in situations where there are significantly more women than men. Islam and polygyny have a long and complex cultural h
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by dingle_thunk 9y ago
The author is simply reflecting the rising anger in the community. If you don't believe me, look for public polling on trust in Si valley and social media companies, look at politics, or just talk to anyone outside the bubble.
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by dingle_thunk 9y ago
> Don't be disingenuous "My interpretation is objective reality, but your interpretation is dumb". How about don't be an asshole, man?
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by dingle_thunk 9y ago
I've used "Voice Dream" for this for years. It's brilliant. iOS/Android text to speech app: http://www.voicedream.com/reader/ It has so many voices available in the voice store, and I've
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by dingle_thunk 9y ago
It turns off Automatic reboots, not Automatic updates.
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by dingle_thunk 9y ago
Hyper on windows is buggy AF tbh. cmder or conemu are more popular. More options @ https://www.slant.co/topics/1552/~terminal-emulators-for-win...
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by dingle_thunk 9y ago
Author should check out this script for an even more minimal setup :) https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1
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by dingle_thunk 9y ago
... Microsoft keep doing that. They've deployed development builds to Office 365 production. Incidentally, Office 365 SharePoint is built on React.
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by dingle_thunk 9y ago
Great ideas. It seems like this sort of 'sane defaults' functionality could easily be added to future versions of webpack, and that might really help with adoption... rather than this community endlessly switching tool chains.
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by dingle_thunk 9y ago
Actually, that was only the case temporarily. For ...reasons... (I think it was the SkyDrive legal complaint?) the product rename happened before the client was technically consolidated. Since January, OneDrive and OneDrive for Business use
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
Aussie PM. Tony Abbott. Caught hell for saying it but I agree, it was accurate.
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
Australian traffic signals are also 'smart'. They don't cycle in non-peak hours. They just use sensors to detect oncoming traffic and route appropriately. Main roads default to green, but lights on side roads will switch just
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
This is Visual Studio '15' (2017), not Visual Studio '15 (2015, v14).
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
You mean like an AMD APU?
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
The dev kit is $10k. I imagine the final product will be cheaper.
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
No. And that was added back in Windows 10.
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
I switched from OneDrive to Dropbox this year - was loyal to OneDrive since it was WL Mesh. Dropbox made a world of difference. No more duplicates, and so much easier to reorganize files.
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
Much of this is beyond me, but is it producing (synthesizing) sounds? Or just sampling sounds?
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
Is a BeagleBone like a raspberry pi? :)
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
Seems like if I really want to know what's going on at that level, I should really use something more simple, like a raspberry pi...
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
https://jasperproject.github.io/
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
http://visualstudio.com Team Services is also pretty nice. Free unlimited hosted git repos for 5 users, also includes free build/test/load test/release/CI management, kanban boards, team chat rooms. eclipse&#
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by dingle_thunk 10y ago
Great battery life, but not very lappable...
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by dingle_thunk 11y ago
I used to do that, until I realised that anything I could comprehend at 2.5x wasn't new to me, and therefore wasn't worth listening to at all. I cut my podcast subs by half (to a mere 100!) after figuring that out. I'm now a
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by dingle_thunk 11y ago
Um. Isn't Yahoo powered by Bing anyway?
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by dingle_thunk 11y ago
I found this really interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Islamic_philosophy Notable contributions: Scientific method, peer review process, evolution, psychology, clinical trial process. I always knew that t
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by dingle_thunk 12y ago
... Have you seen their prices?
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by dingle_thunk 12y ago
Yeah it's a consideration, but the mere use of an existing old wive's tale doesn't completely discount the possibility of there being some truth to it anyway...
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American Sufi Mystic talks about the coming new global civilization(youtube.com)
3 points by dingle_thunk 12y ago|0 comments
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by dingle_thunk 13y ago
Apple were not the first company to create a phone with navigation features. Surface is a tablet which can also run Photoshop, AutoCAD, MATLAB, Visual Studio, Flash, and whatever other weird legacy apps are kicking around. It can multitask.

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