drdavid

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by drdavid 5y ago
I just use Stylish or Stylus and apply a darker userstyle.
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by drdavid 5y ago
I recall installing it when it was still pretty new, freshly forked from another application. The last time I looked, WP was running ~1/3 of the public-facing web. I use it for all sorts of things, as it makes a perfectly usable CMS. I
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by drdavid 5y ago
There's a bunch of reports (keep scrolling and reading). I'm not sure what you want for 'hard evidence'. You'll see things like - "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions
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by drdavid 5y ago
If you want people to be more receptive, you could try it.
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by drdavid 5y ago
>WMDs in Iraq Some interesting reading regarding this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr... It turns out that there really were some WMDs after all. I'm not sure they were enough to j
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by drdavid 5y ago
Some years back, before I sold my business and retired, I tried something and I've stuck with it ever since. I pretty much never say 'should', in the sense that someone 'should do' something. Instead, I use the word
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by drdavid 5y ago
I live in the US. I care not one iota about their cookie law and I'm not going to nag my visitors about cookies. Of course the site uses cookies. That's how you retain your settings from session to session. At the same time, I&#x2
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by drdavid 5y ago
Whelp... It finally impacted me personally. The Ubuntu (for me, Lubuntu) teams are all migrating to Libera. I've disconnected from freenet and configured Libera with all the authentication and channels.
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by drdavid 5y ago
Some searching tells me 1 to 5 years is considered normal.
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by drdavid 5y ago
When I sold my company, I bought a beach house. This was during the 2007 crash. It appreciated quite a bit and I never actually used it. So, I sold it. I basically moved the money from an asset that appreciates to assets that I appreciate -
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by drdavid 5y ago
About an hour before you: >... I still have an almost instinctive aversion to all the sites with new TLDs that I come across in search results ... (Among some other comments, that was just the nearest one.) So, the likely answer is, &quo
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by drdavid 5y ago
I'd amend to: "... planning on recording the event to show it on YouTube for ad revenue and Internet fame." In this case, the offender's friends are benefiting from the research. I think that needs to be made important.
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by drdavid 6y ago
It has been like that in (my) Linux for a long time? This isn't new by any means. Lemme check. Current version: Version 88.0.4324.50 (Developer Build) Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit) It looks like I installed this OS in July of this year, which
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by drdavid 6y ago
>Legos were expensive, hard to get and treasured when I was a kid so result was much undesired. By the time I had children of my own, they were cheap enough to be used as caltrops.
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by drdavid 6y ago
Where I live, they'll send you down logging roads and old, disused roads fit only for 4WD trucks. It's not just Google. Other GPS maps will send you to my house on a road that hasn't really been passable for 30 or 40 years -
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by drdavid 6y ago
The robotics field has been moving at a crazy speed for decades. I think people, probably not yourself, underestimate the complexity of things like bipedal movement. This display was really quite impressive.
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by drdavid 6y ago
It seems like there may be a market there. Every 10 to 15 years, you send in your archived (and new/interim) personal data and get it back on the current top-tech storage medium. That way it's not stored in the cloud and you can k