ectopod

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by ectopod 5y ago
Yes. I had thirty years of back pain. Then I reached an age where ones muscles naturally atrophy and I was really in trouble. But after four years of back exercises, weight lifting and core exercises the pain is almost entirely gone. My bac
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by ectopod 5y ago
Or with Netflix, GAMMAN.
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by ectopod 5y ago
There are two off-by-one errors. Should be checking value[length-1].
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by ectopod 5y ago
This is legacy now. The latest .Net stuff (whatever they're calling it this week) bundles its dependencies, so it's no better than flatpak in that regard.
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by ectopod 5y ago
If your partner has to take unpaid leave you might both agree that it's better for you to care for the sick child. But you're still stuck with it.
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by ectopod 5y ago
It's not that simple. Arbitrary firings are bad for morale, so it's in management's interest for the remaining employees to understand what happened.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Motorised seats moving automatically can be very dangerous. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-57908134
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by ectopod 5y ago
When Go was new they recommended using "golang" for web searches. I still do though it sounds like it's unnecessary now.
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by ectopod 5y ago
My ground floor apartment has thin laminate flooring over low quality planks over the freezing void below. This floor is very cold in the winter. Noise from above isn't great either. Not recommended.
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by ectopod 5y ago
I've made peanut butter with my pestle and mortar. It didn't take long, but I was making small quantities.
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by ectopod 5y ago
This is one of the benefits of capitalism. It provides a relatively harmless occupation for the monsters.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Many telephone scams rely on creating sustained panic in the victim. Transfer your money to thwart the cybercriminals! There's no time to think. A letter can be discussed with friends and family. It's much easier to dismiss withou
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by ectopod 5y ago
Say "if it's important send me a letter". Hang up. Don't waste your time running round after these idiots.
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by ectopod 5y ago
I definitely used Visual Studio on Alpha for C++. And it had VB too: https://news.microsoft.com/1998/12/07/microsoft-announces-av...
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by ectopod 5y ago
Yes. PhpBB and my Nokia feature phone have had yellow smilies since before iPhones were a thing.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Visual Studio for Alpha existed. At my company none of the third-party libraries we used were available for anything other than x86, but our code compiled and ran on Alpha NT with no problem at all. I'm nearly sure that Office was avai
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by ectopod 5y ago
Non-violent communication works if you're talking to an individual as an equal but corporations cannot empathise or be empathised with. It's madness to try.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Great. So the zoom feature is showing information fabricated at capture time. How does that help?
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by ectopod 5y ago
Not quite. They broke smooth window resizing in XP.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Does the DoD have the right to demand designs and knowhow from Intel and AMD? Patents alone are really not much use.
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by ectopod 5y ago
These things can be simultaneously true. The closure design is as good as it could be given the constraints, and it is not ergonomic.
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by ectopod 5y ago
> "rotate by tau radians" tau/4 radians?
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Don't use 32-bit file times! Change it quick while you have the chance.
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...and nobody thought of dictionary attacks when it was designed. So it was world readable.
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Sales taxes weren't a thing then. Before the 20th century government played pretty much no part in the average person's life.
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by ectopod 5y ago
This is just 2G internet, so surely it is one of the things the authorities will switch off.
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Maybe. Or maybe the interview is to weed out candidates who exhibit wrongthink. Neither option is appealing.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Did you forget to put your clocks back on Sunday?
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by ectopod 5y ago
> On the dark side, narcissists commonly display a lack of sympathy, a tendency toward cruelty and foresight, moodiness, and irritability. Is foresight a bad thing?
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by ectopod 5y ago
Sure, but "dead" is a Humpty Dumpty word. Some organs need the donor to be legally but not colloquially dead. In other words, you are dead and your heart is still beating.

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