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by eric_h 5y ago
> That was configurable for ages and default is on strict for a long time now I'm not saying I'm being rational in holding my grudge. I got bit by that "bug" _bad_ early in my career and the scar tissue lingers.
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by eric_h 5y ago
> Having said that Apple isn't really big on cross-platform features either. While I generally agree with you, Apple is putting apple tv+ on roku - it's not a stretch to suggest they would use a similar strategy for fitness+:
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by eric_h 5y ago
> I hear I also need to get over my 20 year old grudge against MySQL. I hear this too - but silently truncating my data (causing a great deal of data loss and grief for me) is likely going to continue to bias me against MySQL for the for
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by eric_h 6y ago
Empirically false that they "often" yield surprising results - i think the adjective "occasionally" would be more correct.
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by eric_h 6y ago
I'm mediocre at poker but generally turn a profit in casino poker rooms. The trick is to never go up against the sharks unless you've got the nuts (for those not familiar, "the nuts" is a poker term that means the best p
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by eric_h 6y ago
the blame is delegated to a number on an excel spreadsheet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by eric_h 6y ago
If we've learned anything from all of this it seems pretty clear that it'll start suggesting coal rolling videos and ads for a carbon fiber empty tube to replace your muffler.
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by eric_h 6y ago
I read the game of thrones novels ages ago in pulp paperback and tried to read the fifth one as an ebook and I simply could not keep track of the various character story lines, names, etc. that I had no problem with while reading the physic
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by eric_h 6y ago
Fun story - i still have the first credit account I got when I first went to college (originally cosigned by my parents with like a $400 monthly limit, eventually became solely my own and with a proper credit limit). Many years later (after
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A Bristling Standoff Rattles Gun-Friendly Vermont(nytimes.com)
6 points by eric_h 6y ago|3 comments
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by eric_h 6y ago
> The whole opioid epidemic is a classic example of accidental demand creation for the drugs Perhaps orthogonal to your point but it seems pretty clear from information coming out that the demand creation for opioids was very much not ac
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by eric_h 6y ago
Indeed. And that seems to be a bar from which we are very far away.
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by eric_h 6y ago
I've been using Safari as my browsing browser and Chrome as my development browser for years. Chrome's network tab is way better than Safari and their profiling tools are also very useful.
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by eric_h 6y ago
> the failure mode was considered Considered but not tuned. I've never noticed any delay launching or using software that doesn't require an internet connection while not being connected to the internet. (I definitely did notic
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by eric_h 6y ago
There are so many ways they could have allowed sharing of clips/photos without giving copies of all their content to other services (which I imagine was the motivation for making it effectively impossible to share anything on other net
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by eric_h 6y ago
> quibi doesn't have anything share-driven and that right there is why quibi failed - the only quibi clip I've seen was taken by someone using another phone to record it and post it to twitter. By not allowing viral hits to be
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by eric_h 6y ago
I believe the parent is presuming a higher base level of rationality in GP's "gut" than that of the population-at-large. While I'm not a parent, I'm certain that my "gut" would tell me that vaccinating my
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Ragnar Locker ransomware deploys virtual machine to dodge security(news.sophos.com)
7 points by eric_h 6y ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 6y ago
Fair criticism. I guess my bar for what I define as "good PDF support" is much lower than yours - I only generally read them or plug in a digital signature when signing my lease.
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by eric_h 6y ago
How so? I have no problem opening PDF links directly in Safari.
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by eric_h 6y ago
> international coordinated delivery network, apps that work on all devices, background checks, vehicle registration and checking sites So Uber does this but grub hub/seamless does not? The delivery folks who work for the restaurant
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A font that censors bad language automatically(vole.wtf)
5 points by eric_h 6y ago|1 comments
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by eric_h 7y ago
When I was a kid I would sink with a full breath of air (in a pool). I learned the back float and the dead man's float in swim lessons but I still needed to move some water with my hands to stay on the surface. I enjoyed the fact that
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by eric_h 7y ago
> (Scuba is super cool too, btw. But that's like... super advanced swimming. Baby steps.) I've met more than one scuba diver who were weak swimmers but avid divers. To your previous point, flippers turn a weak swimmer into >
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Take One Last Look at the (Many) Plastic Bags of New York(nytimes.com)
1 points by eric_h 7y ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 7y ago
> I really hope some kind of vaccine comes out soon It would be nice for the vaccine to come back - I was able to get the vaccine (and a booster a couple years later) when the vaccine was available (quite some time ago). I've also a
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by eric_h 7y ago
I’m guessing one factor in that is the appetite suppression effects of both. I heard a story (though perhaps apocryphal) about tobacco use increasing during the Great Depression specifically because of that side effect.
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by eric_h 7y ago
> zebra mussels have helped clean up Lake Erie [...] modern druid, who laments that humans so often avoid the ecological solutions mother nature has provided us. Zebra mussels are an invasive species that were transported to Lake Erie (a
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by eric_h 7y ago
The term that is generally accepted is "cis" or "cisgendered"
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by eric_h 7y ago
I found remembering that it's the same as `cp` is what stopped me from continuously googling it.

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