francis_t_catte

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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
ah yes, I guess because the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster happened in Canada, the US shouldn't bother learning anything from it.
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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
Good. Housing should not be treated as an investment.
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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
hahah, yeah, like we're gonna find out there's a piece of alien technology buried inside charon or something.
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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
doesn't matter if there's no LTE (or even 4G) out there.
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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
I was paying in excess of $112 US a month for the priviledge of DSL that had about a 60% uptime on fair weather days, and 0% uptime on rainy days. I also forgot to mentiom how my DSL speeds got that low; one section of telephone wire on my
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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
LOL, try Verizon-level of rural infrastructure neglect. I paid for a guaranteed 3,300Kb/s down, 768Kb/s up. I usually got 900Kb/s down, and 150Kb/s up. to quote the linesman who had the shit job of patching together the
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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
Two things about Lead-Acid or AGM based UPS's (regardless of UPS topology or design): 1.) check your battery health annually and replace bi-annually. I don't care about the battery quality, an always-online UPS is very hard on lea
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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
I use OpenCore, on my 2010 27" iMac of all things. Needed to enable target display mode and native brightness control on the new K610m GPU. So in essence, my actual Macintosh is now a Hackintosh in Apple's eyes. If you have a 2010
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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
Hahahah, oh man, one of Drach's best. Highly recommend his episode on what to do if your ship is sinking/exploding/disagreeable too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbX8rJMI9GM btw, did anyone else see Japane
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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
Firefox had blocked the HTML5 canvas data request for me, which broke the page as you outlined. Once I allowed the canvas data request, and refreshed, the page eventually loaded correctly.
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by francis_t_catte 6y ago
It's worse than that for Shirley Jackson. as of 2015 her monetary compensation was: $945,000 in salary $276,474 in bonuses $31,874 in nontaxable benefits $5.8 million in deferred compensation plus a 19,500sq.ft. mansion. :