gargravarr

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by gargravarr 7y ago
I hadn't considered this angle, but it does make a lot of sense. If a bouncer wasn't going to give a site ad revenue, the site doesn't want that bouncer in the first place. This is a horrible state to be in. I mean, I get tha
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by gargravarr 7y ago
The biggest takeaway is that HTML was originally designed to degrade gracefully. If your browser didn't support the intended graphical layout, it would still be able to extract the hierarchy and display a usable web page, even if you w
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by gargravarr 7y ago
Just what I want when I try to use an app quickly (e.g. my bus tickets or something related to time-sensitive travel) - forced updates. I'm going back to Nokia.
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by gargravarr 7y ago
It was designed for a smaller tsunami, yes, but extensive studies of the area published before construction began suggested that a tsunami of the 2011 kind was possible, and the design was inadequate. The sea wall, for example, should have
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by gargravarr 7y ago
The only thing that will make politicians sit up and take notice of privacy issues is for them to experience first-hand what loss of control of their private data does to someone's life - identity theft, poor decisions or benign mistak
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Stalls can be extremely difficult to recover from as it means the wings have lost lift, and therefore the control surfaces (which you need to regain stability) have reduced or even complete loss of effect - a so-called 'deep stall&#x27
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by gargravarr 8y ago
- someone just outright botches the implementation. Heartbleed wound up in OpenSSL for years before anyone noticed.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Oracle Unbreakable* Linux *for certain definitions of 'unbreakable'
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by gargravarr 8y ago
The one distinct advantage of wireless charging is that my Galaxy S5 has the same waterproofing flap over the USB port, and I've already worn through one of these (thankfully Samsung had the foresight to make them very easy to replace
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by gargravarr 8y ago
The Qi wireless charger for my Galaxy S5 has a noticeable precision requirement for placing the phone - it doesn't charge at full speed unless the phone is accurately placed, which is infuriating and makes me cut back my use of wireles
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by gargravarr 8y ago
I agree that stick-shift on its own is not a safety improvement; like you, when I get in a manual car, I shift instinctively. A neatly conditioned response. I switch back and forth between my two cars, one auto, one manual, without messing
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by gargravarr 8y ago
True. I prefer to look at them as janitors, and not good ones either. They seem to be un-making it by removing more features than they've added.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Microsoft didn't make Skype, they bought it and have been slowly grinding it into dust ever since. It's nothing like it used to be.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. business.apple.com refuses me on Firefox. Tweak the UA to be Chrome and it works 100%.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
My UK-model Toyota Celica Supra was owned by its original owner for 20 years. During that time, the car was pampered and treasured - I have a large folder of extensive service records dating to the late-80s. My father bought it in 2006 and
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by gargravarr 8y ago
It's normal to fall out of love with /anything/, IMO. I fell out of love with playing guitar - I moved to a new city over a year ago, and left my most expensive guitar in its case. Then last month, I bought a bass guitar (I&#
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Supposedly NASA was aware of the tile damage to Columbia before re-entry in 2003, but purposefully didn't tell the astronauts because they believed there was indeed no way to fix it; the Shuttle's TPS tiles are right on the bleedi
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by gargravarr 8y ago
True on all counts. For the most part, coal power is being phased out (the UK has closed many plants in the last couple of decades), although China is opening new ones about as fast as the rest of the world is closing theirs! No doubt, it&#
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by gargravarr 8y ago
And if it's Japanese, it'll continue running for decades. Particularly the Toyota M and JZ series - just about indestructible. Agreed, I would love to retrofit an electric power train in a mk2 Supra - attach the motor directly to
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by gargravarr 8y ago
It's already here. I know people who sold their cars and rely on Uber now. I also know people who never owned a car and take taxis everywhere. It's not new.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
As much as I love the rumble of an ICE (the Japanese straight-6 is my aural drug of choice), its days are numbered. We're closing in on a future where gasoline is too expensive due to rarity, too polluting or just too socially unaccept
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Whilst I do agree, I don't see this as a problem so much as the increasing amounts of technology between the driver and the road. Car makers have borrowed styling cues off each other for decades (just look at Ford's definitely-not
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Then an unskippable ad for Burger King before you're able to roll down the window as you pull up at the McDonalds drive-thru.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
When you think about it, a car is as much an ad on wheels as a mode of transport.
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Well, depends how far outside the box you can think: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportmacgyver/comments/9wlmd6...
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by gargravarr 8y ago
That's very informative, I didn't realise the whole horizontal stabiliser itself can be a moving part - I always thought they were fixed and trim was done using the elevator surface. Thanks for the links. So essentially, trim chan
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by gargravarr 8y ago
From what I've been told, the reason for the abbreviation is that the number represents the number of characters between the two letters. The number is not pronounced. This is what initially confused the heck out of me - I knew what i1
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by gargravarr 8y ago
Okay, I've never sat in the cockpit of an aircraft, but the one thing I don't understand - if the nose of a plane suddenly drops, isn't the pilot's first instinct to pull back on the controls to raise it? From what I&#x2
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by gargravarr 8y ago
And yes, I'm aware you can programmatically create SQL Agent jobs in SQL, so he couldn't even use that excuse. The only thing it had over SQL Agent was that it could be 'event driven'. All that ultimately meant was that
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by gargravarr 8y ago
I never actually saw the code that makes this work (thank Christ) but at the previous place I worked, we did everything in SQL. Believing SQL Agent to be 'too limited', my boss had taken it upon himself to reimplement it... in SQL

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