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hawaiian
7y ago
Working at an Amazon fulfillment center is not for the faint of heart. There's a reason they're always hiring. The physical requirements of the job are easy to overlook.
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hawaiian
7y ago
Hack NASA, mostly. Also it makes a great pihole and man-in-the-middle for phone apps.
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It's hard to take anything you write seriously when you're being disingenuous. >Unfortunately, these prototypes broke the web badly. The web was simply not ready for such protection. Yet Apple was fine disabling third-party tra
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hawaiian
7y ago
You could even say it was genius.
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hawaiian
7y ago
I see it as a good thing that will shine more light on cyclist safety.
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ReCAPTCHA has crossed into the domain of cattle-corralling users and thus should be considered harmful. If the system decides it doesn't like you (most likely because you're "too anonymous," but you don't really kno
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hawaiian
7y ago
I believe that the range and depth of surveillance are pretty much equal in both the East and the West, and the difference is entirely in the respective societies' willingness to acknowledge that they're being surveilled.
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hawaiian
7y ago
Related: there was a study mentioned in a pop science article recently showing that ketogenic diets were not effective in female mice compared to male, until the female mice had their ovaries removed. Unfortunately, I'm unable to find
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7y ago
People generally underestimate their food budget. You go "into debt" buying food because you didn't expect it to cost so damn much. But the real problem is rent (also mentioned in the article, but not the headline), which era
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7y ago
I see generic ads as a signal that a company strongly backs its product. I see targeted ads a way for companies hocking cheap products to squeeze value out of their impressions. The billboards on highway 80/101 in SF are usually rented
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Except that senators were not popularly elected, but elected by the state legislature (so corruption was easier). Sending the governors themselves to DC would shift powers back to the state (a good thing, imo), but governors wouldn't h
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7y ago
Growth
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hawaiian
7y ago
It happens in Hawai'i, too. I volunteer at a homeless shelter and routinely serve young people. Some of them have nicer clothes than I do. There is an episode of Portlandia satirizing young homeless people too, so I'd imagine that
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7y ago
>uncompromising But does it have an #ignoreformatter directive?
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7y ago
>For instance, if you’re working on an important project but feel constrained or unmotivated by your office setting, initiate a grand gesture by asking your manager to let you work from home for an entire week to get it done. I'm no
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I don't think the product is targeted at people questioning the health effects of their heavy drinking, but rather at people questioning the effects of endurance training, long commutes, or other habits that may be inadvertently causin
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I've noticed the once ubiquitous ferrite core bulge (to prevent cables from functioning as antennae when plugged into leaky equipment) has been absent from the typical modern USB cable. Is it possible this USB hub lacks a ferrite core
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Part of me wonders if this is an effort by the universities, in cooperation with the College Board, to keep their hands clean and position themselves as objective, data-driven entities. "Adversity" levels are already assessed by a
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7y ago
2-3L
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7y ago
Does an RTL-SDR usually lack a passive/monitor mode?
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7y ago
Periodically I daydream about building an absolute monstrosity of a computer with a LiteScribe DVD burner, combo floppy disk reader, iomega zip drive reader, TV/cable tuner, and other older forgotten-about technology. The motherboard w
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As a user of services, I do want control. Whether my privacy needs are met is not good enough unless mathematically guaranteed, and even then there are social/integration features that may add side channels that require control. An e
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Unfortunately, this will not work. The simulation just deletes food and materializes CO2 and waste matter in line with expectations.
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7y ago
Even though the NSA-style attack was conducted by Chinese hackers in March 2016 (comfortably before the Shadow Brokers' leak of NSA tools in August 2016), it's possible that the tools were circulating outside the NSA earlier and t
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>We are not using parchment anymore, there is nothing to be gained by saving a couple of lines. Parchment, no, but do you not value vertical terseness when evaluating a function for code clarity?
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That sounds about right. For whatever reason, the author, who is also the stronger cyclist, agreed to pull his competitor to 2nd place. The weaker racer also did some pulling. I think the author allows his bias to show too much, because eve
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>Everyone (not just security specialists, versed in reverse engineering) can verify if a vote has been tempered with. Tampering with paper elections is extremely easy. You can throw out entire ballots, fill in choices where left blank, o
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Anecdotally, long periods of exercise (cycling 50+ miles in a single session, once a week) seem to nuke my short-term memory for a few hours, but over time this habit seems to have improved my short-term memory for things such as phone numb
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I find how it's dismissed as a fad pretty humorous and actually a bit insightful. >Table inheritance was a part of a fad wherein the database was closely coupled to object-oriented code. It turned out that coupling things that close
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>Seriously ? everytime I create a django charfield I try to guess in my head what is the best length for this field to optimize for performance, but sounds like using unlimited length (textfield) field doesn't make any difference. G
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