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by ink_13 5y ago
Is Ghostery still worth installing these days?
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by ink_13 5y ago
However good you think Linux is on this file, the BSDs, particularly OpenBSD, are better.
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by ink_13 5y ago
It just takes dedicated and deliberate practise. There's no secret method I'm afraid. Oh, except for "go slow".
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by ink_13 5y ago
This is never, ever, ever going to happen, and the reason is enterprise compliance. Every year, technical auditors will approve security policies that require Windows in all kinds of scenarios and definitively rule out use of Linux for any
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by ink_13 5y ago
And a good build system
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by ink_13 5y ago
> The Korean-Tamil hypothesis comes to mind This one doesn't seem to have a lot behind it. There are a handful of nice coincidences, but that's all.
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by ink_13 5y ago
I can see the attraction for enterprise-level storage, where a single chassis might contain anywhere from 20-90 drives, but my thought on seeing news like this is that surely we're getting to the point where resilvering times will make
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by ink_13 5y ago
IME it depends on your use case. If you want something you can use as a border router/firewall, OpenBSD. If you want something for more general-purpose computing (like a desktop or home server), FreeBSD. If you want something you can i
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by ink_13 5y ago
It seems pretty clear that the company considered avoiding depositions of Zuckerberg and Sandberg to not be worth $0.
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by ink_13 5y ago
Yes, this is called "looming": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looming_and_similar_refraction...
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by ink_13 5y ago
The article touches on this point briefly: > How should one pronounce the cae- in caelum (sky): kai, as it was in Rome of the 1st century BCE, or che, as used in Christian liturgy and modern Italian? but then later concludes when discuss
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by ink_13 5y ago
Vi seems to have mostly-retired from YouTube, alas, but her excellent back catalogue is still with us.
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by ink_13 5y ago
What interesting when seeing it all laid out like this is just how close El Goog has been to getting right on more than one occasion, only for some shiny new thing to blunder on to the scene and fragment everything again. It seems pretty cl
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by ink_13 5y ago
> what's the 'Uber' advantage? Pickup from a map pin, dropoff to a map pin, driver follows traffic-aware navigation the whole way (like GMaps or Waze), payment automatically handled. Cost was never why I preferred Uber&#x2
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by ink_13 5y ago
Well, the pictures all seem to be pretty obviously taken from Street View, which explains the weird angles. I was surprised there was no mention of the palette or the quality of the photos: they're all pretty washed out and gray, fuzzy
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by ink_13 5y ago
> Does anybody find it strange how there's never a single post by man in female dominated industry? I don't know what point you're trying to communicate here. Which female dominated industries do you regularly see discuss
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Why women in tech are so angry all the time(mashable.com)
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by ink_13 5y ago
I don't agree. Sounds like the right interested party could get the collection for just the cost of shipping, which seems reasonable to me.
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by ink_13 5y ago
> they appear to have legit elections You might want to research this point more deeply.
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by ink_13 5y ago
The power requirements to run, say, 100 chargers, potentially all at once, are potentially bananas. If there's going to be large-scale charging, there's also going to have to be some kind of load-orchestration system involved, to
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by ink_13 5y ago
I can't imagine anything more convenient than waiting around for over two hours to ensure my transaction is confirmed: https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_confirmation_... Confirmation time has also rec
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by ink_13 5y ago
It turns out those are still made by the original factory in Germany: https://friesland-porzellan.de/utah-teekanne
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by ink_13 5y ago
That's the one. IIRC Frederick Tudor is only one chapter. The rest of the book is also excellent.
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by ink_13 5y ago
It's likely that "ft" was a ligature in the original which didn't survive the conversion (for example, if the destination font doesn't have the character ﬅ). Sounds like a bug, though.
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by ink_13 6y ago
Wasn't del.icio.us sold to Pinboard?
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by ink_13 6y ago
Canadian mortgages are not quite apples-to-apples with US ones. They have similar amortization schedules but the term is only generally 1-5 years (although you can get 7 or 10 year terms at fairly awful rates), after which it can be rolled
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by ink_13 6y ago
> There's a temperature at which it's too cold for salt to work Sure, brine has a freezing point. > a great deal of the benefit of salt comes from friction as cars drive over it, crushing pieces of ice and forming that slush
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by ink_13 6y ago
> Deicing salt works by absorbing moisture as it lands, before it can form a sheet of ice. That's...false? Salt gets spread on existing ice to melt it all the time. Where does the absorbed water go in this model? This assertion
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by ink_13 6y ago
This would have been a lot better with examples in the form of rendered images or perhaps even a video. Maybe it's just my lack of background in graphics, but I had a lot of trouble grasping what the author was attempting to communica
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by ink_13 6y ago
> can DNS lookup if needed Can it? Not every machine that sends mail is on the public Internet.

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