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by jarek 13y ago
Yes, preferences > playback > output and select output method DirectSound http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Pre... http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/foobar/foobar-5_files&
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by jarek 13y ago
Similar: http://free2goapp.com
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by jarek 13y ago
Just an observation: in my experience, everyone with an axe to grind against Wikipedia says basically "I thought the article was incorrect (wrong, biased, not neutral) and they wouldn't let me fix it." You can imagine how the
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by jarek 13y ago
> roamed by amalgamations of insufferable, biased, and often incorrect pedants and paid PR shills Everyone on the internet is an insufferable, biased, and often incorrect pedant according to at least one other person. Do you think you&#x
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by jarek 13y ago
> What if google or bing made a similar deal? Or any large corporation, for that matter? Facebook already does this https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/fast-and-free-facebo... and I'm sure many others
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Not having foreign keys to your profile all over the place would be a vast improvement though
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XPLite, nLite, RT Se7en Lite, etc disagree
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> NIMBYism takes on a different meaning when your city allows violent, mentally-ill homeless to do as they wish on the streets w/o proper care. Well, it's a good thing closing one "recycling center" will go a long way
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by jarek 13y ago
It would make it a little faster since electric trains can accelerate out of stations a little faster. It's not a major difference at Caltrain's station spacing though. The other issues you mention have little to do with diesel&#x
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by jarek 13y ago
Well, they aren't really intended for the same type of service. BART is rather unusual by combining what is in some places almost commuter-rail station spacing with full grade separation ($$$), but it's still best when running mor
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by jarek 13y ago
The riffraff story is actually about the peninsula extensions. BART was originally intended/hoped to include service roughly parallel to 101/280/SP/Caltrain at least through to Palo Alto, but Santa Clara and San Mateo co
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by jarek 13y ago
That's, what, 2 blocks of urban form surrounded by big box retail and parking lots? Very suburban sounds about right.
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by jarek 13y ago
Where is the Sunnyvale city centre?
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by jarek 13y ago
But run into problems when two separate businesses are located on different floors in the same building. Not to mention you don't need many lat/long decimal places at all to get tens or hundreds of possible points in a medium-size
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by jarek 13y ago
I- I- I mean- what? I apologize for writing short, pithy posts about a topic you clearly care a lot about, but what? Let's ignore the part where I referred to a current fad game to make a clearly joking reference. Your country has alwa
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by jarek 13y ago
I like how this is the only post the OP hasn't replied to. I guess at least Bush had experience as a CEO - even if not quite the hard work, dedication and a healthy dose of risk taking OP values so much.
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by jarek 13y ago
> a president who isn't even qualified to run a cookie baking operation Obama's at 811,417,118.8 Cps in Cookie Clicker - what have you done that's so great?
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by jarek 13y ago
State politicians and voters in state elections, particularly in states that are net beneficiaries of the federal contributions, are sure to like the idea.
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by jarek 13y ago
The argument has been that by specifying what each URL part is, you can build a link to https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism in the first place. Is delicious.com/minimalism the tag minimalism or the user minimalism? And wh
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by jarek 13y ago
As I've pointed out in another thread, Canadian citizens visiting the U.S. are not automatically fingerprinted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-VISIT http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/us
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by jarek 13y ago
This is not completely accurate. At the very least, Canadians entering at land crossings are not scanned.
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by jarek 13y ago
Oh this is true for any announcement. Buy the rumour, sell the news.
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by jarek 13y ago
In addition to customer acquisition and introductory rates and so on, also be aware that interest rates differ by currency. I can get significantly more interest in CAD (1.35% - 1.9% in Canadian banks, up to 3% with some limited accounts) t
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by jarek 13y ago
Of my applications that proceeded beyond email, five had HR or non-technical recruiters handling the initial screening. It just doesn't seem to have been that big of a factor. Maybe Vancouver is particularly progressive on this, or I&#
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> You appear to have chosen to create a 5 month gap in your work history. Can you imagine how this looks to an employer? Are you by any chance trolling? I am a middling .NET developer with a self-chosen 4 month gap in my work history (&q
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by jarek 13y ago
It's just words. Some will call it "personal projects" or "stealth exploratory startup" or ""consulting,"" some will call it "funemployment."
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by jarek 13y ago
> The fun part of funemployment only lasts 2 weeks or so, or when the first rejection comes in. This can be very easily extended by not looking for rejections. In my mind funemployment involves not looking for a job (or writing posts a
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That's what happens when you buy it as an add-on to a "home automation system," also known as license to pull money out of non-technical people's pockets. Then again seeing how the hardware part jwz did do went for him,
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IMVHO, if someone has access to your cookies, you are likely dealing with problems bigger than protecting your bank card number. That implies having access to your files, physical access to the machine, or MITMing the connection to your ban
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In my experience, "remember me" on banking sites usually saves only your username/login name. Useful on your personal computers when your bank uses your 16 digit card number for login name.

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