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by jjkaczor 4y ago
My grandfather got a pacemaker in the late 1970's. He died in 2014, not from heart-related issues. I'd say that was a good return on medical investment.
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
I have never read the comic/graphic novel, so - was coming into this blind. It was going well, until Mathew opened his mouth and spoke - and all I could think of was... "Happy!"... Another graphic novel adaptation where Patto
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
Heh... JSON was fine, until everything adopted it. Now, I am on concall bridges most of the day, half-listening, trying to get work done, yet constantly being triggered by hearing my name being called... yes... yes, my name is 'Jason&#
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
"I think you're taking this way further than anyone actually involved would" Just because you currently seem to have a "failure of imagination" does not mean that law enforcement, corrupt/facist/dystopian
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
Heh - the Netflix zombie series "Black Summer" was filmed in "North East" Calgary, Alberta Canada. The running joke was that because the "North East" was a fairly rough/work traditional working-class area,
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
I have "business class" service from a provider (Canada - Rogers), which came with a "Clearnet" router/wifi combo that has, LTE failover. (Cradlepoint) And - of course it was locked for admin - well - not for long,
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
Yeah - it just "felt right" in the hand. I had a modem, with a serial connector dongle that would let my Motorola flip be used with my Newton 120... Dial-up internet in the "palms of your hands" while hanging around in
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
Aha... apparently you have met ALL of my relatives who have absolutely no understanding that they could login to the device and change the password to something better.
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
Chemicals being hair/face/skin products (sprays, gells, shaving cream, creams/moisturizers) which are commercially produced, tested and sold at retail/wholesale? Yes, they need to be knowledgable (growth patterns/di
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
As per your note [1], this is the "Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory : "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, wa
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
It got even worse when it was sold (and re-sold?) - don't ever go back.
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
Heh - I miss those days of offbeat, new products. Myself, I grabbed a 130 shortly after release. Combined with a PCMCIA modem, and serial cable connector to my Motorola Flip, I was one of those obnoxious nerds in coffee shops checking my e
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
I am going to hazard a guess here. When cast-iron stoves were common and possibly the primary source of heat for many homes, I am pretty sure that for most of the cold parts of the year, they would be fired-up and kept hot most of the day a
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
heh... this has already happened ages ago with the Kindle.
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
If it runs on the their network network and not mine, then any activity will be tied to their IP and the incorrectly correlated with their usage. So - my privacy stays intact as long as I don't link the device ID with my name or person
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
It's not even white... More like a "grey-purple".
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
The article was published April 1st... I am thinking this was intended to be a joke, as this is the first thing I noticed, breaking it's own rules for "clarity of text".
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
>Even if you are unqualified for the role, and they know it, they still want to help you along so they can see your best work So ~14 years ago - after about a year at Microsoft, I was encouraged to assist with interviewing new candidates
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
"So if you had a large form that done complex stuff it wasn't unusual to have a multi thousand line long form file." Just a small quibble - you would typically move shared-code into seperate module files. The other biggest ch
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by jjkaczor 4y ago
Thank-you, very informative.
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
If I were a drone manufacturer of this type of camera drone, I would release free/downloadable audio profiles/captures of my drone operating at different speeds, to allow filtering to remove them based on the flight profile... (M
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Bone conduction? (Am fairly certain they aren't great if you are going for audiophile level reproduction - but from a safety perspective, they let you hear your environment - note, I have personally never tried them)
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Same
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Bingo - Usenet is download only, Bittorent is distribution. Myself, as a Canadian - I have been hoping that a copyright holder would actually take someone to court here after our laws were changed, to actually test the lifetime maximum &quo
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
It may not be as open as the Pebble, but Garmin does have a development ecosystem - : https://developer.garmin.com/
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
So - over the past three years, I had an extremely part-time regional government client who I worked with maybe 40-60hrs per year through a friend's boutique consultancy, mostly as a favor. Last spring, I prepared a migration roadmap,
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Only used these for about 2-years in high-school (Picton) What I remember was the trackball, the multi-player games ... and if you used the equivalent of "NET SEND" to send a message to another terminal to another you could crash
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Wireless USB mouse attached via dongle. Or bluetooth mouse. If Wifi will go through the Compaq shell, so will mouse signals.
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Yes, Germany did do this for a few years. And the Microsoft came calling again - guess what they use now? It is the example I used to tell clients about how if your organization is big enough, publicly visible enough and open to being in th
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Exactly - all they are is formal "risk mitigation"

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