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by jquast 3y ago
Also it’s more than just planting, they need careful tending for the first few years, whether fertilizing or fighting aphids or disease, I don’t want to just volunteer to plant trees in some far away place nobody tends to, lots of those “pl
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by jquast 3y ago
I only own a half acre of property and it’s chock full of them. I live in the United States, there isn’t any land that I would plant on in my county that isn’t owned public or privately, that the gas and oil or electricity companies won’t c
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by jquast 3y ago
it just explains like “this is what happens when you run the code” instead of “here is how the code works”, if you want to know the latter please read https://www.oilshell.org/archive/Thompson-1968.pdf Regex is somethi
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by jquast 3y ago
Smoke blocks the ability to chemically communicate. When an alert signal is heard, it is rapidly repeated causing a swarm. The smoke prevents it from being heard in the first place.
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by jquast 3y ago
I remember Hurricane Katrina shutting down lots of online services, and directnic battling to stay online https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/11/05/prov...
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by jquast 3y ago
Yes, but I also had that very same experience with Perl, Ruby, Tcl, and Java during their peak heights of popularity, that they were pervasive and problematic. I feel the landscape of operating systems architectures were much more diverse,
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by jquast 3y ago
4am has cracked loads of apple ii games, and after doing several hundred manually, automated it as a set of python scripts, https://github.com/a2-4am/passport an article with interview here, https://paleotro
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by jquast 3y ago
If I were an attacker, could I clone the device id and attributes of the victim's previously approved devices? https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard#before-the-first-start Anyway I enjoy this HID stuff, I've b
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by jquast 3y ago
Like the rest of them, they have redefined “Open” as in “Open for business”
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by jquast 3y ago
How much of Azure infrastructure is managed by Windows? Are they using their own operating systems, hardware devices, drivers, firmware blobs and tools, or are they struggling like everyone else to glue all that FOSS together securely?
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by jquast 3y ago
I wrote a small script to load Hamurrabi.bas onto my Apple-1 replica over serial and to play against it interactively, as a sort of screensaver. Though I played this as a kid, I learned some interesting anti-mechanics by writing an "au
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by jquast 3y ago
When you’ve written over one thousand event loops, and debug another thousand edge cases and logic bombs like reading a blocking socket before it’s ready, partial read, or mac vs Linux vs windows peculiarities in your homemade hundreds-line
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by jquast 3y ago
Genuinely curious, would any money be extracted from the personal accounts of any executive employee that made these decisions, current or past, from any of these thousands of lawsuits? Unless the decision-making folks have their personal w
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by jquast 3y ago
We should have better local shells that “drive” remote sh/bash shells through transpilation, so that we can have modern shells anywhere without concern for remote install, access to install or compile, compatibility, carrying customiza
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by jquast 3y ago
Probably because the API can be unreachable, timeout, etc — with a message queues it can be redelivered without permanently dropping customer data or whatever with only a stack trace to remember it by
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by jquast 3y ago
So long as you pay capital gains and income taxes, unless you are suggesting tax evasion, which is a crime
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by jquast 4y ago
Retirement accounts aren't in high-yield savings accounts. Using S&P 500, $1 in 2008 would be $2.61 at the end of 2023. Average APR is 8.45%, while bank savings is 3.5% right now. Just a few hundred a month could have made you a mi
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by jquast 4y ago
I hope this means my dentist will stop giving me free samples of Oral-B dental floss that contains forever chemicals, as recently as last month, I wanted to say something about what kind of doctor suggests putting PFAS products in our mouth
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by jquast 4y ago
MUD/telnet-based MMO’s are very popular with the visually impaired https://mud.fandom.com/wiki/Aardwolf > Aardwolf has a very strong visually impaired following. I know there was a survey at some time that show
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by jquast 4y ago
Microsoft doing its part in an international conspiracy to create busywork for the middle class. They don't want you getting too much work done, there isn't enough go around.
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by jquast 4y ago
The only reason I carry a cellphone with me in many situations is just in case of an emergency. I wouldn’t take it for walks, to the store, out to eat, and definitely not while driving, but only for the safety of myself and others around me
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by jquast 4y ago
It’s also completely uninsured against losses. My bank and fidelity can both go bankrupt and shutdown, but I’m still FDIC and SIPC insured, I’ll get all my money back. Good luck with getting your money back from Celsius, Binance, and Coinba
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by jquast 5y ago
Please don’t forget about social security, that one year would make up the largest contribution of your social security benefits, and if you worked at least 10 more years after that, the AWI-adjusted Gross Income would drastically increase
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by jquast 5y ago
Pretty certain I was a part of their experiment, not Prime related, I just wished to close my account entirely. They kept replying that "someone will contact you in 24-48 hours", but nobody would. I got more aggressive each cycle,
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by jquast 5y ago
How to transact crypto when the government disables internet access?
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by jquast 5y ago
Hard disagree. Helicopters are much less safe and not have redundant batteries or propellers. Joby recently provided acoustic results with NASA that show magnitudes less dB, you can look it up and hear for yourself. Having witnessed hundred
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by jquast 5y ago
File recovery is always possible. Unmount the partition (remount read-only if you have to), use a program like hexedit to open the raw disk partition and search for a unique series of text found in your script files, copy and paste the cont
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by jquast 5y ago
Every wire, every circuit path, is also an antenna, speakers can become a receiver without any special device, just an amplifier and a wire. A neighbor with a modified CB or baofeng radio is “talking trash” using AM, that’s why they’re tran
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by jquast 5y ago
bad enough that EV's contain so many hazardous materials, but to blow them all up into tiny bits for the wind to carry into the soil and drinking water? what a jerk.
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by jquast 5y ago
Why not you? How could she know someone at Facebook? Why would you think this is helpful advice? You surely behave like an ex-FB employee

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