julian_sark

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by julian_sark 4y ago
It might be massively abused to ban customers that don't tip well, or have inconvenient access to their homes, too.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
1. host website with AWS 2. Get featured on HN 3. Suddenly Jeff can hire all the folks back he's laying off, from the bandwidth proceeds.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
1. Buy something from China. 2. Get a refund. 3. Account blocked for two weeks 1. Send €5. Add greeting note. 2. refuse to reveal last name and DOB of person mentioned in the greeting note to Paypal. 3. Have your account blocked and enter m
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by julian_sark 4y ago
It's like the moon - provided the moon can only be explored with a pre-booked tourist bus, and any exploration on foot, or collecting of samples is strictly prohibited. Which is probably fine for a nature reserve, I just thought it des
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by julian_sark 4y ago
This is so amazing, thank you! Probably the best thing since Werner Herzog "Travelbug", a comedy podcast segment (two actually, it was remade) that can be found on YouTube or possibly podcast app, but this here is of course also t
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Great tool. Just one thing: please make an option to distinguish blips by something else than color. Like many people, I can not see the difference between red and black/grey/whatever especially for very thin, small elements on sc
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by julian_sark 4y ago
To be fair: if it was aimed at people who don't use desk calculators all day, maybe it should say "clear all". You know, in actual words. Or have a picture of a trash can on it. To me, desk calculators with CA/M/MR&
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by julian_sark 4y ago
+1. It may not he HRTF, but the game with by far the best positional audio at the moment appears to be Crytek's Hunt: Showdown. Sounds can be pin pointed with amazing accuracy. Often times, one can shoot blindly through a wall just bas
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by julian_sark 4y ago
He'll be 910 years of age. I'd say barring some major scientific break-through, his chances of reaching 2900 are not great.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
I had that sneaking suspicion, yes. Hence the sheep.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
System Architect/Admin here, great resume. Not yet. Been applying to a wealth of non-tech jobs, salary be (almost) damned. No dice. I've even been herding sheep in my holidays, to learn whether I could do that for the next 15-20 y
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by julian_sark 4y ago
I have glass lenses, but I don't care to find out what happens if ever an airbag explodes into my face.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
I use a tall glass with tap water and some dish soap. Dunk them in while I shower, then remove, rinse off with cold water. Afterwards I could use a towel, but actually I tap them dry with a sheet of toilet paper. I THOUGHT that would leave
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by julian_sark 4y ago
As more of a Sys Admin / scripting type, I felt happy and sad at the same time at the actual mention of Visual Basic. VB is often scoffed at, and probably to an extend rightfully so. But those (i.e. VB1 through to VB6) were the ONLY la
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Kinda. But IIRC it didn't generate much (if any) dynamic code, mostly HTML. That feels like ages ago and isn't in any way useful anymore today, I fear.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Great audio book, too. Can recommend.
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by julian_sark 4y ago
Careful what you wish for ... In Germany, this thinking has let to one of two things: mandatory smart meters, which may spy on you, and require an Internet connection. Beefing up the cost by a factor of, idk, a lot. My local provider (lucki
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by julian_sark 4y ago
I had loudspeakers with exposed paper thin components, and it's definitely not cat compatible. So for the home, that's a hard pass.
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by julian_sark 5y ago
The article you recommend for resetting a device itself says: "If you're using your Chromebook at work or school, you can't reset it." So it likely does not apply here.
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by julian_sark 5y ago
I must admit we did a similar thing without BASIC. The local super groceries-and-more store had a bank of demo PCs running DOS, Geoworks or early Windows, and a screen saver. We used to type "format c: /autotest", the later b
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by julian_sark 5y ago
Ah. GW Basic. Memories. On the very first day our household had a PC, they called "the guy". "The guy" was supposedly a PC guru, and he explained to me how to load a program in GW basic. And he put GW Basic in my autoexe
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by julian_sark 5y ago
Meanwhile, I'm at the pub while a PC streams a Twitch stream nobody watches. I hate Twitch streams, but Twitch assuming I am watching nets items in a game I play, and that Skinner box is strong. At least I put the streams on extra low
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by julian_sark 5y ago
Alternate headline: Web site at www.kdsk.com seemingly shuts out European visitors with http/403 instead of dealing with EU data protection act.
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by julian_sark 5y ago
"Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser (I think it was) contains a report about the USA being extremely hesitant and taking ages to reprogram the missiles. So yeah, I'd not be surprised either. Also, that's a great (aud
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by julian_sark 5y ago
One might be tempted to think "oh, it's concrete, I'll hose it down". But after recently reading up on it a bit, some of the missiles had extremely harmful propellants, and if that leaked (which chances are it did), that
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by julian_sark 5y ago
I live in Western Europe too and I never heard of this Leetcode thing until today. I make almost the lower end of the scale you gave (or I would, adjusted for working 40 hours, but I actually chose to work just 32), and I could be making a
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by julian_sark 5y ago
The more I read about Facebook, the happier I am I avoided it ever since.
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by julian_sark 5y ago
Great tip - thanks! :)
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by julian_sark 5y ago
Amazing - I have recently created a CV at the EU's job advert aggregation website, EURES, and that appears to be a separate thing? Great to have a standard when the own organization doesn't appear to follow it? wonder
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by julian_sark 5y ago
> laypeople applicants would find it too difficult > to do something like LaTeX or whatever Those people where a CV and certificates matter, they already construct a CV in the closed system of LinkedIn or Monster's websites. Nobo

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