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by knodi123 5y ago
I use Handbrake on my mac, and it looks like there's a windows version. For me it's pretty much perfect. I set up my favorite settings as a preset, and now it's basically a one-click ripper.
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by knodi123 5y ago
Why did they decide to name it after a horribly destructive pest that plagues owners of grain silos? Would the Roomba have been as successful if it was named the iCockroach?
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by knodi123 5y ago
> Sure and borrowing $750k to buy a house is a nifty way for me to get $750k without having to pay income taxes on $750k worth of income. That's now how borrowing money to buy a house works.
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by knodi123 5y ago
Yes, but the difference is that borrowing against your unrealized investments is a way of dodging taxes. I think the tax code can handle that level of subtlety without paying attention to your flippant reductio ad absurdum.
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by knodi123 5y ago
In the famous frog-boiling experiment you're referring to, the frogs were actually lobotomized before they were put in the pot. Which makes your analogy even more accurate, IMO.
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by knodi123 5y ago
It's a very vague website, but it almost seems like they're a business that sells the answer to that question? If so - yuck.
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by knodi123 5y ago
why is it a sawtooth shape? i.e. why is carbon PPM on a yearly cycle? (I'm not referring to the overall trend)
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by knodi123 5y ago
wow, I had never heard of them. what a sick business model. I guess in a world of 7 billion people, there's going to be someone willing to fill any niche.
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by knodi123 5y ago
are there any companies hoarding 0days? I know the CIA does, but asking for ethical behavior from them seems like such a long-shot that it would make sense to decouple it from more achievable goals.
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by knodi123 5y ago
"You know what's great about getting COVID? Afterward, you have increased immunity to getting COVID!"
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by knodi123 5y ago
good god, $10 per bar of chocolate, and basically no discount for how long you'll commit to their club? yikes. I'd still maybe be tempted, but living in a hot climate, I have zero confidence I wouldn't just receive a messy
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by knodi123 5y ago
> A basic calculation on their end could filter the accounts based on age, given the TOS of when they were created I assumed it was a legal requirement, and basic intuition and common sense aren't relevant. Much like the immigrati
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by knodi123 5y ago
A lightning connector?
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by knodi123 5y ago
Although > Adding a camper shell to a pickup truck does not necessarily constitute a change from commercial to auto registration. The addition must meet the definitions for human habitation or camping purposes. Otherwise, the vehicle may
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by knodi123 5y ago
Don't let your dreams remain dreams. You can make your own for pennies. You just need heat, water, glycerin, and some kind of structure to keep all those things in the right place. https://www.popularmechanics.com/hom
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by knodi123 5y ago
One of my older relatives searched google for the name of his bank, clicked the first link which was an ad for a phishing site, and 5 minutes later he was on the phone with some indian guy who was using remote desktop to install packages th
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by knodi123 5y ago
Good grief, I'm angry and stressed even though I was just interacting with a simple hostile algorithm. I felt personally attacked. This thing has fascinating psychological implications.
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by knodi123 6y ago
Ah, the era of primitive DIY security. Those were the days. It's kinda of sad that today's kids have to deal with industry-grade encryption and professional best practices, instead of going toe-to-toe with an underpaid self-taug
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by knodi123 6y ago
Earth isn't moving at 50%C relative to the interstellar medium.
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by knodi123 6y ago
what about the relative velocity of the interstellar medium? does diffuse hydrogen pelting your planet at 50%C have any negative side effects?
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by knodi123 6y ago
side issue- the distortion of the spokes is screaming "rolling shutter effect", which tells me that the sensor was only read from one edge to another. If it was top-to-bottom, then the top pixels really could be older than the
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by knodi123 6y ago
The redress for a false accusation that results in serious harm to your career is a slander lawsuit. Sounds like all the ducks are in a row, evidence wise, so just figure out how much damage she caused, and sue her for it. I know it's
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by knodi123 6y ago
Nearly 500 years ago, Swiss physician and chemist Paracelsus expressed the basic principle of toxicology: “All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.”
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by knodi123 6y ago
wow, talk about a "numbers game" strategy!
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by knodi123 6y ago
> Yes That's good enough for me to spend $3. Thanks so much. I dug into how this particular app works, and it turns out those iOS restrictions are still in place- but the app developer is clever, and is literally turning our pre
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by knodi123 6y ago
> strings aren’t actually simple arrays of characters in Rust Are you talking about them being a container with a pointer to the actual array, and also a size and etc?
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by knodi123 6y ago
> you're not the intended target. Your parents and grandparents are A significant number of the spam calls I get are just dead air. Like, ring ring, I pick up, I say hello {myname} here, and I hear nothing. I wonder if they're
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by knodi123 6y ago
I used something just like that for a year, and then iOS changed the rules about whether apps are allowed to intercept calls before they ring, and it just stopped working. Do you vouch for this app working within the last 6 months ?
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by knodi123 6y ago
I guess you don't schedule a lot of medical appointments or work with contractors. I wish I could block all unknown numbers, but I'll miss the rescheduling call from the roofer who had to borrow his wife's cell because his fe
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by knodi123 6y ago
lol, well the slow motion trainwrecks are, in my experience, about a quarter of that. But it's still enough for a comfortable life, especially if you have a side hustle or you're self-teaching stuff that will help your resume.

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