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541.
by krallja 5y ago
PCI: payments card industry They don’t care about your SSN. They only care about credit card numbers (“PANs”).
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by krallja 5y ago
Do you live adjacent to a hydro dam or solar farm, or what’s the reason for such a low price?
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by krallja 5y ago
I feel like this effect is multiplied because, when I’m tired, I am much more likely to want fast food because it takes less effort, not just because it’s greasy and salty.
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by krallja 5y ago
It always makes me sad that 2048 is the more famous game. Threes is so full of charm and joy. 2048 is sterile, mathematical and precise.
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by krallja 5y ago
They presumably negotiated a license to include Candy Crush. The original makers of the pinball game may no longer be in business, or may not be responding to Microsoft’s emails.
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by krallja 5y ago
You can quote any nonsense in this sentence, so it is an incorrect proof of a word’s existence. > Use “bfekpv” in a sentence.
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by krallja 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threes
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by krallja 5y ago
Use “femto-“ in a sentence.
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by krallja 5y ago
SYSTEM
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by krallja 5y ago
hexdump -C flag.txt
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by krallja 5y ago
Didn’t Initech get acquired by Intertrode a few years back?
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by krallja 5y ago
not Aws-holes?
553.
by krallja 5y ago
Here is the quits rate from the last 22 years https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/mobile/quits-rate-of-2-9-p...
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by krallja 5y ago
An anonymous, possibly apocryphal, woodcutter. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/29/sharp-axe/
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by krallja 5y ago
You’re going to shitty car washes if they can’t clean your undercarriage. Undercarriage wash is the first $2 upgrade you can pick at the big one near me.
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by krallja 5y ago
Because they’re Mercurial.
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by krallja 5y ago
> The scientists did occasionally deliver something valuable, often in fact paradigm-changing, but importantly, this only became very relevant around the turn of 20th century. James Watt was only able to build efficient steam engines bec
558.
by krallja 5y ago
The plane took off because the pilot pulled back on the stick. There was no automation involved. The flight director is a suggestion, just like GPS navigation in a car. If you can’t turn right because the road is flooded, you go straight, a
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by krallja 5y ago
To my American eyes, it’s missing one of the three “Trinity” machines: the TRS-80 and all its descendants. It’s also exclusively focused on the 6502, rather than the 6800, 6809, Z80, 8008…
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by krallja 5y ago
I’m not super familiar with cgroups, but I have to assume there’s a parameter for limiting the number of cores available to a process, rather than doing it at the kernel level in /sys
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by krallja 5y ago
Hm, TIL. I pronounce bouquet like “boo kay” and bokeh like “bow kay.” But MW says either pronunciation is valid for bouquet.
562.
by krallja 5y ago
Bokeh and bouquet do not share an etymology, nor are they pronounced the same.
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by krallja 5y ago
Trump has never once worn a suit I would describe as “well tailored” or “sharp.”
564.
by krallja 5y ago
Odd coincidence. The link to “pneumatic chemistry” in that article is purple because I was just reading about the history of bismuth.
565.
by krallja 5y ago
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3448/was-hubble-re...
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by krallja 5y ago
The lesson here is, if Stewart Butterfield starts another MMO, get on the rocket .
567.
by krallja 5y ago
Solutioning means “inventing potential solutions,” not actually solving things.
568.
by krallja 5y ago
“Sure, the weather sucks, but at least it’s cheap, and you can go to marginally better places fairly quickly.” Not exactly a ringing endorsement!
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by krallja 5y ago
When it gets cold, the leaves fall off of deciduous plants.
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by krallja 5y ago
My word had a repeated letter, which doesn’t feel sporting.

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