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by lscotte 8y ago
That is an absolutely terrible idea.
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by lscotte 8y ago
I know someone who picked up a stainless gas BBQ free from the curb in front of someone's house. It was in great condition, the burners and grills looked like it had hardly been used. New, it would have been in the $1000-2000 range. Wh
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by lscotte 8y ago
Forced pricing is exactly why theaters sell 3 sizes of popcorn, with large "only being 25 cents more than medium. The goal isn't to get you to buy the large, it's to get you not to buy the small. There was a book I read years
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by lscotte 8y ago
The keystroke certainly does, but I was talking about people inserting ^h and ^w in the middle of conversations, which is a bit harder to nail down, though the practice is older than the parent thought.
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by lscotte 8y ago
I used to own a boat, a USCG documented vessel. Every year I'd get an official looking letter to renew my documentation. They used a logo that looked somewhat like the Coast Guard logo, and nowhere in the letter or website did they mak
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by lscotte 8y ago
There are mail services that do this - it's like a PO box, but not provided by the postal service and they will forward your mail to anywhere. These services are quite popular with RV folks and world sailors. Some will even scan your m
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by lscotte 8y ago
It goes back way further than that - probably to the dawn of IRC or so.
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by lscotte 8y ago
B&H is great, agreed. They are an extremely honest company, so taking a few days longer is worth it in my opinion - you are going to get exactly what you ordered in my experience. On Amazon, that's only guaranteed if Amazon is the
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by lscotte 8y ago
Microcontroller is even a bit overstated or fuzzy these days. My keyboard and mouse each have ARM SOCs.
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by lscotte 8y ago
Also, Apple made sure they got into schools and managed to push out the PETs with Apple IIs. Kind of too bad, because the Commodore (C64, post PET) and Atari computers of the day were cheaper and (arguably) better in many ways.
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by lscotte 8y ago
Not only is borg great, rsync.net has a super cheap plan for borg and attic that is vastly less expensive than other cloud storage. I have about 140GB backed up this way and couldn't be more happy with the toolchain.
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by lscotte 8y ago
It is a CDN, but what's new is that the openconnect appliances are distributed not just in datacenters, but directly to ISPs. Traditional CDNs aren't in your ISP.
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by lscotte 8y ago
The plan that gives you 4k also gives you 4 parallel streams instead of 2 (or 1 for the cheapest plan), so it's popular with people who share the account with others. But 4k/HDR is also a value-add that they charge for, but it doe
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by lscotte 8y ago
I have received a few of these as well (all displaying the same password). Because I use a unique, random password for every site, it was just a matter of finding it my password manager. In my case, it was an old one from a forum breech sev
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by lscotte 8y ago
Tandem was doing the same thing as far as redundancy and ordering it's own maintenance. Tandem even had redundant CPUs that would execute instructions in lock-step and compare results. They were very popular in banks. There are stories
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by lscotte 8y ago
The thing is, all you need is what IRC offers. All I need, anyway. Just plain ASCII is perfect - I don't need or want emoticons or any of the other bloat. Just plain text is so nice.
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by lscotte 8y ago
Very well - https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack I'm so used to using wee-slack that I try to use commands like "s/" when I use the web browser interface (which doesn't work).
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by lscotte 8y ago
You can even get it with straight up Docker, as long as both the host and container are running a new enough kernel+docker. You can even run unprivileged containers: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/
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by lscotte 8y ago
Nice to see mention of Traveller, I thought I was the only person that even knows about it anymore. I think I spent more time designing ships than actually playing it, but I have fond memories of both Traveller and Car Wars (and still have
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by lscotte 8y ago
It never has for me, and I've got some large sync'd dirs (~70GB being the largest). Been using it for several years and it's great.
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by lscotte 8y ago
> Must have been a strange sailboat to have an engine room :-) He wasn't talking about a sailboat, but anyway any sailboat built for ocean passages will have a diesel auxillary.
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by lscotte 8y ago
The fix was to set a single option in one config file - how on earth is that "magical incantations from a dozen different sources"?
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by lscotte 8y ago
"something like the iPad" - since an Android tablet is not subject to the same draconian and silly restrictions on installing software, so it would be possible there. It looks like there are a few versions already. Side note: I we
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by lscotte 8y ago
But then you have to watch commercials in the middle of the content - that's worse to me, paying money for the service and still getting commercials.
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by lscotte 8y ago
No, I did it in 2011 and haven't looked back.
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by lscotte 8y ago
And just hipster drip coffee at that.
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by lscotte 8y ago
Threads are a terrible feature they should never have added to Slack. Threads take one conversation and fork into multiple, which is just awful.
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by lscotte 8y ago
I doubt it - like most Apple things, it probably only works with other Apple things. Most things in the world are not Apple.
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by lscotte 8y ago
And unlike those old publications, there are digital copies now so they won't die the death they deserve. I say it with sarcism, but there's some amount of seriousness in there...
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by lscotte 8y ago
But this is property, not knowledge...

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