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by magoon 10y ago
It's harder for a manufacturer to implement an effective stability control system in a manual. The federal mandate of safety features after the Explorer/Firestone problems included that all cars have stability control and TPS. The
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by magoon 10y ago
12" MacBook has no fans, and I hardly ever hear them with 11" MacBook Air (unless I were to switch back to Chrome)
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by magoon 10y ago
Which is greater: His desire for us to have a "free" (liberty) society, or his resentment of those are trying to earn a living and simply can't afford to stand up for his principles?
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by magoon 10y ago
Preying on job seekers is abhorrent. Try to find out who they are so that you can report them.
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by magoon 10y ago
In my lifetime I have learned that the only prediction I can believe regarding peak oil is that there will always be another prediction about peak oil. I'm not saying it's not gonna happen (or hasn't), just that it's bee
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by magoon 10y ago
I hadn't realized how ahead of its time the Amiga was for a personal computer: TCP/IP, MIDI, SCSI, REXX, (screamtracker) MODs.
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by magoon 10y ago
If the price is dropping so rapidly, this makes a bad deal out of the 30-year loans solar installers are pitching in the US. Furthermore, if fossil-fuel-sourced kilowatt-hours compete by pricing downward, and thus pay solar owners less per
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by magoon 10y ago
Docker now also has a native Mac client that doesn't require docker-machine
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by magoon 10y ago
You could make the same invalid argument for encryption.
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by magoon 10y ago
I wouldn't use cruise control in tight areas, and I get extra attentive maneuvering around trucks. I wouldn't be surprised if Autopilot gets modified so that it locks-out in these precarious circumstances.
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by magoon 10y ago
While you're a good developer, you can spend 6 hours coding - why not use that other two focused on business, building your team, improving process, and researching new tech strategies? Then you don't feel burned out coding all da
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by magoon 10y ago
The dirty little secret is that banks make money off online Card Not Present fraud. They take back the money from the merchant and charge a $35 fee. In-person fraud is much lower, so this transition to chip readers is just increasing their
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by magoon 10y ago
Where in the US were you that was still imprinting in 2001?
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by magoon 10y ago
32 years ago! What are the chances your code has survived that long in a product like Excel?
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by magoon 10y ago
Unrelated, but Yahoo may be desperate for page views if they're auto-refreshing several times while I'm trying to read the article.
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by magoon 10y ago
This is not a good suggestion on their part, and has long been proven ineffective: Substitute numbers for letters that look similar (for example, substitute “0” for “o” or “3” for “E”.
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by magoon 10y ago
> She is also supposedly not the first Secretary of State to have an arrangement of this nature. Careful with the phrasing - it has been said others have used "private e-mail" but that is, to me, not the same as setting up a se
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by magoon 10y ago
Auto-braking is mandatory in all cars by 2020.
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by magoon 10y ago
Sellers also game the system by offering a refund, without requiring a return, in exchange for reverting a bad review. I've reported this to Amazon but they weren't receptive.
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by magoon 10y ago
The weasel words here are "A large number" because the spin statement is intended to portray an image to the reader that is absent in actual fact. If there were a majority, or a high percentage, they surely would have trumpted sai
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by magoon 10y ago
The tides turn when your government starts investigating people, versus investigating crimes.
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by magoon 10y ago
Nobody, it seems. They committed to lifetime payouts of 75% of the average of a worker's three highest years of salary, retiring at age 55 after 30 years of service. And that's not for employees of a thriving/growing business
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by magoon 11y ago
There is a point at which social becomes anti-social, even online.
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by magoon 11y ago
It'll work until a virus scanner company distributes a virus definition file containing a signature of your offending code.
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by magoon 11y ago
One of my favs, a tcpdump filter for HTTP including request headers: sudo tcpdump -s 0 -A 'tcp[((tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2):4] = 0x47455420' This is useful for troubleshooting outbound requests that your backends are making
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by magoon 11y ago
This makes me feel old, but I really can't understand Snapchat's interface.
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by magoon 11y ago
I am surprised to see a recommendation to use an exception handler for conditionals, especially for Python.
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by magoon 11y ago
Brings back memories. I used the official Omen Technology software externally on my BBS because it was better than the software's built-in implementation. Omen also had a terminal client that was equally as cumbersome to use, but quite
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by magoon 11y ago
This means Comcast is assembling the packets up to the application layer for deep inspection and injection, which slows down receipt of the packets because it must receive the full payload before processing, reassembling, and transmitting.
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by magoon 11y ago
Gates provides an odd answer, and somewhat shifting blame. He's essentially saying he would have preferred a single "Reboot" key on the keyboard, then would have used that to begin the login sequence?

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