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by marklubi 4y ago
Of course it changes. They're outsourcing the verification to the payment processing company.
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One of the first things he should do is get rid of the code that keeps you from scrolling through a user's content without signing up.
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> You can avoid reading them but every journalist in the world reads them and when they break news it gets reported everywhere else. Maybe, that's literally the problem. It's become a massive echo chamber. Not hard to imagine
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The trick that I've found is that each error message needs to be unique... not just the stack trace, but the actual wording of the message leading up to that. Get a screenshot or the exact verbatim of it, and you can identify exactly w
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by marklubi 4y ago
To follow on a bit, I've been using .NET since 1.0 (yes, literally. Not 1.1). C# and .NET in the current form are spectacular! There are a handful of projects I still have going that are in .NET 3.5 (there are still users out there on
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by marklubi 4y ago
> When someone posts a beautifully composed picture standing in front of a waterfall and the sunlight just so ... The evidence rather suggests that she loves posing for and sharing photographs My last girlfriend was a great example of t
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by marklubi 4y ago
Great article! I would be interested in more info about the physics and ball path mapping that you mentioned in the beginning. Over the last few months, I’ve started competing in billiards, and the roll vs slide, english, tangent lines, an
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by marklubi 4y ago
Thank you!
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by marklubi 4y ago
I don't think it's that they're hijacking the scroll wheel, but that there are parts of the page that just don't respond to it. Mildly infuriating to say the least.
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by marklubi 4y ago
In my BMW, I can trigger a false positive by plugging my iPad or iPhone into the car's USB charging port, and setting it on the passenger seat.
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by marklubi 4y ago
Don't use a debit card if you can avoid it, especially for purchases at the pump. You're just asking for more trouble from skimmers.
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by marklubi 4y ago
Are you intentionally being obtuse? My point was very clear.
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by marklubi 4y ago
The problem that I have with the all electric movement is that all of the expectations don't match up with the numbers. For instance, a new Ford Lightning can power a house for days. Lets turn this around a bit... To charge your vehic
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by marklubi 4y ago
I concur with your assessment about starting with a smaller ones and progressively increasing the size. The starting point was a bit daunting.
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I would think that it's shortsighted. Just on Earth, we've been through several millions of years of various evolutions. We've had fauna, mega fauna, mega flora, dinosaurs, so many things have occurred over millions of year
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by marklubi 4y ago
I've always held the belief that given the vastness of space, and the age of time, it's not just a question of if other intelligent life can exist, but whether or not we we will be in the same place at the same time.
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by marklubi 4y ago
> Well we don't really have a functional democracy in the US. The United States isn’t a democracy, it’s a democratic republic. Unfortunately, most of that was thrown out with the 17th amendment, and we’re paying for it now with inc
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by marklubi 4y ago
Thank you for the book recommendation. I haven’t read it yet, but from the description and your comment, it seems like it puts its finger right on something I’ve contemplated for years. The general ability to excel in a lot of different th
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by marklubi 4y ago
One of the initial interview questions we used to ask at a previous job was to flowchart making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The good developers that thought things through before getting into the instructions for actually making the
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by marklubi 4y ago
This is anecdotal, but just wanted to give an example that I've personally experienced. We used to race go karts with Rotax engines, and the local series organizers decided to mandate 91 octane pump gas ("cost saving measure"
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by marklubi 5y ago
> It’s a weird legal meme that immutable characteristics should somehow be treated differently for the purposes of moral blameworthiness. >> List of protected classes is just a list that can be amended, changed or entirely removed.
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by marklubi 5y ago
> The reason why the “bake a cake” thing was ever an actual point of controversy is because it centered around an immutable aspect of people; their sexual orientation. There is leagues of difference between denying service due to who the
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by marklubi 5y ago
Thank you!
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by marklubi 5y ago
> So? They’re a private university, they can do what they want. How does that work if you don’t want to bake a cake? I’m all for individual rights, but this statement is so hypocritical that I find it hard to not comment on it.
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by marklubi 5y ago
> Hmm seems like you you have 5 comments in total and 3 out of those 5 are bashing vegans. With all due respect, it's not like you've contributed much, if anything, to this community with your comment from your 49 minute old ac
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by marklubi 5y ago
How do we get it back?
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by marklubi 5y ago
We've both been on this site for a long time. I've signed off from the typical news for quite some time at this point, but it keeps seeping in. This site used to be full of enthusiasm, but it's changed.
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by marklubi 5y ago
I'm sorry, but I'm totally over this type of nonsense. "Expert says" just signals bullshit to me at this point. Clickbait. I'm exhausted at this point.
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by marklubi 5y ago
> "The most lavish Mesopotamian tomb ever found", and yet not a single picture or illustration of said tomb. That's because it's clickbait
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by marklubi 5y ago
What Twitter has been doing with blocking access without an account has reached the levels of being user hostile. It's like they're following the awful pinterest model. I find the URL that they call just before they block access

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