mavrc

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by mavrc 10y ago
I find it quite frustrating. I can easily say what I want on other platforms because I can write what I need to without worrying about every single word. Twitter makes me stop and rewrite and rewrite and rewrite and finally get something th
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by mavrc 10y ago
If I didn't know better I'd think you were CGPGrey. You're right, though, checklists do make things so much better, as long as you're not tied to the list. I would imagine (please correct me if I'm wrong) that pilot
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by mavrc 10y ago
> Steam, Netflix, Spotify I use and enjoy all of these things but the DRM they include isn't why they are successful - it's the fact that they make it so much easier to deliver content to anyone, immediately, bypassing the norm
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by mavrc 11y ago
A rudimentary search or two would seem to indicate that driver happiness and driver safety are connected. I don't know how to effectively measure it, but it would seem to me that at least some consideration should be paid to driver hap
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by mavrc 11y ago
I wonder if this is in regard to the fact that for a while, some time ago, Spotify required the use of a Facebook-integrated login. They no longer do, but people who signed up during that time would need to go through a conversion process t
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by mavrc 11y ago
You're making the significant assumption that the original part is either still available, or was ever available for individual sale (often, batteries that aren't considered user-replaceable are never sold directly.) Apple syste
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by mavrc 11y ago
> You can walk into any emergency room in the country and receive whatever care you need even without insurance or payment on-hand. While this is a benefit of sorts (you won't actually be allowed to die due to lack of funds), it&#x2
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by mavrc 11y ago
CableOne does this for lots of different stuff. If you're over your bandwidth cap, if you haven't paid your bill yet... Come to think of it, we have had a rocky relationship, they and I.
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by mavrc 11y ago
> ad-free version[1] > [1]It's not completely ad-free So it's like an unlimited data plan, then. I keep trying to remind myself that there really has never been a time when organizations were not abusing language in order to
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by mavrc 11y ago
Silverlight is still hanging around in a number of edge cases as well, or at least, I keep running into it in education. It's going to be really hard on a lot of things when NPAPI vanishes entirely.
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by mavrc 11y ago
Usually in the $250 range, unless you decide to go completely nuts on the keycaps. Then, well, the sky's the limit these days.
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by mavrc 11y ago
It refers to the idea that most asymmetric cryptosystems (which, generally speaking means that each user has a public key and a private key) allow for a user to create a 'signature' using their private key, which can be verified u
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by mavrc 11y ago
In the country, this happens pretty frequently. If you think that's bad, try driving by a large dairy on a hot, still day.
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by mavrc 11y ago
Even in the tiny rural community I live in, cashiers are being replaced by automated systems in large stores. Smaller stores will probably continue to have cashiers until forever, but we're not talking about 100% of cashiers going away
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by mavrc 11y ago
There is no explanation for us. Also, not only is "Butch" not the biker in question, but the biker in question was not even the weirdest candidate for office. The televised gubernatorial debate was so bizarre it made Colbert. En
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by mavrc 11y ago
> I'm not sure what you're encountering, but I have yet to meet anyone that teaches that Jesus rode a dinosaur and owned Exxon stock, or anything remotely resembling it. I had the same reaction as the previous poster; I'm
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by mavrc 12y ago
> Do I need an iphone to use apple watch? Yes. I'm under the impression that Android Wear devices will do most, if not all, of the things you want, though I don't actually own one. There are many of them at this point; I'v
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by mavrc 12y ago
So much, yes. I have an Ergodox at home and a Kinesis at work, and I almost universally prefer the Kinesis. I type faster and make less mistakes, and my hands seem to be less fatigued over long periods when working on the Kinesis. Like othe
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by mavrc 12y ago
I was thinking this as well. I wonder, there must be statistics that show that annoying your users gets results, or they wouldn't be used so frequently.
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by mavrc 12y ago
I agree. In particular, I wonder what, say, Metafilter would look like if every link were preceded by a diamond.
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by mavrc 12y ago
Things look a lot rosier for audiobook listeners, though, because audiobooks are significantly more expensive than textbooks. Even the cheapest Audible subscription is $15. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they mean by "t
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by mavrc 12y ago
With Stephen Colbert changing shows next year, Comedy Central should consider hiring the writer of this to run a new show. Though something leads me to believe the writer doesn't know it's satire.
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by mavrc 13y ago
> Once I didn't get their email, and they purged my whole account. I had to recreate it as a new account, and by now they had severely restricted the list of domains that were available for the free service, so I couldn't get t
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by mavrc 13y ago
This is what I was thinking, too. Facebook buying Oculus is the exact sort of disaster that Parzival spent the entire book trying to prevent against. In fairness to Mark Zuckerberg, RP1 was wildly idealistic in a way I can only describe as
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by mavrc 13y ago
No, you're not crazy. Netscape Navigator was not free as such, but if I recall correctly, was free for individual users, schools, non-commercial entities, etc. (Am I mis-remembering this? The Wikipedia page doesn't have much detai
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by mavrc 13y ago
Is the problem just that there is no setting to enable this behavior out of the box? Perhaps I just swear too fucking much, but my SwiftKey has learned all of my common uses of profanity, and is surprisingly good at auto-correcting them.
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by mavrc 13y ago
> Steam's DRM is why I've bought more games than I've pirated. Steam's DRM has nothing to do with why individuals buy games on Steam. Steam offsets the net negative of DRM by bundling in a number of very attractive value-adds, like th
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by mavrc 14y ago
While I agree with you - I really do - it's also an incredibly difficult choice. You'd have to give up owning nearly all movies and TV shows legally, the lion's share of ebooks, and nearly all commercial audiobooks. You basically have to li
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by mavrc 14y ago
No. http://help.rdio.com/customer/portal/questions/32743-does-rd...
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by mavrc 14y ago
>Then the problem is fraudulent manufacturers. Or a certification standard that mandated that vendors do something , but was highly nonspecific as to exactly how they were to do it.

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