mbrookes

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by mbrookes 10y ago
Ah, interesting - thank you! So it's the civic structure rather than a particularly lawless student base. :) Not so bizarre then - just different!
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by mbrookes 10y ago
> campus police This one I've always found bizarre. What is it about American university students in particular that requires there to be an on-site police force?
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by mbrookes 10y ago
From the comment you're replying to: "The sketches are so intricate they look like a photograph."
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Huh, interesting. So it's a law that is neither obeyed nor enforced (in my limited experience).
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by mbrookes 10y ago
> Since the exchange functions as a market maker, do they also make money on the spread ? Market makers take a spread. They provide liquidity at a cost.
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by mbrookes 10y ago
> You should only go into the outer lanes to overtake traffic, and then move back in once you've passed. Not in the US AFAIK (or does it vary by state?). My understanding and experience is that driving in the lane of your choice, an
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Did you miss the fact that his test wasn't valid? :-) As pointed out by someone else here, by running the tests with the screen at full brightness, the considerably brighter display of the Touch Bar model will have consumed a meaningfu
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Thanks for mentioning DaisyDisk - I've been looking for something like that, and all the alternatives I've tried are horrible!
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by mbrookes 10y ago
> or routing to a random 800 number 800 numbers aren't free - the recipient pays. It may even be illegal to forward your fraud traffic to them (but IANAL).
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Incidentally, since I don't see it mentioned anywhere obvious on the site, you can also use @yourdom.33m.co as short address.
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by mbrookes 10y ago
You guys realise that mailinator is public? Dale, I can see your email address. I highly recommend 33mail.com instead - it has a pretty generous free tier: http://33mail.com/rj37w3 . (Not associated, just a long-time user an
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by mbrookes 10y ago
That's correct - this has also been a massive issue for React, and still isn't fixed in a released version. There's a fix that was merged some time ago, pending release with React 16 [1]. There's some discussion about a
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by mbrookes 10y ago
> "it piggybacks on the hard work of engineers at major manufacturers" What hard work? It's a COTS part. Not to mention, front-facing radar, even combined with image recognition is woefully inadequate for true self-driving
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by mbrookes 10y ago
What Amazon doesn't advertise is that their "block" volumes are files on NFS NAS storage.
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by mbrookes 10y ago
$0.09/ GB ($90/TB). Good luck if you host a service which then gets HN or Reddit hugged!
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Well, there's Amazon Web Services (EC2 / EBS), MS Azure, Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine) to name but three.
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Could we get a [1999] in the title please?
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by mbrookes 10y ago
This is not a dig at the parent - they clearly have commitment and drive, but since they're promoting SuperMemo rather than commenting on the post, let me just say that this: "I would did it again!!" or this: "Of cour
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by mbrookes 10y ago
> I used to regard the "ships from Amazon" or "Prime" logo as markers for quality You need to look for (or limit your search to ) "Sold by Amazon". Not so say that Amazon doesn't sell some duff products
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by mbrookes 10y ago
That's French toast... ...with French herbs. French toast to me is normally eaten sweet - say with maple syrup, but that works too.
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Try http://caniuse.com/
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Symantec Endpoint Protection has portscan detection & blocking, but this is a managed instance on a corporate laptop, so I don't have access to the logs to drill in to what was intercepted. Having traffic from the router blocked wa
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Slightly off topic, but could anyone suggest how my laptop on my home network could get portscanned by my router? I've had the same router (D-Link DSL) with the same config for a few years and never had that happen... can the be infect
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Nice! Apparently Mercedes call it "glide mode" or "gliding mode" depending which bit of marketing you look at. I couldn't find a technical description though (beyond what you already said).
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Hi Peter - I should have specified that this is for manual shift. What sort of car do you have if you don't mind me asking? (And is it Ruby Red? :) )
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by mbrookes 10y ago
What is the FCCs regulatory remit when it comes to satellites? Presumably the application only affects satellites with a US footprint, and only if broadcasting on regulated frequencies?
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Coasting in neutral or with the clutch disengaged is both more dangerous and less efficient then engine braking. In the UK you will fail your driving test if you coast, and in some countries / states it is illegal - with good reason. J
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by mbrookes 10y ago
EUR20m isn't a cap - the fines are up to EUR20m or 4% of annual worldwide turnover, whichever is higher .
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Firefox: "Your connection is not secure" https://www.chromeexperiments.com/
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by mbrookes 10y ago
"once in a blue moon" That feels like the wrong idiom in this context, just "once in a while" sounds better. But I couldn't decide why it sounded wrong, so I googled "once in a blue moon". I didn't

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