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by miah_ 4y ago
Google Dumb TV, there are still plenty of vendors selling them. They are frequently seen in Airports..
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by miah_ 5y ago
Daily stand ups are _hell_ because they always end up taking ~1 hour for 3 people. If you say more than what you're doing, what you've done, and whether you're blocked or not you're saying too much during your standup. I
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by miah_ 5y ago
Its simply a way to make some money off a generation that didn't grow up with napster. Yes. I would download a car.
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by miah_ 5y ago
On MacOS if you remap your capslock to control there is a race condition on the login screen. If you use the control/capslock key to wake up your laptop and manage to time it right, you can enable capslock but not have a way to disable
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by miah_ 5y ago
Consider that I moved here from Alameda, CA where I also only had DSL. I have yet to see "reliable broadband access" anywhere I've lived in the US (5 states). Even though we have "choice" its generally: Comcast Cabl
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by miah_ 5y ago
I live in rural Michigan. My nearest "big city" has a estimated population of 2800. No big ISP has run anything our direction. We are just now getting municipal gas run in our area, our house has been on propane since it was built
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by miah_ 6y ago
Consider that Chef Infra has 2 core developers and its not surprising why.
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by miah_ 6y ago
The word you are looking for is: oligopoly.
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by miah_ 7y ago
My thoughts as well. I'm interested in hearing about new novel security issues; I'm not interested in reading a advertisement. With widespread deployment of IP Phones and the like, I think this is a interesting find. But at the sa
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by miah_ 7y ago
When you are in a theme park or airport, expect everything to be designed to extract the maximum amount of dollars from your wallet. You are a captive audience. They have RFID in the soda dispensers because they want people to buy the $15 &
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by miah_ 7y ago
Because some search terms get interpreted by the browser as trying to hit a specific site. If you prepend the browser probably won't make that mistake. I tend to use !g on the end of my search terms and hit this every now and then; I f
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by miah_ 7y ago
Sounds a lot like the Chinese film 'Ermo'. "Ermo is a hardworking village woman in the northern province of Hebei, who makes noodles to feed her husband and child. When her neighbor buys a brand new television, she is consume
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by miah_ 7y ago
Check out https://5e.tools/ they have a great API.
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by miah_ 7y ago
You might be interested in weechat-slack. I use it for 90% of my slack needs, I only run the client so I can use the video/phone feature to pair with a coworker. There is also a slack mode for emacs.. and also ripcord. Slack will never
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by miah_ 7y ago
There was also, The Thing which was a gift from Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union to Ambassador Harriman in 1945. It was discovered to be a passive listening device seven years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by miah_ 8y ago
Blizzard accounts are Unique only in that they have a unique number appended to the end. For example there can be many 'eeeeeeeeeeeee' accounts, but only one 'eeeeeeeeeeeee#1432'. The games only show 'eeeeeeeeeeeee&
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by miah_ 8y ago
I did a interview with Google last summer. They didn't use a whiteboard, but instead had me code in a shared GoogleDoc. Pretty similar issue, limited time, somebody staring over your shoulder, not your usual development environment. Ev
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by miah_ 9y ago
In ~1997 I bought a Multia off some online auction site pre-Ebay. My local PC supplier had to special order 64MB ECC RAM for me as they didn't carry it. For a teenager at my first IT job it took me a few months to afford the RAM and wa
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by miah_ 9y ago
It feels like they are doing A/B testing by releasing entirely different products rather than small changes within existing products. I wish they'd pick a name and iterate on features on one product that I can invest into using fo
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by miah_ 9y ago
Waze is pretty great but it has a habit of running you through hospital parking lots to save 2 minutes or turning multiple times to avoid a intersection that isn't really that busy. What I wish Waze would do is have a mode that allowed
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by miah_ 9y ago
The Pragmatic Bookshelf at pragprog.com still does.
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by miah_ 9y ago
This is exciting. The first MMORPG is back online for everybody to explore! Wonder what people will discover and learn in this environment?
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by miah_ 10y ago
It was impossible to find anyone capable of producing CD's with the wobble when the Saturn was alive. Finding somebody capable today would be possible, but it wouldn't be very profitable because its a dead system. If a new console
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by miah_ 10y ago
This article would be so much better with an actual recipe, or even just ratios of coffee:ice. Though it has inspired me to look elsewhere to find that information, or do some experimentation in the kitchen to discover it.
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by miah_ 10y ago
At some restaurants, a percentage of servers tips are split with back end staff like cooks, bar backs, dish washers.
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by miah_ 11y ago
Best way to handle these are to use a random string for all the answers if you can, and if they let you create your own questions use more random strings; same goes for login names. What city was my dad born in? xGU,wT&Yvcn6vr?]#,mE of
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by miah_ 11y ago
You can (un)subscribe to specific issues, but you cannot filter issues in general. Which means you'll still get notified about new issues until you manually (or programmatically) unsubscribe from them.
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by miah_ 11y ago
I found a blog by Andrew Garrott (M0NRD) describing their experience monitoring the signal, also has a recording. http://nerdsville.blogspot.com/2013/03/receiving-les1-satell...
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by miah_ 11y ago
Check out TinyCore instead, its a modular Linux distribution. You can end up with ~15mb Images. "The Core Project is a highly modular based system with community build extensions. It starts with a recent Linux kernel, vmlinuz, and our
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by miah_ 11y ago
See also: Alpine Linux; http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux:Overview

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