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by mikestew 5mo ago
Is this the reCAPTCHA crap I just ran into minutes ago? It’s the Cloudflare “verify your humanity” thing, and the checkbox isn’t good enough, so now there is a “mobile verification, the support page for which (that I briefly skimmed) talks
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by mikestew 6mo ago
I use Jimmy Buffet’s song “Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude”, meaning head south to Key West to change your attitude. Ergo, latitude is north/south. EDIT: ninja’ed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065792
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by mikestew 6mo ago
“Elite users”? I don’t think that avoiding being an assclown long enough to collect 500 points to downvote status is a high bar to clear.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
I would argue that the key event was Columbia Data Products’s clean room implementation of the BIOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Data_Products That, and I’m pretty sure the DOJ had ended the antitrust suit (
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Having grown up in Indiana, and having watched a lot of drag racing, and even crewed for a friend drag racing motorcycles, I have not once wondered that, either. I, of course, just assumed it was that way everywhere. “What, your small now
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Ah, got it. I have tried very hard to forget about 70s/80s Fiats. :-) When is the last time you had a car undercoated? I take your point, but the real answer is “when I lived the U. S. Midwest”, where they salt the roads. Since we mo
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by mikestew 6mo ago
100K kilometers ? Even a Chevy Chevette could make it that far without major trouble. 100K miles , that’s about when 80s cars started to become more trouble than they were worth, IME.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
That, my friend, is a decades-old battle I’ve given up on, even if it literally makes my brain explode.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
"By accident"? How do you think sprinklers work, exactly? You "accidentally" left the sauna door open and now the living room is 160F? If it were a problem, you'd be hearing about it from apartment dwellers, since s
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Odd, Friendster was the first non-sponsored result for me in the U.S. store.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
It’s not a long read and likely worth your time, but the TL;DR is turning a Switch into a network switch. Not a very fast switch, but it’s amazing that the pig sings in the first place.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
My wife just retired, and with that went the work computer (that she rarely used for personal stuff to begin with). Now she uses her iPad. But that has the problems of no keyboard/mouse, so I gave her an old Apple keyboard and trackpad
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Yup, where do you think he got the money to start Valve? :-)
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by mikestew 6mo ago
TFA mentions habituation as a mitigation: ”Habituate. Five or six short cold-water dips over a couple of weeks will cut the cold shock response roughly in half, and the effect lasts for months. This is probably the single most underused sa
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by mikestew 6mo ago
I jumped into icy (literally) water with a few high school friends many decades ago. I still remember that it felt like my heart stopped when we jumped into the water. Now I find out that it can literally happen. Good thing we were young cr
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by mikestew 6mo ago
If its what I'm thinking of, it used to be a user-visible thing[1] back in the day. It used to be user-visible, yes, but I wonder if TFA isn’t a little out-of-date, as the UI flow that used to work in order to see this (settings&#x2F
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by mikestew 6mo ago
OP is referring to OS/2 2.0 after IBM took over the OS, not the previous Microsoft 1.x versions. The post is a quote from IBM’s marketing. https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/nl43aq...
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Just call me Pepperidge Farms, I loved Desqview for the time. It worked well, given what they had to work with.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
They're either an invasive species, and therefore should not be introduced to the area (and you know that many pets will be introduced once the novelty wears off). Or they're native to the area, and should be left alone because th
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Thanks, that's the clarification I was not getting from TFA.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Don't they usually take out the primary residence when doing the calculation? Typically, it would seem that is indeed the case from most calculations I've seen. I mean, are you really worth a million dollars if you have to be ho
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Sooo, if they are/were popular as pets, how come there's less than 1000 left worldwide? Those two facts don't reconcile for me.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Those that read the article might argue that it was a false savings.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
"Images were displayed on an Apple 30" Cinema Display" Yowsa. For those playing at home, that monitor is over 20 years old: https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/appl...
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Bah, missed that part initially. Thanks.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
That was, what, twelve years ago? Hardly seems relevant.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Fans of the movie Super Troopers , perhaps? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247745/quotes?item=qt0470809&r...
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by mikestew 6mo ago
'Feral' seems like an odd choice of word, given the activities you're describing. I never said the feral kids were participating in those activities. :-) Look, it was loose use of the word, you're placing way more ju
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by mikestew 6mo ago
...ignorant of what would happen if it failed. Then why was he testing a parachute in the first place? I think he had a better idea than you give him credit for.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
…the consequences of falling were not well understood yet Eh? Cliffs, trees; fall off anything at 10 meters or higher, and your odds of dying are around 50%. I’m pretty sure folks were aware of the consequences long before Eiffel showed u

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