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by mjlee 7y ago
Maybe one of the pins in the DVI connector is dodgy? Have you tried another connector/DVI cable/DVI source to rule out the display? I know you said it didn't happen in bootcamp but perhaps there's some deep magic happeni
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For your first problem, perhaps some monitor auto detection has gone crazy with a colour profile. Have a look under System Preferences -> Displays -> Colour (you need to have the monitor plugged in to tweak it.)
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I've found I got this to work reliably when I connected the same monitor to the same port every time. I'm not sure how well other OSes handle this though.
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The letter is dated February 27, 2016.
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Michael Crichton observed this and called it the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. I think he said publicly that the name was to ride on the coat tails of Gell-Mann's public success: >>> “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect i
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by mjlee 7y ago
> Sidecar supports iMac 27” (Late 2015) or newer, MacBook Pro (2016) or newer, Mac mini (2018), Mac Pro (2019), MacBook Air (2018), [and] MacBook (Early 2016 or newer). i.e. Only MacBooks with the butterfly keyboard :(
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It's a little tongue in cheek, but I think the distinction with G Suite is that the person who pays for it, also uses it.
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Is there a word for the fallacy of believing that another professional didn't consider the factor you thought of in seconds? I see this all the time at meetup tech talks and it infuriates me!
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I'm not sure where this originates from, but the most succinct definition I've heard for "Enterprise Software" is that the person who pays for it isn't the person who uses it.
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I worked with someone who had to share a password to solve a major outage. (Yes, I know...) It was a rude comment about a colleague.
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It's at least possible that putting drivers on to roads they're less familiar with could decrease the amounts of fatal accidents. For example - http://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/end-of-the-road-for-white-li...
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Algo Capital Loses Crypto Funds After CTO’s Phone Is Hacked(coindesk.com)
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When smelling lots of things that are somewhat similar (wines, coffees, etc.) I have found you can get some sort of smell fatigue and stop being able to easily differentiate smells. One trick I have been taught is to smell something that&#x
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Good luck escaping a fire if your outward opening door is blocked by falling debris. An extreme example for sure, but there are pros and cons. (Sliding door might not be the answer either: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl
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by mjlee 7y ago
Some winds are generated because of the Earth's structure. The trade winds are pretty consistent. My favourite bit of meteorology trivia is that the wealthier areas in British cities are almost exclusively to the west - this is because
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gandi.net offers them, though they're significantly more expensive than what has been mentioned in this thread already.
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They are, in a way, given that they'll spend less on tax than their commuting colleagues - assuming that taxes are used as a method for government to incentivise behaviour.
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by mjlee 7y ago
Their claim refers to the top selling PC laptop in the USA during the first half of 2019. Not sure what exactly it is - on Amazon the best seller is the Acer Aspire 5.
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by mjlee 7y ago
I'll second the recommendation for The Culture Map, I found it very useful.
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The one-time pad has been proven to have perfect secrecy. Given a ciphertext, the only information available is its length.
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Elwood Asset Management | London, UK | ONSITE Elwood Asset Management is looking for highly technical DevOps engineers to join our team. You will be working with the A team of hedge fund technology to improve the operability and observabili
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by mjlee 7y ago
Elwood Asset Management | London, UK | ONSITE Elwood Asset Management is looking for highly technical DevOps engineers to join our team. You will be working with the A team of hedge fund technology to improve the operability and observabili
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by mjlee 7y ago
I've used Apple Pay completely offline - on trains, buses and planes for example. The terminals in London Underground stations might be constantly online, but I doubt very much there's a 100% guarantee for London Buses.
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You could carry a balance on the app that gets reconciled when you're online. Alternatively, Apply Pay works offline for NFC transactions - I've not tried doing an in-app purchase offline but that might work too.
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I have left my yubikey attached to my house keys attached to my computer at work and gone home more than once. I now perform an abbreviated version of the macarena before leaving the office.
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The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital (2018)(medium.com)
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I think you might get a kick out of Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust. https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...
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Did you get the bike back?
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You got more than (I think) 500 karma is what changed. Downvote is disabled for users before that threshold.
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It's part of the New Yorker's writing style. It is somewhat archaic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-cu

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