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by msimpson 10y ago
> With every major U.S. wireless carrier now offering unlimited data plans, consumers don’t need to log on to a Wi-Fi network to avoid costly overage charges anymore. That’s a critical change that threatens to render Wi-Fi obsolete. Does
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by msimpson 10y ago
> it is possible that your company can not afford a bit longer learning curve in the beginning. That is exactly my point and what I would have replied, otherwise. I just cannot spend that level of non-billable time teaching.
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by msimpson 10y ago
I'm writing this comment on a Q4 14" Razer Blade and there's only two things that could make me happier: 1. An upgrade to a Samsung 2TB 960 PRO M.2 (which I will do soon). 2. A fucking Intel HD 530 driver which doesn't c
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by msimpson 10y ago
I've handled the hiring of almost all Web developers within my company for the last half decade, and in that time I have hired absolutely zero women. Yet, this has nothing to do with discrimination and much more to do with the applican
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by msimpson 10y ago
Good point.
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by msimpson 10y ago
AMD Ryzen 1800X (Summit Ridge): 3.6 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo) over 16 threads 15,812 Passmark for ~$500 ----- Intel i7-7700K (Kaby Lake): 4.2 GHz (4.5 GHz Turbo) over 8 threads 12,321 Passmark for ~$350 ----- Intel Core i7-6850K (Broadwell E): 3.
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by msimpson 10y ago
> "Carrying no devices ... interrogated for hours." Right. So citizens who are aware that the CBP can now peer into their personal affairs decide to leave their devices at home as a matter of privacy and principal. Therefore, t
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by msimpson 10y ago
If you fear phishing, type the wrong password and see if it takes it. If yes, it's obviously a phisher app/site/whatever.
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by msimpson 10y ago
> A study of 4,000 women who had recently changed jobs found that the #1 reason women leave companies is because of “a concern for the lack of advancement opportunity.” The same study which found that men leave companies for the exact sa
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by msimpson 10y ago
Ditto. Here's hoping the Ryzen will pan out and force Intel's hand.
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by msimpson 10y ago
Who said it wasn't?
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by msimpson 10y ago
> There are thousands of small cities all over the world and nobody has to enforce population growth. Yet, there are many instances where population growth or decline has become an issue due to economic drivers, alone. Over the last 23 y
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by msimpson 10y ago
To create and maintain smaller cities you would need to enforce controls on population growth and distribution. Controls which are abhorred by the civilized world.
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by msimpson 10y ago
You just described London.
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by msimpson 10y ago
Using a couple of impoverished Indians, who barely understanding English, as the basis of a joke? Totally fine. Having them repeat a four year old anti-Semitic Internet meme? Aw, hell naw.
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by msimpson 10y ago
So the best offer the WSJ can provide is "All Access Digital" for $198 over 12 months, after which the price is doubled to $396 for the same length of time. That means, eventually, you'll be spending about $33 a month just to
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by msimpson 10y ago
> Atom 1.14 has shipped today with improved large file performance 1. Updates to Atom 1.14 2. Attempts to open a 64MB SQL dump in Atom 3. "Atom will be unresponsive during the loading of very large files" 4. Clicks "Procee
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by msimpson 10y ago
I use Atom in Windows and have constant issues with search and replace via selection and large file support. And while these issues are known, I've yet to see a fix.
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by msimpson 10y ago
Consider maintenance of the object in question, now it's a task of removing glue versus screws.
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by msimpson 10y ago
"Campus policing originated with the establishment of the Yale Campus Police Department in 1894. Yale, located in New Haven, Connecticut, began an agreement with the New Haven Police Department to have two of their officers assigned ex
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by msimpson 10y ago
If system administration was carpentry, SELinux would be the glue. And sometimes, it's just easier to use screws.
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by msimpson 10y ago
Mistakes will happen, sure. But given the following: > The replication procedure is super fragile, prone to error, relies on a handful of random shell scripts, and is badly documented > Our backups to S3 apparently don’t work either:
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by msimpson 10y ago
A programmer spends much more time reading code than actually typing it. This is why we have mode-based editors, like vi(m). Encouraging speed is not really helpful for this task.
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by msimpson 10y ago
Ha. Not only are you missing my point, but you obviously feel the need to down vote my comments as well. That's pathetic.
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by msimpson 10y ago
Given some of the comments here I think it's important to note that the thermal properties of Vanadium are well known and the metal has been used for years in high-speed steel and alloys, such as Chrome Moly Vanadium, where heat is the
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by msimpson 10y ago
Wait, does this mean B&H is an arms dealer?
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by msimpson 10y ago
A "strong background in signal processing" is not required to generate the results detailed in this article using ffmpeg. Nor does this article provide any information enhancing the user's understanding of the encoding option
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by msimpson 10y ago
While true, one should always remember, "If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up."
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by msimpson 10y ago
Your definition of an average user cannot use HandBrake, either.
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by msimpson 10y ago
This isn't really a deep dive into HandBrake or video transcoding, it's more of an examination of presets that wrapper provides. You'd be better off diving into the foundation of HandBrake and using it directly: https:/

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