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by ndespres 10y ago
I've been using Postagram ( https://sincerely.com/postagram ) for a few years to send a card to my grandmother regularly from my smartphone. The cards look great, cost $1, and have the image in a perforated square which
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by ndespres 11y ago
I might have the answer for you- the security question on some of my unimportant shared accounts where a question was required is "what color is my VGA cable?"
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I'm halfway through a similar transition to farming. It's funny how sometimes a new task can be an excuse to buy more tools. I'd be interested in reading more from you about your new work!
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Attitudes like the one you express here, at once critical of women who raise issues of inequality and misogyny, and skeptical that a woman who wants camaraderie with others in their cohort is For Real, are exactly the reason that would driv
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In the DR services my company provides, failover testing is baked in to the cost, and is _mandatory_ annually. It is hard and complicated and expensive, but not as hard as explaining to the customer that "we have your backups, we jus
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In my experience it's good to have a few different restore attempts running in parallel, so long as they won't conflict with one another. For example, the restores may be to different hardware, from a different point-in-time, in a
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In my town, after the landfill filled up, they built an incinerator. The town dump was turned into a "transfer station" where residents could bring their trash and recyclables. Trash would get "transferred" into trucks a
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by ndespres 11y ago
That addition seems unnecessarily pedantic, as carrying a Newton in 2011 is no less novel than in 2016.
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I'm an IT consultant in NYC, and no fewer than 5 of my clients have been targeted by such scams. Information on the structure of their company is gathered from their website and an email will be fabricated appearing to be a conversatio
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Tom Scharpling Accuses Google of Stealing “Best Show” Song for Chromebook Ad(pitchfork.com)
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I think you're responding to an anti-government troll who is being deliberately obtuse about the difference between civil asset forfeiture vs tax collection. Unfortunately statements like theirs muddy the waters between something that
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by ndespres 11y ago
You set yourself up to miss a fair bit of email that way. Most mail servers I work with use "opportunistic TLS": attempt TLS for outgoing mail; accept if offered for incoming mail; selectively enforce TLS on a per-domain basis for
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by ndespres 11y ago
I don't know whether small, local, organic farms are a model for feeding the planet but the premise of the article is flawed in the opposite direction. My produce doesn't beat Walmart prices but then, we don't have the luxury
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As a farmer I'm biased, but there's a lot to be said for eating fresh, in-season foods produced by people in your community. The human and environmental costs of making sure tomatoes can reach you from 1000 miles away is sickening
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In a similar case here in NJ, a local town was working to effectively block access to its beaches by non-residents by enacting an onerous parking restriction (no out-of-towners may park for more than 2 hours on any street near the beach).
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by ndespres 11y ago
My goats are a Nubian/Alpine mix. They produce a fair amount of milk, are good browsers (they're part of our crop rotation plan) and a few shakes of a bucket of grain is all it takes to get them to come in. We have perimeter fenci
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Worry not, the dogs get plenty of goats' milk and scrambled eggs that their charges produce for them!
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I keep 2 maremmas on my small farm to guard my livestock against predation. They are magnificent at what they do, chasing off ground predators as well as aerial ones. They immerse themselves in their flock and guard fiercely, working as a t
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"Similarly, as much as I like to criticize our New York Police Department, upon having my bag searched on the subway they understood that an electronics project is not a bomb. Unfortunately - there is one variable that I did not accoun
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by ndespres 11y ago
1. Career Tools and Manager Tools podcasts. Career advice, interviewing help, resume-building, team interactions, navigating office life/culture, salary negotiation, having your voice heard, and many other topics discussed in a friend
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With Outlook 2011 for Mac being little more than a rebranded Entourage, long recognized even by Microsoft as not equivalent to Outlook for Windows, it's no wonder your folks are having problems. I've pushed my Mac users to use App
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We should not define people in terms of what they are "not" or lump them into a group of who they are different from ("minority"). So no, if you are white you can be just that. Maybe it doesn't have as much play out
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by ndespres 11y ago
Please don't do a dismissive handwave over what's really an important element to this story. That the victim is a person of color is absolutely relevant to this story; it demonstrates a bias on behalf of the DEA agent, or perhaps
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by ndespres 12y ago
I'm sure many would. In modern cars where nearly everything is computer-controlled and un-serviceable by the end user, safety is pretty much guaranteed, and fuel economy is average.. what other choices are there? It's just as plau
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by ndespres 12y ago
Like many statistics, that number can mean what you want it to mean. I would venture to guess that the percentage of food grown on family farms, vs mega farms, is under 10%.
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One very interesting paragraph from the article: "Managed access systems can cost more than a million dollars apiece to install. But some prisons have found a way to lower the cost by partnering with outside vendors. In California, for
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You might think this until you read the 1-star reviews written by people running developer/preview builds of iOS. Think "App crashes on iOS 9 alpha 6, this is a HUGE inconvenience!"
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My partner and I run a small diversified farm. The goats are part of a small dairy for our personal consumption (dang restrictive raw dairy laws) as well as contributing to our production of goats' milk soap. Plus they make great ferti
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I believe it to be cultural and economical. Beef, pork, and chicken are well-established as easy to mass-produce on a large scale, with outlets for all the "extra bits" (hot dogs, Chicken McNuggets, etc) which would cut into the p
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I've got my hands full with my current flock, but I would love to have pigs for this reason (among others). Would be great to have them root around in some scrub land as Seymour describes, then use its new fertility to grow grains to f

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