octobus2021

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by octobus2021 4y ago
I don't know how many fingers you have, but decimal system makes more sense to me...
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by octobus2021 4y ago
That was my point, if the workweek in US is Monday through Friday, and US weekend is Saturday and Sunday, there's NO REASON WHATSOEVER to call Sunday "the first day of the week"...
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by octobus2021 4y ago
Yep, one of the reasons US construction industry sticks to feet and inches instead of using decimal system.
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I did say "per my knowledge" so my point stands :)
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by octobus2021 4y ago
Yeah, that was the idea, they invented it to make things easier for people around the world communicating over the Internet. They even launched a series of watches which displayed Swatch time. It was so cool, too bad it never took off :(
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I had no clue, if the work week is Sunday though Thursday, it makes perfect sense. Learned something new today :)
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by octobus2021 4y ago
This is absolutely hilarious, and despite being long form, fits Twitter format very well, with each chunk funnier than the last :) A few notes: - Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I'm very much outside of the age range mentioned in the article but +100 for crappy audio mixing. When my family was going through all the Marvel movies at first I tried to control the volume by making it higher during the dialog and l
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I have a home theater (do they still call it that?) with 5.1, 5 speakers and all that jazz. I tried everything but with many movies (esp. all the superhero stuff) the only option is to lower the volume and turn on the subtitles to be able t
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I'm not a collector but got myself a couple during the pandemic. Pilot Metropolitan has good reviews and I like it a lot. It's a starter pen from a well-known company and is under $50 on Amazon. I use cartridges pre-filled with in
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by octobus2021 4y ago
India has a well developed system of 24/7 offices used for offshore support/development. Companies like TATA, Infosys, and many others have entire campuses which include not only office space but food distribution, various utiliti
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I agree. Our online identities are ultimately based on our phone numbers, and email provider can only serve as identity provider since they require your phone number.
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by octobus2021 4y ago
That's what I do as well. In addition, all my emails are backed up in my local email client (which I back up locally to another location once in a few days) so if things go south I have a way to restore my accounts.
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by octobus2021 4y ago
The point is that since so many services require email it's getting to the point that not having an email is a major hurdle, and therefore government must recognize it as being part of critical infrastructure and provide this service,
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I was going to add "and Faraday Cage" until I got to For the current experiment, researchers argue that malware that managed to infect an air-gapped [offline] computer can transform and modulate locally stored files into audio sig
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by octobus2021 4y ago
A wise sysadmin said in the days of my youth: "The only perfect firewall is a pair of scissors" :)
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I know Russia is not exactly in vogue right now but they have a similar model in Saint Petersburgh (the project was initiated and funded by a local businessman who was very much impressed by the museum in Hamburg). It's called Grand Mo
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by octobus2021 4y ago
If a woman has a child in her 50s she will spend her 50s (and maybe part of her 60s) taking care of the toddler and then raise them to be 10 years old. These are not easy years I can tell you that having gone through that more than once. An
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by octobus2021 4y ago
So Russia is No.17, just 3 places behind the US, and ahead of Canada, UK, Czech Republic, and a whole bunch of others? It's good I never believe any rankings because they're all BS.
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by octobus2021 4y ago
The longer you continue with your job hopping the more likely your next job will be short-term. There are 2 different career paths, both valid, both with their pros and cons. With short-term positions you will be "hired gun", wher
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by octobus2021 4y ago
Gorilla (manually backing up local file). Security through obscurity :)
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by octobus2021 4y ago
There's definitely a significant niche for offline word processor, spreadsheet, drawing diagrams and such. I do not want to go online, register, have my data "in the cloud", fume when it goes down because of AWS of buggy upda
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I started a company making and selling Android games (phone and tablets) around 2010. Made 5 games with 0 revenue, however couple years later Google Ads found widespread fraud and they re-distributed some earnings and I ended up with a few
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by octobus2021 4y ago
Worse yet, what about companies forcing employees installing apps on their phones? Pretty much everything now requires 2FA, and many are moving away from SMS to app-based authentication (e.g., AWS does not support SMS 2FA anymore). So I now
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by octobus2021 4y ago
In case if it was not clear from the way I phrased my question, it doesn't make any sense. The business _legally_ collected marketing information and then got fined because they collected too much, did it for too long, or didn't m
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by octobus2021 4y ago
There're ways to get rid of all of it already. Get a dumbphone/featurephone, install open source OS, or even get a phone with one installed. Yes, they're more expensive and way less polished. Android is way more developed, ha
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I'm against companies tracking my whereabouts and wanting to know everything about my personal life. However. Here's what the "charges" are as per the statement: >The investigation concluded that Tim Hortons’ continua
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by octobus2021 4y ago
I was made to study music (piano, singing, solfeggio) growing up. Basically robbed me of childhood - no free time (classes 6 days a week), no friends, constant pressure to do something I didn't want to. At 8th grade a just said I'
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by octobus2021 5y ago
Wouldn't exactly call it capable, it had 20 memory registers and 106 bytes of programming memory. Plus Reverse Polish Notation is not exactly easy to use. Still great memories, so many kids of my generation discovered computers through
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by octobus2021 5y ago
The article describes a plain-text, fast, and user-friendly site (sports new/scores/whatever) and is titled "Plain-text Internet is coming". My point is that the plain-text Internet will NOT be coming while content creat

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