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by orev 4y ago
Every other part of a business runs on politics (i.e. bullshit). If you don’t want to be dealing with that 100% of the time, you need someone else to do it for you. And they will necessarily have to expose you to some of it, sometimes, to g
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by orev 4y ago
I’m aware of and was around when VCRs came out. They were always a huge pain to use and program. People would make the effort for really important things, but not for general TV shows. Because there wasn’t enough critical mass of people rec
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by orev 4y ago
Stargate did have an overarching plot, but was still very episodic (like many other shows at the time). To me, Farscape was far more in line with the new idea of a continuous narrative. This type of TV was enabled by TiVo/DVRs. Before
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by orev 4y ago
Many, many places that are not served by gas lines have external propane tanks now, and those are right next to the house. How would this be any different?
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by orev 4y ago
I think you’d be very surprised at how much lawyers don’t know or care about any of that. They store stuff in the cloud without ever having heard of the Third Party Doctrine (which allows the US government warrantless access to those docume
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by orev 4y ago
This list smacks of a developer prima donna mentality and if you think most of those rationale explanations are reasonable, you’re more likely to be a liability to the organization and not a team player. Companies have numerous goals, respo
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by orev 4y ago
Or read the Bogleheads wiki for free.
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by orev 4y ago
I’ve switched from starting everything cold to waiting until the water is boiling before adding the eggs, and the peelability is night and day. It’s far, far easier to peel them when the water is already boiling before adding the eggs.
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by orev 4y ago
Their big mistake was how they communicated (or didn’t) that it was happening. The technical reasoning behind it was sound, and it resulted in actually prolonging the life of the device. As the battery wore down, the phone would still funct
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by orev 4y ago
I disagree, but not in the technical sense. People have been talking about cookies since they were invented, so most people who’ve used a web browser know the word and have a vague sense that they’re used to store information on their compu
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by orev 4y ago
“Cookies” is shorthand for “persistent storage” because nobody outside of web developers knows other methods exist. When people, laws, banners, etc. refer to cookies, they mean “any technology that stores information on the client side syst
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by orev 4y ago
I never said they weren’t useful; in fact they are extremely useful. But they should never be exposed to the Internet, just like any other administrative device.
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by orev 4y ago
The idea that anyone would make these accessible from the Internet is preposterous, and the fact that so many are exposes an underlying problem in IT. Maybe it’s lack of knowledge, low skilled people, or the intense focus on cloud has ero
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by orev 4y ago
You might try earplugs. There are nice sets that are made for concerts that preserve the tone, they just reduce the volume (and background noise). Even regular foam ones work pretty well. You can still hear people close to you, as they main
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by orev 4y ago
A backup camera/monitor is a game changer, so not really the best place to draw the line. I think you’re probably more concerned with them also using the monitor to do other things.
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by orev 4y ago
I’ve been doing this for over 20 years, and have the same results. The only spam I get is to a few addresses where there was a data breach (LinkedIn). I have another account where I don’t do this, and it gets around a dozen messages per day
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by orev 4y ago
There have been multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities found in the HEVC extension, and it doesn't seem like this has been updated since the initial release. Definitely would not install this.
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by orev 4y ago
Cast iron and stainless are so completely different that this comment doesn’t belong in this thread. Also, cast iron, even when seasoned, would still stick quite a bit in the above scenario (and I can’t imagine any scenario where I’d want t
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by orev 4y ago
> stainless/high carbon steel with butter is perfectly 'non stick' Except it isn’t. Try letting melted cheese, or pretty much any starch (pasta, rice, oatmeal, etc) sit in stainless for a while and then see how non-stick i
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by orev 4y ago
I think you missed the part about using desktop mode. On Safari it’s the option “Request Desktop Website” on the menu that comes up when you tap the “aA” icon on the site.
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by orev 4y ago
And that’s fine with me. This problem is caused by big tech companies money grab trying to force everyone into the cloud and charge subscription fees. I never have this problem with on-prem software because I have control over what it does.
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by orev 4y ago
It does not drop the amount remaining on the mortgage, so people get stuck paying more for an asset that’s not worth as much as the loan. They can’t sell it because they won’t make up the difference between the new sale price and the amount
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by orev 4y ago
It has to be taken as a given that all encryption deployed today will get “weaker” over time, so that’s already accounted for. The solution is that you just have to live with some risk from older algorithms, and make sure the replacement sc
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by orev 4y ago
Because in Operations you need to cover all the scenarios, regardless of what the Developers think is the “only way” to do something.
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by orev 4y ago
Seems like that was already addressed: > while relentlessly deprecating and removing older standards Stuff that’s old and broken needs to be removed.
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by orev 4y ago
Those people probably don’t fully understand how pervasive the tracking is. If they did, they would care. When Apple launched the tracking prompt in iOS, Facebook took out ads warning people how bad it was going to be for them, and the resu
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by orev 4y ago
AT&T allows you to sign up for enhanced protection for $3.99/mo.
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by orev 4y ago
Phone companies are trying to turn this problem into a revenue generation “opportunity”. Not only do they get paid for the calls that traverse their network, but now they also want you to sign up for their “premium” blocking services, at a
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by orev 4y ago
It’s pretty easy to insert colors into to prompt using conditional logic in things like bashrc. You can also add them to other system tools like ‘screen’ and (I assume) ‘tmux’. People can override them if they want, but it’s a good starting
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by orev 4y ago
I feel like the concept of using different names for each band is like the old habits where people would disable auto-speed negotiation on Ethernet. It used to cause a problem when it first came out, but all of those issues were solved long

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