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by pooper 3y ago
> Running Win10 today is like running Win95 in 2004, 6 years after Win98, 3 years after XP. Maybe I have just gotten old(er) but I remember being excited about Windows XP. I had an Pentium 4 computer with 128 MB of memory and a 40 GB ha
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by pooper 3y ago
I was so sure archive.is/wip/xxxxxx used this but I just checked and it uses <script>{setInterval(function(){document.location.reload();},5000)}</script> now for example, I tried out view-source: https:/&#x2F
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by pooper 3y ago
If people don't believe my parent post, here is an email from united voice ("Today at Informing America"), I've spared you the links : Sponsored by American Hartford Gold Group Sponsored content keeps our newsletter free
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by pooper 3y ago
> they could have.. I dunno... maybe start charging for it instead of effectively murdering the product? Google Analytics has a paid tier but I remember someone on reddit joked like the price is probably too high because they don't
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by pooper 4y ago
My motivation for using markdown is simple: I can keep track of changes with git.
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by pooper 4y ago
This is a logical fallacy and you should be ashamed of yourself for spreading it. You can "engineer" (manipulate) low information voters into voting a certain way. This means nothing.
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by pooper 4y ago
> Normal/poor people don't put enough money into banks for it to represent much of their earnings. This is hurtful in more ways than one. Banks routinely charge all kinds of fees from account maintenance to whatever Wells Farg
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by pooper 4y ago
I can't imagine having to explain something simple like this to a professor but here we are. This ship has long sailed. It is not possible for us to have absolute right to our own minds and thoughts since mass advertising. The military
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by pooper 4y ago
It isn't always even bugs. There are features I'd GNU+Linux to get rid of most notably the two clipboards. Screw that noise. We only need one clipboard. However, what we get is more code to keep the clipboards in sync. https:&#x2
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by pooper 4y ago
I just remember my professor drilling down in my head that if my code doesn't build, 99%+ chance is that it isn't a bug in the compiler. We are taught early on that if something doesn't work, it is because something is wrong
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by pooper 4y ago
I like the idea of using a bigger screen device with Google Maps or some other map app for navigation during driving on older cars like say a 2007 Toyota Camry. Anyone have any thoughts on using a bigger tablet (probably mounted on some sta
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by pooper 4y ago
Note to reader: the link is mangled up a little I think because of the closing parentheses? Here is a link without parentheses https://yawpitchroll.com/posts/hugo-probably-is-not-for-you/
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by pooper 4y ago
As long as the whole process is transparent and fully disclosed upfront. Remember, the company has more information than the applicant.
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by pooper 4y ago
> professionalism One short story about how I got a rude email one morning at work saying we need to change all our connection strings in production (internal applications) because machinename1234.corporation.lan doesn't work anymor
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by pooper 4y ago
I remember having a made up portfolio on Google finance where I pretended to invest money in the stock market by pretending to buy a d sell shares and record my performance. It was terrible I lost a lot of imaginary money. Made me realize I
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by pooper 4y ago
I'll bite. Fines and fees are a difficult topic. Fines and fees should never be used to fund the government. They are a perverse incentive. We have seen over the years how horrible politicians try to "lower taxes" by shif
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by pooper 4y ago
> The financial thing is a ridiculous premise anyway. There are plenty of people for example in the religious communities who have 5+ or even 10+ kids and those kids are raised healthy, good and educated - all on modest incomes. Some peo
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by pooper 4y ago
A little off topic but I don't see how it makes any financial sense to have children. In fact, I'd say it ought to be recognized as downright criminal to have too many children (I'd say more than two biological children over
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by pooper 4y ago
This sounds very familiar. I hope they get a hundred billion dollar fine and life in prison for the CEO and the board if they do this because they have already been fined before for this. > Verizon is settling with the FCC over its use o
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by pooper 4y ago
> Which brings me to the point: Compliance isn't just there to cargocult and boxtick. It's there because, left to their own devices, most organisations/sub-organisations will end up, at pinnacle-best, half-assing security.
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by pooper 4y ago
There is a simpler explanation. Those older men are known actors/stars who have established some influence in the industry. That or some people might buy tickets to watch movies because it has a familiar name in leading role. The c
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by pooper 4y ago
> The distraction has the potential to cost 100's of billions. Not doing this has the potential for Google to miss the next technology trend, potentially crashing Google completely. That being said, I completely agree with you on a
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by pooper 4y ago
> A human doing the same SATs will test roughly the same way every time. > ChatGPT has achieved 80% in this user's run, will refuse to play at all the next run, will get 45% the following run etc. While I agree with your conclusi
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by pooper 4y ago
My case is not so bad but I get a few password reset links from different services every week.
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by pooper 4y ago
>> Frink has special syntax for date values. You can write # 2001-08-12 # to mean the date 2001-08-12 > But is that December 8th or August 12? I didn't even think YYYY-DD-MM is a possibility. Maybe I can grant 08/12&#x2F
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by pooper 4y ago
> Printer driver programmers/designers really make me question if politicians should be the most hated profession in the world. Trying not to be snarky but really printers are very mechanical I/O devices. I don't think the
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by pooper 4y ago
At one place, we had a potluck where clearly some people went way above and beyond so we decided that if you don't want to cook, you can just pay USD 20 instead. Those who cooked and baked were clearly spending way over twenty dollars
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by pooper 4y ago
I think we need something like Uber pool but run as subsidized city infrastructure. Like a fleet of small bus or maybe even a full size bus without a fixed route, picking up and dropping passengers throughout the city. I feel like there&#x2
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by pooper 4y ago
The whole concept makes no sense for me. If someone deposits cash, don't offer any interest. Keep it as cash (or something backed by the US dollar). I can give Vanguard USD 5000 and feel safe thinking I can buy VTSAX anytime. This is a
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by pooper 4y ago
> If every house rented or sold were to require an efficiency rating the market would work a bit better. There are passive house tests with air pressure measurements that can already do this. I love the idea but I don't know how pra

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