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by psim1 7y ago
A moderator has updated the title. I tried to keep it as close to the original article's title as possible.
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by psim1 7y ago
YMMV. My method has been working well with Comcast. When it's renewal time, I call and ask for the retention department immediately (say "cancel" to the interactive voice response system). When the agent comes on the line, I
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Why Everyone Hates Customer Service(wsj.com)
102 points by psim1 7y ago|126 comments
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by psim1 7y ago
But $14.50 for a plate of eggs and pancakes? I don't care where you live. That's crazy.
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by psim1 7y ago
This works nicely until the guy in the window seat gets up to pee. He runs into, or tugs on, the seat back that is in his way as he tries to exit the row, annoying the occupant of that seat.
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by psim1 7y ago
Watching a rodeo on CBS right now, I see the video bitrate ranging from around 500kbps to over 20 Mbps. The bitrate does not seem to correlate with anything visible to me, such as the amount of motion in the picture or the video quality.
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At least 62 colleges were exploited by software vulnerability(chronicle.com)
1 points by psim1 7y ago|0 comments
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Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy(tpr.org)
256 points by psim1 7y ago|192 comments
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As Cobol Turns 60, Computer Language's Future Is Uncertain(wbur.org)
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NYC Developers Lobby to Legalize Drones; 1948 aircraft law broad and out of date(wsj.com)
1 points by psim1 7y ago|0 comments
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by psim1 7y ago
As a casual space program buff, I thought the same. But I think most people do not realize how sophisticated this early computer and software were, and how important to the mission. The article emphasizes the well-calculated trust that the
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Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software(wsj.com)
204 points by psim1 7y ago|57 comments
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by psim1 7y ago
I'd like to see Prime Video on the Google Home Hub.
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by psim1 7y ago
I might be oversimplifying, but isn't this the perfect argument for certain digital voice modes? DMR for example uses TDM to put two voice channels in a 12.5 KHz band.
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by psim1 7y ago
Where are the amateur bands so crowded that this is a serious concern?
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by psim1 7y ago
AM (CW) -> AM voice -> SSB -> FM wide -> FM narrow -> Digital Modes have to evolve and the amateur radio community needs to do more to educate. The harrumphs of the old-timers can be discouraging, but amateur radio needs to p
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by psim1 7y ago
I'm considering a Cloudberry Labs (freeware/personal) + BB B2 combination for encrypted cloud backups and would like to hear opinions specifically on the Cloudberry part. I love the command-line suggestions in this comment thread
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by psim1 7y ago
Title should read, "Cloudflare Outage."
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by psim1 7y ago
The amount of posturing and blaming in Cloudflare's response is breathtakingly unprofessional. If the article was just a few sentences longer, you could have squeezed in a few more statements of blame. We know, they messed up. But Clou
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by psim1 7y ago
“I’ve been investigating these guys, and they look just like normal businessmen. So, what makes them stand out? No matter which [illegal factory] we raid, we always find the owner is from China.” Chinese opportunists can no longer get away
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by psim1 7y ago
I have found that by paying the same amount as the premium of the PPO into my HSA that I come out even, if I end up spending the whole deductible, or ahead (i.e. building savings), if I don't. In other words, I don't see any disad
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by psim1 8y ago
Original article title is "plprofiler – Getting a Handy Tool for Profiling Your PL/pgSQL Code." What is the implication behind the title used here, "If you still write stored procedures in a Database, you may need a prof
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by psim1 8y ago
> - OS/2 WARP Failed to beat Windows as a desktop or server OS, but succeeded in other ways. It was widely used as an embedded OS for ATMs and distributed as a support software for IBM mainframes. Did it fail because it is no longer
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by psim1 8y ago
Why not just serve static text over HTTP? At least then you'd have the ability to inline images. This--the use of Javascript and other technology for tracking purposes--isn't a problem for Gopher to solve. It's a problem for
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by psim1 8y ago
I will recommend the 2018 book "Habeas Data" which explains a lot of the case law that got us to this point. ( https://www.amazon.com/Habeas-Data-Privacy-Rise-Surveillance... )
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by psim1 8y ago
I have found the best part of taking up amateur radio as a hobby to be the book learning aspect. The world of electromagnetism is fascinating. When I started communicating locally, my thrill was squashed by uninterested complaining old men