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pxeboot
3y ago
It is my understanding the buyers agent commission is a line item on the MLS entry. So only agents can see it, not the public. Too low? Now your buyers agent will refuse to show that house.
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pxeboot
3y ago
The Garmin watches with 1+ week battery life have memory-in-pixel displays. Like E-Ink, this seems like another technology that could be amazing if they were available in larger sizes with lower prices.
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pxeboot
3y ago
I had to Google this one, but yes, it looks like an A340 has been used in Antarctica recently [1]. [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/antarct...
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pxeboot
3y ago
Ice runways are relatively common in some places. They pump water water onto them to create a flat surface. Similar to ice roads used for accessing oil fields and mines.
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pxeboot
3y ago
I am not sure if the same rules apply to 802.1x authentication, but we use self signed certs with 2 year validity for EAP-TLS and have never had any issues on iOS devices
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pxeboot
3y ago
Most of the lotteries/reservations are for cabins, campgrounds, and rafting popular rivers. For day hiking, very few places require a permit.
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Internet and cell outages in Northwest Alaska caused by fiber optic cut
(adn.com)
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3y ago
This stuff is is everywhere in most homes and offices. Pillows, carpet, furniture. Pretty much every time you take a step, sit, or lay down, you are adding some more microplastics to the air you are about to inhale.
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3y ago
>And they don't want to have shops and restaurants at a walking distance from their house. If prices are any indicator, people highly value walkable neighborhoods, which is why they tend to be much more expensive than less walkable
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pxeboot
3y ago
This does not typically work. See Visa Account Updater [1] and similar services from other networks. [1] https://developer.visa.com/use-cases/identify-merchants-rece...
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pxeboot
4y ago
This is huge! I looked at every home listed on Zillow in my area for months before checking out 2 in person and submitting an offer on 1, which was thankfully accepted.
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pxeboot
4y ago
>The fact that so many people choose to live in suburbs, or the "sticks", suggests that there is something desirable to _them_ about living there. Many people I know would rather live in the city, but the upfront cost of a hous
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4y ago
For very minimal use, a "cheap prepaid plan" can cost $5 a month or less.
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Colorado ski town fielding dozens of automated 911 calls from iPhones
(coloradosun.com)
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pxeboot
4y ago
They don't. But Chrome, Google Play Services and other popular apps likely share this data frequently.
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pxeboot
4y ago
> where exactly would a background check show you have two jobs "The Work Number" is a very popular service for this. They are owned by Equifax.
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pxeboot
4y ago
> We deliver electricity to every household in America This is certainly not the case. There are many homes without electricity, especially in Alaska and other rural areas.
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4y ago
It is configurable via a registry setting, ActiveWebProbeHost [1]. But you have to point it at a server with the right file present. It doesn't just do a ping. [1] https://www.ghacks.net/2014/02/07/disabl
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pxeboot
4y ago
I completely agree. But, stirring the pot like this often encourages the best employees to leave, so there is still considerable risk of his plan not working out.
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4y ago
There were a number of cheap Android devices that had LTE, but never had VoLTE enabled. Instead of allowing them to work as data only devices, most carriers just blacklisted them from their networks.
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4y ago
> but if you didn't pay your mortgage then you would also owe the entire amount of the sale price too. This isn't always true. It doesn't happen very often, but if you are not underwater after a foreclosure, the bank owes
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4y ago
There are many configurations that aren't (easily) possible with the GUI. The average user isn't going to care if they use LVM on LUKS or LUKS on LVM, but if you do, Arch makes it easy. I personally prefer using EFISTUB instead of
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4y ago
Installing Arch with the cli installer [1] is pretty straightforward these days. It only becomes a lot more work if you have very specific preferences on partition layouts, filesystems and bootloaders. In my experience, changing these thing
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pxeboot
4y ago
The original Surface Pro is still getting updates.
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pxeboot
4y ago
Temporary profiles have been a feature on Windows for many years. Likely intended as a way to login when a roaming profile isn't available on the network, not something a home user would care about.
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4y ago
A corrupt ntuser.dat file or profile permissions issue can trigger a temporary profile.
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4y ago
I tend to agree. If you pick a random new laptop, you will probably have a bad time running Linux. When I decided to switch to Linux as my main OS, I researched well supported models and settled on the X1 Carbon. I bought it a large discoun
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> I'm not sure what the exact messaging your school told It's been a long time, but if I recall correctly, funding and rankings were partially determined by the number of high school graduates continuing on to college. There wa
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pxeboot
4y ago
I don't know what you consider government, but the public schools I attended constantly told students that you had to go to college to be successful, no matter what degree you got.
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4y ago
Most of the "Unorganized Borough" in Alaska has zero property taxes.
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