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by rbobby 5y ago
Usually isn't addiction also defined in terms of some harm to the person? Damaging relationships, getting fired, going broke, and so forth. And having some guidance that Bob spending too much time on the internet is something serious a
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by rbobby 5y ago
> £700 set That's a shocking price.
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by rbobby 5y ago
There can be only one: The Elements of Programming Style
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by rbobby 5y ago
> heard on a ~weekly Could be a function of media. US media loves to scare its audiences.
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by rbobby 5y ago
For my 1 man shop... Crash, High, Low, Cosmetic. Crash means fix right away. High means top of the list, if there are no crash bugs. Low and cosmetic are whenever (as interest or opportunity affords).
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by rbobby 5y ago
> spacer.gif Guilty >      Guilty (habitual offender)
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by rbobby 5y ago
> it will probably double in size in a week and reach 1×1 cm in a month TIL it takes a long time to grow a perfect salt crystal of any size.
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by rbobby 5y ago
There should be an SMS option on phones that does an automatic reply "Your message to rbobby could not be delivered because rbobby is not working right now. If you'd like your message delivered anyway a charge of $9.95 will apply.
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by rbobby 5y ago
I did my "corporate" picture and it came out looking like I had been badly beaten and with really bad teeth (100 years of coffee and cigarettes). Bit of a blow to the self-esteem. Just not anime material I guess.
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by rbobby 5y ago
Bill Gates comes out looking a bit like Ellen DeGeneres.
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by rbobby 5y ago
The naming for .NET got tough when it was decided that open source and cross platform was the way forward. If that had not happened it would all be called .NET framework to this day.
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by rbobby 5y ago
HODL Umbrella?
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by rbobby 5y ago
If the pandemic has taught me anything, it's that the strangest thing about a zombie outbreak will be the zombie supporters.
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by rbobby 5y ago
And it appears to be FREE!
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by rbobby 5y ago
Wait... electron isn't cross-platform?
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by rbobby 5y ago
PDP11's were pretty great machines. Using RSTS/E (resource sharing time sharing... Eeeee!) you could really stretch things out. The process memory was limited to 32kb (maybe 64kb... can't recall) and the OS's executable
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by rbobby 5y ago
> So it was still my job to sit on the floor and in the middle of the room to be the “wireless” portion of the remote Those were the days (the archie bunker theme) :)
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by rbobby 5y ago
... and more channels. In the dawn of time, also known as my childhood, there were 2 channels. Then 3. TV's had dials and it was my job, like so many other youngest children, to turn them. Then cable came and there were a lot of channe
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by rbobby 5y ago
My fax line, which I need because my bank can't email me a wire payment notification, still gets spam.
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by rbobby 5y ago
> spare coiled sex bed. Not what I'm used to reading on HN.
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by rbobby 5y ago
> the mattress weighs about 300 lbs That's ridiculous.
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by rbobby 5y ago
and now it's mine
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by rbobby 5y ago
And thinking on this... a timeout is the right answer if facebook's dns servers are missing in action.
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by rbobby 5y ago
If I do: nslookup > server 8.8.8.8 Default Server: dns.google Address: 8.8.8.8 > facebook.com Server: dns.google Address: 8.8.8.8 DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. DNS req
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by rbobby 5y ago
No body/bury = good
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by rbobby 5y ago
> safe for the another month Not so fast there buddy. Best check what autocompletes for "how to dispose of a b..." and "best place to b...".
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by rbobby 5y ago
It wants me to download some app to change my desktop background?!? What is MS teaching people about safe internet browsing.
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by rbobby 5y ago
I quite like that the omni box will do math and unit conversions. So handy, so simple.
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by rbobby 5y ago
Buy a cheap hand held battery operated wireless barcode scanner (cheap on AliExpress). These work really well for scanning stacks of books... pick the book up, zap, put the book down. You have to config the scanner to operate in "keybo
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by rbobby 5y ago
> Shockingly, Pinky was the one who ultimately answered the question correctly, and it's also shown that Pinky can read, whereas the Brain can barely write his own name. Pinky doesn't answer the final question: https:/&#x

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