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by rbut 4y ago
2.6GW for 9.8billion USD. Regardless of the environment, and out of curiosity, what's the comparative price for coal, gas or nuclear stations say over a 10 year period (including build price).
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by rbut 4y ago
No, that's just shifting the blame onto the user. If they are asking for something as sensitive as a mobile number, then they need to protect it properly. They ask for a mobile number to verify you're a real human, then they say &
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by rbut 4y ago
> I have never seen a square (Robertson?) screw in the wild, I assume that's regional. Reasonably common here in Australia. Our decking screws are either Torx or Square Drive.
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by rbut 4y ago
No issue with receiption with my Pixel 6 Pro here in Australia. Is it possible they have a faulty phone? I didn't fully RTFA (skimmed it), but did they try with a different Pixel 6 Pro to confirm?
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by rbut 4y ago
I have observed this, but also found that BingBot modifies the query string parameters of your URL. It does this by changing a character of the URL, possibly in an attempt to find new pages? I noticed this because I generate links with a si
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by rbut 4y ago
Same HCaptcha in Brave. I then tried in Firefox and only got the delay mentioned in the article. Note that I am also browsing via a VPN.
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by rbut 4y ago
I now use Postal Server for all my SaaS, which is self-hosted via docker, and has all those those features. The good thing is your maintain the IP reputation yourself and your not paying exorbitant prices when sending large volumes of trans
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by rbut 4y ago
I can echo the HP printer comment, mines a printer/scanner. Every time I print or scan on Ubuntu I'm expecting it to not work, as that was my experience on macOS, but it works flawlessly. On macOS the driver was abandoned 6 OS ver
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by rbut 4y ago
I do this, but the operators get quite rude that I won't give my details right then and now. Afterwards getting back on to the original operator is almost impossible and I have to spend 30 minutes on hold, and department swapping, tryi
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by rbut 4y ago
>>> len('<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="256" height="256" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M0 0h256v256H0z" fill="#aad3df&q
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by rbut 5y ago
The alternative is a shared number, which then requires logic to determine which user sent a message to X. When receiving a reply from X, you must determine which user to associate the reply to and then forward it to them. This can and does
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by rbut 5y ago
I run a SaaS, whose users can enable sending SMS from their number. We have an agreement with a bulk SMS provider to allow us to do this (we had to show proof of our application, our mobile number verification process, and give our use case
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by rbut 5y ago
You can run macOS under VMWare Workstation Player on Linux using an unlocker. If you combine it with a serial from an actual mac you own, but no longer use, you can get iMessage working also.
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by rbut 5y ago
Talking about dark patterns, here are a couple I've noticed. In Windows, I'm very careful about NOT signing in to anything Microsoft, unless I have to. I make sure I use a local administrator account instead of a Microsoft account
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by rbut 5y ago
c19early.com [1] lists numerous studies for Ivermectin and other drugs in the use of treating COVID-19 for both early treatment, and throughout all stages. Ivermectin currently sits at an average efficacy of 65% after 81 studies. So in real
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by rbut 5y ago
Reliability? I run a Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 13, and Ubuntu on a custom i9 desktop with no reliability issues at all. In fact I spend less time fixing things than I used to with my Macs (which I used exclusively for 13 years). What reliability
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by rbut 5y ago
Rent - Drop cash off at the Real Estate Agent/Property Manager Bills - Pay in cash at the Post Office In Australia I still see people in Post Offices waiting to pay their bills. Some simply haven't got out of the habbit yet..
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by rbut 5y ago
The leaked DARPA report confirms that it was a lab leak from Wuhan. Why is this report ignored by the media? Am I missing something?
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by rbut 5y ago
I found that for the first few years, but eventually got used to it. 13 years later it doesn't bother me. Having a young family at home with me definitely helps defeat the loneliness though.
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by rbut 5y ago
Which is pretty much every current OS and device except Windows, but yes. Microsoft holding us back again.
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by rbut 5y ago
Or you could generate the emoji symbol for the flag you want to display: country_code = 'AU' c1, c2 = map(lambda x: ord(x) + 0x1f1a5, country_code) flag = chr(c1) + chr(c2)
82.
by rbut 5y ago
I had the same experience on Ubuntu. Flatpak and snap crashes, yet installing via deb’s is rock solid.
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by rbut 5y ago
There are multiple UI options to choose from. Have you tried them all?
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by rbut 5y ago
Since moving to Ubuntu from Mac, I use LibreOffice daily for loading large XLS documents from clients. I might have to drop to a VM with Excel maybe 1-2% of the time, but the rest of the time LibreOffice is amazing. Thank you to the LibreOf
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by rbut 5y ago
Nope, none.
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by rbut 5y ago
Because people use docker-compose.yaml files verbatim, or copy docker run command lines, which more often than not do “-p 8000:8000”, instead of “-p 127.0.0.1:8000:8000”. Therein lies the issue.
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by rbut 5y ago
I’d assume a number of these would be due to the good old “docker punching a hole through UFW”, which still hasn’t been fixed.
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by rbut 5y ago
Have an XPS 13 9310 running Ubuntu 20.04 and it runs flawlessly. Things like sleep were a little rough when it was first released, but updates by Dell since have made it rock solid.
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by rbut 5y ago
I love projects like this. Well done to everyone involved. On a related note, back when I was engine programmer for a PS2/Wii/Xbox engine I remember my boss always coming and saying "How do we get it to draw more in the dista
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by rbut 5y ago
The police in Australia have made multiple attempts to access QR code data to track down criminals. So yes, privacy is always an issue.

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