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by rixrax 8y ago
When I sometimes buy BDs (mostly foreign titles from my native country, not available for streaming from usual sources), I'll rip them raw with MakeMKV[0] decrypting the video TS files in the process. Then I use MKVtoolnix[1] to wrap o
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The Psychology of Selling Life Insurance[0] by Edward K. Strong might be considered something of a a classic when it comes to 'how to sell'. A bit of an oldie, but I think if you're interested in this 'genre', I wou
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I just wish we were able to time-warp back to Windows 7. And start again from there. I liked Windows 7 user experience. I had to boot up one in a VM the other day to debug a legacy issue. I realized how much I really did like it. I liked th
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Looks like they're up again. :) Was that like a full hour of downtime. I hope they publish a postmortem. Like others have said, for me, Youtube has always been there. It is a odd feeling to have experienced [albeit shortly] internet sa
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For building a house it should then also include the role playing aspect of dealing with building departments, inspectors, and contractors that don't show up or drill into wires that electrician had just installed. ;-)
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Does the 'Ensure that Apple products last as long as possible' assume wrapping new iPhone into one of those cases? I don't know if I am alone here, but I find it counter intuitive that to protect my new shiny, I would have to
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Haha! Looks like another modern version of zip-bomb[0] or should I say - div-bomb:) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
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Why should it be available for everyone? Why should a person that doesn't pass equal opportunity entrance exam be allowed to study to become a lawyer or civil engineer or a medical doctor for free/on tax payers money? Call it acco
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Exactly this. Free shouldn't be read as available to everyone. It should in my mind be read as in 'free, after you have passed the entrance exams'. At least this is how it at least used to be in Nordic colleges. And like pare
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>>>[optionally] enforce >what's that supposed to mean? I was just thinking that some might want to use this software without identification enforcement, or do it some other way (manually via voter list,...). I think it woul
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I hope that as part of the design, it will also [optionally] enforce some form of voter identification (passport, drivers license, passport card, or even a credit card with a chip or apple pay for all I care). I suspect above might be unpop
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Thanks for this link. It looks like my skepticism may not have been well founded. Are there [many] other similar companies out there? Now that my curiosity peaked, they are the only one mentioned in Wikipedia[0] related to this activity. An
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>> For a 0-day no click exploit, $500k . Which company is that again? You hang around with them cybersec folks too long and you keep hearing about these 6 or 7-figure payouts for expl0its by some mysterious companies. But it's al
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I recently read Wikipedia[0] article about Vasa which in my opinion is a worthy read that covers many aspects not covered by the linked article. Fun fact: statue of 20th-century Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi, was placed (by SCUBA) on the ship
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They don't need downvote system. They 'just' need to make it so that I can only see comments posted by people that I'm actually friends with. That way I don't have to care about 10000 Russian troll bots and others w
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This. This 100x. Complete client isolation in air and in the wire. You'll sleep better. What is somewhat frustrating is that some vendors still design their equipment, and especially their setup process, in a way that it requires (W)LA
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I like how Adobe Lightroom [classic] displays names of dev and QA (and other?) team members in a splash screen on startup. Apparently at least Photoshop does the same[0]. I've always thought this is a nice way of giving little kudos t
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Just wanted to point out that diving culture as described in 'Shadow Divers' is pretty much as far from professional as it gets. What the book does describe is east coast deep wreck diving community of the early 1990s. In which I
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I always thought that the concept that you had to earn your right to vote was an interesting one. In the book, in order to vote, you first had to complete [onerous] military service. “Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man w
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Not so fast. There is IP over HDMI[1] or something so at least some smart-TVs might be able to use internet connection of PS4 or AV receiver or some other gadget in ARC/HDMI chain that is connected to internet. [1] https://w
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~20 years ago I was a sales engineer to the extremely good salesman. We had submitted a substantial quote followed by invoice to one of the tier I carriers in US, but for reason or the other, it wouldn't get processed / paid. Rumo
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I was thinking this mostly from the standpoint of viral nature of GPL-kind of FOSS licenses. E.g. somehow, somewhere someone manages to inject a GPL licensed IP block into a commercial CPU, after which, with my layman understanding, chip ma
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>> "Most importantly, we have to change the culture of hardware design. Today, we don’t have open sharing … " I'll have popcorn ready for the eventuality where IP blocks are widely available under GPL type of FOSS licen
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Sadly, I think you're right. And in the end, this may just end up being great marketing for the data their selling. Reminds me a startup that I used to work for a while back. We had hired a new hot-shot marketing VP. First thing he doe
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There are still some (correction: at least one) unbroken Enigma message(s) from WWII around[1][2]. Would be intriguing see how this would fare on them. [1] https://enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=Unbroken [2] http:&#x2
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Agreed. A worthy read[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita
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The Egyptian[1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egyptian
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If you’re looking for a quality Scissors, there is a Finnish company called Fiskars[1] that makes amazing high quality scissors (and shovels) that amazon.com carries. Disclosure: not affiliated. Just wanted to give them a shoutout since ver
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Netiquette[1] mentioned. I just re-read it after so many years. :) This makes me realize how old I've become (for they made us read some pre-RFC versions before getting accounts to Sun workstations in college). Oh how civilized the onl
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I was going to point out that GitHub pages are so great for hosting static content that that alone keeps me in GitHub. But looks like GitLab already implements their equivalent. Too bad it looks like they don't handle enabling TLS&#x2F

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