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by shitloadofbooks 10y ago
But when it gets stolen, the thief just switches the jumper.
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by shitloadofbooks 10y ago
There's heaps of resources out there, but honestly, just download something like NVDA (it's an open source Screen Reader) and try it for yourself, first hand.
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by shitloadofbooks 10y ago
And if you can afford it, you really should use RAID 6. The amount of RAID 5 arrays I've seen die during the rebuild process (because one of the other drives, with an equal level of wear of the failed drive, failed due to the increased
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by shitloadofbooks 10y ago
Somewhat related, I designed and created the prototype for my tabletop game Burger Up[1] in around 2 hours, including an hour with scissors and pencils, drawing rough sketches of burger ingredients on cardboard (with lots of help in that ar
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by shitloadofbooks 10y ago
Same, it put me in California, but I'm in ...Australia
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by shitloadofbooks 10y ago
I'm so happy NVDA is getting some funding! I work with a blind music producer who uses Windows and we make great use of NVDA (and Window Eyes).
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by shitloadofbooks 10y ago
I made an arcade machine for my dad (though far from budget) for Christmas in 2013 and chronicled the build here: http://mattparkes.net/project/arcade-machine/ I'm about halfway through building one for mysel
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by shitloadofbooks 11y ago
That product already exists, a blind friend of mine has one and freaks out his neighbours with it. I was visiting him one day and he'd used it for a walk around around the block and his neighbour asked him how he "knew where all t
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by shitloadofbooks 11y ago
Woah, it was literally your post that just made me realize what medium.com actually is. I've only ever accessed it via hackernews links and they were all to very substantial and well written articles.
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by shitloadofbooks 11y ago
It's to do with the browser security model and JavaScript restrictions on file:// paths. I'm not entirely sure of the class of attack that it prevents, but it's been that way for quite a while now.
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by shitloadofbooks 11y ago
I don't think it really applies to a packet switched network: > adding extra capacity to a network when the moving entities selfishly choose their route can in some cases reduce overall performance. Network frames don't "
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by shitloadofbooks 11y ago
But the word "like" has connotations and it looks _awful_ to have a post with someone pouring their heart out about a tragedy and then have "Janine and 99 others like this" directly below it.
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by shitloadofbooks 11y ago
I don't have enough karma to downvote you, so I'm replying to you to tell you that everything you posted is a load of hogwash and your analogy is bad. Of course negative sentiment also "inherits the context of the thing it is
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by shitloadofbooks 11y ago
The reason it's "archived" from there is because she deleted it, for obvious reasons.
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by shitloadofbooks 11y ago
The Old New Thing is Raymond Chen's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/ and the book is excerpts and articles from his Blog (with some additional content no doubt). Raymond is/was a compatibility
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by shitloadofbooks 11y ago
We had some kitties delivered to our office in Brisbane, Australia by Uber. It was adorable.
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by shitloadofbooks 12y ago
There sure is a .google generic TLD: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/google.html
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by shitloadofbooks 12y ago
No (mainstream) Hypervisor does this and you'd run into networking problems pretty quickly if any of those VMs share a network.
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by shitloadofbooks 12y ago
Due to it's co-op nature (which is fairly unusual to non modern boardgamers), some people might have a poor time playing Pandemic if there is an overbearing person quarterbacking the entire game. Some people love working together to di
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by shitloadofbooks 12y ago
Real debt doesn't have to be paid down though. Eventually it compounds too far and the person/entity can't even meet the interest payments and goes bankrupt. There's plenty of analogies that can be made with technical
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by shitloadofbooks 12y ago
A few tricks: 1.) If they agree to a date when they will pay you, call them that day and "remind" them and get verbal confirmation that they will pay on that day. Ask that a reference number/receipt be emailed to you as soon