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by slang800 4y ago
Toyota is alright. I've got a recent RAV4 without any of this nonsense.
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by slang800 4y ago
Woah, small world. I got an email from "Maris" too, back in July: https://imgur.com/a/Q7pq9uu I never responded to it, since it reads like an obvious scam, but I had no idea the scam was this elaborate.
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by slang800 4y ago
You should add a way to export all the URLs on the platform in a format that matches the URLTeam ( https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam ) releases. That way, when you shut down your service, we can figure out w
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by slang800 4y ago
Please do not pipe scripts downloaded through curl into bash. Use a package manager. That way the downloaded binary can be verified against a checksum and/or GPG signing.
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by slang800 4y ago
As a matter of principle, I am not paying a $2 "processing fee" to stop people from sending garbage to my mailbox. Also, the permanent credit card offer opt-out requires me to print and send a letter from each address I live at. T
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by slang800 4y ago
I couldn't find the UN report that they got their chart from. However, they only said "providing adequate calories and nutrients", which is a low bar. I'm guessing 1.5kg of dry white rice can be found for around $1, and
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by slang800 4y ago
Use a wire transfer. It's faster than mailing a cheque and only costs like $20.
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by slang800 4y ago
Can I download the video/photo content for offline storage? I don't want to spend a bunch of time recording memories if it's all going to be lost when this app shuts down in a couple years.
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by slang800 4y ago
fly.io is an excellent alternative. I am slowly migrating all of my clients over.
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by slang800 5y ago
> I can't copy+paste without introducing bugs What OS or clipboard manager are you using that strips out whitespace? I've used Windows, macOS, and a whole host of Linux flavors. I haven't encountered this clipboard issue o
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by slang800 5y ago
Offering loads for a $50 purchase is grossly irresponsible. It's bad for the customer, since they risk getting fees for missed payments and will likely be charged interest on the loan. By offering this as an option, retailers are preyi
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RBAC like it was meant to be(tailscale.com)
11 points by slang800 5y ago|0 comments
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by slang800 5y ago
In the event of a forest fire, does the land owner have to pay back the carbon-offset buyers?
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by slang800 5y ago
Owning a "share" in one of these "house-companies" sounds like a nightmare. If you want to sell it off, you have to find someone who's willing to buy 1/8th of a house, or buy out 7 other owners to sell the hous
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by slang800 6y ago
Users need to be able to edit the same files that ransomware encrypts, and differentiating between a legitimate user and a ransomware program is difficult.
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by slang800 6y ago
I haven't gotten anywhere making the moral argument to teachers or administration at my university. However, making the technical argument that Lockdown doesn't run on my system because I have Linux on my laptop worked. Occasional
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by slang800 6y ago
I've experienced the opposite with Amazon. If you complain about a product you've gotten they simply refund the full purchase price, no need to return the item or anything. I've even gotten months of prime refunded by telling
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by slang800 6y ago
If you're not willing to look outside of the exact form factor and specs that Apple happens to support, then open devices aren't a priority for you. I use a 1 inch thick Thinkpad that's almost a decade old because it runs Lib
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by slang800 6y ago
I see no problem with automated purchasing bots. These bots are only able to exist because people are willing to purchase the products bot-owners are selling at a significantly higher markup. This whole thing would go away if retailers rais
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by slang800 6y ago
Making a repo that is incompatible with another hosting system is not a GPL violation. There are all sorts of compatibility issues that can arise from platforms doing dumb things. For example, a repo with the files README.md and readme.md i
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by slang800 6y ago
My favorite of these "trials" ads has got to be their Jenga game from 2014 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWc8dUl7Xfo ). I'd like to imagine that that could be turned into a real competition.
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by slang800 6y ago
Do some research then. It's not impossible to figure out where things are coming from.
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by slang800 6y ago
Google Drive has never really offered unlimited storage. Once you get above about 0.75TB upload in one day they throttle down your upload speed or cut you off completely. It would take years to upload a petabyte, which keeps usage within we
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by slang800 6y ago
You're implying that owning a smartphone is a necessity. You could simply own neither an Apple nor a Google product and sidestep this whole decision.
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by slang800 6y ago
I don't think YouTube fights low-quality comments like that. Comment moderation is generally left up to channel owners. YouTube just provides tooling like their spam filter, word blacklists, and "pending approval" settings. H
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by slang800 7y ago
I don't think people know or want to know their neighbors anymore, at least not in America.
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Text-to-911 Caught in Life-or-Death Battle Between NYPD and Tech Agency(thecity.nyc)
2 points by slang800 7y ago|0 comments
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by slang800 7y ago
Shut down the engine when someone is still driving? That's not just inconvenient, that's suicidal. What if you're not able to get back to a place with cell coverage in time? Is the car just going to stop in the middle of the
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by slang800 7y ago
What exactly do you propose? A zipcar that doesn't allow allow you to drive outside of the city?
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by slang800 7y ago
Pets are not a replacement for human interaction.

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