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by steffan 9y ago
It's not necessary to uninstall the app after each use to prevent tracking - in Settings...Privacy...Location Services, you can disable location on a per-app basis. (this is admittedly a pain, and Apple enforcing in-use-only option ava
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by steffan 9y ago
> Tunde Ednut Accused of Sending Photos of Other Men’s Pens to Young Women Fountain or ballpoint?
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by steffan 9y ago
I would love to hear the story behind this.
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by steffan 10y ago
I suspect the defensive mechanism in the octopus leg is triggered by the impact. After a number of impacts the remaining energy in the leg is exhausted and it can no longer harm the dolphin.
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by steffan 10y ago
Grammatically, that would require a semicolon.
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by steffan 10y ago
My counter-anecdote - it seems to have been very hard to hire a Consulting Engineer in the Bay Area for my team. We've had plenty of candidates (some very good) from other cities, but haven't yet found anyone in SF or the surroun
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by steffan 10y ago
Also iirc they hired a CEO who lived in Chicago
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by steffan 10y ago
Any Latin speakers? Centiala? Centialae?
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by steffan 10y ago
Despite the cause being the end of the UNIX epoch in 2038, problems will become apparent a much sooner. Like the Y2K issue - in ~2031 (or sooner), systems that track expiration dates or contract terms will start to run into dates past 2038
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by steffan 10y ago
One of the reasons for the limited life would be the longevity of the actual heat exchanger - they will eventually corrode due to the corrosive nature of the exhaust gases passing through them. Additionally, the manufacturer probably doesn&
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by steffan 10y ago
I've never gone over the 30 minute limit, but my trips (and the design of the system) are point-to-point. When I lived in SF I had a bike, so I can contrast: Owning a bike: + You can leave whenever you want, never have to worry about a
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by steffan 10y ago
I've been in SF again (temporarily) for the last 3 months and getting the Bay Area Bike Share annual membership was one of the first things I did. At $88 / year, it paid for itself after the first 20 round-trips vs. taking Muni.
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by steffan 10y ago
Those of you familiar with this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo may or may not know that it is pretty universally applicable as a phone lookup for most rewards cards. Just prefix with a popular area code
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by steffan 10y ago
This is neither a flaw nor news. Any unencrypted volume on any system is subject to being read if the volume is mounted elsewhere. Additionally, this requires physical access to and control of the machine. As anyone in security will tel
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MongoDB releases free tier for hosted MongoDB Atlas
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by steffan 10y ago
Nah - reap the rewards of corporate sponsorship and rename the combined state 'Texaco'
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by steffan 10y ago
In Rust
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by steffan 10y ago
I'll present a contrary view: I love my new MacBook Pro. It's thinner and lighter than my last one; relevant to me because I travel extensively. I find that the battery lasts longer than my last MacBook Pro as well. I've se
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by steffan 10y ago
This is something that stood out to me in the original blog post as well. It is unfathomable to me that anyone in a leadership position could harbor such a myopic view. If this were my team and I somehow faced (at a Director level?) some r
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by steffan 10y ago
Thank you! I have this same problem and was never able to articulate why before, but it is for the same reason; I am a musician, and I can rarely let listening be a 'background' task.
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by steffan 10y ago
Another option is to write the tmux buffer to pbcopy on a Mac or xclip or something similar in Linux
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by steffan 10y ago
A significant advantage aircraft on autopilot have is that the majority of the aircraft routinely using autopilot are flying under Instrument Flight Rules [IFR] and can rely on Air Traffic Control to provide separation from other aircraft.
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by steffan 10y ago
I don't know about the others, but at least Turkey and Saudi Arabia actually host U.S. bases and are considered allies. It's probably not too strange to exclude them from the list.
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by steffan 10y ago
It's a different perspective if you've never had to do it; I used to live across the street from a small grocery (Fresh & Easy). When the grocery store is across the street, you don't bother with a week's worth of
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by steffan 10y ago
> This was also a phone from a terrorist. I think the downvoted parent is relevant in that they mightn't make the effort for a 'normal' person.
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by steffan 10y ago
Under Ford ownership, Jaguar did the same thing with the X-Type, and in my opinion, started the decline of the brand. The X-Type was [apparently] designed to allow them to cater to a mid-market customer, but they produced an objectively in
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by steffan 10y ago
I think the real test is how many of those who complained that they would be happier if Apple had just made it thicker and included all the ports would actually buy something like this. (And also if they are more than a very, very tiny mino
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by steffan 10y ago
Another factor is that contemporary companies more often will issue RSUs instead of options. This (afaik) allows a company to avoid hitting the shareholder threshold which would require reporting. IIRC, Facebook didn't have to go pu
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by steffan 10y ago
In fact, this setting has defaulted to localhost only for years . MongoDB 2.6, which made this the default, shipped on April 8, 2014
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by steffan 10y ago
I think you're talking about the Flo Control Project. Looks like the original site is gone, but here is an archive link: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160115204055/http://www.q...

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