stevenjohns

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by stevenjohns 7y ago
This person has expressed some desire for suicide[0] so it would be worthwhile for some Americans (you, right now) to report this. [0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/botupdate/botupdate/master...
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
Just give them a call, they credit you immediately. I had the same thing happen at Sydney International Airport a few months ago - I placed one order but it went through five times. It didn't show up on the app and didn't show up
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
It might have something to do with social media making it more obvious that journalists and news agencies are usually partisan and agenda-focused rather than neutral and content-focused. Political journalism (domestic US and international)
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
That shouldn’t be the responsibility of the users. It’s the responsibility of the manufacturer, even if the end user isn’t aware of or care for those improvements. This takes place in every industry except for software development.
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Uber will exit the Colombian market on January 31st(twitter.com)
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
Coincidentally: the researcher's name, Derya, translates to "sea" or "ocean" in her native Turkish. I wonder if that's something that might have inspired her as part of this.
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The pilots of the plane would be in constant contact with the nearest airport during and right after take-off, especially when there are technical problems. It's not hard to imagine the conversation would involve like:- PILOT: One of t
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
This is pretty cool. Do you have any metrics on how long it takes to arrive at the destination from the time of ordering? I'm curious to know how long it would take to arrive in the USA, South America (i.e Colombia) or Australia.
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
Why would that list be blocking fully qualified domain names? Seems more like a bug than a feature, but if there is a good reason for it I'd be interested to learn
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
I'm fairly certain only humans and a handful of whale species suffer from menopause or something like it. All other female animals are able to reproduce even into old age.
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
If you need support for OCGs (layers) or want to do additional markups or manipulation then you need a real PDF reader. Consider how architects and engineers would use PDF plans of a high rise building.
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Insofar that it works the same as any other third-party password manager on iOS, yes.
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Does it have Spotify, Soundcloud etc integration?
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
Finasteride (and other DHT inhibitors) is an option also worth looking into.
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
I used Yahoo! Pipes in a somewhat greyhat way. I started pulling in data from Reddit's RSS feeds for certain subreddits and using that to create and post content for fairly spammy Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook pages. I'd parse the
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A demonstration of a flaw in the way browsers handle Unicode domains(xn--80ak6aa92e.com)
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There's a few outstanding people that make me love the Python ecosystem, Nedbat is definitely in that list. FunkyBob (Curtis Maloney) is also a staple with Django, he's spent years and years helping people and asking for nothing i
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
Check out Bitwarden. This[0] event sealed the deal for me that I wouldn't use 1Password again, and Bitwarden was a great alternative. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20417832
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
I'm happy to pay for everything insofar that my rights are respected and the prices are fair. Which is what I do now. I pay for Spotify - the family plan - for my entire family. It's extremely well priced and I'm happy to p
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
Perhaps Neflix, HBO and Cable Giants don't realise that in 2019 the internet is super fast, storage is super cheap and piracy is easier than ever. If they want to take an inch, I'm prepared to revert to hosting a media server for
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
I appreciate that. When I wrote "perhaps I don't really understand what makes it so special" I meant that insofar that I might not completely understand, and therefore might miss, the key features of Ring within the alternati
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
I don't own a Ring, nor have I used one, so perhaps I don't really understand what makes it so special. Using Home Assistant[0], you can use the motion detection found in many IP cameras to trigger various events[1]. This includes
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
My experience is the exact opposite. There is a culture of laziness and most offices are carried by a handful of outstanding people and propped up by significant foreign investment. The difference with Israel, specifically in regards to hac
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Well... yeah. He kind of is. The Syrian government's history of reconciliation is spotless. They intentionally try to make the reconciliation process as clean as possible so they can encourage more of it. They provide full amnesty to n
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
The Atlantic article serves as a great reminder of why alternative media picks up more and more steam, and why "fake news" is a problem that isn't just limited to smaller groups. Let me present an alternative outcome: when th
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
It sounds like they don't talk to you out of the guilt and embarrassment of not helping. You did nothing wrong.
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Mitogen is a Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs(mitogen.networkgenomics.com)
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> Because your average farmer is obviously going to join up with a militia or terrorist group because of some abstract political thing like sanctions which he probably has trouble even measuring in his day to life. Sanctions starve peopl
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No it's not. These types of comments are extremely inappropriate. Your comment tries to suggest that: 1. Terrorists are people with legitimate grievances 2. Terrorists are representatives of oppressed people 3. Terrorists have genuine
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
> He's discussed his views on pedophilia for a very long time, and this was just the latest on that Yes, he has. This is his view as of Friday[0]: > Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an

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