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by stewx 5y ago
If you read the article, it clearly states that high-resolution images are now available and permitted by US law: > "As a result of recent changes to US regulations, the imagery of Israel and Gaza is being provided at 40cm resolutio
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by stewx 5y ago
It's a TV series, not a movie...
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The content of the post is highly speculative. I don't have a problem with companies sending out emails tailored to customers' demographic profiles. The issue is really the wording, which in this case assumes the customer has chil
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That's actually a pretty good idea. I don't see a problem with this. Virtual cab driver for your own car.
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I looked at the salaries people are posting, and what I am seeing is people (at least the ones comfortable with posting this kind of info on the Internet) rapidly climbing from $30-50k/yr USD to $75-150k/yr USD. These are excellen
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by stewx 5y ago
What is personality training?
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by stewx 5y ago
Asking a contractor if they like doing contract work is a bit like asking someone at McDonald's if they like hamburgers. The answer is pretty likely to be "yes".
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by stewx 6y ago
Having spent a few months at work attempting to build an application in NativeScript, my advice to others is don't touch it with a ten-foot pole. It is marketed as a holy grail for mobile development, but it is very, very immature. It
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by stewx 6y ago
I learned this a while back and used the Python web page scraping tool BeautifulSoup to take an eBook version of a cookbook and generate individual recipe files compatible with my favourite recipe manager, Paprika.
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by stewx 6y ago
Direct YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA-9QzIcr3c
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by stewx 6y ago
> I’m not pissed off because I expected tech companies to do more, no, I didn’t expect them to do anything. I’m pissed off because they pretended to be doing good and wanted me to congratulate them for it.
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by stewx 6y ago
> Kosher salt is used for curing meat [...] you don't need to use it for cooking It is highly useful when salting meat, or any large piece of food because you can see how much salt you are applying, unlike table salt, which dissolve
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by stewx 6y ago
It's not "holding your accounts hostage" when they merely cut back on what free users can do with their service. You can access your data at any time and export it to a file.
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by stewx 6y ago
How is Amazon allowed to say "A union cannot deliver greater job security or better wages and benefits"? It's presented as a factual statement, but, at best, it's the company's opinion, and at worst it's a blat
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by stewx 6y ago
I recently discovered Playnite, an open source PC game library manager. It connects to all the stores and aggregates them in one place. You can also configure your own emulators for older games, etc. I can now view my DOSBox games and Steam
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by stewx 6y ago
> The depravity of a platform where HR Managers are the rockstars speaks for itself.
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by stewx 6y ago
1) 4K TVs are virtually the only resolution available for purchase today. If you buy a new medium or large-sized TV for any reason, it will be 4K. 2) HDR works for any size and distance. TVs that do a good job with HDR will look a lot nicer
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by stewx 6y ago
> invest 10% of your salary for a 4% annual return Except we have had bull markets for several years now. It has been an excellent time to be in the market. S&P500 returns for the past 5 years: 2016: 9.54% 2017: 19.42% 2018: -6.24% 2
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by stewx 6y ago
Nice guys finish last.
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by stewx 6y ago
Bombardier has a long history of incompetence. Just google "Bombardier delays" or "Bombardier defects". They have been bleeding money for years and sucking up billions in corporate welfare to stay afloat.
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by stewx 6y ago
You can kind of bring MagSafe back to your laptop on your own by buying a magnetic USB-C adapter like this one: https://www.amazon.ca/Magnetic-Adapter-Connector-Transfer-Co...
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by stewx 6y ago
Answer: the photographer isn't providing the high-res photos. He sells prints of them through his web site: https://modernistcuisinegallery.com/artwork/yellowknife-flur...
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by stewx 6y ago
Where are the actual high-resolution images? These are 720x540.
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by stewx 6y ago
In the absence of a licensing authority for software developers, we have the freedom to work for anyone who will hire us, or for ourselves. No one has the right to work for a particular employer, but also no one can kick a person out of our
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by stewx 6y ago
> The field of software development embraces technical change, and is made better by also accepting social change. Really? All social change is good for the field of software development? Utter nonsense. This product itself is, if anyt
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by stewx 6y ago
The owner of "gamil.com" must get so much email. I have mistyped that domain so many times (and corrected myself), but whoever owns that domain has a massive amount of power based solely on all the unintended emails he receives. I