stoolpigeon

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by stoolpigeon 4y ago
Very cool. I've seen somewhat similar set ups for fly tying.
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by stoolpigeon 4y ago
I can respect your opinion but we'll just have to disagree. I appreciate you taking the time to explain your position.
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by stoolpigeon 4y ago
"Isn't that incredibly obvious? " I just asserted that it is not. That was my entire point. I'm not sure how you missed it. Your assertion that everyone who doesn't agree with you is a liar is problematic. I recomme
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by stoolpigeon 4y ago
"For most developers and even a fair number of users open source isn't a fuzzy concept but a very concrete technical term describing a very particular kind of license. " A particular kind, yes. The OSI definition? I'd wa
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by stoolpigeon 4y ago
I felt that way until I saw what he did with the floppy drive. Best part of the build in my opinion.
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
Which makes the whole point of the post I just read moot. I just switch one company that controls my stuff to another company that controls my stuff.
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
Hosting a server from my house is a violation of the TOS from my ISP. My choices are them or DSL. I don't live in a rural area. I'm well inside a metro area of 5 million people in the USA.
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
when I was in high school in the 80s we'd do the flipping the polarizer thing a lot. Never went beyond that though.
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
The US is the only place I think I've had to remove shoes for flight security in years. But in Europe taking off a belt is often required while in the US it is not. In Budapest they stopped having us remove laptops from bags a bit ago.
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
I just spent a week in Chicago - and the lack of a bus lane made buses our last choice. Traffic is terrible so bus travel is egregiously slow compared to the metro or trains. I'm used to Budapest where a bus is a great way to beat traf
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
I've only observed it from the outside (I worked on an aircraft carrier - but nothing to do with the power plants) but what I observed is that it takes a lot of people that get payed a lot of money in the private sector to safely opera
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
Yes. I still have mine and I didn't pay for it. I don't remember how/where I got it but it was free to me.
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
Yeah - I read it the same way initially and I was really at a loss. When I clicked through I figured it out. I took over some documents from a colleague that left my office and found he had done all his work in word perfect. I was at a loss
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
The two times I've been to SA it was for conferences and normally they had been held in Asia. It was a completely different experience going into them without some pretty heavy jet lag. Everything was better. And I could see how it imp
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
From the post and op's comments - they really hate a lot of stuff. I find that people like this who can't really handle changes they don't like have a tough time communicating about it in an effective way or doing anything ab
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
One of the strangest feelings I've had is flying from Amsterdam to Johannesburg. It's a super long trip and so mentally I was expecting jet lag. But there was no time change. The season flipped but the time of day was right in syn
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
My daughter is a university student in the US and had something like this happen. I was on the phone with her when she took it to an Apple store and they told her they would wipe the machine. She has some stuff on there she really didn&#x27
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
It's unusual. But this hack was also unusual. All the rest I'd heard of had much more localized ramifications. This one they hit too hard and I'm not sure the apology will be enough to stop what they have probably put into mo
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
As a US expat living in Europe, credit unions are a non-starter from me. Even big banks are not very good. USAA has been the best so far because they are set up to support military folks living over seas. I'm not in the military but I
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
"The average Gen X had no computer in their teens." I don't think this is true. I was born towards the front end of gen x - 1969 - and I had a vic-20 as a teen. Most of my friends, including some that were definitely not in t
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
In general I'm not crazy about stuff that is based around praising one's self. I get a lot of marketing on facebook that assumes I want to buy t-shirts that brag about how awesome I am because of the different groups I belong to -
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
The little Hungarian town I live in Diósd, has one. It's on a tiny street (most are in the town I guess) and a bit out of the way, I'd love to know how frequently it's used. I've never seen one in the US but it strikes m
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by stoolpigeon 5y ago
My wife and I live in Hungary. Every so often we visit Phoenix, AZ in the summer to see family. (My wife is a teacher so it makes sense to go in summer) and the hardest thing for us to do when we go out to eat is finding a restaurant that h
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by stoolpigeon 6y ago
There is a courthouse in Phoenix, Arizona, USA built predominately with glass. Summer days there are in the 40s. It boggles my mind.
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by stoolpigeon 6y ago
That article proves my point. They are taking about people buying air guns that fire rubber bullets. In 2019 the rate of gun deaths per 100000 people in Hungary was 0.61 and in the USA it was 3.96 There are things I worry about but mass sho
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by stoolpigeon 6y ago
When I moved from the US to Hungary it took a year maybe for me to really relax and realize for the first time how much stress I'd been carrying - all around guns. If you had tried to talk to me about it before I had lived here I would
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by stoolpigeon 6y ago
No - it never did.
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by stoolpigeon 6y ago
I think the cost of the tooling did matter but I also agree about licensing costs for their server products. The first time I got to work with Linux for money (as opposed for fun at home) was when I had a project where the MS Licensing woul
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by stoolpigeon 6y ago
I've never been anywhere near any volcano. If you don't mind - what does it smell like? Could you feel the heat from it? What was the sound like? If you don't have the time I understand but I'd love to hear what the expe
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by stoolpigeon 6y ago
This is the key difference. They mobile games don't want you to wait and come back tomorrow. They want you to pay to remove the blocks and just keep playing, today, tomorrow, every day.

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