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by stordoff 7y ago
> Tea is generally even hotter. Any good tea shop will serve a pot of freshly boiled water, at least twenty degrees hotter than hot coffee. Depends on the tea. Most of the recommendations I see are below boiling: > white and green tea
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by stordoff 7y ago
> I also LOVE super-bright high kelvin 'cool/cold' 6500K+ lights in my home. My wife complains that it's like being in an operating room. I love colour-changing bulbs for this. 5000K+ during the day, ~2800K at night.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> In Maps, ads will now appear [...] during navigation. Unless I'm missing something, distractions whilst navigating (and thus possibly driving) seems like it could be dangerous.
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by stordoff 7y ago
Actually in a lot of cases, the games run better on Xbox One[1], and an increasing number are enhanced for the Xbox One X, which means that by default they run at a 9x higher resolution (so 720p -> 4K; 3x vertical, 3x horizontal). You ca
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by stordoff 7y ago
Incidentally, a point raised in Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001): > But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible.[...]All this junk data p
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by stordoff 7y ago
According to https://keepass.info/help/kb/sec_issues.html , it doesn't auto-update - it just displays that a new version is available. Enabling a man-in-the-middle to display a fake update notification, when t
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by stordoff 7y ago
Not for me - excluding ads, Keepass.com is the fourth result (KeePass.info, Sourceforge, Wikipedia, "People also ask" infobox, then Keepass.com).
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by stordoff 7y ago
I don't see how it's a contradiction - it's the same as Google LLC being a subsidiary of Alphabet, and LEOTEK ELECTRONICS USA LLC is listed as a Sub-subsidiary in LiteOn's financial reports: https://www.liteon
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by stordoff 7y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. Both appear to be, or were, subsidiaries of Lite-On[1], and the point is that it's not a no-name company that is drop-shipping rejected parts. (The Chinese doesn't particularly help - I can&#x
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by stordoff 7y ago
Leotek: > Founded in 1992 in California's Silicon Valley, Leotek is a leading global manufacturer of street, roadway, area and signal lighting products and solutions. Leotek streetlights were first designed and delivered in 2007 and
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by stordoff 7y ago
Why is this horrifying? Is there some part of this I'm missing here?
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by stordoff 7y ago
> Is there anything more to Amazon than a) fast shipping and b) you can buy anything there for relatively cheap Service. I had some headphones that broke after just over a year, but were still in warranty, and the manufacturer was being
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by stordoff 7y ago
> have depression to fake having chronic fatigue syndrome for two months- eg watch tv on a couch If you think this is what CFS is, you clearly have no idea. Have you even fallen asleep while eating a meal, despite having a good night&#x2
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by stordoff 7y ago
> In my judgment, the 2017 regulations [...] were blatantly discriminatory against those with mental health impairments and which cannot be objectively justified. The wish to save nearly £1 billion a year at the expense of those with men
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by stordoff 7y ago
> the next thing following DNS resolution is establishing a TCP connection which always leaks full IP address to the same person or organization controlling authoritative servers Depends who runs the authoritative servers - if you hit th
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by stordoff 7y ago
I've seen a few people do it, but it's also usually corrected as been wrong.
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by stordoff 8y ago
UK Laboratory reports per 100,000 population - 23.82 in 2006, and generally decreasing, lowest 12.63 in 2014[1]. US average - 13.1 per 100k (range 11-15, depending on year)[2]. I suspect the difference is not eggs, or if it is it's neg
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by stordoff 8y ago
> It sounds odder when it is deliberately used to avoid (mis)gendering a specific individual: "Pat does not discuss their* gender." I suspect it depends on dialect. "their" just sounds more informal to me, "his&q
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by stordoff 8y ago
None of which are strictly _forced_ - my laptop (Windows 10 Pro) _never_ installs an update without asking me, and my mother's and grandmother's machines (Windows 10 Home) are setup without an Internet user account.
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by stordoff 8y ago
My reading of the blog post would be yes - "We’re slowly updating the game everywhere it’s currently available over the course of this and next week." - but I wouldn't take it as a definitive statement.
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by stordoff 8y ago
CnC (original and Red Alert) is getting a remaster[1] - if that does well, I can't see RA2 being far behind. It's also quite playable in CnCNet. [1] https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/command-and-conquer-red-alert-rem
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by stordoff 8y ago
I believe that's parent's point. "https:" would be OK, "http: would be rejected, but " http:" would also be _accepted_ it. They looked for " http://" at the start of the string, instea
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by stordoff 8y ago
> Hopefully the beatings will continue until Valve stops taxing game developers so hard. 87.5% of Steam's sales in Asia are from over 90 non-standard payment methods (outside of Visa, MasterCard, American Express, PayPal, PaySafe),
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by stordoff 8y ago
> The role of police is to uncover the truth, leaving no stone unturned. This is the argument for blanket surveillance of everything, at all times. Where do we draw draw the line? If I call the police to report a break-in on my car, I do
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by stordoff 8y ago
What parent claims used to be true: > There is no contractual right or other right or legal claim against us to redeem or exchange your Tethers for money. We do not guarantee any right of redemption or exchange of Tethers by us for money
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by stordoff 8y ago
At best, useless. At worst, detrimental to the experience. It's a good way to drive me away from your site. I can't think of anything I hate more (in design terms) than the current trend of auto-playing videos following you down t
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by stordoff 8y ago
> A practical flying car would also solve the housing price crisis in cities as people could fly in from the exurbs. Doesn't this just reinvent the problem? You're currently spending a long time commuting due to congestion; you
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by stordoff 8y ago
"postal covers" (the article title) would seem to handle that.
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by stordoff 8y ago
> I do not therefore have an official photo-based identity document on me when travelling routinely in the UK. Neither do I - there's no requirement to carry your driving licence whilst driving.
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by stordoff 8y ago
> Also good tests are hard to write. I’ve seen T/F questions that could go either way. Multiple choice questions with more than one correct answer. (Professors will tell you to choose the “best” answer. But that’s a matter of opinio

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