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by synicalx 9y ago
I allow a couple, namely Google Calendar and Remember the Milk (which I use for work, sort of). I don't mind being asked if I'd like to enable them - if I don't want something to notify me I just hit "no". I get tha
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by synicalx 9y ago
Tesla's battery is better at doing what it was designed for, compared to coal plant(s) that are better at doing what they're designed for. In conjunction with one another, both technologies work incredibly well.
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by synicalx 9y ago
Religion? Or just 1/3 of a pull up? (I fully expect to be crucified for this)
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by synicalx 9y ago
Google's marketing engine just remembered earlier this year that they have a cloud product that they kind of forgot to push for the last 3-4 years and decided to cut the DevOps poster child a better deal in exchange for a high-profile
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by synicalx 9y ago
> piece of professional journalism? Does the Huffington Post count as professional journalism though?
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Ah that would make sense! Theoretically then, I suppose this could actually be quite a big chunk of cash in question - especially with all the allusions to how much money CIG raised for Star Citizen.
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by synicalx 9y ago
tl;dr if you can't be bothered reading through all the legal fidgey widgey - Crytek is claiming CIG breached their contract by doing the following: - Publishing Squadron 42 as a seperate game (licence was only for one game, Star Citize
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by synicalx 9y ago
If you're paying a third party to keep you private, then in paying them you've already breached your privacy because they need to know who you are in order to; 1. Accept your payment (arguably bitcoin solves this, but it has to be
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by synicalx 9y ago
I've got a couple of Homes, and I find them pretty useful overall but definitely not essential. Main things I use them for; 1. Alarm clock + morning briefing while I get ready 2. Music player (youtube music works really well, spotify d
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by synicalx 9y ago
I'd say the incentives for Apple APPEAR minimal, but in reality you don't have any way of knowing what they're doing or plan on doing long term.
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by synicalx 9y ago
I run on the assumption that anything and everything with a mic is probably recording me. If everything is or can listen to me, I may as well just take advantage of that where I can.
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by synicalx 9y ago
I think that feeling is well founded - child stars almost never turn out well.
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by synicalx 9y ago
It's quite alarming how often I see this happening in my town. The council and state government did some legislative fidgey widgey to allow "small bars" to open with less restrictions (ie, they don't need 5+ bouncers, li
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by synicalx 9y ago
A whole bunch of tongue-in-cheek "Is $xyz down?" type sites. Simple footer ad, maybe an affiliate link or two for a competitor and also my web hosting provider, some sort of social media affiliation like a pre-canned tweet with a
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by synicalx 9y ago
Technically it was around $1800 but bought in two $900 lots, but my first 5000 shares in a promising mining company. Bought in at $0.33, sold at $1.12 two days before the CEO got caught being rather naughty and the whole thing tanked. Monet
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by synicalx 9y ago
I agree in general, single word emails either are or run the risk of being ambiguous and in many cases end up requiring followup to extract the necessary information. However in some cases they're all that's needed; "Hey boss
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by synicalx 9y ago
> If you're curious about how Advent of Code works, it's running on some custom Perl code. Get out! Here I was thinking I was the only person using Perl in 2017.
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by synicalx 9y ago
I mean really, that's EXACTLY what Satoshi would say. It's funny though how Satoshi's identity has become sort of a modern day, non-murdering, Jack the Ripper kind of case. Big influential yet anonymous figure, and no one has
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by synicalx 9y ago
The funniest part about all of this is Apple's support twitter account; you can see some social media team is copy-pasting their "Hey no problem, let's just talk about it privately" message faster than I ever thought pos
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by synicalx 9y ago
Not strictly an error or bug, but rather the cause of one. Back in my ISP days, we sold IPTV packages, which we in turn received from the IPTV company via satellite. And because of this elaborate distribution method we would get THE BEST ou
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by synicalx 9y ago
Some of the more... bespoke, (?) recruitment agencies will normally do this. I work with a recruiter locally who specialises recruiting for mid-senior Ops and Dev roles and has landed me a couple of very good contracts and one very good ful
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by synicalx 9y ago
The last 10 years have been great for creating headlines that just sound REALLY funny to anyone outside our industry. I just showed this to my partner and she thought this might have been related to the Teletubbies. Actually sometimes, read
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by synicalx 9y ago
A bit less space, unless you're talking about storing hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars worth of gold. Not to mention for a common thief it's a little hard to turn gold into cash anonymously whereas that's very eas
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But then, at the very least, that's no less expensive than securing gold. You still have a physical object that you need to secure and protect.
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by synicalx 9y ago
Personally, I use it for writing essays/research pieces and as part of that I take A LOT of notes, gather up sources and references. Scrivener is pretty brilliant for all of that IMO. Note taking, probably not as good as Onenote or at
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by synicalx 9y ago
I'm not sure everyone yearns to live alone 100% of the time, but I think everyone at some stage would like to have a place where they can spend time alone, and in peace. After months on end of my neighbors slamming their car doors at a
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by synicalx 9y ago
> a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal. Ok, cool. > ... though he acknowledged that he still had much to learn about rocket science. Surely at this point, someone
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by synicalx 9y ago
> See, my kid's day care charges a mere $600 per hour late (billed in 1 minute increments). WOW, I'm in the wrong business I think. What else charges that much per hour? I don't even think a neurosurgeon could command that
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by synicalx 9y ago
Interesting, thanks for the feedback. I'm somewhat tempted to try it, maybe not at RRP though. Although I get the feeling it will end up in the pile with the Occulus Rift and all the other gimmicky stuff I've accumulated...
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by synicalx 9y ago
I'm curious, how are finding performance for basic stuff like web browsing? Real bummer to hear about the RDP app, that was a big incentive for me, but it's no use if it won't go full screen

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