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by tbirrell 7y ago
The best solution I've found so far is setting your internet as a metered connection, then telling windows not to update over a metered connection. The OS complains every time you boot up, but thats a small price to pay for control ove
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Ask HN: Git-Based Notes on Android?
3 points by tbirrell 7y ago|0 comments
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by tbirrell 7y ago
While interesting, how does this differ from open source solutions like Monica[0]? [0]: https://github.com/monicahq/monica/
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by tbirrell 7y ago
A lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck. Money in == money out, both by necessity and by increasing spending whenever they have increased income. Some people are deep in CC or Student debt, so extra money goes there, some are spendi
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by tbirrell 7y ago
If you play with fire, you get burned. When a simple accusation (not conviction, mind you) can end a man's career, why risk it?
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Indexing and storage are two different things. If something if not accessed regularly, then you don't want to index it. You can still access it, it just takes longer to find.
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by tbirrell 7y ago
tl;dr - Vox is trying to figure out what that mysterious vegetable is that some gut doctor has been going on about in every ad box ever. Their best guess is that it's corn, but the doctor (or more specifically, his publicist) won'
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by tbirrell 7y ago
If I go to foo.com, I generally expect that bar.com, baz.com, and qux.com are not also loading. We already have enough issues with tracking pixels, but now we'll have to worry about multiple sites worth of trackers (which I'm sure
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Okay, but did Memmius end up building over the school or not?
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by tbirrell 7y ago
1) Probably on the order of about 200GB of random file types. Definitely within the range of reasonably priced HDD. 2) True, I just can't bring myself to delete it yet, thus the hope that someone had concocted a way to minimize the non
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Ask HN: Personal Data Preservation Strategies
7 points by tbirrell 7y ago|5 comments
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by tbirrell 7y ago
I'm going to speak with a potential employer quite differently than I will with a friend. Trying to artificially move yourself into that category is not going to work and will just make me even less sure of the process. At least with a
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Location: Austin Tx Remote: Yes, though not a requirement Willing to relocate: No Technologies: LA/EMP, PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, HTML Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tbirrell/
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by tbirrell 7y ago
Its not about parental access. Its about third party access. Unfortunately, allowing parental access means that the device is vulnerable to malicious actors also gaining access.
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Ask HN: How to Break into Another Language
1 points by tbirrell 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to find supplemental/short term freelance work?
3 points by tbirrell 8y ago|0 comments
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by tbirrell 8y ago
Also, for those curious, the name is because the common explanation/metaphor is of a gambler at a row of slot machines which are sometimes referred to as "one-armed bandits".
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by tbirrell 8y ago
As I read it, their argument is that Apple doesn't do enough. And they cite the fact that Apple still associates with privacy offenders as their proof of Apple's hypocrisy. So yeah, virtue-signaling click-bait.
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by tbirrell 8y ago
Maybe, but if you slow down the video to 0.25x, @4:30 you can definitely see the blade bite into it and yank it away.
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by tbirrell 8y ago
Hold up. We already have to pay through the nose for medical care, so where is all this money going that these hospitals need to ask for more? Is non-profit a different class that is somehow left out of the con that is the US healthcare sys
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by tbirrell 8y ago
Can someone explain what ejection is? I'm not familiar with this terminology. How is it different from say, editing your package.json or webpack.mix.js files?
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by tbirrell 8y ago
Technically the US is a Rebuplic. Which, in a sense, means it is largely a Democracy of Aristocrats. Who, it should be noted, have done a stellar job in the last 200 some-odd years of convincing the masses that the Aristocracy no longer (tr
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by tbirrell 8y ago
Throwing stuff out is hard to do if you are poor or were raised poor. Everything you save now does not have to be bought later. There is a potential use for anything and everything, so you might as well keep it. Granted, at a certain point
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by tbirrell 8y ago
I think one of the comments on the article summed it up pretty well. > I think I disagree with half that statement. I agree that HTML is undervalued, but I've never seen that as gender bias along that line. [...] I think it's a
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by tbirrell 8y ago
Actually that not true. You are reducing my logic to an absurd level. A static price is not a prevention, but a disincentivization. Enabling people to do something they are otherwise economically incapable of doing is how we got the 2008 re
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by tbirrell 8y ago
One of these classes is wildly better equipped to care for an animal.
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by tbirrell 8y ago
Interestingly enough, as I followed along with your description of the demonstration, I too "painted in" the pirate. But when analyzing the rest of the scene, I realized that I had already created the background of the picture (sh
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by tbirrell 8y ago
Shouldn't purchasing the tattoo transfer the rights to the person being tattooed?
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by tbirrell 8y ago
The water eventually disappears.
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by tbirrell 8y ago
The Titanic was going fast because they were trying to get to New York ahead of schedule for the favorable publicity. To say that the Titanic was careening out of control through the Atlantic Ocean that by all rights should have been devoid

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