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by tbyehl 9y ago
Convenience is a powerful feature. I took advantage of holiday sales to replace the girlfriend’s pair of Dots and outfit every room of our homes with better Alexa-enabled speakers. Everyone in our households are listening to music more ofte
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by tbyehl 9y ago
When you tie metrics to financial rewards, people are going to game the metrics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/...
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by tbyehl 9y ago
> My issue with smart homes is that they seem to provide few tangible benefits compared to earlier inventions > Smart locks, smart lighting, smart ovens etc may save you seconds at best It's not necessarily about saving seconds b
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by tbyehl 9y ago
ProClip is the gold standard for this stuff, they make model-specific mounting bases for most cars that wedge into dashboard / console panel gaps and are extremely secure. I've moved on to magnetic mounts with adhesive bases for a
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by tbyehl 9y ago
Not to mention the rise of mobile readers, it's rare I see a Gwinnett or Dekalb county sheriff car without them. My local PD's newest car has hidden cameras and is always waiting along the most traffic-choked road, seemingly doing
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by tbyehl 9y ago
What is the anti-ad-blocking crusaders' response to Google's inability to keep their content sites free of malicious advertisements? If I can't trust that YouTube won't serve malicious ads to my PC, who the hell could I
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by tbyehl 9y ago
I find Waze to be absolutely horrific at routing. Just this week, at the start of a route, it sent me into a wreck on a surface street it already knew was causing crawling speeds for over a mile. 13 minutes in traffic it should have avoided
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by tbyehl 9y ago
You can thank Apple for the idiocy of eBook pricing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc .
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by tbyehl 9y ago
My understanding is FBA inventory is fungible, so how would that work when Amazon fulfills an order from inventory that another seller warehoused?
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by tbyehl 9y ago
When I was in Germany in '99, the calling party paid for phone calls. Incoming was free. I don't know what an SMS cost but it was reliable across carriers and borders. When I moved back to the US in '01, SMS was free. If your
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by tbyehl 9y ago
By their nature there really isn't much one-off stuff to be done. We've got the kids on Supervised (local-ish) accounts which lets us monitor their browsing habits and enforce SafeSearch but that's about it. The glaring hole
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by tbyehl 9y ago
Is this just a re-branding of "Chrome device management"? I wish they'd come up with something Family-oriented. I've got my mom, girlfriend, and girlfriend's children all using low-end Chromebooks / Chromebases
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by tbyehl 9y ago
Who is the phone company? There are 6,829 companies listed as Active in the Form 499 Filer Database. http://apps.fcc.gov/cgb/form499/499results.cfm?FilerID=&frn=...
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by tbyehl 9y ago
> Except it's Sprint, so many people will whip out their phone and have no functional data service. Sitting in my home office, my work-provided Sprint iPhone 6S just managed 0.47/0.27 Mb/s in the Speedtest.net app. Highest
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by tbyehl 9y ago
AT&T knocked on my door recently to sell "fiber" -- in reality, 50/10 over 4-pair. I get 360/30 on Comcast.
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by tbyehl 9y ago
Traffic tickets are crimes in some places. OCGA 40-6-1(a): > unless otherwise declared in this chapter with respect to particular offenses, it is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act require
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by tbyehl 10y ago
> sweet stack of USR Courier external modems blinking away (you never wasted time on cheap gear) USR offered substantial discounts to BBS operators to keep us from buying cheap gear. I pre-ordered some pre-v.34 (upgradeable) Courier V.Ev
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by tbyehl 10y ago
QIC-40 and QIC-80 drives connected to the floppy disk controller.
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by tbyehl 10y ago
One of my friends took a CCNA class and had her mind blown by Class C != /24. I was shocked they're still teaching anything about classful networking in 2017. I think the last time I saw RIPv1 was 1998.
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by tbyehl 10y ago
When did that happen? I just got a replacement Chase Amazon Visa Signature a couple months ago -- it's not embossed, but it ain't metal.
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by tbyehl 10y ago
Free Costco membership was not one of the perks (and isn't with the Citi Costco card either).
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by tbyehl 10y ago
I'm starting to wonder if these articles are driven by a PR firm paid by John Deere's competition. They're always about John Deere and only John Deere. Aside from the Motherboard / Vice article, they never provide any sp
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by tbyehl 10y ago
> MindRape Sigh. Donnie succumbed to cancer last May. He was one of my favorite co-workers, a fantastic friend, and a world-class hacker.
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by tbyehl 10y ago
Is that Windows 10? On my Windows 10 Ent desktop I'm able to set the scale factor of each display independently. http://imgur.com/a/5378F
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by tbyehl 10y ago
Huh? On Win10Ent I've got both of my displays set to different scaling factors and changes take effect immediately (like, as soon as I release the slider).
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by tbyehl 10y ago
> The answer is that you more than likely have no protection at > all (likely not even in workplace law). Even if you suspected > someone had inappropriately accessed your personal details, > the company almost cer
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by tbyehl 10y ago
Sunrise FL has revenues north of $300M and a $40M police budget, forfeiture isn't exactly keeping the city afloat. And they were seizing cash / property from people who actually attempted to buy drugs not random people.
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by tbyehl 10y ago
To be really pedantic, it was in San Antonio. Windcrest purchased some surrounding property and annexed it.
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by tbyehl 10y ago
The same week my job went from mostly to fully remote, I split up with my ex-wife-to-be and a large chunk of my social network went with her. I'm an introverted person who enjoys a fair amount of alone time but being alone 24x7 quickly
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by tbyehl 10y ago
So many things work well at half-width and full- or half-height on a 21:9 display. I've got a AOC Q2963PM & Dell U3415W on my main workstation and it feels like having a 2x2 grid of 4:3 displays without a border down the middle. I

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