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vidanay
4y ago
You're missing the fact that temporary things can still have a huge impact on individuals and populations.
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vidanay
4y ago
Cameron McWhirter is not the narrator. He is the interviewee. The narrator is Josephine Chu I think (according to the credits at the end.) https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephine-chu/
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4y ago
Isn't that a direct result of the Islamic belief that man made art is offensive to God? The same reason mosques are decorated with geometric patterns and not "art".
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4y ago
White grape juice is typically the base juice stock in my experience.
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4y ago
I've been an Android user since day 1 and had never used an iPhone until about a year ago when my company replaced my work phone (Android) with an iPhone. It took me two months before I realized there is a difference between swiping do
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4y ago
Pontificating from ignorance existed long before Johannes Gutenberg.
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4y ago
Sample size of "me", but I couldn't even tell you the last time Teams crashed for me. I frequently change cameras and microphones in the middle of a call (I change the microphone because I have a USB microphone that is shared
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4y ago
I agree. Of all the "premium" services from any company, I find TY Premium to be near or at the top as far as cost/benefit. My main complaint is that I cannot sign up for YT Premium Family on my Google Workspace account where
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4y ago
Nahhh, we will withold medical care if there are unpayed tickets.
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4y ago
I swear I saw this in a movie. Demolition Man? Judge Dredd?
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4y ago
I'm currently in the "Dick's Sporting Goods" cycle....a few months ago I was in the "Norton Renewal" cycle. In between was 5-6 weeks of silence.
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4y ago
That's a double zombie. Wyse mainframe terminals were popular in the 80's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Wyse#History
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4y ago
Older accounts have some sort of "meaning" that I thought of, but for the last couple of years I have been using the username generator in Butwarden.
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4y ago
NOVA The Miracle of Life (1983) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3623rs
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4y ago
I don't believe it.
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4y ago
> but uses five times less energy One fifth goddammit!
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4y ago
> any other machine or animal It doesn't say it's limited to humans.
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4y ago
Peregrine Falcon in a dive?
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4y ago
Same with certifications. (e.g. ISO 900x certification - you can still build a shit product, but it will be a very well documented shit product.)
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4y ago
If you're storing a raw password in a database, limiting specific characters is waaaay down on the list of things you're doing wrong.
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4y ago
I have a FB friend that starts every single one of his FB posts with "Dear Friends..." (We're both American)
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4y ago
If Apple were really interested in a standard, they would be promoting iMessage as a standard. Instead, when Google proposes RCS, they just sit and shake their head and say "no, not good enough."
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4y ago
And there's my weekly reminder that the British Isles are SMALL.
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The most amazing part of this article is that Kissinger is still alive.
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Damn happy none of those "features" exist
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4y ago
And within 50 years or less with no maintenance, all of those areas would be reclaimed.
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4y ago
Agree. Unless a post-mortem analysis of previous reliability "issues" determines that the benefit justifies the cost, it's not worth it. 99.99% uptime for zero incremental cost vs 99.9999% uptime and 100k USD.
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4y ago
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
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4y ago
Is "douche bag" not accurate?
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4y ago
"I heard some guy invented a car that gets 100mpg and lasts for 30 years, but the auto industry and oil industry had him killed."
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