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by vidanay 6y ago
Sounds like prima facie to me.
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by vidanay 6y ago
Walmart is essentially the same, but I have no firsthand experience there since we are not in the retail side of things.
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by vidanay 6y ago
My company refuses to work with automotive primarily because of the billing. They require you to front the money for all R&D, and tooling, and then they literally pay whenever they want for actual delivery (they completely ignore invoic
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by vidanay 6y ago
Much like all of the flaws DJB discovered in the late 90's
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by vidanay 6y ago
Or my favorite....closed due to lack of community response.
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by vidanay 6y ago
My brain must be broken, because I don't find anything unsettling about them at all. My brain simply classifies them as artistic pictograms that are representative of the respective letters. Similar to the overly fancy first letter of
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by vidanay 6y ago
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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by vidanay 6y ago
This is why I've never understood why payroll is commonly on the 15th and last days of the month. Why not 1st and 15th? Those dates never change.
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by vidanay 6y ago
God, flipping through those magazines brings a tear of nostalgia to my eye. Those were such different days.
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by vidanay 6y ago
I still have winsock PTSD
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by vidanay 6y ago
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Everything from my TI-99/4a to my Apple IIc were basically like turning on the radio. Instant. But that's mostly because they didn't really do ANYTHING at startup.
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by vidanay 6y ago
Once solar generating costs are further reduced, there needs to be improved effort on improving local infrastructure (within a single residence). Getting rid of DC-AC-DC conversion would be a huge improvement. If we standardize on a DC syst
523.
by vidanay 6y ago
Edifer powered bookshelf speakers for me.
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by vidanay 6y ago
Hover _anything_ sucks IMO. I have noticed a trend lately where the hover delay seems to be drastically reduced. This means that as I move my mouse around a page, I am constantly bombarded with hover popups that come and go. Quite often, th
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by vidanay 6y ago
What's the root cause? Not enough birds of prey?
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by vidanay 6y ago
Modern UI is a seething cauldron of non-intuitiveness and undiscoverability.
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by vidanay 6y ago
We recently watched the entirety of New Tricks. Can't get more average looking than those characters.
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by vidanay 6y ago
It always amazes me to think about the influence of the industrial revolution and mass production. Prior to the industrial period, things like linens, blankets, lace, etc. considered extremely valuable and were part of your estate to be inh
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by vidanay 6y ago
"Cancelled" (They just haven't announced many of them yet)
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by vidanay 6y ago
The recent NOVA episode indicated that it would be around a month after landing for the helicopter flights.
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by vidanay 6y ago
Hey, I've been to this Tesco! (My company is a km or so away)
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by vidanay 6y ago
Has nobody rooted the firmware for "smart" TV's?
533.
by vidanay 6y ago
Yeah for sure. My next one after this was a Dual CPU Pentium Pro.
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by vidanay 6y ago
AutoCAD 9 users unite! (or was that still v2?)
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by vidanay 6y ago
If I remember correctly, the final use of mine was running a home email server on Debian Linux with a dial-up modem.
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by vidanay 6y ago
A lot of baked brain cells between then and now....I don't deny my memory is fuzzy.
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by vidanay 6y ago
Yeah, my $4000 486-DX2 with 8MB RAM and a Weitek P9000 graphics card was amazing(ly expensive)!
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by vidanay 6y ago
I have fond memories of playing Ultima I through Ultima V on green screen Apple //e and //c computers.
539.
by vidanay 6y ago
The evolution of their modelling techniques was amazing to watch. Especially when condensed into only a couple weeks of watching.
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by vidanay 6y ago
We just re-watched the entire series this past autumn (although there are strange gaps in episodes on Amazon Prime). Great show.

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