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by visiblink 5y ago
I've been seeing this too. So after reading your comment and the one above, I did a search to see what operators are still supported by Google and stumbled across this page: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-
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by visiblink 5y ago
I haven't seen the ThinkPad L440 mentioned here. I bought one a few years ago because it has the same benefits as a T440p but the value hasn't been inflated. It's part of that last generation where the CPU is user replaceable
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by visiblink 5y ago
I edited an old service book to gain MMS functionality on my Bold 9900. My carrier (Koodo Prepaid, Canada) doesn't have BIS and never did. If I lose any other functions, I'll probably have a look at the other service books to find
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by visiblink 5y ago
Some Grandstream ATAs support pulse dialing. That's probably the easiest solution for most people.
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by visiblink 5y ago
In British Columbia, 112 was once the prefix for making long-distance calls. That changed in 1985 to bring us into conformity with the rest of North America. Edit: also, you could call for free on rotary pay phones by tapping out the number
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by visiblink 5y ago
There are ATAs (Analog Telephone Adapters) that permit pulse dialing. I have one and my old black rotary desk phone is happily VOIPing away.
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by visiblink 5y ago
Just to contribute to the general discussion, I use Bookmarks Home add-on for firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmarkshome... ). It turns your bookmarks into a homepage. You can custom
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by visiblink 5y ago
Dishwasher: saves you effort. Dishwashing: when you have all of your best ideas after a long day.
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by visiblink 5y ago
The best: an old CD player called Workbone on Slackware. It made great use of the number keys for pause/play/ff/rw/eject. The worst: I used to work with an awful custom-built industrial computer. You had to enter the 10-
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by visiblink 5y ago
Someone here once posted a link to duckduckstart.com. I have it set up in my search bar now. If you search, it goes through Startpage (Google results, more privately). If you search with a bang, it goes through Duckduckgo. It's probabl
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by visiblink 5y ago
The same legislation would ban non-compete clauses. Good stuff. I didn't see this coming. At this point, I'm waiting for Chairman Doug to redistribute farmland and announce a five-year plan...
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by visiblink 5y ago
Agreed. The provision that calls for businesses to create a policy on the "right to disconnect" at the end of the workday is great too. You have to give credit where credit is due...
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by visiblink 5y ago
I'm old. That is all.
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Ontario to propose ban on non-compete clauses for employees(theglobeandmail.com)
18 points by visiblink 5y ago|2 comments
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by visiblink 5y ago
The formats have different qualities. I buy records because I like physical objects and reading the liner notes. I've been listening to music, sitting in the midst of a pile of records, since the 70s. But I buy CDs too -- mostly used -
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by visiblink 5y ago
My father became the maintenance man for an inner-city homeless mission after he retired. It was a great choice that gave him a purpose and got him out of the house. When he finally decided that it was time to quit (at 78), the manager told
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by visiblink 5y ago
For free access to actual discussion groups (not binary downloads), go to eternal-september.org There are still good discussions going on in particular newsgroups. You have to do a bit of searching. comp.misc would be of interest to Hacker
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by visiblink 5y ago
mplayer in the console. I've been using it for fifteen years and it's such a great, minimal piece of software that just works.
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by visiblink 5y ago
Looks like I got the downvotes too. Sometimes the unpopular opinion is the correct one.
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by visiblink 5y ago
I was just about to add the same reply.
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by visiblink 5y ago
This is my solution too. My server with private data is only accessible via my LAN. I'm home often enough that syncing isn't a problem. I kind of treat it like the old Palm desktop, where you had to sync regularly by USB. The nice
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by visiblink 5y ago
Nuclear is such a horrible replacement. Let's let future generations deal with the waste from the power that sustained our lifestyle. I hate it. I'd rather live with less.
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by visiblink 5y ago
I noticed that the pedagogical ideas were fairly generic too. That's why they work for me when I'm in a completely different discipline. I think that taxonomy is a great idea. Maybe it's something that could be developed insi
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by visiblink 5y ago
If you follow through the links, you'll find this: https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.14-02-0023 It's actually got a table of teaching practices, which they presumably want to see. I went through
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by visiblink 5y ago
I don't know about C.S., but anecdotally, I studied with another student as an undergrad and taught him Zoology. It was good for me (I was forced to explain all the concepts thoroughly) and good for him (he did fairly well in the cours
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by visiblink 5y ago
It must take a lot of coal to make steel. The mine I used to work for shipped 3-4 million tonnes of metallurgical coal to Japan every year.
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by visiblink 5y ago
I'm with you. I still use Classic Shell on Win10 and LXDE on Debian -- and I'm happy with both. I wonder if you can still replace the entire shell on Windows? I haven't done that for over a decade.
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by visiblink 5y ago
The Carter gap is not surprising. It's misleading to put some of those CIA actions into 1979 in the timeline, since Carter was guardedly supportive of the new governments in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and the actions against them were
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by visiblink 5y ago
It's worth pointing out that the abstract of the Nature article appears to suggest that the pre-Columbian evidence is for a different variant of TB: "Here we present three 1,000-year-old mycobacterial genomes from Peruvian human s
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by visiblink 5y ago
> These deaths could have been prevented if all the students were not concentrated into these schools. Dr. Peter Bryce's report is essential to understand the preventable deaths from disease: https://archive.org/deta

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