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by vollmond 7y ago
And even for brand name items, you still have counterfeit worries (IE, many people refuse to buy flash storage at all from Amazon now), due to counterfeits from intermingling of "sold by amazon" and "shipped by amazon" i
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by vollmond 7y ago
Old Navy does this. There's a limit; 3 or so "loads" finally gets you to the footer. https://oldnavy.gap.com/
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by vollmond 7y ago
Does this apply to other borders? Do the resources of Canada or Iraq belong to "all of us"? Or just internal US resources?
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by vollmond 7y ago
Is the accent on the first or second syllable? Is the A pronounced "uh" or like in "apple"? I honestly don't know, having never experienced that word in verbal conversation, only books. Though I don't think it&
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by vollmond 7y ago
It makes it impossible to bookmark a specific search result, for one example; either the page of results or a specific instance, because the bookmarked URL doesn't have any of the search/ID metadata that a GET-loaded page would.
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by vollmond 7y ago
My goal with this 3-line pseudocode snippet was not to reproduce a banking loan administration system in its entirety, but just to show a place where it could make sense to divide by currency.
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by vollmond 7y ago
var balance = 0 var lastPayment = 0 var remainingPaymentsAtThisRate = balance/lastPayment // divide by zero error
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by vollmond 7y ago
Do you have others which you would recommend in this vein?
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by vollmond 7y ago
The headline made me think something significantly different from what the article body says. This a case of a worker in someone else's home using a signal-jammer to block the wifi of a security camera the homeowner installed.
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by vollmond 8y ago
> A number of studies found that they only help for a few months, while they're new. Interesting, that kind of surprises me. Without going to research it right now, I wonder how/if the efficacy is affected by things like going
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by vollmond 8y ago
I only clicked on TFA due to your comment and now I'm quite unhappy.
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by vollmond 8y ago
I think there are a lot of other software categories to add to your parenthetical, but I think you're right that it'll be only those things that require a really rich interface (I'd add music production software, for example)
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by vollmond 8y ago
You could do this with tab snooze and OneTab. OneTab compresses all open tabs into a list of HTML links, and you can then pull those into a tab of just one OneTab group, and snooze that. Maybe 3-4 clicks.
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by vollmond 8y ago
The person with the account is providing a benefit in return for that cut, though -- the account itself and the attached phone. It's not slavery, any more than Amazon taking a cut of sales through their website is. I fail to see how th
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by vollmond 8y ago
The entire point of the post is that "what you want" doesn't apply to this.
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by vollmond 8y ago
For me at least (speaking hypothetically, since I haven't tried this), that seems like it would fly in the face of "get your work done so you can play without it hanging over your head." And it means that (if I have a fairly
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by vollmond 8y ago
Though, if you don't inspect the first time it happens, it would be easy to assume dry/chapped hands are the result, not the cause, of the licking.
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by vollmond 8y ago
Possibly quite long moments, depending on how well you prepared everything.
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by vollmond 8y ago
I'm sure they don't compare (I haven't read Doyle/Christie/Poirot), but as a teen I really enjoyed the Dick Francis books my parents had.
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by vollmond 8y ago
This has been a light reading year, for various reasons of circumstance and laziness, but here are the standouts in my mind: * Thomas Merton -- The Wisdom of the Desert A collection of quotes by and about the Desert Fathers of the early Chr
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by vollmond 8y ago
Relatedly, my tabletop RPG group is about to start a new campaign, and for the first time I've finally picked up a paper copy of the players guide. Just gets so tiresome paging back and forth through PDFs and 25 browser tabs to find wh
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by vollmond 8y ago
I've used Tiny Tiny RSS. Works well enough.
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by vollmond 8y ago
> Apparently somebody claims a patent on the trackball, and sued Logitech, who have since ceased production of them. Huh? I'm confused. Thumb: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-trackball-m5...
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by vollmond 8y ago
"My lady in the tube did this weird thing today" is something I've heard
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by vollmond 8y ago
PA, checking in. My county has a website where you search the address, and get back the owners, acreage, square footage, assessed value (land and building(s)), and last sale price and date.
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by vollmond 8y ago
"Is freedom a threat to democracy?" is another way to word the headline.
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by vollmond 8y ago
"Corporatism" and "Crony-capitalism" are more accurate names I've heard for what we have.
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by vollmond 8y ago
To be fair, no other filesystem could contain pi either, right?
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by vollmond 8y ago
As a political radio host I used to listen to once said (on air, paraphrased from a memory from the early 2000s): "You should doubt and check everything I say. My job is not to inform you or tell you the truth. My job is to keep you li
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by vollmond 9y ago
After Clean Code, also check out The Clean Coder. Less technical, more career/project focused. There's also Clean Architecture, but I haven't read that one yet.

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