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by w0mbat 5y ago
Most VESA monitor arms are like $30 to $40. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=VESA+monitor+arm
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Article is 5 years old.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I got fed up with all these complicated calculators and re-implemented the original Mac calculator desk accessory at https://CalculatorDA.com . It does the simple things I need while giving me a nice nostalgia buzz.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This is not true. 5G uses spectrum way outside the band that RADAR altimeters are supposed to be using. Boeing had years to fix their shoddy RADAR equipment, and the fix now can be as simple as fitting a high-pass filter.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This story has been told many times and this account is not the most complete. Pixar did recover the data from a home office setup and complete the movie, but Pixar is so perfectionist about story-telling that the creative heads decided the
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by w0mbat 5y ago
It is entirely reasonable to expect the police to recover stolen high value items whose location is known. Particuarly if the items were obtained with violence or weapons.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
A remember a problem in the past where use of % in metadata would bork some car radios due to an unescaped string being passed to printf. The Sirius menus on my wife’s Subaru have been broken for years due to some problem with the guide for
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I am not casting aspersions on the specific OP, but often these "why I left" stories are missing key information, like the writer got a bad review, or was on plan, or had a monster boss, or was actually fired, etc. People don&#x27
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by w0mbat 5y ago
He still hasn’t got it. Assets can have straight alpha or alpha premultiplied with a color.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
The same thing happened in the pro synth world. When the DX7 came out in 1983, people were wowed by the decent piano sound, for example, which was something analog synths never did well. There were lots of sounds like that - bells, xylophon
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Without even mentioning CGI, just modern digital color grading is wide open to abuse. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was absolutely mangled by the director. The colors are really distorted and awful. It looks nothing like t
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by w0mbat 5y ago
When I was an engineer on Microsoft Office, users would often request features that the product already had. It was great that their problem was quickly fixed (just point them to the right setting), but it shows the lack of discoverability
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by w0mbat 5y ago
A UK research company developed this kind of microphone array tech in the 90s. It first came to fame in the Bosnian war and was used by UK peacekeeper troops to enforce ceasefires. In that case it was most useful for detecting artillery fir
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I live in Oakland and my XFinity internet was broken by this, and the cable TV service was not affected. I have an alternate connection through AT&T fiber, so on our mobile devices we just switched to the other WiFi and carried on. Unfo
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I am a native Mac/iOS developer with a lot of experience. I did a contract where they wanted me to make some improvements to a large company's barnacle encrusted multi-platform Cordova app. I wouldn't normally touch that kind
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by w0mbat 5y ago
My daughter was sucking her thumb even on the first ultrasound. When she was a baby, thumb sucking was cute and she never needed a pacifier. However as she got to be a toddler it became a problem in terms of hygiene (her thumb was often not
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by w0mbat 5y ago
The US also has more lax rules than Europe has governing what food chickens can be fed. Without going into the rather revolting details, this is a legitimate reason to exclude US chicken.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Exactly. Object to the PIP suggestion, and say it is being imposed without proper cause for a discriminatory reason, e.g. to harass and force out an employee over 40. That totally fucks their attempt to gather fake reasons to fire you, thei
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I am not at all an expert in this field, but is "jet" the right word? I thought that required combusting fuel and using the flaming exhaust to propel something. This is propellors in tubes. Also this vehicle is about a third of th
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by w0mbat 5y ago
There was a London West End musical life of Leonardo Da Vinci which the critics hated, partly because it featured a fictional female love interest when Leonardo is generally believed to have been gay. It was financed by the island nation of
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by w0mbat 5y ago
One the one hand you've got people writing insanely complex hacks like this. On the other hand there's the guy who was doing whatever he wanted for years just by crafting dodgy plist files. https://blog.siguza.net&#x2F
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by w0mbat 5y ago
The same thing happened to a friend of my dad. A long time ago, the friend was a British diplomat living somewhere like Singapore and he made friends with the two Japanese sisters in the next apartment. They used to have tea and chat and he
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I cross El Camino Real on foot all the time. Yes my nearest section has has 3 lanes in each direction, but it has marked pedestrian crossings with traffic lights and drivers obey the lights. However, I admit, I frequently drive to things in
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Mods - this truncated headline makes no sense, which is awful with such a serious story. It should be rephrased to: "6 Amazon workers killed after tornadoes destroy warehouse near St. Louis".
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I came here to report the same two typos. Thanks.
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I have a house in Sunnyvale, California a few blocks from El Camino Real. It's the ultimate stroad, hundreds of miles long and lined with thriving businesses and I love it. It's getting really quite clean and quiet now a ridiculou
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Stop using low contrast gray text. I can barely read it. Real designers use different weights, not colors.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
You can buy through an offshore shell company.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Talking about text, as my eyes get older I need more contrast to make things legible. This low-contrast nonsense is anti-accesibility and makes the web harder to read for a lot of the population. As for artwork, using this for foreground a
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I played with FizzBuzz when this was mentioned here a month ago, focusing on the algorithm not optimizations. I stopped once I could do it in simple code with no math except addition, 15 numbers at a time. for (int x = 0 ; x < 1000

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