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by wcfields 7y ago
If one needs something more "pro" for LTE routers there's Peplink ( https://www.peplink.com/ ) and Cradlepoint ( https://cradlepoint.com/ )
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by wcfields 7y ago
The Technician level license (Essentially it's all amateur frequencies above ~50Mhz, you do get some morse-code on a few lower bands, but they're hardly used by Techs) is very simple to get; there's a lot of "Ham Cram&qu
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by wcfields 8y ago
Biggest loser will be the domestic Japanese Camembert industry[1], as according to a Reddit poster[2] Japan only has 4 cheeses (Sandwich cheese, cheese that melts (とろけるチーズ), parmesan cheese (for pasta) and camembert). But that could turn ar
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by wcfields 8y ago
They are incredible useful for historical insights that would otherwise be lost like what was the supply chain even like [1]? [1] http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/arti...
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by wcfields 8y ago
Planet Money podcast a covered this topic a few months ago: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/14/448718171/epis...
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by wcfields 8y ago
This is the idea that’s been stuck in my head about G but I didn’t have the right words to express it. I had been thinking of them as “the kid that did everything right on paper: hires the best tutors, got a 4.0 GPA, perfect SAT scores, yet
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by wcfields 8y ago
Affordable for whom? [1] Rent is extremely high and so is buying [2] [1] https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/san-jose,ca_rb/ [2] https://www.zillow.com/homes/San-Jose-CA_rb/
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by wcfields 8y ago
Yeah that's pretty much it, for me at least. I'd consider myself very technically inclined (replaced screens on my iPhone 5's, build dozens of PCs...), but as I've learned from experience I'd rather just pay slightl
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by wcfields 8y ago
What I'd like to see in addition to raw stats is stacking up service and warranty. What's kept me an Apple user for high-end laptops and phones is being able to go to a brick and mortar store and walk-out with a replacement device
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by wcfields 8y ago
I stopped drinking coffee, the acidity was ruining my GI. Switched to Mate or PG Tips tea as my morning drink, typically with loose leaf mate in a French press. South American (Cruz de Malta , Taragui) are readily available on Amazon prime
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by wcfields 8y ago
Profile manager / MDM on MacOS Server is a goddamn nightmare. It's amazing when it works, but when it breaks you're SOL. Case in point is I inherited a semi-broken system when I started my job 3 years ago. ~40 enrolled laptop
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by wcfields 8y ago
There’s been rumblings in the BUD (big ugly dish) community that 5G will start to ruin C-Band for TRO (TV Recieve Only). Most birds are going mostly Ku but C-Band is used for backhaul & feeds on a lot of soon to be retired: Galaxy &
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by wcfields 8y ago
I've also heard that it's even more competitive than human medical schools.
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by wcfields 8y ago
The server use case for Mac Mini is a huge compromise. Sonnet Tech [1] makes a 1U rack enclosure with a PCIe riser connected internally to the Mini's Thunderbolt port. Internally we had one used for our company's OSX Server runnin
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by wcfields 8y ago
There's also MicroG wrapped in LineageOS so you can avoid G altogether https://lineage.microg.org/
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by wcfields 8y ago
Semi-related tid-bit: You'd be shocked how many theatrical lighting designers over the age of 45 are color blind. Never used to be a workplace issue since there was only a limited number of gels to place over lights and even then they
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by wcfields 8y ago
USB sticks are rife. I had an AV project this past week; needed 40+ media players for TVs around a convention space that needed a USB stick to hold a small MP4 file. Ordered several sets of '5-Pack' PNY USB sticks over several day
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by wcfields 8y ago
Think of all the grandparents that have Win Vista / XP machines with IE defaulted to Yahoo. Also, all the spyware/malware/adware seems to be wrappers around a Yahoo search for some reason.
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by wcfields 8y ago
In a similar boat; I got a CD-I with the add-on MPEG-1 module (picked up for $20 for a floor-model clearance table in the late-90s), but in my eyes the big failure of VCD as a format was needing two discs per movie. VCD's aren't t
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by wcfields 8y ago
Could have just been a laser disc replaying rendered footage, or a Sega with a custom made cartridge playing back a demo "video"
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by wcfields 8y ago
Ditto here, however unlike some other commenters, we're an ad agency. They work for our satellite offices in Denver (one designer) and London (two account people).
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by wcfields 8y ago
There’s been a half-dozen LVFS / System76 drama threads[1] in the past week alone. Despite whatever your feelings are on BIOS, the general consensuous from S76 owners are the laptops aren’t that great. [1] https://news.ycomb
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by wcfields 8y ago
My company does in two locations: Denver & London. We're an ad agency with a handful of employees in both locations that relocated for business. We have other locations in Europe, LA, NY but for a single employee or two it makes se
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by wcfields 9y ago
From what I've noticed here in Los Angeles, Turo is exploiting the greymarket of wildcat car dealers. There are lots of people here that own 10+ late model economy cars at any one time and there are areas where you'll see 5-6 cars
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by wcfields 9y ago
I found out about File Stream by accident, they haven't really pushed it.
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by wcfields 9y ago
Hey! Are you me? We have a similar situation for a company of ~100 across 4 offices (2 in NA, and 2 in EU)
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by wcfields 9y ago
So after reading this and trying to enable on my own GSuite and getting nothing but errors I see this: "Chat will be made available over the next 7 days. " So I expect over the next 7 days I'll have at least 20 emails from GS
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by wcfields 9y ago
Google offers 'Google Drive Stream' that apes the killer Dropbox features: offline files that smart-sync as needed. Unfortunatly, it's only for GSuite accounts.
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by wcfields 9y ago
I used to work for https://www.interpolls.com/ in 2007 so tech may has changed quite a bit but here's how the business worked then: We were allowed 30kb of JS file to load which could (depending on the ad network) serv
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by wcfields 9y ago
There was an article when it launched [1] that speculates that the reason it's so pricey, larger SSDs, and ridiculously spec'd is because Google has it sights set on enterprise and VM containerization. [1] https://chrom

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