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by yock 10y ago
The title of the post is "In Support of Free Speech." I thought that kind of editorializing was generally frowned upon here?
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by yock 10y ago
I had this same experience with the original Angry Birds, also from Rovio.
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by yock 10y ago
I have a <firstletter><lastname>@gmail.com and I get everything from online shopping receipts to legal notices. You'd be amazed at just how uninterested a law firm is in knowing they just sent a bunch of legal correspondenc
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by yock 10y ago
Ideally, yes, and while in my small city of Dayton, Ohio I have limited options for produce close to home my local meat producers aren't at all close to me. It's certainly not a stop on my way home. They're setup more for peo
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by yock 10y ago
> A better question is why we still have food warehouses that would be better operated by robots than people. One reason is because not all fresh goods (e.g. produce and meat) are created equal. Hand selection of those items is part of g
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by yock 10y ago
> They're ok with a bulge for the camera but not headphones? This confuses me too. The camera wart is ridiculous, and I bet if they made the device just that slight bit thicker they'd have room to retain the 3.5mm jack. The oth
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by yock 10y ago
This was somewhat famously broken in Java until late 2009: https://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/ tl;dr, the method for doing "secure" string comparison was vulnerable to timing attacks for much of
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by yock 10y ago
> I grew up in Cupertino, and when I visit my parents there, I'm rather shocked at how downhill the neighborhood has gone in parts. It's crazy that these old 70's tract homes go for 1.5 million. Even more insane is that th
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by yock 10y ago
Sort of reminds me of a Harbor Pilot[0]. A person who holds unique knowledge of how to operate a large vehicle in a particular piece of confined geography. 0: http://www.insidejobs.com/careers/harbor-pilot
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Amazon’s Kindle Oasis is the funkiest e-reader it’s ever made(theverge.com)
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by yock 11y ago
Who delivers USPS packages the last mile in the UK? I don't imagine there are US letter carriers walking beats over there, so some other entity must be taking responsibility of your packages once they get off the airplane.
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by yock 11y ago
It's probably a couple times a year. Is that infrequent? That depends on how much time you have to devote to being a plugin maintainer I suppose.
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by yock 11y ago
This doesn't help on mobile, and these browser extensions are frequently broken when markup changes.
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by yock 11y ago
Really cool, though there may be a problem with the adjacent bomb counts.
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by yock 11y ago
> The phone also dies with 40% battery! I turn it on, it shows a splash screen meaning low battery, turns on, shows 40% battery, then dies after a moment again.Funny thing is that I try restarting it several times and at some point it st
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by yock 11y ago
The article briefly mentions VOA Bethany Station. That site was impressive to say the least. The tops of the antennas would peek over the hills as you traveled north on I75 from the Cincinnati suburbs, coming into full view as you passed Ty
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by yock 11y ago
> She never pays for lunch, never pays for dinner. Then she's playing along at least on some level. Accepting gifts while calling them unwanted is disingenuous at best.
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by yock 11y ago
> Why should I as a user be forced to upgrade from a system which does it's job just fine only because the system's manufacturer decides that they don't want to spend any more resources on patching up errors in this system
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by yock 11y ago
Exactly how I use mine, and how my father taught me when I was a kid. I thought this was normal.
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by yock 11y ago
I recently experienced this with a software vendor after trialing some of their software. It's one of those forms where you have to enter some personal info before downloading the installer, and while I provided them with my email addr
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by yock 11y ago
> My friends who don't use facebook will regularly miss (or not get invited to) parties, book club, skiing trips, etc. This isn't because no one likes them or thinks to invite them... Clearly it is, unless you make a conscious
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by yock 11y ago
I'm missing the epilogue here. His video implies that he really went through this process with a real person, so where's the fallout?
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by yock 11y ago
I think this just exposes how much of an unnecessary middleman cable companies have become.
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by yock 11y ago
I'm not a pilot, but my understanding is that type certifications are held to ATP standards. Is there some reason why a pilot would need both outside of being a commercial pilot who might encounter other types in his or her career?
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by yock 11y ago
Illegally-obtained evidence shouldn't be inadmissible just because it was obtained illegally, but because it is co-mingled with the motives of the official who broke the law to obtain it. You can't possibly know if the evidence is
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by yock 11y ago
Why let the evidence stand? Shouldn't it be preferable to exclude the illegally-obtained evidence and punish the police for obtaining it illegally?
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by yock 11y ago
We live in a dangerous world. And there it is. Their power and influence is dependent on the majority believing they are in danger. Gotta remind people of that notion every chance they get. Whether it's true or not shouldn&#x27
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by yock 11y ago
Certifying the people only really allows for punishing the people responsible for not anticipating problems in their systems. To make the certification worth anything you'll need a set of guidelines against which these kinds of systems
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by yock 11y ago
I can't speak to Dr. Gilmartin himself, but being a doctor doesn't make you an engineer capable of evaluating a complex medical device. My pulmonogolist is a good doctor and understands how to best configure my own CPAP for my hea
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by yock 11y ago
Recent ham here as well, KE8ATC. For now I'm limited to my handheld but I'm hoping to branch out into some HF gear at Hamvention this year.

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