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Brian-Puccio

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    Comment #47002175

    On MacOS and iOS, two dashes (i.e., the -- characters) automagically turns into an em dash (—). No special commands needed.

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    Comment #45894230

    Can I ask why it will produce terrible color rendering? In addition to commercial scanners that used narrowband trichromatic (RGB) light sources, hobbyists are creating their own R…

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    Comment #42775271

    WP is a fork of b2/cafelog. So b3/bistrolist? (There’s also b2evolution.)

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    Comment #41332875

    Credit unions are nonprofit, member/cooperatively owned financial institutions. Banks are for profit (and likely publicly traded).

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    Comment #38023644

    Yes, screenshot things. But also export your config because you will inevitably forget to screenshot a thing or seven and you can poke around the config export for that port number…

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    Comment #37598438

    So 6,400 Gb/s compared to 409.6 Gb/s once you convert units?

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    Comment #34156601

    I’ve been using BorgBackup since it was Attic. Been thrilled with it.

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    Comment #33619280

    > My eyes instinctively moved to the ad away from the puck. At some marketing meeting this was brought up and was promptly considers a feature, not a bug.

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    Comment #33316196

    The first line of the fifth paragraph reads: > In overt cases, this is known as ‘constructive dismissal’: when an employee is forced to leave because the employer created a hostile…

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    Comment #33283829

    Mine mnemonic is use e.g. when you could say “for eg-zample” and use i.e. when you could say “that is” — ie to is. Admittedly, the second half isn’t as good as the first. : )

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    Comment #33090869

    I’ve taken this concept to its fullest conclusion: everything north of the Long Beach Bridge (or Cross Bay Bridge if you live there) is “upstate”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon…

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    Comment #32697937

    As well as direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising

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    Comment #32528686

    > The inhabitants don't lose. > > Play your scenario out. > > A bunch of poor people buy 100 acres of land for $1, and they turn it into a paradise. Yeah but instead it’s people wh…

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    Comment #31872268

    Obama in 2007: first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act, essentially codifying Roe Obama in 2009 (the same year he had a supermajority in the legislature):…

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    Comment #31872206

    > The split of pro/against is really close to 50/50. I’ve searched and I cannot find data that say half of America wants abortion made completely illegal (as it is in several state…

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    Comment #31402011

    That’s my memory, too. Linode for a long time didn’t have a product at that very low price point.

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    Comment #31401963

    I’m also a happy Linode user since … a decade? more? I remember the phpBB forums for their customers from forever ago. I’m sure there are cheaper out there, but given the already p…

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    Comment #31320560

    I am not a modern react/angular/vue developer, but this is still new to me. Thanks!

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    Comment #30579250

    > You cannot compare these two levels of violence. Or if you compare them you should add a [fractal] distance between them. I didn’t intend to. Just that the land of the free isn’t…

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    Comment #30579166

    So the ends (gun crime reduction) justified the means (stop and frisk, subway bag searches, etc.)?

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    Comment #30578730

    While I’m super opposed to this, people from the West and especially Americans shouldn’t forget that the NYPD has for years used programs like Stop and Frisk [0] and subway bag sea…

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    Comment #30347892

    And GitLab since v10.3: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2017/12/22/gitlab-10-3-rel...

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    Comment #30108361

    The docs seem to indicate that if you have a directory structure (say over NFS share) you want to backup to tape, you must first back it up to a datastore (read: local storage on t…

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    Comment #30081614

    For a sample size of one, go ahead and ask them: https://twitter.com/hwitteman/status/1015049411276300289

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    Comment #29633498

    > A flamboyant YouTuber known as Omi in a Hellcat was charged with illegally selling copyrighted TV shows and movies through an online service, prosecutors said. https://www.nytime…