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Maybe a version with the Prolog part could show up on the Internet Archive?

If it’s remote, sometimes they’ll pay someone else to do the work and pocket the difference. And/or the job may just be a ruse to get credentials in the org because it’s an espiona…

That’s true of 70-80% of tubular locks, but there are higher quality tubular locks that are designed with the standard tubular impressioning tool in mind, and on which it does not …

They are. Most locksmiths hate graphite. The two lubes most used and recommended by locksmiths are Houdini and Tri-Flow. The latter is available in some hardware stores (it’s in th…

Choose to go somewhere else that doesn’t do that to you; if you vote with your feet, they will get the message

I thought I learned at one point that “kaka” (poop) was one of the earliest proto-Indo-European words [0] and think it is present in many languages but “all” is a pretty high bar. …

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Nobody wants to hit pedestrians, pets, bicyclists, or other road users.

Just like a monopoly, they long ago stopped tweaking the product to improve your experience, and instead for years now all the product changes have been to improve theirs. As anoth…

I still think I have my Perl DeCSS t-shirt somewhere in my mother’s basement :D

My first thought was “oh sh*t, they finally added this to the list of time-wasting social media blocked sites” :( It was only when I saw it also didn’t work on my phone, that I rea…

Of the "lock box" type key holders, it seems like the Kidde mini-safe box is pretty decent (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLg86_C7rrs ) - though it's not a doorknob hanger so…

You don't necessarily have to replace the whole door frame, you can buy an aftermarket frame reinforcer like Door Armor to distribute the force of a kicking attack (which is a lot …

Sometimes emergency services will try simple lock raking or lock/door bypasses in an effort to not destroy the lock/door unnecessarily, as it can put a financial burden on the occu…

The U.S. branch of TOOOL (the Open Organization of Lock Pickers) maintains a web page detailing lock picking laws by state: https://toool.us/laws.html

Like the best shitposts, I’ve spent time reading it and gotten absolutely nothing in return; if nothing else, it shows that the author knows the subject matter

I hated learning cursive as a child, and as soon as I could get away with it, switched to writing printed non-cursive letters. BUT, I'm glad I did learn it, as just an alternate wa…

When you essentially have a monopoly position, and most of your product updates are to improve your own revenue and not to make the customer experience better because you simply do…

That is the best indicator of a monopoly that I can see; you see it with utility and cable companies as well, basically they are not worried at all that the customer will go somewh…

I don’t think he expected the U.S. and Europe, particularly Germany, to be able to put aside recent differences and act in a fairly united fashion as they’ve done; but now that he’…

I recommend The Completist’s Guide to Bike Security https://www.aaronhamlin.com/articles/completists-guide-bike-...

It sounds like a classic example of how accrual bookkeeping can be misleading due to timing issues (the sale has already been booked even though the cash hasn’t been collected). I …

I think the implication is that throwaway290 is in Russia

This is really going to come in handy during the next real estate downturn ( https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/false-affidavits-for... )