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SoylentYellow

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    Comment #38379920

    > My only complaints are that Linux can be tedious After using Linux daily over 10 years now, this is exactly how I feel about Windows now. I instantly get frustrated any time I ha…

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    Comment #38105295

    Removing the Xfinity data cap would increase my bill by 60%. It is outrageous.

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    Comment #37288517

    Komagome is my favorite Yamanote line jingle: https://youtu.be/-GF_dku3Mgo?t=131

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    Comment #37207301

    Ettus Research USRPs (Universal Software Radio Peripheral) are popular in academia and defense, especially the B200 series. Their software and FPGA designs are open source, and the…

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    Comment #37050069

    What is quartz used for beyond oscillators?

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    Comment #36881785

    There is too much overloading of terms these days. I saw LoRA, thought LoRa, and wondered why someone would spell GNU Radio as Gradio.

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    Comment #36631601

    I thought you had to supplement Vitamin K along with Vitamin D? Otherwise it can increase atherosclerosis.

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    Comment #35896267

    > I just don't think it's right to have to pay. So you don't want to watch ads and don't want to pay for premium. What do you propose Youtube should do to make money to run the pla…

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    Comment #35895999

    Only option right now is a Lenovo Y700. Not OLED, but it has a great looking 120 Hz screen, fast processor, and premium feel. However, it only comes in a Chinese version, so I ende…

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    Comment #35894192

    Apple tried to use the courts but failed. The California Appeal's court granted the publishers a protection order against revealing their sources: https://www.eff.org/cases/apple-v…

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    Comment #35878005

    That's great for Geminis and Libras, but what if you're a Sagittarius?

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    Comment #35656648

    Perhaps the unspoken argument is that client-side scanning will be made into a best practice, and websites and apps that don't implement it will be exposed to liability.

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    Comment #35589226

    I approve.

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    Comment #35491411

    Buddy, I never said anything about the subsequent balloons. Don’t try to deflect from the point you know I’m making: the first balloon was clearly not a weather balloon.

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    Comment #35484633

    I'm amazed anyone still buys China's "weather balloon" lie. A weather balloon that large and expensive is a major project. It would have a project leader, project webpage, articles…

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    Comment #35484519

    The US OPM breach.

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    Comment #35194736

    My first experience with programming was creating my own fader for AOL. Great times.

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    Comment #34662672

    > If the air force were somehow broadcasting several megawatts of broad spectrum noise over a populated area, somebody would have noticed. Interesting that you think modern jamming…

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    Comment #34649156

    I hear ya. I want to be able to just ask how to configure something on my Linux system instead of stumbling through man pages, stack exchange, and random websites hoping I am used …

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    Comment #34586695

    My area is tightly coupled to a few OSS projects, so we tend to attract people that are active contributors. I've never been let down in the in-person interview by someone with a s…

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    Comment #34586580

    > 1) It's a toy. There are like two files and and ~100 lines in total. In which case, the repo is meaningless. I don't see it that way at all. Short programs can be very meaningful…

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    Comment #34520656

    > No one gives a fuck about your social media (eg StackOverflow, GitHub, Kaggle, etc) This is just plain wrong. When doing interviews at my previous company, we always looked at th…

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    Comment #34377926

    Socialism has a somewhat agreed upon base set of principles and comes in a thousand different flavors, but at the end of the day every large scale attempt has ended up with an auth…

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    Comment #34212224

    Do you have an example of this you can share?

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    Comment #34156297

    I made the switch! Vorta works very well.