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TimothyBJacobs
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About TimothyBJacobs
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Comment #36410563
> Oxygen is just about running out in the next few hours, Official reports have been saying 40 hours a few hours ago.
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Comment #36216373
> Passkeys = quicker and faster to get a user's email address. Using passkeys doesn't give a site your email address. The site would have to still ask for your email separately.
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Comment #36179147
They’re saying that an attacker would register variations of similar looking domains relying on the OCR misreading the correct URL. They aren’t suggesting that an attacker would pa…
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Comment #32334785
You can setup multiple pre-moves, but each one takes a minimum of 0.1 seconds. Lichess doesn't have this minimum time requirement, so it doesn't let you setup multiple pre-moves. I…
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Comment #31816931
> They nerf/buff cards all the time. This is not true. It is exceedingly rare for paper cards to be nerfed or buffed. The only real notable example is with the Companion mechanic f…
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Comment #30897211
SpinupWP makes self-hosting WordPress sites really simple. Rarely do you ever need to actually make any changes to your server. You can just give it a Digital Ocean box to connect …
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Comment #30689459
A common API is something like lodash's `partition` so you don't have to loop over the same Array multiple times: https://lodash.com/docs/#partition
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Comment #29541684
It is up to the theme to output a visual link to the RSS feed, but unless disabled, WordPress itself will always output a ` ` tag with an RSS feed.
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Comment #27159262
A small micropayment makes for a great way for bad actors to test stolen credit card numbers.
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Comment #27150341
That assumes that the vaccine is 100% effective, and that everyone who is at risk can safely take the vaccine. Neither of those are true.
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Comment #26516967
Do you think prison reform is not a political topic?
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Comment #26363023
The church did engage in a nearly decade long, multimillion dollar advertising campaign entitled "I'm a Mormon" that ended just in 2018.
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Comment #26071748
Depends how long you can shut it down for. Even if only a few hours, an _unexpected_ shutdown of water across an entire city would certainly cause a panic with people descending on…
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Comment #25991400
They tried offering an ad service called iAd that would do things the "Apple" way. No one used it.
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Comment #25935331
I'm not a rubyist, but the latest Docker Preview has been working great for me.
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Comment #25571350
As mentioned in the article, FileVault is practically enabled by default during setup. IIRC you have to go out of your way not to have it enabled. > Because users are encouraged du…
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Comment #25049916
They haven't announced a 15/16inch Apple Silicon Mac yet.
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Comment #24631899
No, it doesn't because if you purchase thru Walmart.com they are offering some titles "below" the retail price by Nintendo and Target.
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Comment #24630922
Where are you getting that from? Nearly every "large" switch title has a price of $60. Including ones that are years old. https://www.nintendo.com/games/game-guide/?pv=true#filter/…
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Comment #24498288
It looks great, but I really can't see myself ditching JetBrains. The refactoring tools alone make it a better solution for me.
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Comment #24261896
This is the same as any other argument against testing. Unless you are actually selling a library, code is not the product. Customers are buying results, not your code base. Yet, w…
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Comment #24032095
Whether or not that is true, this boycott doesn’t indicate that. The boycott was organized by activists, but the boycott was advertisers not purchasing ads on Facebook. The reason …
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Comment #23989395
The JSON Schema specification: https://json-schema.org
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Comment #23430491
> Inspecting the contents of passwords at all is nuts and spectacularly bad. Evaluating a passwords' strength or complexity is incredibly routine.
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