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cowholio4

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About cowholio4

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    Comment #37138993

    The Gameboy photos are great https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbu8a3fLkgx/?img_index=1 There are even mods to add a better lens. https://hackaday.com/2021/12/19/gameboy-gets-ridiculousl…

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    Comment #23014910

    Not only were they completely wrong with their numbers, they even were wrong in their assessment of Fauci. They said they “are actually seeing the patients, Dr Fauci hasn’t seen a …

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    Comment #19455744

    Dealing with cash is expensive. You physically have to move it and protect it from getting stolen by thieves and even employees.

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    Comment #17050135

    Surprised I didn’t see this one on the lists. Shifting left by n bits on a signed or unsigned binary number has the effect of multiplying it by 2^n. Shifting right by n bits on a t…

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    Comment #16954269

    That used to be one of archive.is IPs but not since feb. Definitely worth a pull request. [edit] adding screenshot from passive dns lookup https://m.imgur.com/a/uW9eL2h

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    Comment #16599057

    I thought that was done legally by leasing a new car every few months. And that loophole is part of the motivation for the new temporary plates in CA. Edit: reference https://arste…

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    Comment #16535077

    Pretty cool! I use the "Retirement Planner" from Personal Capital (like Mint but for investments) Some of the notable features are: - Adding future income events (social security, …

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    Comment #16533814

    I like how this calculator includes fees. Fees are so often overlooked when calculating retirement. "Lots of people are unknowingly paying 2%, and more, in annual fees. At a low-co…

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    Comment #16533781

    Pretty cool! I use the "Retirement Planner" from Personal Capital (like Mint but for investments) Some of the notable features are: - Adding future income events (social security, …

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    Comment #15388924

    Initially I was regretting upgrading as well. Crazy high CPU as a 'kernel_task' which in turn made my machine unusable. It would completely lock up. I ran 'kexstat' via the termina…

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    Comment #15326519

    One thing that gets overlooked commonly with the the Red Cross is that it is a congressional charter. [1] According to the charter the purposes of the corporation are: (1) to provi…

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    Comment #15326419

    This report prompted a congressional report a year later. Ultimately Red Cross is a horribly inefficient way to give aid to areas in need of relief. https://www.propublica.org/arti…

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    Comment #15326385

    This was widely reported back in 2015 when this was published. You might want to add (2015) to the title.

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    Comment #14814349

    I am a big fan of Google Fi. It's $10/GB pretty much everywhere in the world. Really great if you are hopping around to different countries. Also you can get additional data only s…

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    Comment #14511946

    I assume by looking at the command and control ips and looking for what is common. (IE that they were from satellite ISPs) You can read the original post here: https://securelist.c…

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    Comment #13641290

    Yes! I do with NGINX using SNI (to server multiple ssl certs from the same IP) and using Proxy Protocol on the ELB to send the requests to NGINX. What you need to do is enable the …

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    Comment #13609739

    This has been the week for high pressure experiments. Scientists were also able to create a stable helium-sodium compound under high pressures. http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/…

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    Comment #13609661

    There are some skeptics. "Their main concern is that Silvera and Dias really only have one data point: a single measurement of the reflectivity of their sample at high pressure. Wh…

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    Comment #13136093

    Yeah... definitely not the best experience. But it's free software so I'm not going to complain. I have been using enigma on thunderbird in the meantime, which makes me appreciate …

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    Comment #13119150

    - All internal company emails. - Mailing Lists Side note: using pgp with MacOs Mail is super easy https://gpgtools.org/ (the project is currently working on Sierra support)