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Comment #47369855
I've been a windows/linux/mac guy since forever (I do not care at all about the OS, I just care about getting shit done), and Windows is worse than the XP and 7 days, but not by mu…
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Comment #47369304
> but they've all made major compromises Not entirely sure about that. With the coupons/ deals HP does, I landed a brand new HP 17" (17t-cn500) laptop with a intel core ultra 5 225…
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Comment #43926144
For my stereo setup, around $4000 for everything. It's also used for game emulators, kids to watch movies and cartoons, wife to watch whatever she feels like, etc. Projector (Optom…
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Comment #42377498
No one (corporate) supports it unless it comes enabled by default with whatever compliance service/ plugin used on their sites. The best combo I've found so far is Waterfox + uBO. …
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Comment #42122001
> dip and dots Just replying for others because this confused the hell out of me until I said it out loud - Dippin' Dots, the ice cream treat you find at amusement parks.
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Comment #41649635
Seniors had the fortunate, and unfortunate now, opportunity to grow up in a considerably more high trust society than we currently live in. I've seen multiple elderly fall for this…
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Comment #41390863
Had I been able to work on it for an entire day, it probably would have been around 3-4 hours, but took longer because I had about 30-45 mins a night and then had to clean up so th…
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Comment #41387015
> Forcing customers to replace an entire system just because the cheapest component failed might be really profitable Just had to deal with this recently. My gas oven control panel…
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Comment #41370586
If they're all placebo, then yes.
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Comment #41369962
Yes. No one learned any lessons the last time around with "put everything on the blockchain". Or maybe they did learn you can make a profit off of hype alone, but it's not making t…
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Comment #40662450
I assume that bitters must have a base of alcohol, but only because I'm not aware of any bitters that don't use alcohol as the solvent to create the extract.
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Comment #40661852
Perhaps I'm being particular here, but that wouldn't be a cocktail - it would be a mixed drink (and is called such in the article) based on the definition of a cocktail at the time…
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Comment #40368172
You aren't dealing with the enterprise site at that point - rather a public frontend that uses some enterprise-y backend. The real fun begins when you get into the actual enterpris…
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Comment #40349943
It's not online but stacher works quite well for my needs as a GUI wrapper for yt dlp. https://stacher.io/
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Comment #40081174
I don't think I have any logs of these any more, but when I was listening on the local hospital's pager traffic, I seem to recall messages that were along the lines of [last name][…
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Comment #40072131
It's over the air, not even phone lines. PDW, SDRSharp, and an rtl-sdr dongle is all that's needed. And yes, there is a lot of patient info in that traffic. It's not illegal for th…
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Comment #38807882
And Nissan. The Diablo had 300ZX Z32 headlight clusters. There was an "eyelash" on the lambo to cover the nissan mfg logos.
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Comment #38280122
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Comment #38279819
The dog didn't scratch her, it bit her in the face. And she didn't even grab the dogs tail, she just startled it.
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Comment #38279501
Steam deck in the bedroom, watching starwars with the wife... in the bedroom, has a pitbull, pitbull bites your infant in the face, terrible startup ideas, and the wife airs the di…
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Comment #37924285
I use this site fairly often to just browse stuff that comes up for bands I like. YMMV. https://www.music-map.com/shpongle
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Comment #37899316
After brushing, just like a dentist would apply fluoride after a cleaning.
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Comment #37890043
In a dental office they would squeeze quite a lot into the tooth trays and have it sit on your teeth for 3 mins or so, much like a fluoride treatment. At home, put some on your fin…
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Comment #37777471
It causes minor annoyances with ssl + maven as well, which can be fixed by -Dmaven.wagon.http.ssl.insecure=true. Well, at least they tried I guess.
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Comment #37607235
And my question is what industries that don't have competition also don't innovate? I am not aware of nor can play devils advocate and try to imagine an example. Had deregulation n…