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ikidd
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Comment #49198077
Tariffs I'm guessing. A fencepost in Canada is CAD$8 so $6. A roll of barbwire is US$70. See UFA.com for Canadian prices. Keep in mind, there's a lot of variance in what people pre…
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Comment #49176821
There's ads?
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Comment #49163097
Wow, what a ignorant response to someone that was giving you genuine feedback. Do better.
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Comment #49148940
HAM-is-not-ham And your example must be one of those weirdos on 80m. What a pack of crazies.
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Comment #49140066
I don't think Zitron has been right about anything in the last 5 years. But he talks a good talk.
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Comment #49098210
Did they have writing and kept records that we've found? That's the "recorded" part.
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Comment #49069823
Hermes seems to pick up after a stoppage. At least I've never had to push it again, it might just take a long time to finish a task and then I'll see the messages in the transcript…
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Comment #49054778
Exactly like all the "community-scripts" that were started by a fellow that passed away a couple years ago. I've been railing against the install one-liners for years to obviously …
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Comment #49035128
Nothing about this bubble makes sense. Why should this?
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Comment #48964929
You could exhaust Windows networking or filesystem features in an afternoon. Linux could give you a career. I spent 20 years supporting Windows server and server applications like …
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Comment #48958349
I've gotten to the point that if you're trying to show me something and I see you're using Windows, I just assume you're an unserious person and it's worthless. All the major tools…
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Comment #48939196
dead-pigeon.jpg
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Comment #48938722
Eek, that doesn't have pleasant past.
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Comment #48938506
>Businesses don’t operate based on revenue Well, you have that right. But apparently they IPO based on even less.
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Comment #48863812
Maybe it does make you a better engineer because when you look back on a commit that you were rushed on, you don't see a commit message of "Fixed it".
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Comment #48846401
It astonishes me how aggressive people are on this issue that have never turned a wrench on a Deere machine.
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Comment #48840511
In the last decade, on a fleet of almost 30 Deere machines from lawnmowers to high-clearance sprayers and combines, I could count on one hand the number of times I've needed the De…
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Comment #48827604
Man, I remember doing this in the late 90s with ipchains as the only way to get a router that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Eventually consumer/prosumer routers came out. What's ol…
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Comment #48827582
It would still be wiser to tie your own router into the hotel system as a gateway, and keep your own PAN behind that.
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Comment #48812905
Worked well enough for the Catholic church that the cops decided to adopt it.
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Comment #48778551
As long as corn and soybeans are subsidized via crop insurance, and propped up by biofuel mandates, oats will not be a popular crop in the US. Canada doesn't do any such subsidies …
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Comment #48765803
Wouldn't that just immediately get it thrown out as non-cleanroom invention considering the source of the weights is extremely public-domain heavy?
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Comment #48748233
I waver between "I'm not going to convince anyone anyway, and they'll retreat to their echo chamber and be right back where they were" and "The world would be better if we fight fo…