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ledbettj

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About ledbettj

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    Comment #42308021

    . Location: Atlanta Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Rust, C, JavaScript/TypeScript, Postgresql, Redis, etc. Résumé/CV: https://resume.johnledbetter.co…

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    Comment #41583158

    Certainly has an impact, but the embargo is also used by the government as a scapegoat to cover up poor policies, corruption, etc. I have heard from some Cubans they would love to …

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    Comment #37784952

    Actually, it's my own fault -- I assumed the area in the preview that said I hadn't uploaded any images yet was the drop target, but it's not, that's over in the sidebar. Cheers!

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    Comment #37784902

    Pretty cool! I tried to list my app but the screenshot upload doesn't seem to work -- it won't accept any files I've tried via drag/drop in Chrome or Firefox. I've been able to upl…

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    Comment #34069892

    the old wifi (Gogo Inflight) is slow and terrible. The new wifi being rolled out (ViaSat) is better, the speedtest screenshots I've seen have been 50-150 Mbps down.

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    Comment #31249989

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1521489115585421314.html

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    Comment #29560621

    Zoom happily supports screen sharing on Wayland/gnome, even using the flatpak version.

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    Comment #28593096

    > Obscuring your location from your employer could be a thing This seems fairly unlikely... Your employer needs to do some really basic things that require knowing where you live, …

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    Comment #28564831

    When I worked at Cisco years ago fresh out of college, they offered an Employee Stock Purchase Program -- you could put up to X$ towards purchasing Cisco stock over the quarter, an…

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    Comment #26567178

    > "bundle update mimemagic" should fix this... assuming your codebase is ok with an MIT-licensed dependency suddenly becoming a GPL-licensed dependency.

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    Comment #26328748

    It also worked as drop in replacement for PulseAudio for me, except all my audio now had stutters and pops. I ended up going back to Pulse. I got suggestions that I could go tweak …

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    Comment #25633738

    Just a warning that although it claims to support Linux, on launch I got two options: * Run without wine (Linux) * Launch with wine The first one took me to a black screen. The sec…

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    Comment #25083120

    librsvg uses cairo under the hood to actually draw things, at least at the moment.

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    Comment #24387513

    How about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster ?

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    Comment #19960163

    Because when the courier is Fedex, contacting them would be even more futile than Google. I also use Project Fi; I also ordered a Pixel3 when it went on sale last month. Fedex atte…

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    Comment #19718467

    How much do you want to bet the LA Fitness contract includes binding arbitration?

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    Comment #16234113

    The process I followed was: * create an account on binance.com * transfer the stellars there, making sure to follow the instructions about the MEMO_TEXT. * convert the lumens into …

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    Comment #15553959

    Does not seem to work under Wayland. You can see the mouse pointer, but the rest of the screen is black. Haven't tried it under X yet.

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    Comment #13506693

    Can you talk about what the existing procedures are for refugees from these countries, and why they're not sufficient? I would Also be interested in knowing how many terrorist acts…

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    Comment #12645544

    I used to feel the same way you do; I grew up here, moved away, and eventually came back. Atlanta is a much different place now. I wouldn't choose to live "just outside" of Atlanta…

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    Comment #10360746

    I really like the concept and the mobile app is great, but I have to agree. The desktop version seems like it doesn't even get tested before it gets released. After every new versi…

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    Comment #9921656

    > If you want working multi-monitor support you will pretty much have to compile your own kernel, add custom repos, and manually configure X. I don't think this has been a problem …

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    Comment #9567646

    Could you elaborate on 'the symlink problem?' I just installed 2.2 and symlinks seem to function as expected to me.

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    Comment #8902092

    You can restart systemd on the fly with `systemctl daemon-reexec`.

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    Comment #7663134

    I was under the impression that Yik Yak had already blocked all highschools [1] after the last incident (I think it was a bomb threat?) [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-grab…