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Approximately 100% confident. You should never need to look at your keyboard.

I believe it was suggested that an ideal election would be one in which Paul and Sanders run opposed, not on the same ticket.

Any intentional mark is a legally valid signature. It doesn't matter what tool is used to make the mark, be it a computer, a muddy twig, or anything else. The established legality …

Lenovo ditched it on the Thinkpad[0]. I read this and thought, "At long last, Lenovo has realized that they've destroyed ThinkPad keyboards in recent years, and now they're celebra…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIEdExAOXf0 https://github.com/kristoffer-marshall/XScreensaver-RFID-Unl... Anyone who may be logged on to multiple TTYs should prefer `vlock -an` o…

In this early demo (Codename: Chicago), the minimize and maximize buttons have been redesigned, but the close button remains the same, and to the left as before. I wonder where the…

It's not mentioned in the article, but Composite A is rotated in a chin-up direction compared to Composite B. The difference is subtle yet distinct. Composite A's head angle appear…

Not at all. You apparently didn't read the article. "Caltrans employees and U.S. contractors who supervised the job lived fulltime in Shanghai, and top officials flew there often. …

SeaTac raised it to $15 at the beginning of 2014, and they're already seeing regrettable consequences. “Are you happy with the $15 wage?” I asked the full-time cleaning lady. “It s…

I'm glad it's finally compatible with LastPass! That alone increases usability quite a lot. The cartoon characters strike me as misguided though. Their target demographic is not ch…

The dict protocol, and dict.org in particular, provides easy access to Webster's 1913 as well as other dictionaries. I normally use Webster's 1913 from the command line, since I us…

By "irony", I'm pretty sure they mean "sarcasm". It seems increasingly common for people to confuse the two.

I'd love to see sports leagues that allow not just performance-enhancing drugs, but also prosthetic enhancements of any kind. The athlete of tomorrow is a cyborg. Such a league wou…

I'd prefer an email to a flashy banner. I only log into facebook once a month or so, but I'd certainly have shown up there for a vote if I'd heard about this before it was too late…

The waste was his opportunity cost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

That might be acceptable for your personal information, but for a startup? Let's see what that does to your conversion rate.

BAC is up 76.26% YTD. Pretty much everything the article says makes sense, and I'm happy I closed my BofA account years ago, but at $5 I had to snatch up some of that stock. I hard…

In that post, you wrote, "DotTEL is not at all limited, as long as you can transition to the mindset of decoupling your content from its address." Care to elaborate? I thought tel …

Sure, if the cost of infrastructure is taken to be a result of the requirement to replicate data. But given an infrastructure that is maintained irrespective of its use for data re…

Marginal cost does not include initial investment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost

Don't bother trying to load the MPAA's contact page if you reject their cookies. It just loops a reload. I'm not exactly surprised that they value tracking over usability.

Post-scarcity has already arrived for every resource that has a marginal cost of production equal to zero. That includes every digital product. That's not to say we're living in th…

I switched to DDG after Google started giving me 500 server errors in every web search, complete with a request to send a bug report to an email address that turns out to be undeli…

The URL with a trailing slash redirects to a 404. Presumably tmobile feels they're providing a more useful result, and monetizing it. If my ISP did this I would use a proxy.