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mattdotc

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    Comment #41505982

    Point taken. I'd still maintain that the stock buybacks are egregious and need to stop.

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    Comment #41505888

    Not sure where your 6% figure comes from, but you can easily find the 2023 Annual Report which states the following: > Adjusted operating profit margin (adjusted operating profit e…

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    Watch for public statements from the union. A striking unit will generally inform the general public if they are looking for any show of support. No need to assume that a boycott i…

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    unhoused people were never prospective clients of the real estate industry, but of course this is irrelevant when you can just twist and contort someone else's argument to make it …

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    Comment #26125193

    You were complaining about being inaccurately quoted in press releases . Press releases are written by comms dept within a business, so if you have a complaint with how they're wri…

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    Comment #26125029

    You're supporting someone whose writings you don't read after he left in a big hissy fit because his editors tried to edit him. Got it. A lot of folks might soon be discovering why…

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    Comment #26125008

    Corporate communications is not journalism, so what's your point?

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    Comment #19995092

    >Those who don’t have paid subscriptions probably aren’t that interested in music in the first place. Or we run our own media streaming setup rather than pay Spotify $10/month. Spo…

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    Comment #16099192

    I've been thinking about replacing the hard drive and battery in mine for the past few years. The wheel-based iPods really did have the best UI for music in any device I've ever ow…

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    Comment #15569432

    TimesOpen is an engineer-driven blog. Its previous incarnation was self-hosted on a WordPress stack (separate from our main CMS), but for various reasons it was decided to re-platf…

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    Comment #14054014

    I understand and agree with your stance on the sense of entitlement that some people have regarding software purchases, but I feel like you might have missed one of the finer point…

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    Total shot in the dark, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they licensed usage of the API to "Authorized Board Partners" for an extra fee.

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    Comment #13880091

    This is really cool. Thanks for writing it up. I have also felt for while that the tools are terribly designed/clunky. Maybe one day, hardware manufacturers will drop the cliche 'g…

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    Comment #13879970

    As I understand it, the plugin system is poorly documented, and it seemed like most of the popular ones were being maintained by one guy: https://github.com/josh4trunks/freenas-plu…

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    Before rushing to upgrade, take note that they are abandoning the plugin system for, what I believe is, a docker-based approach for services. Don't quote me on that second part, bu…

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    FWIW, I replaced my WiFi/Bluetooth adapter immediately upon receiving my 9343. I had been following the XPS13 developer edition forums for a while, and the adapter that shipped wit…

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    Comment #13475896

    Here's the caves.jpg fixed: http://imgur.com/a/WBqiL

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    Comment #13340952

    >One perfect layer That's the problem.

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    My only regret about getting into his channel is that now I have seen all of his videos and I have to wait 7 days for each new one. His channel is great for more than just its cont…