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metal

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    Comment #38767041

    That's the point. You're not relying on it, it's a safety to save yourself from an unintended glob expansion.

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    Comment #38765386

    Do this in important directories for added safety: $ touch -- - i This creates a file called "-i" which will add the interactive flag, prompting you before deleting every file that…

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    Comment #35605756

    Stopped reading at the anti-white bs. I'm pretty sure that if the author had put "black" instead of "white," this article wouldn't have even been linked here. It's fashionable to o…

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    Comment #34334328

    Would you feel the same if there was a legitimate reason for your stopping (like a person on the road)? The outcome is the same.

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    Comment #25532347

    18 hours is absurd, IMO. I have a Garmin Instinct Solar that gets up to 24 days of battery life without any solar exposure (there's unlimited battery life with enough exposure unle…

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    Comment #18384245

    Free speech for me but not for thee.

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    Comment #17653687

    Amazon reviews have been shady for years. To combat this I never buy without running the item link through fakespot.com. The other day I also discovered reviewmeta.com t haven't tr…

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    Comment #15898394

    Calibre ( https://calibre-ebook.com/ ) is great for converting epub to mobi.

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    Comment #14325488

    The only "problem" I see is that there's a lot of vc money out there willing to take a long shot.

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    Comment #14228087

    Water is wet

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    Comment #10596776

    Thank you, it works now. FYI it took everything I had not to post something snarky ;)

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    Comment #10596239

    Ironically on that page the "highly recommended" link to https://speedtest.comcast.net/ times out.

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    Comment #6330129

    I think Peter Griffin said it best. Oh my god, who the hell cares?

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    Comment #6104148

    Is there a way to get the 2.99 euro price from the US? How about from Canada?

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    Comment #6080161

    What does a flippant response like this accomplish? Nothing but wasting one's time emailing a recruiter mill. May as well send thought-provoking replies to your email spam.

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    Comment #2077063

    I'm not sure what the author is trying to say. Just because porn is easier to get now than before (as has been since day 0 of porn), so what? Yet another jee-whiz look at what the …

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    Comment #2041057

    You got exactly what you asked for. You knew something was wrong before you were even seated, then you ignored the "6 other tables" being served before you and continued to sit the…

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    Comment #1795266

    w0mbat.com. My email is in my profile.

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    Comment #1760785

    They already have this. You can have two levels of passwords: one for the OS and one for a hidden encrypted partition or encrypted file where you keep your truly sensitive info.