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ostensible

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    Comment #45830156

    I agree. Microcenter seems to sell a lot of flashy shiny garbage and not enough or at all of what matters — like cables or adapters. It’s more a best buy than fry’s electronics. We…

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    Comment #45009916

    `man csrutil`

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    Comment #43650166

    Bank of America provides 5.25% percent cash back on each category. Get one for every category. Done. (You need to enroll to preferred rewards for that). 3% is not worth to be bothe…

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    Comment #43650158

    You either play that game or subside others who do, regardless of of whether you like it or not — you are still participating. Prices are already higher for everyone.

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    Comment #43443397

    iCloud’s HideMyEmail service generates @icloud.com addresses. Very easy, single click. Nevertheless, I still use my personal name at lastname dot com for everything for decades and…

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    Comment #43443232

    Well, there is now some truth to it. For example, low quality HDMI cable will may be only good enough for low bandwidth, that would limit refresh rate, and/or color fidelity (e.g. …

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    Comment #43161027

    I completely agree. Only write if you have something to say. World does not need more pointless drivel, like the linked post.

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    Comment #42761403

    This being raspberry pi absolves you from needing to buy a separate hardware noise generator: it has plenty of GPIO. For example, one can obtain entropy by sampling random noise ge…

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    Comment #39421748

    Eh, ads can be blocked. 5% cash back on travel alone on the other hand makes it continue to be a no-brainer. (And Whole Foods if you shop there). Everyone understands that you stil…

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    Comment #38816959

    I have switched to using xargs to parallelize things: it has a benefit of being part of posix, and is not annoying about citations like parallel.

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    Comment #38807677

    This is what pays their bills. Major source of income for Mozilla is Google paying to be default search engine

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    Comment #38802103

    Do you have a better solution? You can complain on the forums about how unfair life is, how incompetent companies are, fight every provider to prove your reputation until cows come…

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    Comment #38797519

    Why not avoid fighting these windmills by using any of the existing commercial mail relays for sending — like SES or mailchimp?

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