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rbobby

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    Comment #48961505

    I feel like I've seen this comment before...

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    Comment #48385786

    > best thing to do is segregate and control damage I first encountered that concept with a client that put every webapp in it's own virtual server and expected the vm to get compro…

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    Comment #48300023

    And uses SOAP for identity and authorization.

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    Comment #48258914

    The Apple ][ basic interpreter placed its "get next token" routine down in the first 255 bytes of the computer's memory. Being there allowed for the machine instructions to be fetc…

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    Comment #48245075

    The economy is so bad even the Director of the FBI has a side gig.

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    Comment #48165427

    Now do ASPX? Pleeeeeeaaasse?

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    Comment #38774788

    I've learned to accept getting a bit of raw cold egg white on my fingers.

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    Comment #38720671

    John Oliver did an eye opening bit on homeschooling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsZP9o7SlI&pp=ygUVam9uIG9sa... The lack of regulation is concerning. What's truly disturbing i…

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    Comment #30974139

    If I recall correctly the read/write head of a floppy drive rested directly on the media. This meant the disks wore out faster the more you used them.

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    Comment #30762679

    Can you plug in a gogoro to a regular wall socket? Better a slow charge than to be stuck.

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    Comment #30741162

    > Nobody can build something with squirrel levels of manipulation and agility, even in simulation. While not squirrel level, this impressed the heck out of me: https://ashish-kmr.g…

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    Comment #30731838

    Maybe it's a quantum observer effect and the galaxies only exist because there's an observer. Dark matter/energy is need to make things balance only because we haven't been looking…

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    Comment #30657834

    > Why can't the US government mandate hospitals need to purchase a percentage of their supplies from US manufacturers in order to receive medicaid/Medicare. Trade agreements most l…

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    Comment #30408685

    12 matches, 10 seconds per shape.

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    Comment #30249352

    As a Torontonian... the Sun isn't much of a paper. Good for sports and fish wrap. Breathless crime reporting too. City politics. That's about it.

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    Comment #30094260

    > Arguably the more important outcome than monetary damages Every single consumer that bought a product from one of these third party sellers, or a matching product from Amazon, ha…

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    Comment #30047382

    Hmm... maybe the magic in magic quadrants is in how they attract the sorts of people that will act on the information conveyed by the grid. Way better than an Ouija board for IT re…

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    Comment #29970275

    I would think basic income would only cover the basic necessities, plus some extra. Not enough for one person to live without a roomate, or have the latest and greatest technology.…

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    Comment #29843476

    > AMD supports ECC on their consumer chips And now the next desktop consumer upgrade I purchase will be AMD and will have ECC (well... unless it's way more expensive).

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    Comment #29789411

    Shhhhhh! You'll disturb the market!

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    Comment #29759656

    YYMMDD + 4 digits of versions. At a glance, even a bit more than a glance, that seems fine for a long. And if 2020 worked and 2021 worked... why would 2022 break? Lol. I'd bet the …

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    Comment #29756977

    Disney will be suing. I'm sure they already have worked out an overall litigation strategy. But... with 2 years left there's plenty of time for legislation to be updated.

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    Comment #29730389

    Sounds like a plan... until you realize why your label printer keeps restarting.

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    Comment #29722369

    With a bit of string you'd have a game. Doesn't really account for the varying sizes of holes.

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    Comment #29699968

    Gemprint... the OG NFT.