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robotmlg

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    Comment #47294773

    There is a link to the North America file, where all those referenced stories can be found.

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    Comment #42688572

    Such a popular trick that it got a song written about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFLjNi2_qnk

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    Comment #36303917

    Say what you want about BBEdit no longer being useful in the modern era, but whenever I have to work with a multi-megabyte file that my IDE chokes on, BBEdit can open it no problem…

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    Comment #32820709

    nope, it has a REST API. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi I know people who are already using it in random python scripts and whatnot, e.g. https://sixco…

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    Comment #32729001

    COUP FOURRÉ!

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    Comment #32709772

    He was sentenced to 13 months in prison, followed by 3 years of probation, plus forfeiting $500k of proceeds https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-operator-illegal-boote...

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    Comment #32698279

    MetroCard was also created and run by Cubic, nothing new here.

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    Comment #31647749

    They did have it in Safari, and they took it out. There was a webkit bug open since 2015 asking them to put it back in, finally closed earlier this year.

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    Comment #31379187

    Road Guy Rob did a video recently about a failed edge lane road experiment. Seems like a good idea to me as long as car traffic isn't too heavy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zey…

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    Comment #31218703

    most emission from ICE racing (at least in the high level series where they do a lot of traveling) is from the planes and ships that transport the team members and equipment, and I…

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    Comment #20800823

    Similarly, https://favrd.it has been posting the top tweets of 2009 (as compiled by Favrd, RIP)

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    Comment #20012857

    The facebook link problem is fixed in today's 2019.4 update https://twitter.com/caseyliss/status/1132335799817691136

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    Comment #18811207

    > the displays is upside down on one of my devices! wait I don't get it. It's USB-C, just flip it over?

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    Comment #18504420

    JC resident who commutes to Manhattan here: > Most people aren't willing to switch trains to get to work. Not true in NYC. Plenty of people change subways once or even twice to com…

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    Comment #18016187

    And according to the Numberphile video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKhacWQ2fCs ) there is a prior paper showing it for bases 2, 3, and 4

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    Comment #17952815

    According to the article, the FCC "regulates all satellite launches by American companies, whether they occur on U.S. soil or elsewhere."

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    Comment #17852416

    Slack's messaging backend is Java (at least it was in 2014): https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/426469205005705217

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    Comment #17753992

    Goodspaceguy seems way cooler than New Jersey's perennial candidate Jeff Boss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Boss

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    Comment #17365684

    Did you report the Safari bug to Apple or to WebKit.org? I've had good luck getting responses and fixes from the webkit guys

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    Comment #17339451

    If only there were some way to Syndicate website updates to a centralized reader in a Really Simple way...

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    Comment #17293352

    Blu-Tack doesn't harden, it stays sticky. It's used to attach posters to the wall and stuff like that. I wouldn't want to use it on the edge of a MacBook, it would just gather dust…

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    Comment #17147483

    > As it is I hate how I can't talk ABOUT "ok google" around my phone... because it always goes off. On several tech podcasts I listen to ( http://atp.fm , https://daringfireball.ne…

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    Comment #17102169

    > closest without going over That's The Price Is Right, not Wheel of Fortune ;-)

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    Comment #16802200

    GOG has been selling current games in addition to the "good old games" for a long time now