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timemct
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About timemct
social [at] opsburg [dot] com
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Comment #48647751
You're not accounting for all of the government contracts that US taxpayers fund.
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Comment #46767802
I'm pretty sure that's been a shortcut well before W11, W7 iirc.
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Comment #45773161
You've probably been asked about it, but it's often phrased differently than simply asking where to install the app. "Would you like to install theAppInQuestion for all users of th…
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Comment #45773082
'They' is also used when gender is unknown and has been for a long, long time. Person_1: I found this great blogger whose writing I think you'd love. Person_2: Oh, really?! What do…
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Comment #44107648
>Our school converted a computer lab to a programming lab. Computers in the lab have editors/compilers/interpreters, and whitelist documentation, plus an internal server for gradin…
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Comment #40947744
The term, “unreliable narrator,” comes to mind.
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Comment #40814511
Save for at least one current sitting Justice: Amy Coney Barrett. They only had ~3 years of experience being a judge, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (2017–2020), before being nom…
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Comment #40377636
Even if you love what you do at your day job... The cobbler's kids go without shoes, and the chef's fridge is full of condiments & takeout boxes.
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Comment #40169701
It sounds like it might've helped prevent even more infections. Stopping a bad practices doesn't change the past, but it can help influence the future.
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Comment #40089790
The air compressor trick works great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6SsqBcpXZU
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Comment #38720920
Problems with both education systems can exist at the same time. As a society, we can try to address the issues with both home schooling and the public education system, not just o…
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Comment #38702942
Some d/w sensors will even have dry contacts specifically meant for wiring in whatever open/close type thing you'd like to use, like a pressure pad.
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Comment #38294568
My memory of that specific detail is a bit fuzzy, however I’m pretty sure it was a staff pick. That or via the fantastic similar artists feature at the bottom of an artist’s page, …
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Comment #38290807
If you are the same Solar Fields I’m thinking about, I’m pretty sure I discovered your/their music, specifically the album Until We Meet The Sky, via what.cd. Cheers!
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Comment #36108112
Especially when you think about what electronics are made of: things mined from the earth. They made rocks compute for us!
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Comment #35377509
I think that's been the practice for sometime now; we had to do the same thing at Puerto Vallarta's airport a few years back.
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Comment #35363357
I’ve often thought that when a company, especially one as big as Alphabet/Google, gets fined, it’s simply seen as an operating cost and not as a motivator to do better.
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Comment #33594890
> There's an entire cottage industry built around people etching their seed phrases on steel plates for people to (I'm not kidding) bury them like they're gold in the 1800s. "I wri…
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Comment #33277729
Nobara Project[1] helps with this. It is somewhat gaming-on-linux focused, but for some, like myself, that's a win. I use it on both my desktop (Intel CPU, AMD GPU) and my Thinkpad…
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Comment #32567006
Whenever I read something about leaving messages for future peoples, my mind drifts back to this Mistborn quote, "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot…
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Comment #32411828
One of the troubles with this argument is that it fundamentally assumes that people who live in cities don't care about people who live in rural areas. People are capable of having…
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Comment #30849110
Decentralytes is perfect, thank you.
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Comment #30085323
Yes, there is a listen with only one headphone feature.
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Comment #29797938
Years 2003(ish) to 2008(ish).
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Comment #29228647
KZ, too.