carbonx

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by carbonx 3y ago
I used to play pool a fair amount and it reminds me of a quote an older player shared with me one time: "Every shot is a practice shot". His point was that every time you shot you were building up either good or bad habits, so eve
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by carbonx 4y ago
Until it didn't.
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by carbonx 4y ago
Agreed. A regular frustration for me is clicking on a tweet that is a replay to a tween, and then I still have to scroll back to see the original tweet. I'm old and mostly use desktop, so I don't really know that's how it wor
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by carbonx 4y ago
Best info I can find is that they were only ever profitable in 2018 and 2019.
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by carbonx 5y ago
I worked for the govn't ~20 year ago - in IT - and even I hated our password policies. I just kept iterating the same password because we had to change it every 6 weeks.
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by carbonx 5y ago
I just tried it and it sounds nothing at all like me. shrug
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by carbonx 5y ago
Wikipedia says based on true events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code
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by carbonx 5y ago
Agree. I just did a quick check and 60 Minutes averages around 10 million viewers. It's not like in 1977 when something 20%+ of the US population was watching that show.
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by carbonx 5y ago
I don't know how all cab services work, but my local cabbies have told me they split the fare 50/50 with the company. The company owns and maintains the car and the driver pays gas. With Uber they seem to take pretty close to
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by carbonx 5y ago
I think the idea is that they would only partially unload. Get enough weight off the bow to help move it out.
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by carbonx 6y ago
I think the issues is a problem of transparency. I deliver for Postmates and I really think that most of the customers don't really understand that they might be ordering from a restaurant that isn't partnered with Postmates. Th
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by carbonx 15y ago
I'm in the same boat as you as far as how long I've been using hotmail. I've been migrating more and more to gmail, but I've got that hotmail account tied to so much shit over the years, I'm not even sure what I'd be losing if I ditched it
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by carbonx 15y ago
You make a good point. The guy "estimates" $15 per license and then uses this estimate to draw conclusions, without providing any basis for his estimate. It seems to amount to nothing more than speculation.
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by carbonx 15y ago
I love it. A simple, elegant solution to a seemingly complex and frustrating issue.
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by carbonx 15y ago
Misleading headline. HTTPS was only shut off if you a) set your location manually, and b) tried to enable a (relatively new) feature to force your account to always connect with HTTPS. It sounds like someone really just stumbled across a
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by carbonx 16y ago
Did they do any sort of beta testing on this before they rolled it out?
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by carbonx 16y ago
I can tell you my experience. I was placed in a gifted program in the 4th grade, iirc. From day to day we would skip a different class and attend the gifted program instead. One day I failed to turn in an assignment for a one if my "regu