chicagobob

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by chicagobob 4mo ago
That's a bummer. I literally started my latest rewatch because of this news.
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by chicagobob 1y ago
Exactly what the author meant to say.
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by chicagobob 2y ago
True, but the word "blowout" in this case is just a crazy side-effect of our weird electoral college system. Everyone knows that in all the swing states (except Arizona), the final vote margin was just a few percent, and that was
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by chicagobob 3y ago
Depending on which post you look at somewhere between 1% - 6%. But, the more important question is which users use Apollo (or other 3rd party tools). The answer overwhelmingly is mods and content creators, the most important people to Re
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by chicagobob 6y ago
That man is a genius: let's do wide scale testing & contact tracing! Exactly what everyone has been saying for a while now.
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by chicagobob 7y ago
The blended 2017 US average is 1.54 people per car, source: https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1040-july...
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by chicagobob 8y ago
While there are clearly communities where this is a problem, I've lived in Chicago, now I live in the suburbs and still work downtown, and honestly outside of OTB and the Casinos, have never actually seen a video gambling machine in Il
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by chicagobob 8y ago
There are literally dozens, just google or search Amazon, here's an example: https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Charger-Charging-Breaksafe-N...
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by chicagobob 10y ago
Only partially. Often at the time of consumption cost isn't something one can use to make decisions. But for those other times, sure it would help. Speaking of lack of info about pricing you might find this interesting: https:/
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by chicagobob 10y ago
Yea, that's nice, but under a Republican administration that's not going to happen.
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by chicagobob 10y ago
That is not quite correct. Neither MasterCard nor Visa charge merchants any extra to use ApplePay. In fact, some merchant banks even lower merchant fees if they adopt secure payment methods like ApplePay. MasterCard and Visa do pay Apple
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by chicagobob 11y ago
What is Alternative medicine that works is called? Medicine.
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by chicagobob 12y ago
In addition to Tor, I didn't see in the article, did she use Ghostery or any other browser privacy plug-ins?
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by chicagobob 13y ago
sigh Get a copy of the MMM and read it. TL;DR: adding more people to a project won't necessarily help make it go any faster and often will slow it down.
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by chicagobob 13y ago
this. good edit. was just going to post to say this.
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by chicagobob 13y ago
Agree 100%. I travel a lot and need more power. I currently have a 13" MBA, and am waiting to see what the next refresh offers, but am seriously looking at a 15" rMBP for my next machine. The screen is sooooo much better that the extra w
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by chicagobob 13y ago
Are you aware of zipline ports (or similar libraries) in Ruby or ObjectiveC (or plain C)?
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by chicagobob 13y ago
we also have a rule that when possible (like you've opened up an old file with whitespace issues), that you should clean it and do a whitespace changes only commit before getting to work. It makes everyone's life easier if they're not look
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by chicagobob 13y ago
I love the names of the Culture ships! sigh this is sad news.
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by chicagobob 14y ago
I've never gotten any of these complaints about shows running "overtime". Personally, the longer the better IMHO. They're podcasts. I listen as much as I can, and then pause them to pick them up later. Short ones are just over quicker a
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by chicagobob 14y ago
Don't forget that Groklaw is quite slanted in Google's favor just like FOSS Patents is slanted against Google. To get a balance you need to read both (well actually even more sources).
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by chicagobob 14y ago
Hmmmm ... I just read a blog post (Ars??) that upto 1% of Macs could be infected. What percentage of Window machines did Conficker infect? 30% 50%? I seem to remember it was a huge percentage.
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by chicagobob 15y ago
This, a thousand times this.
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by chicagobob 15y ago
+5
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by chicagobob 15y ago
That touches on my main point. I think relatively speaking it has outlived its usefulness, but twice a year its very disruptive to my family's daily schedule for a few days. My kids are too young to understand it and just know that their
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A White House Petition: should daylight savings time end permanently?(wh.gov)
14 points by chicagobob 15y ago|18 comments
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by chicagobob 15y ago
FWIW: I use XCode for all Objective-C development, TextMate for almost everything else, and BBEdit to open large files (IMO the single biggest area of weakness for TextMate). I've tried other editors, but 3 covers everything I need.
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by chicagobob 15y ago
cash for clunkers got a statistically signification number of poor milage cars off the road, that also helped with our nations oil consumption.
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by chicagobob 15y ago
Well, ok, but you need to consider that Apple is actually winning most of the cases where it has accused Samsung of copying it. It has gotten injunctions. This is clearly a case of a company (Samsung) not thinking though the consequences
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by chicagobob 15y ago
Please note that there are two other credit rating agencies, Moody’s and Fitch, and both of them have stated that they have no current plans to downgrade US debt from AAA, although one of them did place a negative outlook on the US. So, ge

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