danny8000

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by danny8000 6mo ago
32" 4k display at fraction scaling of 1.5 (150%) is fine for my day-to-day work (Excel, VS Code, Word, Web browsing, Teams etc.). It delivers sharp enough text at an effective resolution of 2560x1440 px. There are many 32" 4k disp
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by danny8000 7mo ago
If Nanoclaw generates some revenue, you should trademark the name and also buy nanoclaw.com. Move the site to the .com domain and then do the steps above. All things being equal, ".com" TLD should get you higher page rank than you
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by danny8000 9mo ago
Non-square pixels come from the legacy of anthropomorphic film projection. This was developed from the need to capture wide aspect ratio images on standard 33mm film. This allows the captured aspect ratio on film to be fixed for various asp
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by danny8000 1y ago
You cannot directly hire a housecleaner in the US without that person becoming your "household employee". You will need to withhold Federal Social Security tax and Medicare tax. In some states you will need to withhold state incom
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by danny8000 2y ago
What zoom (if any) do you typically run at? For instance, a 200% zoom would give you an effective resolution of 4K, but with much sharper and smoother text and rendered graphics.
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by danny8000 2y ago
How much effort to create a weather app for ios or andriod that works like this? Maybe so something for the nest home max or echo show? I love the idea, but what is the easiest way to get this onto the most number of devices?
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by danny8000 3y ago
I agree: if you a part of a two-parent household, who lives in a home with off-street parking where you can add a charger, the best of both worlds is one EV (Tesla) and one plug-in hybrid (e.g. Prius Prime or Rav 4 Prime). Then you only go
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by danny8000 3y ago
https://archive.is/ErB9Q
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Fake Signals and American Insurance: How a Dark Fleet Moves Russian Oil(nytimes.com)
11 points by danny8000 3y ago|1 comments
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by danny8000 4y ago
If you click on the words "always be free", you will be taken to the GitHub project, from there click on the release in the right column, and then download it for your platform. The store links are for the "donation" pur
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by danny8000 7y ago
I remember Disney Dollars as a kid that were pegged to US 1:1 and could be used at any Disney-owned property. They were basically gift cards with no expiration date. They ended up not being cost efficient, so Disney discontinued them in 201
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by danny8000 7y ago
You can do some of these tricks with Excel 2016 or later and SharePoint Enterprise or Office 365 -- which many corporations already have. You can embed an auto-updating Excel file in a SharePoint webpage using a "webpart" that ren
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by danny8000 8y ago
I wonder why Boeing didn’t they design new, longer landing gear instead of moving the engines forward? Then the engines could have remained in the same position. I am sure most airports could handle a taller airplane.
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by danny8000 8y ago
I think we should switch to a six-day week (just drop Wednesday). Two day weekend, four day week: http://calendars.wikia.com/wiki/60-Week_Calendar
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Alexa request returns graphic pornography(bgr.com)
3 points by danny8000 10y ago|0 comments
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by danny8000 10y ago
I remember when reading "Napoleon: A Life" by Andrew Roberts, Napoleon wasn't a big fan of the base-10 metric system, but he figured it would be the best way to break with the hundreds of different measuring systems in place
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Have you successfully built a mesh wifi network at home?
1 points by danny8000 10y ago|1 comments
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by danny8000 10y ago
Worth watching, contains and interesting an segment about Andy Grove's and Robert Noyce's relationship with each other at Intel. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/
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by danny8000 11y ago
Financial Times does not have an iOS app - just a mobile website. They have been very clever in building the site so that it is very app-like, for instance they use local storage to store the days download stories. But, was initially confus
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by danny8000 11y ago
No, there is insurance for that. Motor vehicles are inherently dangerous machines, and we all take the risk of injuring someone every time we drive. Insurance distributes the risk of driving across all drivers. You should only be punished f
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by danny8000 11y ago
It would be interesting to cross-reference the records from Freddie and Fannie with the HMDA data, which has additional fields about each mortgage application: https://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/hmdaflat.htm Would the HMDA &qu
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by danny8000 13y ago
For context, the US national 2010 median pay for "Software Developers" was $90,530 per year according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, which I believe is data provided by employer surveys. http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Computer-and-Informati