drcharris

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by drcharris 6mo ago
The gift card is a scratch off and has a number that is used to fund your Mullvad balance. So Amazon doesn't know which instance of the gift card you ordered, meaning there's no link to your specific Mullvad account payment. The a
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by drcharris 5y ago
A while ago I did this when on Mac - keeps it compact on a single line. https://gist.github.com/drcharris/0830ff4da063c68b0ceed415d8...
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by drcharris 6y ago
The epub link on that page sends me to an online reader, from which the 'Download' button does precisely nothing. This might be due to all the browser-armour I'm wearing, might be a Firefox thing, don't know. The PDF lin
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by drcharris 7y ago
I learnt Miranda in my first year of CS at University College London...in 1991. So I think you might be right!
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by drcharris 7y ago
For those interested, Starbucks publishes caffeine content of all their drinks, which makes a nice baseline for comparison. A 'tall' filter coffee, which IIRC is 16oz in the US, is 229mg, about equivalent to 3 single espresso shot
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by drcharris 7y ago
Privacy from the vendor , for cloud backups, is barely addressed by most of the cloud storage providers. I find the best solution is to - like many comments here about photo and music storage - stick to older more stable standards that are
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by drcharris 8y ago
Then it's probably regarded as a 'constructive dividend' by the IRS and is liable to tax. https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2017/may/identifying-co...
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by drcharris 8y ago
Credibility claimer: I built risk systems for 3 Tier-1 investment banks in a previous life. I'm not a fixed-income (read: bonds and other interest-rate derived financial instruments) person, but I think the erosion of 'value'
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by drcharris 8y ago
The trust you have in an app store is because you believe in their processes for auditing apps. But the two do not need to be linked. Google Play Protect, for instance, works just fine on sideloaded apps or apps downloaded from other stores
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by drcharris 8y ago
In the world of finance, "cash" is often shorthand for "cash or cash equivalents". Instead of the usual layperson interpretation where cash is "a bunch of currency, either physically in my hand or in a bank account&
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by drcharris 8y ago
Vivaldi is based on Chromium and allows tabs to be positioned on the side - not Tree Style in terms of hierarchy, but you get the screen-space and usability benefits. https://vivaldi.com/features/
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by drcharris 8y ago
Use this CSS #nav-bar-customization-target { padding-left: 65px; }
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by drcharris 8y ago
Full details of caffeine amounts are here for those who are interested. https://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/94fbcc2ab1e2435985... Recommended daily caffeine limit is usually quoted at around 400mg for an adult, a
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by drcharris 8y ago
Link is https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1828378/Video-D...
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by drcharris 8y ago
Again, it's not about the topic. It's not about who else supports it. It's not about the benefits of a product. It's not about Iceland's policy on palm oil, or the virtues thereof. The problem is taking, wholesale,
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by drcharris 8y ago
From the article: "“The creative submitted to us is linked to another organisation who have not yet been able to demonstrate compliance in this area.” It's a Greenpeace video with the logo taken off. So it's political. It&#x2
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by drcharris 8y ago
See today's Android Police artice on the Moshi adapter that just got re-released today. https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/09/moshi-type-c-audio-... Comments on that page point to this one on Amazon,
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by drcharris 8y ago
See the Oppo Find X, or the Vivo Nex, for phones with pop-up cameras that avoid the need for a notch. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/the-oppo-find-x-kill... [2] https://www.engadget.co
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by drcharris 8y ago
Nice little summary here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2349cn0-T0
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by drcharris 8y ago
Here's some criticism. https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/12/starbucks-straw-ban-will-... I hope there's more to Starbucks' plan than this, and that they've got a better lid in the works
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by drcharris 8y ago
I think a very effective way is to get much better control over your cookies, when you allow them to be set, under which conditions, on which sites. I use a combination of CookieBro and Umatrix on Firefox for this. Cookies are only allowed
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by drcharris 8y ago
The 80 char limit was, IIRC, based around the capabilities of fixed-width terminals and dot-matrix printers. It's not magical. I have the luxury of writing code only for myself, so I can maximise devotion to my 'personal style&#x2
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by drcharris 8y ago
The obvious solution is to add a notch!
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by drcharris 8y ago
On a number of occasions, as a (software) program manager at several very large firms, I was tasked with taking every single piece of work that happened in the previous calendar year and seeing whether we could classify it as 'R&D&
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by drcharris 8y ago
Try http://hckrnews.com/ , infinite scroll works nicely.
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by drcharris 8y ago
I used NewPipe for a while and then switched to SkyTube - anecdotally I found it had fewer issues with higher-res formats and audio than NewPipe did. It uses the Youtube APIs though, so isn't as Google-free as NewPipe. Anyway, worth a
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by drcharris 8y ago
On this specific point, he refused to answer two questions from (Wall St) analysts, and instead got questions from a (retail) shareholder. That would seem to be the right priority, even though his attitude was wrong.
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by drcharris 9y ago
I use these https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3... to alleviate the 'sticking out' problem.
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by drcharris 9y ago
Not sure if any of the current ad blockers do this, but perhaps script-blocking by hashing the contents of the script could get around this? Another lap of the arms-race, I guess...
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by drcharris 9y ago
I suspect there's a secondary reason too. MoviePass is dropping their pricing to $10/month, this screams out "Hail Mary" to me. I wouldn't be surprised if MoviePass was on its last legs financially (they just sold a

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