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by jboles 7y ago
Agreed, I have an at least 10 year old Brother laser printer and while it doesn’t support any new standard like AirPrint, their iOS app can still print to it across the network, direct from an iPhone/iPad, despite it being made likely
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by jboles 7y ago
It’s happened. At the McDs I worked at we’d put the rest of the burger on the tray used for hotcakes.
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by jboles 7y ago
“Not bad” - something is pretty good, or at least better than expected. Had to laugh when I saw that phrase on the linked page. “Not bad at all” - something is really good “Munted” - trashed or unserviceable
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by jboles 7y ago
Kinetic energy rises with the square of velocity... and the Porsche is much more likely to be driving unsafely/like an ass than the truck, or in my experience, even a BMW...
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by jboles 7y ago
They are plug doors, as with all other passenger jet airliners today. The door goes in at an angle (eg. 737) or part of it slides up/down (eg. 777) to fit through the door frame.
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by jboles 7y ago
Windows 7 did for USB2 devices plugged into a USB1 port: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/usb-speederror/ If the computer can identify the device’s capabilities (using some kind of bus command, I’m not very familiar
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by jboles 7y ago
Not really, no. Python/Ruby/Perl interpreters are not “integrated” into the OS like AppleScript and Automator are. They’re just some binaries sitting in /usr/local/bin.
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by jboles 7y ago
The humans are too distracted by non-work activities maybe? This article paints a bizarre picture: https://thefederalist.com/2018/01/10/19-insane-tidbits-james...
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by jboles 7y ago
As an elder millennial, I agree with your last paragraph, still a funny name for it though.
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by jboles 7y ago
Another reason: pre-auth will deduct up to $125 from your available balance, no matter how small the actual purchase is, which you won’t get back for a couple of days.
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by jboles 7y ago
Perhaps everyone is? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial_whoop
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by jboles 7y ago
Literal cargo culting!
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by jboles 7y ago
I think it’s one of those things you learn from your parents by riding in the car with them, and the relative age one starts driving vs moving far from their childhood home. I did both - learning names of roads, landmarks and routes from th
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by jboles 7y ago
10-30% doesn't even seem excessive if there is no product today. There are so many startups that post on this board with an open-ended title similar to "Looking for an engineer to build our product", then you go to their webs
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by jboles 7y ago
It's not so much the trains that are terrible as the 1800s-era track geometry that is terrible. There are mountains all the way down the east coast; any high-speed line is going to be (a) necessarily built inland and separate from any
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by jboles 7y ago
Even before SSDs it was also used to short-stroke spinning HDDs for better random seek performance.
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by jboles 7y ago
Once did a project like this that grabbed Seattle's realtime data for some bus stops around my place. It was an old Windows CE PocketPC thingy, so the tools were primitive (.NET compact framework 1.0, basically). Maybe a bit too primit
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by jboles 7y ago
I have done exactly that! (but not for London): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fte7w0r8d_k (Not my video; someone made it using the program I made)
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by jboles 7y ago
Yeah, I once had an idea for auto-scrolling based off tracking eye gaze through the webcam. I never told Microsoft or Samsung about it, but they totally stole my idea!!1eleventyone
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by jboles 7y ago
It’s a British turn of phrase meaning any kind of party costume, not even necessarily anything “fancy”.
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by jboles 7y ago
I’d always assumed they were broad gauge for added stability if an earthquake hit. Are there other reasons?
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by jboles 7y ago
I’m not sure how much it counts for, but the federation of Australia was barely 13 years old at that time. Furthermore it’s flag was also the Union Jack. When WW2 rolled around, the point was moot, with offensive forces literally on the doo
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by jboles 7y ago
FY Q4, Apr-Jun perhaps.
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by jboles 7y ago
How would you compare the relative effects on culture, of the executives moving to Chicago vs. the merger with MDC?
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by jboles 7y ago
IIRC it becomes difficult to register cars in Japan because of emissions standards once they are a few years old. That's why so many end up in Australia/NZ/UK.
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by jboles 7y ago
Not entirely true -- this is the case if the drive is configured as "Enhanced" or "RAID" or "AHCI" in the BIOS/EFI. There's typically a "Legacy" mode which will make the device visible to DO
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by jboles 7y ago
I got started with graphical programming with RapidQ, a sort-of cross between VB and Delphi (and the predecessor to RealBasic). I had a 486/Pentium I machine around that time, with not enough hard disk space to install VB (and too youn
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by jboles 7y ago
I used to use Firefox but it blew chunks at doing intranet authentication. Auth prompts for days. I had to use an extension that loaded an IE browser pane so that I wouldn’t spend half my work day typing my password. I hope they have improv
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by jboles 7y ago
I’ve had a paid subscription to Fastmail for 10+ years. After thinking that email was not worth paying for. It’s that good.
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by jboles 7y ago
Even market price trades still require a counterparty’s inverse order to execute the trade against. Thus the exchange that an order is routed to affects execution price because it depends on the available orders on the exchange, on both sid

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