kevin_thibedeau

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by kevin_thibedeau 6d ago
This is New Yorker style. Paint an elaborate scene and get to the point later on.
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by kevin_thibedeau 6d ago
Camera app does it.
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by kevin_thibedeau 6d ago
You can still get windows 3 directory picker dialogs in obscure places like the ODBC data source utility.
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by kevin_thibedeau 6d ago
I'd bet this bug also shows up in Vista file explorer with auto arrange disabled. Nobody will ever need more than 100 icons on their 800x600 workstation. Ship it.
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by kevin_thibedeau 6d ago
That isn't a web app.
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by kevin_thibedeau 6d ago
A well built native app can still serve as a vector for harvesting personal data in ways you cannot control. A web app is inherently superior because of its security envelope.
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by kevin_thibedeau 7d ago
The tags were needed for language indication to control CJK glyph variants. Flag emoji were grafted onto this scheme. The key is that tag sequences have to start with a valid introductory codepoint. Simple enough to strip out anything that
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by kevin_thibedeau 7d ago
I've always had fraudulent debit charges automatically reverted. Typically the bank's fraud detection disables the card and you clear up the matter on the phone. Or they call you to verify if a suspicious charge outside your profi
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by kevin_thibedeau 7d ago
Didn't save Elaine Herzberg.
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by kevin_thibedeau 7d ago
A lot of that is just damage from continuous use. Floppies used rarely tend to work well. I have 90s backup disks that were flawless reads in recent years. I just bought a 25 year old sewing machine with a floppy in it. Still worked fine. I
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by kevin_thibedeau 7d ago
You used to be able to buy silicone extension cords. Now it's all the new low temp plasticized PVC.
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by kevin_thibedeau 7d ago
> uploaded my drivers licence, a photo of my passport Sounds like its working as designed. This is why you never cross streams between work and personal life.
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by kevin_thibedeau 8d ago
The floppy interface for 5.25 is largely the same as 3.5. The data rates are the same. The only functional difference is fewer sectors per track because of the faster motor speed. That's all accounted for with a FDC interface controlle
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by kevin_thibedeau 8d ago
A fun one is the Anglican Ordinariates which are in full communion with Rome and permit existing clergy to remain married while serving as Catholic priests.
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by kevin_thibedeau 8d ago
They're clearly training on SEO sites that use these strategies to pad out with filler and create space for more ad impressions. They normalize this structure now and the ad copy will be inserted in the future so the frogs won't r
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
The amazing thing is that people still cite the old stats they published as that remains the only significant body of insight into the dynamics of human behavior in this realm.
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
Amazing how blinkered supposedly privacy conscious Europeans are when they willingly line up at the Facebook slaughterhouse.
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
They'll start server side rendering sites onto a canvas. I suspect that's what Stadia will be reborn as.
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
RCS allows higher resolution pictures than MMS.
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
The hardware will definitely be a problem. Optical heads have elastomeric parts that are unlikely to last a century. They have precision plastic components that may become brittle. All of the knowhow and specialist tools to make and service
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
They were never widely disseminated over a network. Office VBA exploits only lasted as a widespread threat until MS locked down macros by default. JS has been around much longer than that.
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
> overlapping circles and rectangles Just hull() two circles. It's a cheap operation in 2D.
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
Security tags are just a tool. Doesn't change that you are regarded as a thief when one isn't disabled after you've paid for your new property.
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
JS is a vector for browser exploits and privacy invasion. No other language is commonly used for these things.
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
If only we had a tool that could directly let us browse through this as human readable text.
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by kevin_thibedeau 12d ago
They did that in the end. In the decade leading up to the final solution they engaged in a lot of shenanigans that have already been replicated by maga.
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by kevin_thibedeau 12d ago
It's the Geocities design philosophy. Worked stupendously for lingscars.
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by kevin_thibedeau 13d ago
Sony supports the media industry in CA. It would be a shame if they moved their studios elsewhere...
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by kevin_thibedeau 13d ago
Originally there was uk.co.orgname.
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by kevin_thibedeau 13d ago
NoScript is a remedy for this. When a site is broken I whitelist a few domains likely to be necessary. After a few attempts I bounce. If I see a dozen plus domains I don't even bother. This cuts down on the volume of garbage sites I wa

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