mattdotc

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by mattdotc 2y ago
Point taken. I'd still maintain that the stock buybacks are egregious and need to stop.
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by mattdotc 2y ago
Not sure where your 6% figure comes from, but you can easily find the 2023 Annual Report which states the following: > Adjusted operating profit margin (adjusted operating profit expressed as a percentage of revenues) increased to 16.1%
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by mattdotc 2y ago
Watch for public statements from the union. A striking unit will generally inform the general public if they are looking for any show of support. No need to assume that a boycott is desired!
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by mattdotc 3y ago
unhoused people were never prospective clients of the real estate industry, but of course this is irrelevant when you can just twist and contort someone else's argument to make it easier to dismiss. your arrogance is surpassed only by
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by mattdotc 6y ago
You were complaining about being inaccurately quoted in press releases . Press releases are written by comms dept within a business, so if you have a complaint with how they're written, that's something to take up with your inter
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by mattdotc 6y ago
Corporate communications is not journalism, so what's your point?
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by mattdotc 7y ago
>Those who don’t have paid subscriptions probably aren’t that interested in music in the first place. Or we run our own media streaming setup rather than pay Spotify $10/month. Spotify gives the illusion of supporting artists but t
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by mattdotc 9y ago
I've been thinking about replacing the hard drive and battery in mine for the past few years. The wheel-based iPods really did have the best UI for music in any device I've ever owned. If you're familiar with it, you can navi
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by mattdotc 9y ago
TimesOpen is an engineer-driven blog. Its previous incarnation was self-hosted on a WordPress stack (separate from our main CMS), but for various reasons it was decided to re-platform. There were many discussions before settling on Medium a
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Gamestop.com Investigating Possible Breach(krebsonsecurity.com)
2 points by mattdotc 9y ago|0 comments
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by mattdotc 9y ago
I understand and agree with your stance on the sense of entitlement that some people have regarding software purchases, but I feel like you might have missed one of the finer points being made here. My response somewhat assumes that you eit
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by mattdotc 10y ago
Total shot in the dark, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they licensed usage of the API to "Authorized Board Partners" for an extra fee.
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by mattdotc 10y ago
This is really cool. Thanks for writing it up. I have also felt for while that the tools are terribly designed/clunky. Maybe one day, hardware manufacturers will drop the cliche 'gamer aesthetic'... maybe...
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by mattdotc 10y ago
As I understand it, the plugin system is poorly documented, and it seemed like most of the popular ones were being maintained by one guy: https://github.com/josh4trunks/freenas-plugins
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by mattdotc 10y ago
Before rushing to upgrade, take note that they are abandoning the plugin system for, what I believe is, a docker-based approach for services. Don't quote me on that second part, but I'm fairly certain you will need to reconfigure
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by mattdotc 10y ago
FWIW, I replaced my WiFi/Bluetooth adapter immediately upon receiving my 9343. I had been following the XPS13 developer edition forums for a while, and the adapter that shipped with most XPS13 had a Broadcom chipset with bad Linux sup
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by mattdotc 10y ago
Here's the caves.jpg fixed: http://imgur.com/a/WBqiL
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by mattdotc 10y ago
>One perfect layer That's the problem.
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by mattdotc 10y ago
My only regret about getting into his channel is that now I have seen all of his videos and I have to wait 7 days for each new one. His channel is great for more than just its content; it's also inspirational. My father has been a hob
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by mattdotc 10y ago
I was running a 2500K until this past July. Upgraded to Broadwell-E for the same reasons you mentioned (even though it was also regarded a flop). I'm using the "Samsung 950 PRO Series - 512GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD" a
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by mattdotc 10y ago
Here's some examples of dithering being used in order to do effects like gradients and pseudo-transparency: http://retro-sanctuary.com/comparisons%20-%20differing.html
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by mattdotc 10y ago
I'm deep into this hobby and I can tell you that the AVS is one of the better solutions for the average person looking to play NES games. There are various mods you can do to original hardware for use on modern displays, but they can
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by mattdotc 10y ago
Surely you aren't suggesting that New Yorkers should forage in Central Park...it's a public space, not your privately-owned backyard.
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by mattdotc 10y ago
>How did it get on the authorities' radar? Same way you know about it, I guess. An open secret really isn't a secret.
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by mattdotc 10y ago
It's true; the members of sites like what and waffles were dedicated to quality. People would go to great lengths to ensure quality was upheld: from keeping detailed logs of the ripping and transcoding processes, to generate spectrogr
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by mattdotc 10y ago
Fruit Ninja is a blast. Even my father (non-gamer) had a blast with it and picked it up right away.
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by mattdotc 10y ago
I guess you aren't familiar with KeePass. If your KeePass database is pwnd, that means your box has been pwnd since the database is stored locally and not any cloud provider (unless YOU put it there). This means you have much bigger
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by mattdotc 10y ago
You'll get over that little hurdle once you realize that you can dump the anxiety of remembering a hundred password variants for different sites. And realistically speaking, you're probably not even using a hundred variants...or
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by mattdotc 10y ago
If you're using a password manager, that's a non-issue. And until we have something better than passwords, you really should be using one.
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by mattdotc 10y ago
I own DK1, DK2, Vive and tried Rift CV1 at a Best Buy. Was not impressed by the tracking on the Rift CV1. Perhaps it was the demo or demo environment, but it didn't feel as smooth. It definitely 'cut out' a few times, albe

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