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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Love the nub! Trackpoints are better when in a cramped situation such as air travel. No readjusting of elbows are required when switching between keyboard and trackpoint.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Medicine is interdisciplinary. Medicine requires engineering skills. Prosthetics? How about that metal plate holding a femur together? You think they buy that off the shelf at Wal-Mart? Engineering is without a doubt the worst counterexampl
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
That is the sort of attitude I would have expected to encounter from someone in the 1990s. This link is only two clicks away from the link that you provided. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/12/405331/ucs
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I already did in my second paragraph. But if you need the obvious answer: Outsourcing IT in an academic institution where ostensibly the operation of said infrastructure should be a valuable topic for research means that somebody isn't
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Well it's a university. Maybe the president should put in some effort? Outsourcing IT is one of those things that seriously diminishes the academic credibility of a educational institution. Outsourcing IT is something I would expect fr
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I have problems remembering a password if I don't use it for a month or two. After 16 months, I'd probably have no idea.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Chill out. Wagner is just the go to example for divorcing art and the artist. When I go to dilbert.com, I see a mixture of full blog entries, cartoons, and blog titles. I'm simply not entertained in his attempts at blogging. Adams has
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
If you go to dilbert.com the cartoon comes part and parcel with his blog. This dissuades me from visiting the site. I like Wagner too. But if I had to read an anti-Semitic pamphlet every time I listened to him, I wouldn't put him in my
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Sounds like the NSL is for an American citizen for whom they don't have sufficient evidence to obtain a warrant. Metadata.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I've stopped reading Dilbert let alone Twitter. Seeing him post pictures of himself acting in the role of sugar daddy to a petulant child-woman is well beyond my initial scope of interest in him. My interest was Dilbert. It was all abo
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
When I said maximum laziness, I tend to think of things in maximizing the expected value of my time. Crossing the border with $3-4k in electronics? Say there's a 5% chance they demand passwords & access. I don't want some nose
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Why would you cross any border with electronics with data on them? Especially if you went to 33C3? Especially in this climate? Why didn't you just SSH everything? You can easily resync your contacts/data on your phone after you
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Oh god. I know someone who made all of these mistakes by themselves in a certain week. And kept his job. He was pretty. I left and found out two months later from a friend he had managed to take down almost every single server in the place
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
There's another category. Those of us who manually did this already, are annoyed we didn't write down all the steps, but are glad to find this posted here.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
What he has done is quite difficult to do these days because of motherboard availability. In some cases an LGA1366 motherboard can cost more than original retail. It's insane. But the performance is great. But if you have an older firs
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I've told this story before, so here is the short version. I replaced $girl in a sysadmin/programming role that would get used by other employees. According to my supervisor, she was always far more productive than me. He'd a
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Remember the truck driver with a ~1.4 rating? She said she was a ~4.6 when she was young. That made me think that the technology had been around for awhile and that technology had stagnated.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I know it is a weird takeaway from that episode, but I found the ubiquitous social media tweaking while at work to be incredibly unprofessional and I wondered how that society could get anything accomplished... ever. And the whitewashed phy
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
We have here a bunch of people complaining who have been pushed down the social strata. Instead of not being able to afford their own car or request a luxury class taxi, they now have to exist in the lowest tier. They don't like that,
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
No idea. It's always the first couple files that seem to grow the data used by the app to it's monstrous size. After four or five PDFs it levels out. Another 2MB will only take a couple MB.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I upload Humbles to Google Play Books, not for primary reading but easy accessibility. I just wish that downloading a 2MB pdf from Google Books wouldn't take 450MB of local storage. I've also experienced issues with Humbles not up
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Hopefully Microsoft included this Edge dependent intrusive and unwanted advertising into this statistic. No?
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
One of those subtle improvements is honoring a Ctrl-L. I like to be able to clear the screen like that.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I use bookmark keywords to get access to a cluster or folder of bookmarks instead of mousing. Also not interested in making 9000 bookmarks to reproduce bang functionality: https://duckduckgo.com/bang Plus you still have to
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Hey!!! This works in PowerShell (non-ISE)!!!! Breaks my 112 column limit, despite a default setting of 200. Added this to the end my Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 in my $HOME\Documents\WindowsPowerShell directory. (run: "notepad $PR
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
"The IRS further justifies its request by claiming it is targeted toward a specific group of people; namely, US taxpayers who have conducted transactions with virtual currency." How about IRS makes requests to people who live in h
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
But you're using it as intended. I'd much rather type "!gi blah" or "!gn blah" than move my hands to the mouse/trackpad to click on the Google Images or News link.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Powershell users don't age gracefully, that's for sure. You'll learn some arcane long-winded way of doing something in v3 and it will be relaced with something far better. Unfortunately, you'll still have to know the old
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
There can be several aliases for a single command. ls=dir=gci="Get-ChildItem" But you can't run just run "dir /s". You'd have to say "Get-ChildItem -Recurse" which can be shortened to "dir -
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I use to dump video from a TV Tuner card into the linear frame buffer of the 3DFX Voodoo card. Instead of using the pass through cable I used two monitors. It was my first multi-monitor setup.

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