orpheline

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by orpheline 7y ago
To state that some relief agencies are - I'd say success-driven rather than profit-driven - is not an attack on the people in direct contact with, and assisting, victims. There is an unavoidable gap between volunteers at the forefront
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by orpheline 7y ago
He's not bringing the whole layout, but the skyscrapers are pretty big; having a dedicated room for the models plus tools (including glue and paint, both of which are fragrant) would make it a lot easier.
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by orpheline 7y ago
His layout was featured in Model Railroader back in 2007: http://mrr.trains.com/magazine/press-releases/2007/10/rod-st...
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by orpheline 7y ago
Yep! I like that the mouse is always in exactly the same place on my desk (s), so muscle memory always lands on it (especially useful in my home office, because the keyboard tray doesn't have much room to move a traditional mouse. My
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by orpheline 7y ago
My personal favorite is an Elecom left-handed model: ELECOM M-XT4DRBK Wireless Trackball mouse for Left-Handed, EX-G series L size 2.4GHz 6 buttons Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016QCPRBM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_0j
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by orpheline 7y ago
Reading the article wasn't disturbing? FWIW I assumed from the title that he hadn't killed himself; if he had, the title certainly would have stated it.
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by orpheline 7y ago
> Ok, you drilled open a smart lock. Is the drill able to be positioned in such a manner when the lock is installed on a door? He drilled it from the front; the face is off in the picture where he's opening the latch with the screwd
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by orpheline 7y ago
Yeah - weird they haven't updated https://centos.org/ with the release announcement yet...
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by orpheline 7y ago
I use a MBP at work and an XPS 13 at home and much prefer the latter - Ubuntu with a Plasma desktop makes for a crazy configurable UI.
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by orpheline 7y ago
Interesting. I use a MBP for work, and hate that Finder intermixes directories and files. I much prefer having directories sorted separately: it makes it easier to drill down through a hierarchy of all the directories are grouped togeth
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by orpheline 7y ago
Many thanks!
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by orpheline 7y ago
I'm both surprised and skeptical. It makes me wonder whether there's a larger story, now lost... Perhaps the archetypal occurrence was someone famously humorless, and their outburst was forever burned into the minds of those pre
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by orpheline 7y ago
I know the rest of these, but Buddies is a new one; to whom does it refer?
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by orpheline 7y ago
Tangential question I don't think anyone here can answer: what did the Times mean by 'put her intelligence background to work'? Does that mean her training suggested a possible thing she should check? Or does it mean she som
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by orpheline 7y ago
Punic refers to the people. Carthage was the name of their city, so they're also referred to as Carthaginians (see also: New Yorkers, Londoners, Dubliners, Parisians, etc.).
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by orpheline 7y ago
Seconded. Even before I knew dang was a moderator I'd been impressed by dang's ability to pour oil on troubled water... Thanks to both of you for a job thoughtfully done, and done well.
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by orpheline 7y ago
The demo was a modified cable, but the article said Hak5 was interested in manufacturing them.
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by orpheline 7y ago
I blame Disney for an unrealistic princess fantasy.
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by orpheline 7y ago
I was just having a similar thought, alright the logistics of making that happen are helacious. Not least of which: how does one make a platform with global dominance into a national public utility? How does one split it or manage it when i
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by orpheline 7y ago
An implicit acceptance and endorsement for the messages of hate and violence? I personally doubt violent video games turn people into murderers; I suspect they do desensitize people to violence, and normalize violence. That's the pr
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by orpheline 7y ago
My concern: the person expressing 'calming, positive comments' gets doxed and/or SWAT'ed for their efforts. I agree in principle with what your suggesting, but at this point those boards are echo chambers, not spaces for
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by orpheline 7y ago
It's not Internet service that's essential: it's phone service - the ability to make emergency phone calls.
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by orpheline 7y ago
I don't find it so. I do both Perl and Python at work: the Perl code is almost always clearer to read IMHO. I know some people find curly brackets and sigils distracting, but to me they make code less ambiguous.
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by orpheline 7y ago
Medieval Christian cemeteries often overfilled, especially if the cemetery was thought especially holy. Demand was so high in some places graves were regularly reused: the bones were exhumed and stacked wherever they would fit. For a spect
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by orpheline 7y ago
I saw it too - amazing to see a steam locomotive that size moving under its'own power!
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by orpheline 7y ago
For anyone interested, the Union Pacific produced a high-quality for about the Big Boy's called 'Last of the Giants'. There are several cuts and copies of this on YouTube: the link below is an edit from the 1990's includ
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by orpheline 7y ago
More like, going again - the Big Boys were taken out of service in the late 1950's, early 1960's. This one was sitting in a train museum in California for 50 years before the Union Pacific got it back; they them spent several year
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by orpheline 7y ago
Thanks - you made my night
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by orpheline 7y ago
That's basically what we did. The problem here was that processing was split into eight or so steps across ~25 streams of work between the backup steps and was far enough along the output files were generated, revving their generation
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by orpheline 7y ago
My first gig out of college was maintaining Cobol at a bank for two years. Some of the programs were 20+ years old, and we made changes monthly - it always seemed like a fantastic rate of churn. If something went wrong during a deployment,

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