ostensible

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by ostensible 11mo ago
I agree. Microcenter seems to sell a lot of flashy shiny garbage and not enough or at all of what matters — like cables or adapters. It’s more a best buy than fry’s electronics. We had a recently opened one here in the Bay Area — I went the
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by ostensible 1y ago
`man csrutil`
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by ostensible 1y ago
Bank of America provides 5.25% percent cash back on each category. Get one for every category. Done. (You need to enroll to preferred rewards for that). 3% is not worth to be bothered about, nor should anyone support robinhood in the first
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by ostensible 1y ago
You either play that game or subside others who do, regardless of of whether you like it or not — you are still participating. Prices are already higher for everyone.
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by ostensible 1y ago
iCloud’s HideMyEmail service generates @icloud.com addresses. Very easy, single click. Nevertheless, I still use my personal name at lastname dot com for everything for decades and amount of spam is quite tolerable. Rarely it leaks into inb
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by ostensible 1y ago
Well, there is now some truth to it. For example, low quality HDMI cable will may be only good enough for low bandwidth, that would limit refresh rate, and/or color fidelity (e.g. chroma subsampling) and/or resolution. So yea, “di
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by ostensible 2y ago
I completely agree. Only write if you have something to say. World does not need more pointless drivel, like the linked post.
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by ostensible 2y ago
This being raspberry pi absolves you from needing to buy a separate hardware noise generator: it has plenty of GPIO. For example, one can obtain entropy by sampling random noise generated by reverse-biasing a junction in a cheap pn transist
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by ostensible 3y ago
Eh, ads can be blocked. 5% cash back on travel alone on the other hand makes it continue to be a no-brainer. (And Whole Foods if you shop there). Everyone understands that you still pay for free shipping. That’s not the point though. If you
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by ostensible 3y ago
I have switched to using xargs to parallelize things: it has a benefit of being part of posix, and is not annoying about citations like parallel.
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by ostensible 3y ago
This is what pays their bills. Major source of income for Mozilla is Google paying to be default search engine
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by ostensible 3y ago
Do you have a better solution? You can complain on the forums about how unfair life is, how incompetent companies are, fight every provider to prove your reputation until cows come home,… Or you can pay someone to handle that for you. It’s
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by ostensible 3y ago
Why not avoid fighting these windmills by using any of the existing commercial mail relays for sending — like SES or mailchimp?