petitmiam

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by petitmiam 6y ago
> The biggest issue for is that WSL2 is painfully slow accessing the local Windows file system. This killed me after switching from WSL1 to WSL2. I missed the part in the notes where it said you should no longer store your files outside
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by petitmiam 6y ago
Reader mode appears to only show the first half of the article. Hardly ideal, but there is a pdf version of the full thing: https://www.researchaffiliates.com/content/dam/ra/documents/...
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by petitmiam 8y ago
Same thing happened to me. When i contacted them about it, they claimed the emails were spam and not from them (despite the emails clearly mentioning contacts I had connected with!). After numerous emails back and forth they eventually adde
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High Court allows man to sue Google for defamation over images linked to crime(abc.net.au)
2 points by petitmiam 8y ago|0 comments
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by petitmiam 9y ago
The price seems to have gone up considerably in the last 5 years. We used to eat kangaroo steaks and burgers regularly, but now we only consider it if it's on sale.
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by petitmiam 10y ago
> There is NO EXCUSE for using POLi vs. just paying with your bank POLi is instant. Bank transfer is anywhere from 1 - 3 days. Until banks finally implement instant transfers, POLi will still be useful to some.
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by petitmiam 11y ago
Pokemon Go won't be out for Christmas 2015. The release date just seems to be "2016" at this point.
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by petitmiam 11y ago
Arthur C. Clarke's 'The Hammer of God'
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by petitmiam 11y ago
An icon should be present on your Win7/8 task bar which lets you reserve a copy. It does seem to be a gradual rollout though, as mine still tells me it's not available yet. It's probably quicker to download directly via The W
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by petitmiam 11y ago
The updated help pages only mention the scenario of a worker dyno running along a web dyno. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-types#dyno-sleepi... It's unclear what happens to apps which just have a singl
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VAC reads all domains you have visited and sends it back to their servers hashed(reddit.com)
5 points by petitmiam 13y ago|0 comments
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by petitmiam 13y ago
Valve have at least been thinking about that problem for awhile. Back in 2011 they were planning for CS:GO to have cross-platform play between Xbox, PS3 and PC. However, the idea got ditched in 2012.
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by petitmiam 13y ago
>"In all cases the customer had said that the problem must be with our game because only our game was hitting these mysterious slowdowns." This probably threw them off.
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by petitmiam 13y ago
Thanks for the tip. I added a security plugin last week. Since then, I've received one or two lockout emails per day. This morning I had 25.
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by petitmiam 13y ago
The pdf in your link has a section titled "Further Acknowledgments for the Second Edition", so I think it's safe to assume it's v2.
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by petitmiam 14y ago
It's irritatingly slow starting up for me. Once it's going though, it's rock solid and fast enough.
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by petitmiam 14y ago
Not sure about in the US, but here (Australia) you are only allowed to carry 1 lighter per person.
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by petitmiam 14y ago
I remember this same type of question coming up before Windows XP came out. I wonder if it'd be something similar to this: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-...
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by petitmiam 14y ago
They explain a little more in their blog: https://mega.co.nz/#blog_1
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by petitmiam 14y ago
> "That said, Mega's also claims that their service saves room on its over-burdened servers by keeping a single copy of identical files How do they do that if they don't know their users' password? Good question. We don't know the answe
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by petitmiam 14y ago
I first thought of Dr Philip Nitschke's 'Euthanasia Kit' when I read the headline. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Nitschke#Exit_bag_and_Co...
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by petitmiam 14y ago
I've seen a 5m or so length blimp used at a sporting event as half-time entertainment. It did make me wonder if there could be other uses for it.
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by petitmiam 14y ago
> that, however, also makes the whole issue moot since the images are so small to be of little/no use in any commercial sense. 612x612 images as ads on instagram would make a whole lot of commercial sense.
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by petitmiam 14y ago
For me, the vertical scrollbar in my browser is a visual cue that I have the ability to scroll using the scroll-wheel. If the news page hadn't explained that using the scroll-wheel will scroll the page horizontally, I wouldn't have known to
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by petitmiam 14y ago
Try again.
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by petitmiam 14y ago
Looks like a really nice jQuery alternative from yui3 calendar ( http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/calendar/ )
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by petitmiam 14y ago
Jill Of The Jungle
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by petitmiam 14y ago
Your comment caught my eye, because I usually hear population density being used to explain why Australia's internet isn't as good as elsewhere. I'm certainly no expert on the topic, but I haven't heard any news about any major problems wit
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by petitmiam 14y ago
Oddjob was banned pretty early on in my family.
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by petitmiam 14y ago
but he created trendax - the money making machine. I just assumed he had a never ending money supply after that.

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