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by romdev 9y ago
I've been experimenting with this chart that claims good results in reversing presbyopia: http://www.robert-silverman.net/presbeninst.htm I've only tried it a few times, but there were temporary noticeable result
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by romdev 9y ago
A family member spends $450 US per month on Lyrica/pregabalin. I wonder if this patent decision could result in a rebate for individual patients.
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by romdev 9y ago
For years I've been using paper and pen to explain waveforms, noise cancellation, and the psycho-acoustic model to a few of my musician friends. Every time their eyes have glazed over, and I've thought "there's gotta be
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by romdev 9y ago
Neat thing about gallium - it has a room temperature melting point. Learned this from a book I recommend: https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/The-Disappearing-Spo...
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by romdev 9y ago
Here's a related article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211... ...and a few other interesting ones from my link archive Brain map http://www.extremetech.com/ext
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by romdev 9y ago
The wording reminds me of this whimsical story that I read several years ago (before Tesla motors), about the electric car that he powered with vacuum tubes and an antenna: http://keelynet.com/energy/teslcar.htm Come t
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by romdev 9y ago
Please consider the prevalence of high resolution cameras when using paper or even a clear-text document for password storage. A page from your list could be exposed to a security camera, compromised IoT device, or the sneaky person behind
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by romdev 9y ago
Most sites require a email address to create an account, leaving a larger footprint for forensics. The sites I work on require much more personal data that is validated against other systems to confirm identity. Out-of-session page requests
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by romdev 9y ago
EPILEPSY WARNING: this page flashes rapidly with multiple colors. This comment is unlikely to protect anyone, but hopefully raises awareness that fast-blinking text has been known to induce seizures: https://www.cbsnews.com/
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by romdev 9y ago
Many web mail clients (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.) don't render images by default, and you opt to download each email's images with a button. HTML mail renders without images pretty cleanly if the alt text is included. IMO, this should
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by romdev 9y ago
Here's one reason we don't show password requirements on public pages: If a bad guy has to experiment to find the list of available characters and lengths of a password, it's easier to for us good guys to track that behavior.
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by romdev 9y ago
From experience, Oregon law for yellow lights says you must stop if it's safe to do so. The duration of the yellow light is not relevant to your argument if you get a ticket.
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by romdev 9y ago
Thanks to all for the informative TODO list options. Getting back to the intent of the question... Over the course of my career in financial software development I've participated in several large production events where an upgraded or
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by romdev 9y ago
That's barbaric! But I guess it's understandable. Credit card companies and ISPs charge your landlord for providing their services, so he passes on the convenience costs to you rather than the people who have more time than money
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by romdev 9y ago
No coding. I'm just one of the lucky people who has almost all forward-thinking billers who support auto-pay with a credit card. There's one exception that only allows using a bank account for auto-pay, so I pay that manually thro
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by romdev 9y ago
Put a quarter on top of a frozen cup of water in your freezer. If it's still there when you get back, you haven't lost power for a long enough time for your frozen food to thaw. If it sank to the bottom of the cup, toss out all th
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by romdev 9y ago
Automated almost all my bill payments to use my rewards card. I set up alerts on my online banking site so I get texted when each one clears. Saves me a couple hours of grumpy time each month, plus I get a substantial 1% cash back that ends
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by romdev 9y ago
Downloads └─Filename preserved, ordered by date or grouped in arbitrary functional folders Drivers ├─Video ├─Sound └─MB Music └─Primary Artist └─YYYY.AlbumName (Keeps albums in date order) └─AlbumName Track# Title.mp3 (truncates se
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by romdev 9y ago
Misleading title. They were, according to the article, employees of an Apple “domestic direct sales company and outsourcing company”.
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by romdev 9y ago
Telemate BBS client was a great example of a windowed TUI in the style of DESQView. You could have a chat window, a DOS terminal and an ANSI terminal all open at the same time. Overlayed dialog boxes were framed, resizable and movable withi
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by romdev 9y ago
The OWASP Top Ten is a great list of vulnerabilities that we test for in the Financial Services industry before releasing new code: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Proje...