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by ryankask 2y ago
There was a recent book[1] by Cat Jarman called The River Kings that discusses the Vikings’ expansive trade with the east. It was decent and was quite popular after publication. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show&#
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by ryankask 5y ago
As an American living in the UK, it's interesting to see the disparity in almost all aspects of the treatment of lead. In the US, for example, there is an abundance of research and activism coupled with laws and a huge abatement/r
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by ryankask 9y ago
1password has changed recently. Are security experts recommending their newer cloud subscription service or the older version that stored the vault on Dropbox or another storage service (or both)?
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by ryankask 9y ago
Are you using 1Password's cloud sync or the older Dropbox/iCloud/other method? (Really curious about all 1Password users in this thread) I've read a lot of reviews but many predate 1Password's cloud option.
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by ryankask 10y ago
The author may be referring to libraries themselves having dependencies. These attitudes are changing. For example, last week the Django community published a draft proposal that declares that "Django can have dependencies". The &
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by ryankask 13y ago
I moved to the UK a few years ago and I couldn't agree more that the IRS rules and regulations unfairly penalize "average" US citizens that live and operate abroad. FBAR, FATCA and if you start a business, form 5471 and frien
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by ryankask 13y ago
A bit strange that it costs $28.91 on Amazon.com but £38.50 on Amazon.co.uk.
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by ryankask 14y ago
We used SmartOS (or its predecessor) for 3+ years. The experience was overall very positive and performance was great. Joyent's reliability is outstanding. Sure, some of our software was dated but everything worked. The bigger issue is Joye
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by ryankask 14y ago
You should check if your bank is in the Global ATM Alliance ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_ATM_Alliance ). If I withdraw money from a Barclays ATM in London (or Deutsche Bank in Berlin, etc) using my BofA ATM card, I don't seem to h
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by ryankask 14y ago
They are adding Linux publishing but according to this post ( http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/07/03/linux-publishing-preview... ), the editor won't be available for Linux. Still though, this means that Mono is being used with Unity on Linux.
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by ryankask 14y ago
Tent.is ( https://tent.is/ ) uses ^ https://tent.tent.is . You will soon be able to use your own domain names so ^ https://example.com will be possible.
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by ryankask 14y ago
I sent your article to my partner this morning and she tried to access it on her phone on the Virgin Mobile UK network. She couldn't access the article or your homepage. I just asked her to try again and it's being caught in their adult con
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by ryankask 14y ago
I just sent this link to my partner who is a Virgin Mobile customer. She couldn't open the page on her mobile browser. She said it said something like "Restricted by Virgin." Seems a bit strange. I will ask her to try again later. EDIT: Kev
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by ryankask 14y ago
Many of the Virgin Group's web properties have weak password requirements. Virgin Atlantic requires your password to be between 5-8 characters (including symbols) and Virgin Trains allows a maximum of 10 alphanumeric characters (no symbols)
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by ryankask 14y ago
I've been using django-model-utils for a while and really love it. I contributed the patch for PassThroughManager that adds the for_queryset_class. I agree that it's not pretty, but there's a bit of history that made it that way. There are