shadowflit

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by shadowflit 2y ago
I’ve had both. I find the Disney+ app to be one of the better ones (on an Apple TV). Paramount wasn’t even in the same league.
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by shadowflit 3y ago
For reference, my PG&E bill splits out transmission/delivery and generation very conveniently, since SF provides its own power generation utility service. It appears to be closer to 60/40. At PG&E generation rates (a littl
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by shadowflit 7y ago
Not case sensitive, huh? How about not even distinguishing between letters and numbers? When I called a prominent bank* recently, I was asked to enter my password via the phone. As in, the digit-equivalent of my password. At least I final
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by shadowflit 10y ago
17" screen + powerful GPU doesn't leave too many sleek options a la macbook. But if you look towards gaming laptops you'll find plentiful options. Ubuntu might be a little more difficult, depends on driver support I suppose.
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by shadowflit 12y ago
Also, while this store sounds like a great place and one that I would visit... this article is the first time I have seen the name. I live in SF, I could have been going here, and yet I did not know it existed (and close enough that I could
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by shadowflit 13y ago
I just moved to CA for the last election, and I voted for her. This was after already sending her mail saying she was doing a bad job. But as much as I didn't want to vote for her, the opponent did not look like a "moderate Republ
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by shadowflit 13y ago
Some thoughts from my typical meetings... Almost all of the presentations I have seen at work have been shared with people on the phone as well (using terrible sharing tech, I might add). I agree with other posters that having an offline ba
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by shadowflit 13y ago
Out of curiosity, does the QR app you used load webpages within the app? Mine (RL Classic) asked me if I wanted to open the webpage and launched Safari.
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Company bets on airport of the future: passing security with an iris scan(arstechnica.com)
1 points by shadowflit 14y ago|0 comments
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by shadowflit 14y ago
If you have two factor authentication but leave yourself signed in, a password alone will not get an intruder into your account, but a cookie will.
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by shadowflit 15y ago
As an outsider looking in, it seems like the whole prefix thing is approaching the problem from the wrong direction. Why do we have prefixes at all? Well, because developers want to start using new features before they've been fully standar
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by shadowflit 15y ago
> We do have some games like that: Civilization and SimCity, both games that teach the critical skill of resource management The Settlers takes that a step further and emphasizes supply chain management, production bottlenecks, etc (and
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by shadowflit 15y ago
I'm not sure what dividing by population is trying to prove. Using very fuzzy numbers, there's almost 100m (or about 30%) people not eligible to vote in those population numbers.
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by shadowflit 15y ago
Just to clarify, since it took your second comment to get me to this understanding - Someone who was not the real owner of the apartment (presumably thief/criminal) put the place up on AirBnB. You unknowingly rented the place from this pers
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by shadowflit 15y ago
So of course I agree that spam results are the heart of evil. But I'm confused. After reading the DDG comment, I plugged both "VLC" and "VLC Media Player" into both google and DDG, expecting to see bad results at google. Instead, the top 4
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by shadowflit 15y ago
CCP statement: http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=4616&... I admit, I was at work for the entire downtime so it didn't bother me, but I am pleased with their response to the situation. Hitting the big red button may be
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by shadowflit 16y ago
> I'd also like special people's names to be highlighted such as the OP's and admin's. I like this. I sometimes find myself searching a page with the OP's name to check for responses. As for the rest though... I kind of like the "anonym
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by shadowflit 16y ago
Wow. I missed a Delta flight in SF (that while I'll blame the PA system for anyone who listens, was entirely my own fault), and I ended up first on the standby list. I always got the impression agents put people who miss their flights prett
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by shadowflit 16y ago
I believe that's the point. These companies did not anticipate the direction they would be dragged by technological progress, and other companies have filled the void. I'd really only say Amazon is a valid example for books though, as other
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by shadowflit 16y ago
While I don't disagree, I had to reopen the link to figure out what you were talking about. The even bigger banner and traffic cone logo drew my attention away from the top of the page such that I never noticed the self-promotion up there.
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by shadowflit 16y ago
Also - I only noticed that there was mouseover effect while I was mousing from the middle of the page to the back button. My mouse started in the middle of the page, I scrolled, read some text, and moused over to leave - at which point I di
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by shadowflit 16y ago
Sure, why not. > Email is different from social networking because in an email application, each person maintains and owns their own address book, whereas in a social network your friends maintain their information and you just maintain
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by shadowflit 16y ago
>> Even more practically, the GPS could use the timing information to slip in spoken directions at less distracting moments, like a human companion might. I really like that idea. Of course, the GPS tends to be a bit of a nag, so it
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by shadowflit 16y ago
As far as I could tell, you "donate" $5 dollars a month to Kachingle, and they distribute this donation (after taking their cut) according to the sites you visit. It seems as if they are trying to "stop the paywall" by demonstrating an alte
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by shadowflit 16y ago
Sure, but I'm saying I want money. And given that I want money, a teaching position is a worse proposition for me than an engineering position (whether due to the annoyance of finding a high-paying summer job every year, running a second jo
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by shadowflit 16y ago
> So teachers total comp is $60k per 9 months, just starting out (equivalent to $80k/year). On one hand, I understand this statement - afterall, you're getting those summer vacation months. On the other hand though... if I'm used to a s
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by shadowflit 16y ago
It is sadly quite possible to get things through the xray machine... all it takes is forgetfulness on your part when packing carry-on, and inattentiveness on the part of the operator. Now, I didn't count on it happening a second time on the
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by shadowflit 16y ago
Agree there! When the like button started spawning everywhere, I consulted the internal annoy-o-meter and determined that the best solution would be to block the button.
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by shadowflit 16y ago
"But you can let off your gas and not hit the break. Hitting the break is an instantaneous warning signal to people behind you, causing something of a reflex for them to also hit the brake." ...As long as you're careful about doing this, of
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by shadowflit 16y ago
"But a revision to comScore’s methodology sent Hulu’s viewership numbers plummeting, to 24 million in June from 43.5 million in May" Is that a revision to methodology, or just an expected drop in users during the lull between seasons? I kno

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