smhenderson

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by smhenderson 2mo ago
It's similar where I am - a bank and a realtor might say a home is worth .5M but the tax man still assesses it at around 115K. I bought my home over 20 years ago and it is worth much more than I paid on the market. Yet the value of the
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by smhenderson 3mo ago
That one feature may be fast but anyone who ever used Outlook with multiple shared mailboxes, mailboxes over a few years old, archiving to PST files, etc. will know that Outlook Classic could hardly have ever been considered fast. Although
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by smhenderson 1y ago
Why unsurprisingly?
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by smhenderson 2y ago
I know funny isn't really the goal for comments around here but man that made me laugh. So subtle and obvious at the same time and quite an appropriate response to the posed question! Complex indeed...
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by smhenderson 3y ago
I don't own stock in any of the companies mentioned in the article, although I do own tech stocks. And I'm not suggesting I have a relationship with any of them, parasocial or otherwise. I wasn't trying to suggest we treat th
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by smhenderson 3y ago
I absolutely agree and made the cardinal sin of conflating data privacy with the subject of the article, which is about anti-competitive behavior. But they are both huge issues for the companies we're discussing and I absolutely agree
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by smhenderson 3y ago
I don't know, it's not as if they have done nothing that benefits society, that we all use daily, forgetting how much of it would not be possible without the contributions and innovation from these companies. I am absolutely not s
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by smhenderson 3y ago
What's Twitter lol? I found it to be a cesspool before the name change and it's only gotten worse. I suppose I'm conflating "enjoyable" or "tolerable" with your description of "real" but everythi
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by smhenderson 3y ago
I, similar to the parent, have very few issues on either my computers or phones. I run Firefox on several different OS's and I just don't have the issues you mention. Do you have some examples of websites that really behave that d
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by smhenderson 3y ago
I too like it when people link to things to back up a statement. But the way he described the phenomenon made it seem pretty common, and indeed, a quick search for "patel cfo scam hotels" turns up a number of relevant results... S
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by smhenderson 3y ago
That whole "you're not paying"'thing is really a straw man at this point too. When Google was young and eager to be a good netizen I'd have agreed with that and said it was all part of helping to make the web better
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by smhenderson 3y ago
I agree with the decision and in principle absolutely agree with what you are saying about our laws. But you're oversimplifying the case here. They weren't complaining that the law was being published, they were complaining that t
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by smhenderson 4y ago
But the gpp wasn't talking about Windows help. He said documentation and Visual Studio; I presume he's talking about the MSDN CDROM that came with a VS installation. You could optionally access the docs from the CD or install it t
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by smhenderson 4y ago
It's hilarious. That's an odd take, I honestly don't find anything about this article, or the broader topic of privacy and overreach by companies and law enforcement, amusing in any way.
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by smhenderson 4y ago
Yes, that's correct, it's only about searching the right directories to find and execute the program you asked for. But autocomplete after sudo doesn't work for me on a stock Debian install anyway, not sure what one needs to
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by smhenderson 4y ago
There's a "secure path" option in sudoers that you can use to add additional directories to the path that is searched when sudo is invoked. Most examples will include the standard user path plus /sbin and /usr/
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by smhenderson 4y ago
but recent IT strategies are highly questionable in this regard. I think it of as a result of high profile hacks. Either a company is hacked once and they go way overboard trying to ensure it doesn't happen again. Or, some high profi
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by smhenderson 4y ago
Did you know people often use Jack as a shorthand for John? JFK was often, famously, referred to as Jack Kennedy when he was alive...
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by smhenderson 4y ago
They allow the creation of accounts without verifying the email, then refuse to admit it's their problem and do something about it. This is my biggest issue with what you're talking about. I get annoyed at the clueless users wh
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by smhenderson 4y ago
All of the above but on the other hand be careful and stingy with what you post on social media about these experiences.
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by smhenderson 4y ago
I have refuted them. Incorrectly though, the article was not wrong, your interpretation is.
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by smhenderson 4y ago
But the author did mention that, albeit not with the level of detail you do... (X resources can sort of be used to provide different options for different invocations of the same program, but how to do it isn't necessarily obvious, it
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by smhenderson 4y ago
I guess in their case they had so much already written code to work with BIOS calls it was worth adding the shim layer. But if you were to start tomorrow with no legacy code then it would be more trouble than it's worth.
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by smhenderson 5y ago
I seem to remember Windows 95 and the quest for "plug 'n play" being what pushed the PCI standard into wide spread use. Basically the first standard that didn't require all the tedious mucking about with IRQ's, DMA
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by smhenderson 5y ago
Anyone know what impact these two items from the article would have on western companies? allowing Russian airlines to register jets leased from Western firms as their own property In response, a government commission on Wednesday approv
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by smhenderson 5y ago
The whole article is a bit tongue-in-cheek, with it's references to "terrifying" even though it also says they're harmless. And the end, where he says to build a dome over GA now before it's too late, etc. I laughed
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by smhenderson 5y ago
Without having looked into any details I assume the parent is saying that the integer passed by value is a flag that is checked periodically and used to trigger a next step or to release a lock. If it's passed by value it will never ch
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by smhenderson 5y ago
Duh, thank you, that is completely obvious and why I didn't get that reading it is beyond me!
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by smhenderson 5y ago
In Europe belts are mandatory I'm having a hard time understanding this one... Are you literally saying that belts that hold people's pants up are mandatory?
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by smhenderson 5y ago
Ancient Greece had the ballista as early as 400 BC so this also wouldn't have seemed that magic or mysterious to them as well.

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