timemct

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by timemct 3mo ago
You're not accounting for all of the government contracts that US taxpayers fund.
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by timemct 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure that's been a shortcut well before W11, W7 iirc.
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by timemct 11mo ago
You've probably been asked about it, but it's often phrased differently than simply asking where to install the app. "Would you like to install theAppInQuestion for all users of this computer (install in /Applications) o
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by timemct 11mo ago
'They' is also used when gender is unknown and has been for a long, long time. Person_1: I found this great blogger whose writing I think you'd love. Person_2: Oh, really?! What do they write about?
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by timemct 1y ago
>Our school converted a computer lab to a programming lab. Computers in the lab have editors/compilers/interpreters, and whitelist documentation, plus an internal server for grading and submission. No internet access otherwise.
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by timemct 2y ago
The term, “unreliable narrator,” comes to mind.
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by timemct 2y ago
Save for at least one current sitting Justice: Amy Coney Barrett. They only had ~3 years of experience being a judge, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (2017–2020), before being nominated to the Supreme Court. Yes, they have experience in ot
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by timemct 2y ago
Even if you love what you do at your day job... The cobbler's kids go without shoes, and the chef's fridge is full of condiments & takeout boxes.
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by timemct 2y ago
It sounds like it might've helped prevent even more infections. Stopping a bad practices doesn't change the past, but it can help influence the future.
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by timemct 2y ago
The air compressor trick works great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6SsqBcpXZU
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by timemct 3y ago
Problems with both education systems can exist at the same time. As a society, we can try to address the issues with both home schooling and the public education system, not just one or the other.
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by timemct 3y ago
Some d/w sensors will even have dry contacts specifically meant for wiring in whatever open/close type thing you'd like to use, like a pressure pad.
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by timemct 3y ago
My memory of that specific detail is a bit fuzzy, however I’m pretty sure it was a staff pick. That or via the fantastic similar artists feature at the bottom of an artist’s page, the star/spoke map that was user generated/voted:
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by timemct 3y ago
If you are the same Solar Fields I’m thinking about, I’m pretty sure I discovered your/their music, specifically the album Until We Meet The Sky, via what.cd. Cheers!
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by timemct 3y ago
Especially when you think about what electronics are made of: things mined from the earth. They made rocks compute for us!
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by timemct 3y ago
I think that's been the practice for sometime now; we had to do the same thing at Puerto Vallarta's airport a few years back.
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by timemct 3y ago
I’ve often thought that when a company, especially one as big as Alphabet/Google, gets fined, it’s simply seen as an operating cost and not as a motivator to do better.
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by timemct 4y ago
> There's an entire cottage industry built around people etching their seed phrases on steel plates for people to (I'm not kidding) bury them like they're gold in the 1800s. "I write these words in steel, for anything
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by timemct 4y ago
Nobara Project[1] helps with this. It is somewhat gaming-on-linux focused, but for some, like myself, that's a win. I use it on both my desktop (Intel CPU, AMD GPU) and my Thinkpad T480: works great on both. [1] https://noba
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by timemct 4y ago
Whenever I read something about leaving messages for future peoples, my mind drifts back to this Mistborn quote, "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."
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by timemct 4y ago
One of the troubles with this argument is that it fundamentally assumes that people who live in cities don't care about people who live in rural areas. People are capable of having empathy and understanding of people who are not like t
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by timemct 4y ago
Decentralytes is perfect, thank you.
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by timemct 5y ago
Yes, there is a listen with only one headphone feature.
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by timemct 5y ago
Years 2003(ish) to 2008(ish).
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by timemct 5y ago
KZ, too.
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by timemct 5y ago
I know it's a little petty, however not being able to move the taskbar has zeroed out any interest I had in using Windows 11. I'm a huge fan of moving the taskbar/dock to the left vertical side of the screen, especially so on
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by timemct 5y ago
I assume the third is for an Apple Watch.
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by timemct 5y ago
To add a data point to this, I'm happily married to someone I met on Tinder. Without the two of us using dating apps, there's a near zero chance that we would've met.
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by timemct 6y ago
That's pretty much what it was like when I was with their AppleCare group. During the hiring process, I was fully expecting a drug test (that never came).
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by timemct 6y ago
It looks like they come with a USB-C to Lightning cable, so one can assume that the headphones have a Lightning port on 'em for charging.

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