vinylkey

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by vinylkey 5y ago
For anyone interested, this is a pretty interesting read about Ketchup and Heinz: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-ketchup-co...
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by vinylkey 6y ago
To be fair, he also had to work with a Republican Senate to get pass any laws.
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by vinylkey 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_405_(California)#%2... There's some other precedent for the word Carmageddon other than an old game that a lot people haven't heard of.
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by vinylkey 7y ago
They've been pivoting the Firefox name to encompass many privacy-minded tools for a while now. I would argue that a Firefox VPN strengthens that branding. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ > Meet our
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by vinylkey 7y ago
How is this brand dilution?
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by vinylkey 7y ago
What's a good word for "obtaining digital content without paying for the right to possess said digital content"?
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by vinylkey 7y ago
I'm sure some people do. I prefer to pay for things though.
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by vinylkey 7y ago
> Don't use any javascript frontends. I'm struggling to find the connection between a Javascript front end and content that has (to quote the article posted) "the voice of individuals"
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by vinylkey 7y ago
Hopefully this leads to the state getting good deal in the inevitable public takeover.
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by vinylkey 7y ago
> You're taking it on trust that it's anonymized to the point of being impossible to make any inferences about individuals, which is a huge leap, not only in trust, but data science. I don't doubt that someone at Mozilla
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by vinylkey 7y ago
What's your favorite thing about space? (Mine is space)
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by vinylkey 7y ago
Is it any safer than pasting your auth tokens into a standalone application like Postman? That can just as easily send that information somewhere else, but now you can't press F12, get a network tab, and look at outgoing requests.
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by vinylkey 7y ago
> but on the other hand, differences in "identical circuits" are often plainly audible. I wonder how much of that is component tolerances. If you have two identical circuits with +-1% in resistors and +-5% in caps, how differen
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by vinylkey 7y ago
Seems difficult to do. You'd need to know the name and address of the voter, and be sure that that haven't voted yet, and won't try to vote after you. I can see that happening maybe a few times, but it seems ineffective on a
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by vinylkey 7y ago
- As recommended by another post, The Art of Electronics is great - Make stuff! Adafruit has some great kits and project instructions. Find something that looks interesting and make it.
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by vinylkey 7y ago
I really like a lot of functional programming techniques in JS, but the Left/Right style of error handling just always seems messy and unreadable to me.
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by vinylkey 8y ago
I'm a pretty non-picky eater, but I feel like I can usually empathize with other people's picky eating habits. Not drinking water however, is something that I just can't wrap my mind around.
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by vinylkey 8y ago
I highly recommend eating at Wursthall in San Mateo. It's J. Kenji López-Alt's (from Serious Eats, author of The Food Lab) restaurant.
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by vinylkey 8y ago
I don't think licensure is part of the definition of "engineer"
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by vinylkey 8y ago
I'd rather just have a proper headphone jack.
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by vinylkey 8y ago
Can I ask where you bought it from? I've been trying to find a new one and haven't been having any luck other than eBay
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by vinylkey 8y ago
Their choices in hardware make it hard for me to switch. Since the new hardware announcements this week I'm scrambling to find a new iPhone SE to switch to from Android. I want privacy, but I also want a small phone with a proper headp
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by vinylkey 8y ago
I think I'll listen to Warren Buffet's advice on index funds.
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by vinylkey 8y ago
I'm a fan of a notebook and a pen.
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by vinylkey 8y ago
OSH Park ( https://oshpark.com/ ) seems to be popular in the guitar effect building community.
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by vinylkey 8y ago
If not "completely revolutionized," then "had a really, really, really, big impact"?
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by vinylkey 8y ago
> I don't want to go to a therapist I would maybe rethink your position on this. Going to a therapist can be scary, but it can also be incredibly beneficial.
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by vinylkey 8y ago
How do I get the scope output for circuits that I build?
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by vinylkey 8y ago
I would consider myself a very average programmer. I have some good experience and a good knowledge set, but I'm not super passionate about programming to drive myself to be a "great" programmer. edit: I think the biggest thi
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by vinylkey 8y ago
Do you find a correlation with being able to memorize a deck of cards with having a better memory with day-to-day stuff?

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