violentvinyl

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by violentvinyl 10y ago
I would posit that in the US, new drivers are "grand-fathered" in to automatics. There is no driving license restriction in the US for transmission types, so there is little value in learning to drive a manual before your test (yo
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by violentvinyl 10y ago
> So I actually liked it, but because it was so poorly made technically I never bothered to Finnish it. Maybe I'll force my way through it one day, because of the story and atmosphere, but it's frankly one of the worst pieces o
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by violentvinyl 10y ago
I think that's the secret sauce for these quys. I'd be surprised if you can find out a lot about current techniques without signing an NDA and leaving your mobile phone in a box at security.
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by violentvinyl 10y ago
It's great that they're doing this. We had kicked around the idea of signing up all of our customers for HIBP, but decided against it for obvious reasons. What we would really like to do is to be able to notify our custoemrs when
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by violentvinyl 10y ago
It's interesting that Smart TVs seem to have two lives, the first as a Smart TV, and the later as a dumb display. At least in some cars, you can still replace the ICE if it accomodates single or double DIN units. The newer cars with hi
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by violentvinyl 10y ago
As a parent, I got away with this for years. Once you insert coin though, there is no going back.
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by violentvinyl 10y ago
That is true about unpaid labour, but my understanding was that this isn't forced on to the prisoners. I understand that prisoners are given the option to work, and reap various benefits in return (modest pay, extra hours outdoors in t
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
I have a particular interest in truly disruptive start-ups, especially ones thats really flout the law like Uber does. I'm under the impression that conventional entrepeneurial wisdom says "Go ahead and break the rules, by the tim
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
I like the idea of using my LinkedIn page as a way to highlight interesting articles to spark conversation. I'm not aticvely recruiting at the moment (but I do use Linked In when I am), so I could see having already built a "commu
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
Thank you for this, especially the point about silence. This is such an under-recognized negotiation tactic. I'd venture to say that negotiations often wind up as a contest of "who can bear the silence the longest". I particu
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
Free as in beer, which is a step in the right direction at an institution where other textbooks could cost hundreds of dollars.
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
I'd like to add my 2 pence to the notion of gaming to relax. For someone who isn't a regular gamer, it isn't a relaxing thing to do. It's frustrating to have to master new controls, and every new game mechanic requires s
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
Ikea's aesthetic is not just some designer's idea of what nice-looking furniture is, it's actually designed to be flat packed. The raw materials that go into the product ARE cheaper for Ikea (particle board vs. hard woods), b
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
The inclusion of DeWalt got me thinking, because I own several DeWalt power tools. Arguably, these are contractor grade tools made to stand up to some abuse. I buy them because it's a well regarded brand name (for the reason above), bu
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
Thank you, the one question I had (Was it a single spider?) was answered by the original headline.
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
I really like this idea, but one of the big "improvements" for me in the scavanging system (given that I didn't play New Vegas, which I believe implemented some of this) is that it's no longer just about weight to value
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
This got me excited about the idea. Like many others my first thought was that it can't be nearly efficient enough to charge my phone, but I hadn't even considered all the little low power sensors I could place around the house th
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
It's interesting (depressing) to me, that the FCC thinks that hardware vendors should be responsible for what their hardware does once it leaves their hands. If we applied the same logic to other industries, there wouldn't be a fi
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
I can't help but wonder how much this has to do with the style of game. As far as software enforced rules go, Draw Something is VERY open, where a game like Candy Crush only accepts input that moves the game in the direction of their c
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
So the CIA invented Change MAnagement back in 1944 then?
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
I like the idea, but the examples remind me of Urban Dictionary. A good example should let you infer the meaning based on context. It's not an easy thing to write if you already know what the word or acronym means though.
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
I think that's probably the point. Sometimes you want to just sit down, veg out, decompress, and just absorb. There doesn't seem to be a good way to get a near infinite stream of recent, reasonable quality content on the Internet
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
Exactly this. It stopped being a good way to discover local places you may not have heard of and instead became a way to shove cheaply mass produced junk or freely mass produced digital junk in to eveyone's mailbox.
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
I would venture a guess that the publicity generated by something like this far outweighs the REAL cost to the company. For people who collect air miles (and especially on FT), the value of the miles is very important, but it never takes in
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
Who are all these people who spend money after clicking on an ad? The only time I ever click on an ad is by accident, and as soon as I realize the mistake I've made, I immediatly go back (or in the worst case, get frustrated and close
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
I'm now visualizing a micro drone that flies around and harpoons insects. Thank you for that.
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
There is a worrying trend in minimlaist design lately. It seems that more and more blogs are leaving out information about the author (less impotant here) and when the post was created, two very important pieces of information!
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
There is an argument to be made here. The majority of the money is in men's sports. Arguably that means that's where the best trainers, nutritionists, and sports doctors go. The edge that those things can give you cannot be discou
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
The London Hackspace Wiki has a little write up on how to test plastics for Chlorine: https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Laser_Cutter/Instr...
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
The burning questions is, can audiophiles tell the difference?

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