LgWoodenBadger

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Comment · 1 month ago
They're written underneath the symbols on most (all?) Mac keyboards. At the very least, it's that way on my current MacBook, and my previous. I think they're also written on the magic keyboard I have as well.
Comment · 1 month ago
It is when you can get a 210MW S9G, along with an entire state-of-the-art fast attack submarine for 2.8 billion
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Comment · 1 month ago
On the other other side, a lot of content is unavailable in more permanent forms, so if you want to watch something again, you're entirely at the mercy of the content provider. e.g. The Norsemen on Netflix. If I ever want to watch that in the future, I need to subscribe to Netflix and hope they still have it in their catalog. I can't find a blu-ray or dvd.
Comment · 2 months ago
I've yet to find instances where electrical tape comes off of its own accord when wrapped. Even the electrical tape submerged 24x7 on my well pump had to be unwrapped.
Comment · 2 months ago
You should also never name your faulty/flaky Dell server Bob when Bob is also the name of your company president (though the president came after the server).

Calling Bob (the server) a piece of shit ("Bob is a piece of shit") because it crashed again was a very risky move that we often didn't fully think through.

Comment · 2 months ago
Toyota is (was?), all by their lonesome selves, almost 100% bet-the-farm on hydrogen vehicles instead of electric.
Comment · 2 months ago
Your big assumption is that just because an “electrician” did it doesn’t mean they did it following the relevant code.
Comment · 2 months ago
Whoever operates the smtp servers for icloud.com complained loudly enough that their job was too hard because of all the traffic, but not loudly enough for someone smart enough to hear about it, until it was announced to the public.
Comment · 3 months ago
Maybe it's just me, but the explanations of the cause don't align.

One clue was that during corruption incidents, our metrics showed that SQLite would report copying more pages from the WAL file than were actually available. If there are 10 pages in the WAL file and 20 pages get copied to the database, something is clearly wrong.

vs

it thinks some of the pages have been copied from the WAL into the main database file, but they haven’t. Those pages never get written to the database file, and that data is permanently lost.

The first says "more were copied than existed" but the second says "fewer were copied than should have been."

Like I said, it's probably just me interpreting something incorrectly.

Comment · 3 months ago
Our idiots decided to conduct phishing tests by allowing KnowB4 to send "official" phishing emails. The kind that Outlook/Exchange don't flag as "outside your organization." So now there's no real way to tell what could be a legitimate email from illegitimate.

Also, the Knowb4 phishing tests include some Knowb4 headers, so it's trivial to pass the test (though they're usually so stupidly obvious that you'd never need to check).

Comment · 3 months ago
This is what URIs were for. It's too bad we don't have nice things like book://9781250781253 or movie://le%20samourai or song:// or livesports://
Comment · 3 months ago
If it had a “good” square footage, it would be touted front and center. Because it’s not, you know it doesn’t.

I see this all the time with motorcycle PPE. If something was CE A, AA, or AAA rated, it’d be at the top of the description/specs. When it’s not, I know it’s not so I just move on.

Comment · 4 months ago
Hopefully making the real horrors of war visible to the public/world will make war less frequent. Alas...
Comment · 4 months ago
Surely the dev wasn't able to merge that one-line code fix causing 6 weeks of testing without any other eyes on it and without someone else's PR-like approval...right?

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