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  1. alavaz

    Dealing with addiction

    I have lorazepam for anxiety and insomnia. I had an issue last year where I couldn't stay asleep and they helped somewhat for that. I only took them nightly for about a month or so then stopped. Now I occasionally take them for long plane rides or the of sleepless night. Aside from the mild...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I don't plan on getting divorced, but if I did I'd be 100% confident that it was the best of two bad choices. I wouldn't talk about it on here either or consider any of y'all's opinions either so I guess there's that...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    If they get all that AND you and your wife hate each other then sure, keep it up.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I would think that you could include a public key in your DLL that then generates the "encryption" key at install time. As long as it is signed by the public key then your downstream application should trust it for encryption.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I haven't used IBM's offering, but at one of my previous jobs we used an Oracle product that did something similar. I think the original idea was to create web API's for applications that didn't have web APIs and create sort of a standard interface for all of them. It always seemed kind of...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I think IBM is a solid 3rd (behind AWS and MS) as a cloud service provider. Something like $11 billion annually (about half of MS/AWS but 5-6x 4th place).
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Pretty much my thought as well. I'll probably wind up turning it down.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Getting deep in the hiring process with RedHat... The position sounds great on paper, is a 25% raise and I'd keep my clearance, but for some reason my gut feeling is that its going to become tedious and be not fun very quickly...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    In defense land we always get 3/5 too. There is no .5's either. I was one of like 10 people out of our 80ish person contract to get a 4 last year and got the exact same 3% to my salary as I did with a 3, but got a whole $1000 bucks more as a cash bonus. I mean, it's better than nothing, but they...
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    Teamfight Tactics

    This game is very addicting. Play TFT
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    This is kind of like boasting about your calculus knowledge and telling everyone that you could totally slay that 2nd grade math test.
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    The Metal Thread

    Does Monstrosity have a new singer? Or are they going to be reuniting with Fishgrinder for the show?
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    So is classic WoW not going to be 'real WoW' to you? You just sound like you are salty about not having enough time to play to me.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Well I hate to break it to you but 100's of people do it for EQ, this game was orders of magnitude more popular so...
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    I've owned Spiders 1-3 and I thought the 3 sounded best (well for metal anyway). The distortion had a nice low end that was hard to get on most amps.
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    It sounds great with my Boss metal core pedal, only took me about 15 minutes to dial in the sound I wanted metal wise. I'm pretty picky about distortion so on every amp I've owned it's been a challenge dialing it in just right and some amps I've never even been able to get where I wanted. That's...
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    Monoprice 611815 15Watt, 1 x 12 Guitar Combo Tube Amplifier with Celestion Speaker & Spring Reverb This thing is the best sounding practice/bedroom amp I've played on. Beats every low watt lunchbox in clean sound and with a good distortion pedal and nose gate you can get a perfect metal sound...
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    I think I know the direction I'm going amp wise. Monoprice 15w. They are only 250 and sound absolutely awesome. For anyone who wants a killer tube amp for a transistor price, check these out.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Never heard of Peplink. The absolute simplest that fits your use case would probably be a Linksys LRT224 or a Ubiquiti Edge router.
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    I like the 5150, it has a naturally better distortion I think, but the PRS matches it easily with a tube screamer and the clean on PRS kicks the dick off of the EVH.
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    They've got a decent enough blues selection. I don't know how well blues lends to Rocksmithing anyway. It's more about improvisation than anything. Tried out some amps this weekend. Anyone checked out the PRS Mark tremonti amps? I thought it sounded sick as hell for a $650. Think I might go...
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    Computer Issues

    From what you've posted, it seems like it's not actually hanging on booting to the OS, but somewhere prior. I think I'd, at the very least, pull power and the CMOS battery for a few minutes (replace the battery with a brand new one) and see where that gets you.
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    Computer Issues

    Have you tried unplugging your HD completely (so there is no boot device) and see if it still hangs at the ASUS screen? If that's the case, I'd change the CMOS battery first, then try updating BIOS
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    Yep, it's a hellraiser. This is my second Schecter, I have a Super Shredder as well and it's been awesome.
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    This wound up being the one. Sustaniac is cool, not sure how practical, but something fun to mess with for the time being.
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    WoW Classic - Guild

    I think the playerbase is split regardless. Question is whether people from the forum get together on Alliance or not. I'll try to land on the same server as the majority just in case.
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    WoW Classic - Guild

    woooosh
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    WoW Classic - Guild

    Just a wild overthought.
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    WoW Classic - Guild

    Are you leading the guild now Buzz Killington? How would one, at the very least, ensure that people wind up playing the same faction? Just have everyone do their own thing and hope it falls together? I mean there is also the fact that this is all just time killing since we're two months away...
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    WoW Classic - Guild

    I'm doing the opposite, I'm sending my wife and kids away on a "family," trip that week. They just don't know I'm missing the flight yet...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Was that a sick British burn?
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I liked pretty much all of the classic dungeons. AQ maybe killed mauradon a bit for me.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Listen fellas, there's people that play WoW and then there's the Michael Jordan's of WoW.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Kind of an asinine argument. Yes people know more than they did at release. Yes people will kill it probably faster than anyone expects, and yes there will be guilds that take their time and do it at their own pace.
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    Health Problems

    The health system I use that works best for my insurance does that "in house collections" thing. My wife freaked out one time and called the billing department and they said not to worry about it, it's not real collections. They are actually pretty flexible on billing, I just called them and say...
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    Health Problems

    I had a 40ish pound paver stone fall on my big toe last year during a hurricane when I was fumbling around my dark garage for a propane tank. It's still not %100 back but I'd say with maybe 2 months more growth all of the warped part will be gone and it will look normal again. Mine lifted up at...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Let's start the <Polk High Football> guild and be proud of it.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Business was booming for the whole Obama administration. I doubt administration effects merger layoffs though. Maybe if they happen to be losing a rebid or not rebidding on a program at the time the merger happens they may lay those people off.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Just google how to self sign code in NetBeans. That should at least let you build it for now. If you want it to go on the Windows Store at some point then you will need to pay for a code signing key. Certify your desktop application - Windows applications
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    The only way you get laid off in defense mergers is if you're a corporate employee.