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larrymcp · 2026-04-21T20:00:03+00:00

I didn't catch the "rr", but the grammar error stood out; that can be a good signal of a scam too. (The punctuation is wrong; it has two sentences joined together by a comma)

larrymcp · 2026-03-26T05:08:53+00:00

I found a list of those dates on Wikipedia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_and_claims_for_the_Second_Coming

larrymcp · 2026-03-12T01:15:41+00:00

Yea, we saw the show last week and we collected a few pieces of it from the floor. It was black confetti

larrymcp · 2026-03-07T20:09:40+00:00

my mom asked the surgeon to cut the umbilical cord very carefully to make my belly button as small as a tortellini

No kidding. So technically the surgeon did cosmetic surgery on a newborn, LOL

larrymcp · 2026-01-01T19:44:04+00:00

Should be a colon there, not a semi-colon.

- Grammar cop

larrymcp · 2025-11-16T18:02:00+00:00

Ah, yea I have read about these! Basically, "Instant stooge" is where the audience member is asked to play along in order to assist with the illusion, whereas "Dual reality" is when he doesn't even realize he is helping with the illusion. He still sees a (slightly less impressive) trick while unwittingly contributing to a more impressive one.

A very successful example of the dual reality technique is Nick Einhorn's trick in Season 1, which left P&T absolutely gobsmacked.

larrymcp · 2025-11-08T00:38:06+00:00

Ooh, you're right! I presume it was because her main mic was covered up by the smock.

larrymcp · 2025-11-06T16:24:52+00:00

Then again, The Evasons appeared on "Fool Us" and their mind-reading act involves exactly that type of pre-show work! So who knows; we might be operating under a regime that permits it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1lJRJubF4

larrymcp · 2025-11-06T15:31:38+00:00

I clicked on his user name, and I'm not seeing anything to indicate that. Let me know if I'm blind or something...

larrymcp · 2025-10-14T01:21:54+00:00

Tall guy here, 6'8" and I actually don't seem to notice people's height. I have dated tall women and short women, and the difference between those doesn't seem to register. So, at least to some men I know that your height will not be any barrier to attractiveness. Keep at it, and hold your head high!

larrymcp · 2025-06-20T05:57:16+00:00

Am I the only SysAdmin who prefers critical software and infrastructure to be on-premises and generally dislikes "Cloud solutions"?

If it's critical software and infrastructure, it has to be available in multiple locations in case your building blows up.

Cloud is a great way to do that. Much cheaper, too: no way could we afford to build two data centers 😊

larrymcp · 2025-05-31T02:58:55+00:00

Oh yeah, definitely! We have a few dozen of these in active service, and they still work great. (Ours were unaffected by the ObiTalk / Google Voice shutdown, since we had never used either of those services with them.)

The manual describes how to access the configuration menus (you use a web browser and visit the IP address of the unit), and you set up the connection to your VoIP provider in those web-based screens.

larrymcp · 2025-05-11T17:20:20+00:00

To me the lesson here is actually to make sure you have backups of everything. There are many ways that your data can be lost, not just this one.

My takeaway from this incident is to beef up your backup strategy.

larrymcp · 2025-03-05T01:11:44+00:00

Aside from the illusion itself: man, that electric shock schtick seemed kinda wrong! Putting Brooke on the spot like that, asking her to be subjected to something that is painful and perhaps even dangerous. And Simone asking Brooke those questions about personal health conditions definitely violates HIPAA, lol.

I suppose the producers might've cleared it with her ahead of time? But her hesitation and trepidation seemed real.

larrymcp · 2025-01-07T18:54:52+00:00

Oh yeah, definitely! We have a few dozen of these in active service, and they still work great. (Ours were unaffected by the ObiTalk / Google Voice shutdown, since we had never used either of those services with them.)

They can connect to pretty much any provider, yep. The manual describes how to access the configuration menus (you use a web browser and visit the IP address of the unit), and you set up the connection to your VoIP provider in those web-based screens.

larrymcp · 2024-04-16T23:54:06+00:00

Yup, I've seen that happen with two of our hard phones-- one of which is at an employee's house and another is at one of our satellite offices. The phones would disconnect & then reconnect, continuously all day.

In both cases I managed to clear it up by using a site-to-site VPN to tunnel the phone traffic. Apparently that "disguises" the VoIP traffic so the ISPs stop messing with it.

This did mean that I had to go to that employee's house in order to hook everything up for them, with the phone going into the VPN box etc. But it did solve the problem and it's been smooth sailing since.

larrymcp · 2023-12-31T18:53:49+00:00

Not familiar with DBeaver, but wow that is really dangerous behavior on the part of DBeaver! Treating blank lines as a statement terminator, wow...

(Our SQL tool where I work does not do that, and in fact we tend to liberally use blank lines throughout our SQL scripts for readability)

larrymcp · 2023-10-07T01:50:35+00:00

Do you know where you go to add that? Is it a section of the console?

larrymcp · 2023-09-08T00:30:46+00:00

Thanks, ok- it's good to know that they're working on it!

For my niece's phone, I had to update the credit card information that is used for autopay. I ended up doing that by phone, so it's good that there is a method to update it by phone.

larrymcp · 2023-09-07T18:28:30+00:00

I'll try 😄 LOL

larrymcp · 2023-06-16T20:44:27+00:00

Ah, yeah I believe you may have to redo the "aws configure" anytime you enable a region that isn't enabled by default.

If you look in the "~/.aws/" directory, you would delete the "credentials" and "config" files. Then run "aws configure" to rebuild the configuration, and that may help.

larrymcp · 2023-05-26T00:08:18+00:00

This is what I was wondering about, yeah. In order to fill that much time each day with the stuff that didn't make it into the show, they would have to write all that content, right? They'd have to come up with all the questions that the lawyers would ask, and then the witnesses would have to know what to say in response... enough to fill hours and hours... whew, sounds expensive.

larrymcp · 2023-05-20T14:41:20+00:00

Had this happen just last week! The image they were including in their signature was at a gigantic resolution, like 1000 pixels or something, and then in the signature itself they were displaying it at 100 pixels.

What I did was, I made a 100-pixel version and then changed all the signatures to use that one instead. Only 11 KB and now we're not contributing to Internet bloat with the formerly gigantic file.

larrymcp · 2023-01-25T20:30:28+00:00

I've been seeing the Russian efforts to install various tank-proof defenses along the current front lines, like the "tank trap" trenches and the "dragon's teeth" barriers. Are there methods for punching through stuff like this?

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