GrifMD

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by GrifMD 3mo ago
I'm kind of torn between the top deck and the nose seats. I've flown British Airways's business class on the upper deck, and I've flown Qantas' business class which is all on the lower deck starting at the nose. I w
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by GrifMD 5mo ago
That was delightful, what more can I say?
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by GrifMD 6mo ago
This is cool! I do want to ask, did you have AI design the page for you? It looks like a design pattern I've seen spit out by LLMs pretty frequently. I'm not hear to talk down to you about the site, I love this little thing that g
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by GrifMD 6mo ago
It reminds me of the iPhone 5C when I had a 5S, it's a beautiful colorful breath of fresh air that I wish I had but my needs are so much greater. But if I wasn't an engineer who needed a highspeced MacBook Pro I'd go with it.
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by GrifMD 10mo ago
It's called Coppertone for a reason
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by GrifMD 11mo ago
You've gotta change it from "you're throwing a party" to "we're throwing party". Or just ask them to invite some people man, don't stress.
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by GrifMD 1y ago
A recent survey revealed that 30% of Australians are casually racist... https://youtu.be/DHQRZXM-4xI?si=gsVaLimUuW_g0c6d&t=72
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by GrifMD 1y ago
Maybe? The Australian tech seen has always felt fairly small to me, at least in Sydney. We've got Atlassian and Canva as the local darlings, and then Google, Amazon, FB, and Salesforce have their offices, though I don't think much
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by GrifMD 1y ago
That's a bad faith argument and you know it. More power is more power. These projects weren't taking away from development of other power plants.
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by GrifMD 1y ago
Mirror's Edge (2008) had a pretty neat level inspired by these storm drains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE3qooY0d_A
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by GrifMD 1y ago
I feel very much the same way as the author about TikTok. I browse it far too often. I've implemented app based screen time limitations in iOS specifically for Reddit and TikTok but it's so easy to override. Deleting the apps for
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by GrifMD 2y ago
My takeaway from that was more "the world isn't that daunting, if you just do something consistently with effort, you're going to do a lot better than most people since most aren't putting much effort into it." You
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by GrifMD 2y ago
It's been a few years since I've used a VPN with streaming, but I recall some services not working well with it. I was in Australia with NordVPN to the US on a fibre connection.
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by GrifMD 3y ago
I looked it up out curiosity, it's over 2 miles along a major road that crosses a major freeway. There is a suburban route that has a dedicated bike lane crossing of the freeway (101). Yikes.
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by GrifMD 3y ago
It's always a treat to fly on. I managed to score some first class award tickets on Etihad's A380s from Sydney to Abu Dhabi to London... for July 2020. As you can imagine, that didn't work out. I fly Sydney to LAX on Qantas u
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The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok(wired.com)
5 points by GrifMD 4y ago|0 comments
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by GrifMD 4y ago
"Sydney has a few crossings where instead of particular directions being open to pedestrians, the whole crossing goes green for pedestrians and red for cars. This seems more efficient to me, and safer since cars aren't moving at a
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by GrifMD 4y ago
You should see how impressive some of the luxury trains have gotten. Japan has a couple of them that are particularly luxurious. And while these aren't owned by individuals, they're indicative of what you could own. https:/&
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by GrifMD 4y ago
Of their works: the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has a few choice coding songs. Some of it is little too dark or a little too airy. Before the Flood is also pretty good a little sad at some points. The Juno single they put out as part of the
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by GrifMD 4y ago
The Ministry of the Future also addressed the same type of heat reduction technology, albeit as a much smaller part of the book. I'd highly recommend it, though the opening is very hard to read https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by GrifMD 4y ago
I don't own a car anymore, but it's something I online window shop sometimes. It seems like Lexus is going to be the last luxury car brand to keep physical controls instead of all screen.
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by GrifMD 4y ago
Yeah but the gas mileage on that was only 16 city/24 highway (mpg)...
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by GrifMD 4y ago
I don't see any sources on this, just some tongue in cheek Quora posts. I did find something interesting about "the Slugshot" being illegal in some US states, but I would take this with a grain of salt considering the source.
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by GrifMD 4y ago
I've enjoyed sensory deprivation tanks like this, but to be perfectly honest, I feel like I can let my mind wander the same way when I wake up an hour before my alarm goes off and manage to resist picking up my phone.
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by GrifMD 4y ago
This sounds like a quote from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
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by GrifMD 4y ago
The core of the post is "have quality experiences". This can be applied to many things, like travel for instance. I remember my times in hostels in Australia and European mountains much more than I do any 5 star hotel because I wa
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by GrifMD 4y ago
Not to mention the bars and lounges in business & first class. https://onemileatatime.com/guides/airplane-bars-lounges/
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by GrifMD 4y ago
I've only flown on 747-400s with BA and Qantas, and I've found them to be terribly loud. I've heard the 747-8s were a little quieter, but would you really say that would be better than a 787, A350, or A380? I too have heard t
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by GrifMD 4y ago
I'm not sure that's correct. EU and Australia have been using contactless terminals before Apple Pay. Still, most hotels I go to want the actual card number (usually taken at checkin) that they put on hold. Payment can either be c
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by GrifMD 4y ago
I can't speak for Stanford, but Santa Clara University has gone through a similar transition. It started while I was there ('11-15), where the "party street" was full of frats, sororities, and just loosely themed houses.

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