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by andruby 1y ago
Tunisia is so productive it exports 123.4% of olive oil. Or perhaps I don't understand what they're trying to say in that sentence
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by andruby 1y ago
And even if they don't raise their prices to below the imported alternatives immediately, the increase in demand means they'll sell out so quickly, they'll raise their prices anyway
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by andruby 1y ago
How can companies, importers and ports even implement these tariffs so quickly? Do these tariffs go into effect immediately?
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by andruby 1y ago
Out of curiosity, could you add which country you are from? I think in general there's similarities everywhere. In Belgium (Gent to be more specific) where I'm from, there is a high cultural degree of critical thinking, and if I h
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by andruby 1y ago
Do both administrations call the tariffs a trade "war"?
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by andruby 1y ago
The actions (tariffs) have already started.
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by andruby 1y ago
With all the switching between camera angles during a sports broadcast, the difference in white balance, brightness and color grading would be really distracting and annoying.
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by andruby 2y ago
> I'm sure millions of people make unregulated sandwiches at home just fine. Very little about that sandwich is unregulated. The bread they bought in the store is regulated. Whatever they put on the sandwich is regulated. Without th
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by andruby 2y ago
> Management deals with “why”, a product owner with “what”, and a developer with “how”. Try not to mix these, it doesn’t end well. Oh my. I much more prefer it when team are cross-functional, when the Product Manager, Product Designer an
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by andruby 2y ago
> Can anyone recommend scifi that makes plausible projections around this tech? Unironically, Wall-E. Humans leave earth behind on a ship where everything is automated.
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by andruby 2y ago
Google is an Engineering company. What they're really bad at, in my opinion, is productizing their technology. Google Cloud is decent, again in my opinion, because they can more or less copy the product vision from AWS and focus on the
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by andruby 2y ago
> It has a battery soldered on the circuit board. The battery slowly discharges while the unit is on. In about 10 years of operation, the battery voltage drops below 1v or so. The battery powers nothing I am not an electrical engineer. C
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by andruby 2y ago
Doing business in a country means complying to its laws. The US is/was asking a lot more from the private company TikTok iirc. We can dislike these laws, but they’re not optional.
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by andruby 2y ago
I don’t know is toaster are close to max power draw, but kettles certainly are. Most places with 240V regularly have 16A sockets, allowing a maximum draw of 3840W of power. That’s the limit. Cheap fast kettles will often draw 3000W and boil
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by andruby 2y ago
I love PG. PostgreSQL already had most of its great features 15 years ago. Anything new that you particularly enjoy?
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PG's internal wal-level replication? primary to a read-replica, and then switch the read to become the primary. You'll have a bit of downtime while you stop connections on the original server, switch the new server to primary, and
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by andruby 2y ago
Sequinstream is written in Elixir and also pretty recent. https://github.com/sequinstream/sequin Any reason we're seeing so many CDC tools pop up?
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by andruby 2y ago
I haven’t read many stories or posts from entrepreneurs turned employees. This was refreshing, albeit lacking in details.
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by andruby 2y ago
Yes, I think it would. Polarized light typically remains polarized when it reflects off a surface. (It’s a complex interaction so not always)
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by andruby 2y ago
To save you a click. Ben Collins (CEO The Onion): We are deeply disappointed in today's decision, but The Onion will continue to seek a resolution that helps the Sandy Hook families receive a positive outcome for the horror they endure
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by andruby 2y ago
I've done a lot in Rails and a bit in Elixir/Phoenix. I haven't dipped my toes into Flame yet, although I did like the presentation. Have you used or seen it used successfully? Just to learn from, not to knock it down.
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by andruby 2y ago
It’s still a photo of the sun, even if processed. You wouldn’t see much on an unprocessed photo of the sun..
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by andruby 2y ago
Without revealing things under NDA, what could you share about what more it would take?
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by andruby 2y ago
That doesn’t leave you with a lot of neighboring countries. When you said 600K, did you mean NZ dollars or US dollars? If the former that would be about 360K USD. On a median NZ income of NZ60K per year, that’s indeed rough. Top 3 worst aff
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by andruby 2y ago
I'd like to see a good comparison in running cost of a gas stove versus an induction stove. Comparing BTU's wouldn't be an accurate metric since with gas a lot of the heat is lost just going around the pan/pot and heatin
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by andruby 2y ago
Is $59 for a single hub, or $849 for a full cooktop really that much of an "expensive luxury"? These things last for decades and cost less than most mobile phones. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/cat/indu
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by andruby 2y ago
I'm curious what country that is. Monaco? How are housing prices in the neighbouring countries?
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What license do you want to share your work under? MIT? GPL? There's a couple of trade-offs in that choice. Github has an overview of some of your options: https://github.com/readme/guides/open-source-licensin
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by andruby 2y ago
Similar. My preference switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL in 2005 when I wanted to use database views to create a "live" compatibility layer between an old (AS400) database schema and a modern Rails app. The preference kept growing
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You also want to avoid long transactions to avoid lock contention. Every statement is also a transaction, so chunking it up helps a lot on busy databases.

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