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by bertjk 2mo ago
At the risk of asking a really dumb question: Does this only work on PTFE or other flourine-compound surfaces?
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by bertjk 4mo ago
To be fair, good noise cancelling headphones nowadays have "transparent" or "ambient aware" modes that actually electronically pipe the outside noise in. (Whether the cyclists in question are actually using that featur
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by bertjk 6mo ago
I always assumed their free open weight models were either a prestige thing or else part of a poorly executed commoditize-your-complements strategy.
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by bertjk 8mo ago
If dollars were being repatriated, but as investment into financial instruments and real estate instead of purchases of goods and services, then that would not affect the trade deficit, right?
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by bertjk 8mo ago
Fracking. Before fracking people were worried about "peak oil", and being dependent on unfriendly governments for our basic energy needs. Then with fracking we realized we are actually sitting on huge available oil reserves, and
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by bertjk 2y ago
Did you need licensing / training to take on electrical work? Do you market yourself as an electrician or more just a handyman that does minor electric jobs?
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FTC Chair Lina Khan's Exit Interview: Challenging AI, Big Tech and More [video](youtube.com)
3 points by bertjk 2y ago|1 comments
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by bertjk 2y ago
It would have been pretty silly for Harris to campaign on a Hope and Change™ platform, since that would imply she is doing a very poor job as incumbent.
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by bertjk 2y ago
> From 2014 to 2020, migrants from outside Mexico and Central America — known as “extra-continentals” — accounted for 19 percent of immigration court cases. > In the last four years, those “extra-continentals” have risen to 53 percen
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by bertjk 2y ago
The key difference here is whether your investment remains at risk. As long as the value of your investment is at risk, then the investment is considered unrealized. Once you cash in your chips (sell) then the investment becomes realized.
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by bertjk 2y ago
So does this mean that every sale of any building can take at least two months?
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by bertjk 3y ago
Only $800,000? Hahaha I wish it were so affordable!
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by bertjk 3y ago
It depends on what you think YouTube's product is. Are they a service that streams videos and recommendations to consumers, or a service that streams eyeballs and tracking data to advertisers? The first one might get by with HTML5, b
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by bertjk 3y ago
How is it different? Squandering typically means spending, which means the money is re-entering the economy, typically to people at lower rungs of the wealth ladder, and is not much different than other forms of redistribution. Unless you
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by bertjk 3y ago
Which brand / model? Please name and shame.
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by bertjk 4y ago
> Eliminate the need to manage and inject API tokens into containers and servers and instead authorize containers and servers to perform those operations. What does this look like in practice? Can someone provide example scenarios that
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by bertjk 4y ago
What do you mean by M's and Z's?
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by bertjk 4y ago
Can I ask, in places where showering that often is the norm, does one change into a new set of clean clothes each time? And does this basically triple the laundry chore burden?
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by bertjk 4y ago
Of course, if you do warehouse products, and then try to take advantage of a squeeze, then you may get accused of price gouging.
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by bertjk 4y ago
I understand deterrence. I am commenting on the doublespeak. "Holding a target at risk" here exactly means wielding a credible way to destroy said target. I would argue that replacing the phrase: > ...weapon designed to hold
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by bertjk 4y ago
I love the phrasing used in this press release. > hypersonic weapon designed to hold high-value targets at risk We don't destroy targets anymore. We hold our targets at risk .
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by bertjk 4y ago
In the US they are common at hardware stores. They are generally referred to as "star drive" screws and will cost more than standard phillips.
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by bertjk 4y ago
Production servers regularly tar/zips files to S3 or equivalent managed object store
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by bertjk 4y ago
Production servers sends data to a remote file system using simple unix tools (e.g. tar/gzip, rsync, etc..)
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by bertjk 4y ago
Production servers connect to backup service using smart agent / client software
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by bertjk 4y ago
Backup server regularly connects to production server to download data using simple unix tools
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by bertjk 4y ago
Other
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Poll: What does your backup topology look like?
3 points by bertjk 4y ago|0 comments
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by bertjk 4y ago
This is so strange. If Affirm is the creditor why does he not ask Affirm to initiate a chargeback against the merchant? Is this one way Affirm can compete against credit cards, that they do not need to handle this kind of situation?
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by bertjk 4y ago
Golden Gate Park? Only if you have something against intact car windows.

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