ethersteeds

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by ethersteeds 19d ago
It's supposed to go up, huh? It's back where it started, so there's that... https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
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by ethersteeds 20d ago
Who are the hall of shame brokers?
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by ethersteeds 22d ago
Wait... Your second paragraph is jarringly different from the first. How do they relate?
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by ethersteeds 23d ago
That's a new one for the cyberpunk dystopia bingo card: poor people renting capacity in their brains to multinationals. Makes you stupider, and the DRM implants give you mood disorders, but have you seen how much apartments go for in 2
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by ethersteeds 23d ago
> For the minority of customers who are flexible on dates/locations and willing to plan in advance - most airline/hotel programs have sweet spots at the more premium level. What does this mean? I'm not clear what the sweet
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by ethersteeds 23d ago
This is an interesting thought experiment, though I generally come to opposite conclusions. I personally think that hunting a wild animal situates the hunter in the broader context of the natural world, in which organisms live by their wits
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by ethersteeds 1mo ago
Since we're riled up about the state of compulsory tipping, I'll throw in my bugbear: the calculated percentages are frequently based off the post-tax total! Tipping has historically been based on the pre-tax cost, but the rise of
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by ethersteeds 1mo ago
But that's the trouble, Python has the slogan about only one way, but it's really not true in practice. Or maybe there's the one way that "should" be done, and then the half dozen other ways you'll encounter in
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by ethersteeds 1mo ago
Who scrapes the scrapemen?
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by ethersteeds 1mo ago
This looks beautiful. While obviously a Mac keyboard, to what extent is it compatible with Linux? Will there be documentation of its features beyond a standard Bluetooth HID, such that users could potentially develop software that utilizes
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by ethersteeds 1mo ago
Flat roofs are very cost effective due to simplicity of design and installation. They also provide usable area for HVAC, solar panels, and decks.
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by ethersteeds 1mo ago
I think a major factor is memory bandwidth. Apple has raised it steadily for each M series generation, and that hasn't plateaued. Nvidia leads in bandwidth and specialized architecture, but local inference takes off when it's usab
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by ethersteeds 2mo ago
> Scott was the CEO of Docker, and led that through a really challenging time that began with Docker’s own enterprise-vs.-developer identity crisis and ended with them blowing the doors off the business. Did Docker "blew the doors o
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by ethersteeds 2mo ago
That would be me.
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by ethersteeds 2mo ago
Around 58% of American smartphone users are iPhone. It's a lot, but not enough to be universal. In my family there's 5 iPhone users and 4 Android users, amusingly similar to the national ratio. Apple has famously made its strategy
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by ethersteeds 2mo ago
> most of the world has solved it by making ambulance (EMS) funding similar to fire... About 65% of the more than one million firefighters in the U.S. are volunteers, with nearly 19,000 fire departments being run completely by volunteers
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by ethersteeds 2mo ago
Did you use a Wyoming protocol wrapper to integrate with home assistant? Is it publicly available? https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wyoming/
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by ethersteeds 3mo ago
I agree with you about the effects of regulation and privatization. The installation challenges of dense urban environments are no joke either. But: > Every home in america has electricity and plumbing even though those utilities have th
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by ethersteeds 3mo ago
Real nice IPO ya got there, it'd be a shame if anything happened to it...
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by ethersteeds 3mo ago
In British slang, "nonce" is a highly offensive term for a sex offender, particularly one who has harmed children. It is considered derogatory and should be used with caution.
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by ethersteeds 3mo ago
This site [1] appears to have a good overview. There's several common beneficial nematode species, selection is based on factors such as their affinity for your intended pest, "cruising depth" in soil, and the current soil te
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by ethersteeds 3mo ago
CPR and a boatload of epinephrine, it seems. That passage bears quoting at length, it's where I really teared up: > At initiation of ECMO, the boy's rhythm was asystole. The boy was rewarmed with an ECMO heat exchanger-patient
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by ethersteeds 3mo ago
Sounds terrible
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by ethersteeds 4mo ago
Yeah, I read this wondering why the author encountered these issues and pushed on considering it a viable option. But like you, those are my priors
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by ethersteeds 4mo ago
The ring doesn't have gps but its app requires location permission so it gets it from your phone. It continually asks me to turn on background sync, which would presumably upload my location regularly as well. I decline and only allow
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by ethersteeds 4mo ago
> A few neighbours who told us “nothing will change” went quiet. A few said “OK, but this was a fluke.” Are they wrong? This is the equivalent of getting customer support from an otherwise unreachable tech company because your story went
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by ethersteeds 5mo ago
> I ended up picking one up for <$5k I'm struggling to put this in context. For comparison, what was your budget for refreshing the pc you had? Were the planned upgrades going to exceed $5k at current prices? Or is the situation
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by ethersteeds 5mo ago
> obsessed with [...] ending the system where China captures upside when sanctioned countries like Russia [...] sell oil. > ... and I forget what's going on with Russia... Well they relaxed sanctions on Russia in the hopes it wou
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by ethersteeds 5mo ago
Do regular people that aren't terminally online use X? I don't know any.
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by ethersteeds 6mo ago
I think the argument is that NSA already knows exactly how valuable metadata is, while the average person significantly underestimates its importance without a concrete demonstration.

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