irowe

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by irowe 1mo ago
If it's anything like my municipality, all that stuff is balanced in the budget by issuing bonds. My accounting knowledge is weak, but as I understand it, even though a city's credit rating and the prospective interest on its bond
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by irowe 1mo ago
Can you explain how environmental regulations induce that housing style? I struggle to see the connection
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by irowe 11mo ago
The exact same comment could be made of Atlanta's roads. How did we get here from the post about uv?
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by irowe 11mo ago
A huge value in having authors upload the original source, is it divorces the content from the presentation (mostly). That the original sources were available was sufficient for a large majority of the corpus to be automatically rendered in
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by irowe 1y ago
Vitis AI is just riddled with bugs and undocumented incompatibilities. I also failed to get it to work for anything beyond the demo models.
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by irowe 2y ago
Not a talk show, but the pilot season of Mythbusters tackled this. They registered some false positives and the test manufacturer refused to admit it was possible.
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by irowe 2y ago
I'd agree that the second book has the highest cringe per page. The Luo Ji character was laughably bad.
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by irowe 2y ago
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for" The author's experience aligns with my own, both at university and working with government-funded scientific and engineering organizations. I suspect that m
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by irowe 3y ago
I spent way too long trying to find a way to read this without making an account on X, so here's the recap: An illustrator accidentally mislabelled a quasi-satellite named 2002-VE68 as a moon of Venus called “ZOOZVE" on a children
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by irowe 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/2040
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by irowe 3y ago
Having also found the hyperventilating approach effective, I just want to note for other readers that hyperventilating before breath-holding is extremely dangerous when swimming or diving. This is heavily emphasized in safety trainings for
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by irowe 3y ago
Something I've learned recently is that the convention of when to use angle brackets and when to use quotes is not prescribed by the standard but instead is implementation-defined.
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by irowe 3y ago
I don't think they are referring to the Reddit news, I think they are referring to the ongoing disagreement between the SO Inc staff and volunteer moderators and resulting strike over the new policy on generated content: https:/&
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by irowe 4y ago
You're definitely right that some of the slowdown is due to physical wear. I have had the battery replaced once, about 2 years ago back when Apple was offering it at a reduced price, but it's back to "significantly degraded&q
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by irowe 4y ago
I’m now to the point where I frequently have first party apps crash on my iPhone 7, plus the screen has phantom touch issues. I really don’t want to replace it though.
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by irowe 4y ago
Clicking the auto-link of my address on an iOS device will open a route in Apple Maps to an address with a different street name on the wrong U.S. state. Apple Maps has come a long way, but it still doesn’t cut it.
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by irowe 4y ago
The GNU Make documentation is excellent, and you can get t a long way with handwritten Make files, but when you move beyond a few translation units that have different needs, it be becomes much easier to maintain things with CMake.
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by irowe 4y ago
Hmm. You can search episode names and show notes on Pocket Casts on a per-show but not a global basis. I guess that is a shortcoming.
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by irowe 4y ago
Pocket Casts has a whole “Discover” tab with both algorithmic and human-curated recommendations, as well as browsing by category. I’m not sure what more you could ask for except for maybe user-generated shareable playlists. Pocket Casts eve
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by irowe 4y ago
As they should be. No sense in fragmenting questions just because the best answer may have changed.
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by irowe 4y ago
I’m so glad someone else pointed this particular case out! When I was a first year university student but still claimed as a dependent on my parents taxes, the accountant who prepared the returns wasn’t even aware that it needed to be repor
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by irowe 4y ago
Well IRS Free File isn’t one single service. It’s a coalition of private tax prep services that have agreed with the IRS to provide their software for free to taxpayers meeting certain constraints. The insight into how your liabilities stac
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by irowe 4y ago
Not to pile on too much, but I feel very similarly. It seems like about 80% of the way through the first book (beginning with the Panama Canal attack), Liu gave up on trying to write characters and started trying to compensate with bigger (
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by irowe 4y ago
Apparently publishers have seriously been turning the screws on libraries wrt to license fees for ebooks and audiobooks, so the current golden age of getting them from the library may be ending. [0]: https://www.npr.org/2022
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by irowe 4y ago
Yeah that does seem a little low. US News and World report has average in-state tuition at $10,423/yr [1] [1]: https://www.usnews.com/object/image/00000183-138c-db49-a3a3-...
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by irowe 4y ago
Sounds like you need to go to a sporting event in Chicago to find out…
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by irowe 4y ago
ClassPass is one example I recently ran into. I’ve already bought credits for the month and am planning to cancel my current plan, but if I do I immediately forfeit my (prepaid!) credits.
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by irowe 4y ago
I suddenly feel very old.
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by irowe 4y ago
The space-station themed Fry’s store near Houston, TX recently closed. I only ever visited it in the twilight years where there was so little inventory in such a large footprint that it seemed like a front for something. The architecture an
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by irowe 4y ago
I don’t want to sound rude, but I’m shocked that you have a 4 year CS degree and never heard of BGP. Does your degree predate widespread use of the internet? I went to a fairly average state school and both networking courses I took (one re

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