jabyess

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by jabyess 3y ago
the craziest thing about this is: > The Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Leon Theremin,[7] best known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.
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by jabyess 3y ago
Most browsers have a reader mode. Firefox has one built in, I just click the icon to at the right end of the URL bar and it does it nicely for me.
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by jabyess 3y ago
That's the upper end of US salaries for engineers, it's definitely not the median. But in general US, tech salaries are higher than every other location. If you can swing it remotely, it might be worth it for you.
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by jabyess 4y ago
which part seems unbelievable to you?
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by jabyess 4y ago
mapbox studio will let you custom design layers, but i haven't gotten very far into it so i can't speak to the level of control you get.
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by jabyess 4y ago
Once again, XKCD[0] proved to be right [0] https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by jabyess 5y ago
This is surprising to me because it wasn't that long ago (~3-4 years) that I bought an XPS developer edition and it was $100 cheaper than the windows version. At the time, I assumed that was just the cost of the windows license.
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by jabyess 5y ago
There's also a FOSS version called foam https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
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by jabyess 5y ago
> Also PSA, if you use Bluetooth with your car, your city transport department is tracking you. Best of luck opting out of that or even finding who to contact. Can you say more about this? I've never heard of it.
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by jabyess 6y ago
Why not put all this info on the site?
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by jabyess 6y ago
The real answer is that cars are incredibly expensive in many ways - vehicle maintenance, infrastructure maintenance, pollution, etc. Taxis are often 2-3x more expensive than ridesharing because that's what the cost is to pay someone t
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by jabyess 7y ago
If you're a programmer, and this interests you, then I urge you to check out the game Factorio[1] which is all about hyper optimization and layouts. Stardew valley is a great game too, and much more peaceful. [1] https://fact
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by jabyess 7y ago
That's basically what I meant, sorry. It's an insight into what could have been a problem back then, and clearly became a serious problem.
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by jabyess 7y ago
From the article linked in the gist: > This leak is not good news for Facebook, as it raises the question of how secure a Facebook users private data really is. I don't even think I need to comment on how poorly this has aged.
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by jabyess 7y ago
A friend of mine worked on this project. He said the methodology of dividing up into hectares had to do with squirrel behavior. They tend to mostly live within about a 100x100m area, so it was an easy way to be relatively accurate.
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by jabyess 10y ago
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