larubbio

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by larubbio 3mo ago
This happened on the flight to my honeymoon, and my wife took the upgrade.
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by larubbio 4mo ago
'production' doesn't equal 'multi-user concurrent access'. There are production uses where sqlite is a valid choice even if it may not be the best choice for multi-user production use cases.
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Netflix acquires Ben Affleck's AI company(npr.org)
3 points by larubbio 6mo ago|1 comments
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by larubbio 9mo ago
I do something similar for my kids, but offline using GNUCash. It's from a book called "The Bank of Dad." I track their funds, and provide a generous monthly interest rate. The idea was both to teach them how to manage mone
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by larubbio 1y ago
Here is the study, the link is not clickable if you have an account, you have to view source to get at it. https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140/https://www.ojp.g...
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How a computer that 'drunk dials' videos is exposing YouTube's secrets(bbc.com)
33 points by larubbio 2y ago|2 comments
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by larubbio 2y ago
This is the the artist you are thinking of. https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/
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Building a transaction data lake using Amazon Athena, Apache Iceberg and dbt(ministryofjustice.github.io)
3 points by larubbio 2y ago|0 comments
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by larubbio 2y ago
I left Amazon back when the 3-day RTO was announced. Their recruiters periodically ping and ask if I'd be interested in returning. So leaving on good terms will give you options to return if you want. I haven't seen a recent who&#
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by larubbio 2y ago
I remember this article from 2017 about the google snippet for how long it takes to caramelize an onion. https://gizmodo.com/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-... The gist of the story is the author wrote an article d
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by larubbio 3y ago
> It works with SMS as well, and I just don't have to think about it. I have a mac laptop and an android phone. My son has an iphone. Half of his responses to my text messages go to my phone, the other half go to my laptop and I mis
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by larubbio 3y ago
Essentially yes. Distribution, instead of funding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Freestyle "The Freestyle's beverage dispensing technology was designed by Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, in
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by larubbio 3y ago
I think there are limits on both. Floor area ratio ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_area_ratio ) is how it is coded into regulations. The lot size and the height restrictions create a bounding box that the building
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by larubbio 4y ago
An Italian town did build a mirror to do that. https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnvzn/viganella-italy-fake-... [edit] Looks like a town in Norway did it as well, and theirs tracks the sun. https://
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by larubbio 4y ago
I love this goal, best of luck with it. I would like to build (or buy) a robot to protect my chickens from air and ground predators during the day so they can happily free range all day.
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by larubbio 5y ago
I think that stat came from a chart in this article https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-quick-note-...
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by larubbio 8y ago
Everything I know about this comes from the children's book "Pippo the Fool." Rivals refers to people competing against him in a competition to build the dome. For him to win and get to build his design it was important for h
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by larubbio 9y ago
A caught fish could be wild, or from a hatchery. You can tell the difference since hatchery fish have a fin removed but I imagine it's easier to not differentiate when labelling.
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Lyft strikes self-driving deal with Google's Waymo(bbc.com)
1 points by larubbio 9y ago|0 comments
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by larubbio 10y ago
I had a similar idea, but wanted to build it outside of a single news organisation. Basically a news aggregator, but it would detect when different articles are about the same topic and try to tell if the newer article added anything to th
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by larubbio 10y ago
I had thought about something like this a couple of years ago. My idea wasn't really about tracking bias, but providing reputation for authors and news outlets. Users (via a browser plugin or some other mechanism) could declare an ar
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by larubbio 10y ago
Aphids are fascinating (if annoying in the garden). They are capable of telescoping generations [1] which means an aphid can be pregnant with an aphid that is also pregnant. https://simonleather.wordpress.com/2013/03&#
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by larubbio 10y ago
Why not have both? Cities have parks that you can lie and eat out on during the evenings and weekends. They also have dog parks. Free roaming cats are bad for birds, so keep them inside. https://abcbirds.org/program/
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Amazon to experiment with part-time tech teams(king5.com)
7 points by larubbio 10y ago|0 comments
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by larubbio 10y ago
Their was a robot in 1999 that hunted slugs and powered itself from their decomposing bodies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/503149.stm
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A New Apple Patent Could Block Fans from Taping at Shows(npr.org)
1 points by larubbio 10y ago|0 comments
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A 24-Year-Old Designed a Self-Driving Minibus; Maker Built It in Weeks(npr.org)
1 points by larubbio 10y ago|0 comments
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by larubbio 10y ago
> Meditation is examination not supression or control. Just one clarification on this. I recently listened to a talk by Bikhu Bodhi [1] where he said meditation was partially about the suppression of emotion, He then quickly clarified t
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by larubbio 10y ago
Do you need to buyout all the investors or just enough to give you > 50% (Which Zuck already controls doesn't he?)
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by larubbio 10y ago
I think if you read that article, he isn't pushing 'Black Lives Matter', but rather asked employees to stop crossing it out and writing 'All Lives Matter' His quote from that article explains it "'Black li

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