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by lgbr 2y ago
> The tl;dr here is they also don't want to have to pay to outsource their support staff, so they're paying openai or someone else instead. I don't think that's the right lens to view this in. Germany in particular is
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by lgbr 2y ago
> Your face scan is now online waiting for the next data breach Completely understood, but the point is that it's at CBP or UK Border Force or Bundespolizei, and it's in the security camera system at the airport, too. If you&#x
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by lgbr 2y ago
I get that this is about preventing ticket reselling, but I have a different question: Can someone explain the controversy around face scans for air travel? Governments have clearly laid out that flying affords zero expectation of privacy,
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by lgbr 2y ago
As another commenter noted, this is data from the German online shop MindFactory, which could be understood as the German equivalent to NewEgg. MindFactory would probably overrepresent enthusiast and small business customers, and underrepre
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by lgbr 2y ago
The KeePass2Android app gains a bit of functionality if you use it with SFTP instead. You get the ability to, for example, merge changes in the event that there's a conflict. I recommend using SFTP to a machine that then runs SyncThing
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by lgbr 2y ago
> Hydrogen is a terrible battery. Best case conversion to H2 is ~80%, while best case fuel cell efficiency is ~50%. That's 40% round trip while most batteries can do 90%. While there's no arguing with the physics here, don&#x27
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by lgbr 2y ago
> And there’s certainly no robust H supply that doesn’t include fossil fuel to create the H gas The government of Chile published a pretty clear national strategy to address this very issue [1]. And with Chile being on the Pacific Ocean
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by lgbr 2y ago
Because a user sitting in the United States could be served copyrighted content by GitLab. It would likely even come from one of GitLab's servers in the US. In that hypothetical instance, GitLab is in clear violation under US law. In t
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by lgbr 3y ago
> Anyone else starting to get the feeling that the idea of "base load" power was a scam I don't think it was in the past, it's just becoming obsolete, piece by piece. Each method of more traditional power production h
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by lgbr 3y ago
I don't have hard numbers, but I can say that spam on both sides of the ocean exist. In the US, we get a lot of SMS spam targeted at homeowners, pestering them about selling their property, since there's a lot of open data about p
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by lgbr 3y ago
> My work has 480V 3-phase for our SMT line. We have permanently-installed charge stations on that 3-phase service. Are all three phases even being sent to the electric cars? The J1772 only supports a single phase.
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by lgbr 3y ago
> while CCS2 can do 3-phase charging Is that at all relevant for the North American market, where no one would be using three phase power to charge their car? And is it even relevant to the CCS part of the standard, when really what CCS
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by lgbr 3y ago
It's absolutely fantastic that we have so many runtimes, so quickly, to the point where we have an awesome list. However, given that the usefulness of chatbots depends more on the model being used, what I would find a lot more useful i
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Amazon Clinic(clinic.amazon.com)
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by lgbr 4y ago
I can't recommend the long HDMI (or HDMI-over-CAT5, or long Thunderbolt) enough. The noise isolation you can achieve by doing so is unbeatable. Even moving anything short of a 1U server into a neighboring closet means no perceptible no
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by lgbr 4y ago
> Every household driving an F150 would appear to the grid like bring 7x houses online That assumes every household fully recharges that F-150 each day, meaning they drive at least 300 miles per day. Instead, I think it's generally
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by lgbr 4y ago
The dark spot near the border with Belgium is possibly due to heavy use of Starlink after the flooding last year, and therefore Starlink is probably over provisioned there. The dark spot in Bavaria I can't be certain, but I suspect it&
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by lgbr 6y ago
Artifactory does precisely this. It's particularly useful since large organizations want to minimize their risk of, for example, a Docker Hub outage preventing an emergency hotfix. In Artifactory you can setup 'remote repositories
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by lgbr 6y ago
This is absolutely valid. I do welcome diet sodas as an alternative to regular sodas, but that concerns health outcomes, not environmental concerns. This problem applies to any drink that isn't tap water (including bottled water), so i
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by lgbr 6y ago
This is something that really needs a source, because after a ton of searching, all of the analysis that I can find refutes this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4135487/ https://pubme
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by lgbr 6y ago
> Anybody up for joining the "reduced-calorie segment"? In all seriousness, yes, I'm actually thrilled at the continued prominence of sugar-free drinks. We still have an obesity epidemic going on, and sugar-free drinks to
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by lgbr 6y ago
Cert-manager has great support for a number of providers[0] including AWS, CloudFlare, Google Cloud, and Azure. I recommend this not just for internal IP setups, for actually for all setups, since DNS verification is more robust than HTTP v
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by lgbr 7y ago
> Then you get to grocery stores, and you have to go to the “fancy places” to even get the baseline of quality you see in the rest of the developed world. All the chocolate is bad. While I agree with you on other points, I take issue wit
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by lgbr 8y ago
Berlin really isn't that dense, and it's surrounded by Brandenburg, which is a whole bunch of flat, empty land. Furthermore, the rail network exists to handle extra capacity, so there really are no more physical constraints on bui
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by lgbr 8y ago
Furthermore, if you want to return the item, you're entitled to a full refund, rather than being forced to pay for shipping for an item you didn't want.
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by lgbr 8y ago
Several years ago, I got over my burnout by changing my work environment. I left a demanding job with equally demanding coworkers for a job which I was slightly overqualified for with coworkers who appreciated me and what I do. Completing s
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by lgbr 8y ago
> How are we supposed to trust autonomous cars when the smartest engineers on the planet can't automate the condition of not diving a plane into the ground. Easy: air travel is still safer than car travel by orders of magnitude. Tre
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by lgbr 8y ago
At the current point in time, this is probably limited to ARM-specific workloads (such as if I need to run ARM binaries, or generate ARM binaries without the hassle of cross-compiling). The long term, however, is where things start to get i
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by lgbr 8y ago
> not a middleman that tries to profit Brave doesn't profit directly from advertising revenue. BAT is completely separate. The point is, specifically, to remove the incentive for the current trend of stealing your privacy by offerin
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by lgbr 8y ago
Have you tried Termux on Android? You essentially get a Linux container, complete with package manager. I have actually used it for development on the road.

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