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by nrki 3mo ago
Thing is, the meal deals are _everywhere_ in the UK. There is no "high cost of living" priced Tesco. Or Sainsbury's. Or 5 other supermarkets.
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by nrki 5mo ago
> we refunded all affected customers Notably missing from the postmortem
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by nrki 6mo ago
Huh? LI is standard on like every internet router there is.
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by nrki 10mo ago
Very neat tool. Thank you for your efforts! I am wondering how state replication works on the backend. The design mentions using crdt and a gossip proto, but I'm not sure what is actually implemented as it is a tad vague. I haven&#x27
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by nrki 2y ago
Love the part about the CEO being a Musk sycophant. Right down to the similar language in tweets: "Some of SF got poor sleep. We must fix this."
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by nrki 2y ago
Most rural houses in Australia are built this way. They still burn down. I don't think anyone really understands how intense wildfires can get when fanned by wind. It will destroy almost anything. See: Black Saturday bushfires, Austral
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by nrki 2y ago
Immich is amazing, truly great software, and it's oss
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by nrki 2y ago
Not really, Uranium itself isn't dangerous or even that scarce. Super-enriched Uranium, however _is_ super rare, expensive and desirable.
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by nrki 2y ago
> Oppie, a scientist at the peak of his field, willingly handed over the most powerful weapon known to humanity to... a person with a less-than-stellar moral code: President Truman As opposed to ... - not handing it over? Prison, then th
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by nrki 2y ago
Well, this thread was about setting a boundary of 9-5...would people go to a startup expecting that? So...definitely for larger orgs, where "emergency availability" would be a big red flag, unless one explicitly opted into a (comp
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by nrki 2y ago
Symptom of an organization that doesn't plan and instead of budgeting for 1.3x employees for outside hours support, budgets for ~0.9x and extracts the rest with "expectation".
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by nrki 2y ago
APAC transit costs :shrug:
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by nrki 2y ago
Or just Australian.
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by nrki 2y ago
Someone should tell REA about this!
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by nrki 3y ago
"Technically true" == true "Always a driver in the car" != driverless You often see waymos cruising around sans driver. That's real driverless.
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by nrki 3y ago
The Circle 's "completely transparent" vibes.
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French airline’s ‘dodgy flight plan' set system meltdown in motion(independent.co.uk)
3 points by nrki 3y ago|0 comments
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by nrki 3y ago
Many, small, cells _is_ 5G :)
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by nrki 3y ago
It's £5.99 or £0.01 if you buy two
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by nrki 3y ago
Our team, led by me and some others, negotiated hard when asked to go on call, that being a material change to our employment contracts at the time. We ended up with a generous $ stipend per on-call shift, as a % of salary, as well as time
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by nrki 3y ago
Really lucky this didn't start a forest fire.
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by nrki 3y ago
The US is one of very few (<2, inclusive) countries that has this "debt ceiling" malarkey. It's a political tool in the US, that's ita only purpose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_limit
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by nrki 3y ago
> Technically it is replaceable It's not user-replaceable. It would not be _that_ difficult for Apple to keep a SODIMM slot free, or even come up with a new standard - as they are wont to do. Apple sacrificed upgradability in the na
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by nrki 3y ago
Linux is just another way for Microsoft to make money. They will never embrace it fully. It's a dish rag they wring out and use.
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by nrki 4y ago
Thanks for the links, but I have problems with that visualcapitalist graphic: - carzoo, walmart, getir, carvana, doordash, hellofresh, tesla, rivian, peloton: not really tech companies. Mostly teched-up logistics companies. - the twitter la
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by nrki 4y ago
You're right of course, messing up my units again.
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by nrki 4y ago
300MJ ~= 83kWh which is like, $2000 in CA
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by nrki 4y ago
No https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1516829759333969924
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by nrki 4y ago
The Twitter Files are much less earth-shattering than what Elon implied with the response we are talking about. That is, the planned, deliberate muzzling of political figures _for their political views_, ordered by other political figures o
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by nrki 4y ago
I think others have already replied with basically what I would have replied with, but to be clear: I was not talking about "Twitter Files Part 2", I was talking about the comment thread you posted. My hyperbole was not necessary,

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