traxler

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by traxler 3mo ago
Genuine question: Do we have data that collaborates the theory that AC's prevent heat deaths and it's not due to confounding variables like the air in Nevada being dryer (dry heat is more bearable than wet heat) or the people in N
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by traxler 3mo ago
The headline is rather misleading, it indicates a specific intent. But all the article reports is that there are overseas accounts that post about Alberta separatism because it creates clicks and hence money. Nothing to do specifically with
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by traxler 4mo ago
I mean how hard can it be to have a walking pad in a shower...
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by traxler 6mo ago
I've seen a page offering the latest of AI news from HN and my reaction was basically yours. I wish I could have a HN frontpage with everything but AI news. Both postive or negative.
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by traxler 7mo ago
Really? I guess my neck of the woods is more backwater than I thought. While paying by phone is by no means rare, paying by card is very common.
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by traxler 7mo ago
I very purposefully added both the "and maybe you legit do" and the fact that I'm a bad case study.
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by traxler 7mo ago
I have troubles discerning how this answer connects to my post. Are you putting me in the third kind of people?
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by traxler 7mo ago
Sadly true, while not being a phone person, I have started using my home banking phone for tasks I used to do on my desktop. Still never leaves my office.
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by traxler 7mo ago
Huh, interesting. I only have those 2FA popups for card payments online or in apps, never for payments in stores.
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by traxler 7mo ago
For all the "My Banking Apps don't work", I'd raise one question: Do you really need access to banking apps on the go? I get that it can be handy and maybe you legit do, but I'd wager most people don't really d
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by traxler 7mo ago
Not wanting to discourage you from trying Graphene, but the icons are probably not a good reason. Can always install an alternative launcher and icon pack on stock android. Running Graphene for a long time now, everything works perfectly fi
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by traxler 8mo ago
When I first heard about unikernels my hope/thought was that people would go back to using more bare-metal servers for unikernels.
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by traxler 8mo ago
I've found the idea of unikernels interesting for several years now, is there a tl;dr on why they don't seem to have taken off, like at all? Or is it all happening behind some doors I don't have access to?
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by traxler 9mo ago
Dirty white.
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by traxler 10mo ago
> But it almost reads like a chess Grandmaster in the 90s telling up-and-coming players to not practice against Deep Blue because it will teach you bad habits. No idea if chess grandmasters did do that in the 90s, but frankly it would ha