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by zimbu668 12d ago
Printers are just a loss leader for toner.
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by zimbu668 11mo ago
Of course lots of AWS services have hidden dependencies on us-east-1. During a previous outage we needed to update a Route53(DNS) record in us-west-2, but couldn't because of the outage in us-east-1.
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by zimbu668 2y ago
"Most scholars, on this basis, assume a date of birth between 6 and 4 BC" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus
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by zimbu668 2y ago
In college the course on Maxwell's equations was taught by Dr. Lord. Every time I walked in to class I thought "Let there be light"
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by zimbu668 2y ago
> nobody would bother re-testing all those n-1 commits after the fix was added I do.
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by zimbu668 2y ago
You should do this instead: git push —-force-with-lease repo branch
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by zimbu668 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706164
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by zimbu668 3y ago
I would occasionally manage to start a bash shell without executing my profile, which means HISTFILESIZE is not set and bash would truncate my history on the first command I ran. zsh history may have a similar problem.
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The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer(wsj.com)
13 points by zimbu668 3y ago|1 comments
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Black Holes might not exist after all, new study shows(anomalien.com)
4 points by zimbu668 3y ago|10 comments
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by zimbu668 3y ago
> if a card is in the Done column, you can assume the > code is in version control, deployed to production > and checked to make sure it didn't explode on impact. I guess you've never seen a team argue over "Defini
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by zimbu668 3y ago
Can't speak for OP, but I've heard snails are a recurring theme in medieval manuscripts: https://justhistoryposts.com/2017/11/13/medieval-marginalia-...
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by zimbu668 3y ago
Not quite the same, but you may own CA taxes on stock options if you earned them while living in CA even if you don't live there when you cash them in. https://www.upstartwealth.com/blog/will-you-owe-ca-tax-after..
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by zimbu668 3y ago
I don’t have one myself, but every time I hear the engine restart at a stop sign I’m tempted https://www.idlestopper.com/product/idlestopper/1
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by zimbu668 4y ago
Careful what you say, you’ll end up with a hundred copies of this https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Nothing-Patrick-McDonnell/dp/031...
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by zimbu668 4y ago
I didn’t.
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by zimbu668 4y ago
#1 is Klarna, the company that will let you finance a pizza over the next 4 months. Not sure I'd be trumpeting that as innovative.
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by zimbu668 4y ago
> The people above you suck. No, actually they don't. In the time I've been there they've 10x the size of the company. Maintained majority control through multiple rounds of funding. Significantly increased salaries. Provi
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by zimbu668 4y ago
I know how to multiply by 12, thanks. I asked the previous commenter if the $340,800 actually made a difference and he hasn't replied.
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by zimbu668 4y ago
So you saved, $28,400 a month. Did that make a material difference to the company? I often tell people above me I could save us $10k a month at AWS and generally the response is, "Yeaaaaaaah that's great, could you do XYZ instead
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by zimbu668 4y ago
Just found this, you can buy a share of the original Listerine Mouthwash royalties from 1881: https://auctions.royaltyexchange.com/orderbook/asset-detail/... They’re asking $2.1M and they earned $140k last year.
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by zimbu668 4y ago
The fact that they don't indicates it would probably produce more net emissions than not building it.
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by zimbu668 5y ago
Ideas like mining bitcoin with otherwise non-economical natural gas? Too late: https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/datacenters/
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by zimbu668 5y ago
No, they ratified the amendment which had already abolished slavery, a purely symbolic act. The ratification was unanimous so it's not like there was any opposition to it in 1995.
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Was Jeffrey Epstein a Spy?(rollingstone.com)
120 points by zimbu668 5y ago|61 comments
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When Orcs Were Real(treeofwoe.substack.com)
201 points by zimbu668 5y ago|219 comments
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by zimbu668 5y ago
This reminds me of an article from years ago about SOAP: The S stands for Simple http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple
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by zimbu668 6y ago
Could be a region thing. us-west-1 for example is notoriously slow to get new features, including this one. us-east-1 has it.
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by zimbu668 6y ago
It's called a dividend, it's not a piggy bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend
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Ex-Ars Technica tech reporter Peter Bright convicted of soliciting minors(nypost.com)
2 points by zimbu668 6y ago|1 comments

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