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by AdamN 5y ago
Captivate screens behind each seat with 'educational' content and pre-roll/banner ads. "We're giving kids extra education through new technology and they also learn about the value of chocolate sugar milk at the sa
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by AdamN 5y ago
I tried setting up my Mom's computer a few weeks ago. I can't imagine anybody using Windows these days, truly awful CX.
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by AdamN 5y ago
This PEP doesn't really stop functionality for nearly 3 years and even then it's only with the newest Python version so people can stay on the older version for another 2-3 years of further transition fully supported by the Python
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by AdamN 5y ago
+1 Change their flag to the Ukrainian one (or the UN or whatever else) if they want to show they're on the side of humanity.
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by AdamN 5y ago
I'd watch this - seems like solid YouTube content
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by AdamN 5y ago
There's also the lifecycle cost of the fuel and the power station itself to account for. This is higher for nuclear than for solar/wind.
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by AdamN 5y ago
I'm not sure how true this article is, hopefully some others in Africa can speak to their personal experiences. For me, when I lived in Kenya English was the lingua franca for official/business activity. Some older professional K
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by AdamN 5y ago
Chestnuts are also perfect for a Winter risotto. The undertones of cooked down shallots with the texture of Arborio rice and the flavor of chestnuts are a perfect combination.
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by AdamN 5y ago
+1. Why focus on earnings when revenue growth is high?? Obviously you don't want to go out of business and unit earnings need to be reasonable for when you shift from growth to extracting value but if people will fund it shoot for th
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by AdamN 5y ago
KUOW ftw!
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by AdamN 5y ago
100 sheep per day ... with a flat blade since you don't have sheers yet ... while doing all the other chores required to maintain yourself ... accounting for the time it takes for the sheep to grow a coat long enough to sheer in the fi
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by AdamN 5y ago
Your online social milieu is likely getting poorer over time. In the olden days, online meeting grounds like Twitter were elite locations. Now they're commons. I notice this the most on Reddit where I'm sometimes reminded how m
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by AdamN 5y ago
The lightning to 1/8" adapter is <$10 and very small. Works 100% of the time.
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by AdamN 5y ago
You're aggregating capabilities pretty broadly. While it might be true that a short person might be able to walk farther and get some special thing, or a small person might be able to get into a nook and get some special thing, or a b
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by AdamN 5y ago
Reminds me of a CS professor telling me that a COBOL programmer will never go hungry ... and it's still true :-) MS stack will be high quality and used by clients with $$$ for the rest of your career. With that said, any serious non-MS
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by AdamN 5y ago
You might be interested in the concept of 'satisficing'. A product needs to be significantly better to replace an existing product that is satisfactory. Your point is slightly different though and can be seen with M16 still being
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by AdamN 5y ago
I might be wrong but my understanding is that the patients' blood was tested on legit equipment so they did get valid results. It just wasn't using the Theranos technology. So investors (and Wallgreens) were defrauded because th
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by AdamN 5y ago
Why not a stock certificate :-) https://www.apmex.com/product/50847/enron-corp-stock-certifi...
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by AdamN 5y ago
Solar flare would be awesome for coders. Some huge percentage of enterprise applications no longer have source code (they're just binaries with the code lost to the ages). All those binaries destroyed with the disks and insufficient d
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by AdamN 5y ago
I have a milkman in Seattle in 2021 - works great!
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by AdamN 5y ago
I remember a friend who's dad knew somebody from school who had a great way to make money. He would 'guarantee' he could get somebody into one of their top 3 schools because he had inside contacts. If he was unsuccessful he
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by AdamN 5y ago
No single country is capable of producing the newest chips end to end. Lithograph machines, raw materials, clean room builders, educated workforce, and the scale to do each of these economically are simply not available in one location. By
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by AdamN 5y ago
reverse camera is mandatory by law in the US
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by AdamN 5y ago
Yeah, everybody focuses on Word but that's the least interesting one. It's all about Excel and there is no competitor that has hundreds of thousands of trained users and works so well that it is the standard itself. Luckily I don
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by AdamN 5y ago
That's all risk and no gain. If you're successful you've saved no money and just moved platforms. If the community thinks FOSS is an end in and of itself you've accomplished something but only if the community thinks s
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by AdamN 5y ago
Meaning it's more acceptable to not comply with cultural standards: i.e. keep standard hours, have a job, not marry/have kids, or whatever else the standards of behavior are. I'm not convinced though that developing countries
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by AdamN 5y ago
The meta point here is that spaces are the type of thing that work fine ... until they don't. This class of bug is best avoided entirely, especially if there is an easy workaround (not using spaces).
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by AdamN 5y ago
I generally don't buy any food from China - simply don't trust the health regulations. Seaweed I get from Japan or US, pine nuts - anywhere but China. Of course I'm sure I'm getting quite a bit from China when I'm
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right?
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There's some truth to it ... but why is that a bad thing exactly?

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