Alex3917

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by Alex3917 4y ago
Thanks, this is great! Do you have any opinion on the trustworthiness of the Bento or Roboxes (generic/) builds?
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UTM doesn't have vagrant support yet: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/12518 I basically just want to continue using vagrant, ansible, and ubuntu on my M1 -- what's currently the best sta
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I think this reasoning is sound. As someone who has exclusively used Dvorak on computers for decades, I currently see no reason to switch over on iOS. Now maybe the next generation will find that Dvorak on iOS is no worse, and if they use i
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> with no citations, only mentioning their own book as a "source" at the bottom. The book has hundreds of academic citations. IMHO it's the single most important book for any entrepreneur to read.
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To Squash or Not to Squash – Musings on Invasive Species(youtube.com)
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> Playing "solved" games is not as exiting. The effect is most clear with boardgames I think. While this is probably usually true, a good counter example is Go, which actually become more fun after computers surpassed the abili
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> It occurred at a unique time in history that is unlikely to be replicated again. You could build the same game but players have largely moved on from this style of MMO. I don't necessarily personally disagree with this, but this c
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> Toyota is probably only company who understands that poor people can't afford BEVs and will be left behind. EVs have vastly less total parts and therefore will soon be more affordable.
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If I search for "bicycle repair shop", all I see are images for car repair shops.
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> Wolf, Sub-Zero, and Viking Sure, but they get worse reviews, and I can get 8 years of insurance on the appliance to cover if it gets hacked for less than the cost difference.
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> never, ever give a TV an internet connection, wifi password or dhcp lease. The problem is that it’s becoming unavoidable. Right now the only oven with a good Consumer Reports rating requires a Wi-Fi connection, so it’s either get that
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> the odds of you being a good programmer are pretty low You're a good programmer if you've made something good. Most people who are good at leetcode have never made anything significant. When is the last time you saw someone w
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> reducing the startups ability to get funded more than Microsofts. So for 99% of startups (who don't raise venture capital anyway) there is no difference. But for Microsoft there is a huge difference, which is why the big tech comp
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Startups generally have only very limited (if any) access to money anyway, so making money more expensive for established companies is probably a net positive for folks who are legitimately trying to start real software businesses.
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No, but it's currently in beta in the API, so possibly it will come in the future: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi/...
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Same, it’s literally my most used app. I’m growing container figs in a low-soil medium, so if they go even an hour too long without water they freak out.
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> I see two interpretations, and I’m guessing you mean the second one In order for Bitcoin to remain secure, the $$$ amount spent on electricity to mine Bitcoin has to be commensurate with the value of Bitcoin purchased on the markets. B
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> The Bitcoin lobby is already to strong in the US. Banning PoW would benefit Bitcoin; it's the main thing preventing it from becoming more popular right now. Having the government force the Bitcoin community to do what they've
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> Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven FWIW the proper term is "data-informed."
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> The upfront cost is slightly higher, the print quality is slightly decreased but the long term satisfaction is greatly enhanced. OK but they still stop updating the drivers after 3 years, which is the main problem. Otherwise they would
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> Are drone rescue-assist stories collected somewhere? The K2 story is on YouTube. It’s pretty interesting.
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Amazon doesn't even take down products that give kids lead poisoning. If a foreign nation had imposed Amazon upon us, we'd consider it an act of war.
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The reason they were banned from Harvard is (allegedly) mainly because the researchers were having sex with the undergrads, not because Leary was telling kids to drop out. IIRC it was Andrew Weil who wrote the article about it in the crimso
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> The trouble with TDD is that quite often we don't really know how our programs are going to work when we start writing them Even if you know exactly how the software is going to work, how would you know if your test cases are writ
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Most big companies started retaining email indefinitely after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and then started automatically deleting it after the Sony hack. I would expect the balance of whether to retain or delete email to continue to change
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The reason they ask you questions like whether or not you would be able to find someone guilty if you knew they might get sentenced to death isn't because they want to put you in jail overnight. They just don't want you on the jur
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Maybe something to do with the new Gmail redesign that seems to have rolled out today? Or at least I just got it today, despite the fact that it was ostensibly released a month ago.
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> People drastically overestimate what will get you moved out of the pool. If you say in voir dire that you wouldn't vote to convict even if the person is guilty, you're not going to get put on a jury.
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> Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? Bad compared with what? They certainly convey a lot more information than a randomly generated gravatar.
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Are Bowery Farms Strawberries Worth $1 Each?(youtube.com)
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