Detrytus

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by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, some stuff can be centralized, like burger production, or ordering million gallons of Coke. Some stuff, however, has to remain local, like labor, or real estate costs.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
How come? Did Google make a deal with a garbage truck company to put Street View cameras on their trucks?
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Women use dating apps to find casual sex, so obviously they go for looks. For real, long-term relationship they typically chose someone among their friends.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
"Extremist" does not imply "far-right", there are "far-left" extremists as well.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
But in sentences like: “Could you hand me that, please?” The word “please” seems redundant, “could you” already does the job of asking nicely. That is, from my perspective as someone speaking English as a second language.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I would love to give you some good examples, but if you could wait till tomorrow that would be great. Sorry for sneaky edit :-)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> Skill issue. What you intend as "clear" has an aggressive tone. That's one of the things I find weird about English. Just saying what you want in a straightforward way is considered "rude" or "aggressive&q
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by Detrytus 3y ago
If you anonymize data then it isn't soft delete anymore as you cannot un-delete it. What you are describing is more suited to generating test data for machine learning algorithms, or simply for developers that need to set up db instanc
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by Detrytus 3y ago
So, being in airplane mode helped it land safely? :)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Sorry, it seems I confused gross and net profit numbers. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/gro...
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by Detrytus 3y ago
EU will remain in "pre-Federation" stage for centuries, since, unlike USA it is composed of many nations, with language barriers, and historical grudges against each other. It might become temporarily united by force (that's
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by Detrytus 3y ago
LinkedIn is reverse Tinder: hot girls chasing nerdy guys and getting ignored :) Sorry, I had to...
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by Detrytus 3y ago
On this particular type of roundabout that would probably be hard to do: cars cannot circle on both lanes, outer lane will force you to exit.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Here's someone claiming that the required hardware support is already there since M2: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/466761/is-nested-v... I'm no expert so I cannot tell how reliable that info
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, it certainly depends on a person. If someone is a big guy he might need that much weight to even break a sweat, exercising with 120 lbs bar would do nothing for them.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
ARM, occasionally running x86 windows software
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by Detrytus 3y ago
That’s pretty much the only reason I bought it. Other than the cool, “space black” color :-) Benchmarks look promising
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Yes, once you discover limitations of logic you start hedging your bets by believing in illogical things :)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I just ordered M3 Max Macbook Pro, currently own M1 Macbook Air. The one thing that I found the Air lacking is running VM with Windows 11, which I need for work. All those translation and virtualization layers add up and CPU temp rises to 9
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Why is it so hard to believe that competing products are simply inferior? $93bn in profits might seem huge, but is it really such an outlier for a company of this size? Microsoft profits are over $150bn.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I guess most people who ride rail frequently have monthly passes, only those who use it occasionally have to buy tickets at the ticket machine. Also, isn't 25 cents a reasonable price for a single ticket, given that this was 1981?
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> Twice in my lifetime has the candidate who won the popular vote lost the presidency, with massive ramifications for the country I live in. I see this repeated often, and I need to say it's bullshit. The rules of presidential elect
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> once you have batteries or other long-term storage, but that's not good for your narrative, now is it? Well, I'd love to see that happening in my lifetime (I just turned 40, so that leaves like 30-40 more years for some break
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by Detrytus 3y ago
There's nothing "distasteful" about nuclear power, and renewables are quite unreliable (they only work when there's a sun or wind), so what Spain is doing is just plain stupidity.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Paying rent by credit card is common in the civilized world. The only exception I know is the US, where I had to use paper checks, as if we're still stuck in 19th century...
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Comparing to Barbados: they explicitly state in their "digital nomad" visa conditions: "You will not be liable to pay Barbados Income Tax and therefore will not be subject to any double taxation"[1] So they make it easy
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by Detrytus 3y ago
My mom worked as an accountant for a big meat-processing factory and she was partially paid in their products: meats and sausages :) Also, coal mine workers in my country used to get few tons of coal once a year (useful for heating their ho
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by Detrytus 3y ago
He's also much more likely to drive it at 3x the speed limit. Also, the fact that he's Formula 1 driver actually works against him here: F1 cars that he is used to are far more sophisticated technology, and F1 tracks are not your
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by Detrytus 3y ago
And that makes sense, since in some countries Master’s degrees are dime a dozen. PhD still means something
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Probably more storage space. Single Blueray is 100GB tops. not needing to switch the disks constantly would be a win.

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