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by EMM_386 3y ago
"The closing is bad news not only for its employees and its customers, who generally used Yellow because it offered some of the cheapest rates in the trucking sector." Perhaps they shouldn't have offered the cheapest rates in
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> How do you overcome that? It will lower itself naturally. Less people in office buildings means less foot traffic to stores, which means less fewer stores will be enticed to rent. If nobody's renting, eventually the owners and inv
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> As the guy who released all those Phoenix and Firebird and Firefox versions, I can tell you with some certainty that it hasn't been 22 years yet. Yes, I was off by a year or so, I'm not making anything up. Two decades is a l
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> I'm really not looking forward to the future where every business has chatbot support. They are already quite common and frustrating. To be honest, I've had some good experience with some of them. Amazon's comes to mind
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I switched to Brave last year after 22 years of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox. This was purely for Chromium performance reasons (although it seems Firefox has made some major improvements recently). I didn't like leaving behind a
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> This is great news for workers in America in general. It really is. Workers in certain industries have been pushed to the absolute breaking point. This is exactly what unions were meant to solve. You can only take so much before you g
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> but unless you're qualifying what you said to mean something more specific You're correct. I've edited.
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That notification you got about the "20 minutes worth of fuel left" meant before they were forced to divert to the alternate. There are numerous FAA requirements about this depending on if you are IFR/VFR, the airport, the ex
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> I've worked with both JSON and Protocol Buffers and there is no way that merely changing from JSON to PB would reduce latency by 60%; not on an average request. Clearly other refactorings were undertaken to achieve that speedup.
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Yep, I was a Pheonix user from the beginning in 2002 ... where you just unzipped it to a folder and ran it. I stuck with Firefox for literally 20 years, only caving in last year due to noticeable performance difference (went to Brave). But
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> Someone made a change in a function I was calling, and it started throwing a new exception. If it has nothing to do with your code, why not either let it bubble up the stack or try/finally it to do whatever clean-up you need to do
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> The "look and feel" of the program usually gives it away more or less immediately. If you are talking about the base controls, then maybe. But there are .Net cross-platform frameworks such as Avalonia that can get you a mode
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> It is quite literally copying and pasting from StackOverflow Not necessarily. They've already said that certain emergent properties as the models have scaled beyond certain thresholds are responsible for some of the abilities. Th
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> but the second you start asking it to solve problems that aren't in its training database it gives you nonsense I would disagree. I use it for code and it comes up with unique solutions to my situations that certainly have not bee
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> explained that one of the batteries went kaput The article does mention "one" of them went out, implying they had more than one. As to why that was not sufficient to release the balast, that's another question.
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> another modpack that should be mentioned here is pyanodons For the sake of anyone's sanity, I wouldn't mention that.
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I installed Factorio 4 times, and uninstalled it three times. The slow pace at the start, and the somewhat lifeless 2D isometric graphics simply didn't do it for me. But the blog posts were fascinating, and people kept raving about it,
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Please, I beg science ... anything like this. I do what I'm told to do. Yet as the years pass it's been cavities, root canals, extractions, crowns, and everything else. The worst part isn't even the procedure, it's the
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> There is an algorithm for everything in aviation This is how I got my commercial pilot's license, and I'm a senior software engineer. It just "clicked" with my brain to follow specific procedures ("algorithms&q
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> Not at all. If you, for whatever reason, need to sell right now, putting in a market order in an illiquid market can cost you a lot. Are high frequency traders trading in illiquid markets? That would be surprising to me, it's not
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Public companies are out for one thing, and one thing only. Shareholder returns. It has nothing to do with CEOs "already being rich", their job is literally to run the company properly so that the shareholders make more money. Lik
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The common answer will be "liquidity". The honest answer is probably nothing.
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> I think the problem is that SPAs are limited in use, but a lot of devs ONLY build SPAs and that creates a mess. I am lead on an enterprise Angular project and among the reasons I went for it was due to the fact is is opinionated, but i
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They are not common, and "10 minutes of googling" isn't going to get you anywhere. Read my link to the FOIA documents. There are many redacted, for "national security". Why would they be redacted for US national se
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> If they said it would take 4 hours and you spent 10 hours on it, it’s likely your approach was ineffective compared to a more skilled engineer. They promised this person if they completed it, they would get an actual human response bac
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> It does seem odd they would want to set up a lab in close proximity to what they wanted to study The lab was nowhere near the site of what they were studying. The coronavirus strains came from a cave 600 miles away and brought to Wuh
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology was working on adding a unique furin cleavage site to a bat coronoavirus strain to make it bind to human ACE-2 receptors. This is factual, because the grant proposals are out there and DARPA in the US turned
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> It's not the 90s anymore ram is cheap, especially at those amount. I just wrote the exact same thing in another comment. That's what the problem is ... it's the old timers complaining that things aren't native, thus
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> Electron = slow and big install This isn't the 1990s. My username alone should show I went through a period where the size of the binary and the memory size mattered. These days with have gigabyte/terabyte hard drives and gi
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> Well, for me it IS helpful when the code block doesn't fit on single screen and I have to scroll AND there are multiple levels of brackets. Maybe they'll port this feature to VS Code. I tried it out, solves the problem you me

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