GrantZvolsky

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by GrantZvolsky 4y ago
Does the lid open a full 180 degrees and is the hinge sufficiently strong to support the lid if propped up against a wall?
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by GrantZvolsky 4y ago
This thread has revealed an interesting cultural difference, with me being in the minority that gets hot water from a remote provider, as opposed to having a heating system and heating it myself.
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by GrantZvolsky 4y ago
If your water provider says it's potable I'm not going to question it, but I have yet to see a provider that makes such a claim about their hot water. It is difficult to make a statement that would apply worldwide, but where I liv
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by GrantZvolsky 4y ago
Hot water pipes don't have the same potability guarantees as the cold pipes, so this practice would unnecessarily increase your risk of poisoning.
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by GrantZvolsky 4y ago
The banana equivalent dose is misleading because potassium doesn't accumulate in the body.
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by GrantZvolsky 4y ago
Sorin[1] is based in some London repair shop. It is probably viable because he repairs cheap laptops among other things. He also takes mail orders, but I haven't seen him mention any contact info in his videos. [1]: https://
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Dell XPS13 RAM Upgrade (7390) (2021)(gregdavill.com)
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by GrantZvolsky 4y ago
^ edit: To elaborate, I believe ANSI is the correct layout for US International, but unfortunately more often than not, when I ordered US International, I got an ISO layout (n=2 out of 3). This leads me to believe that the term is ambiguous
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by GrantZvolsky 4y ago
If anyone from Framework is reading this: It appears as though the image[1] accompanying the US International keyboard on the US Framework Marketplace[2] is inaccurate. It seems to be an ANSI keyboard with the word 'gr' crudely ph
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by GrantZvolsky 4y ago
As with other manufacturers, keyboard availability is determined by the region. If you import one from the UK, you'll have different keyboard options. On top of that, the US marketplace has different keyboards available[1]: https:&#x2
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
The model is deliberately limited in its ability to generate images of people.
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
It seems that technology-wise, there is more proximity between GDS and the other departments, which is what I was alluding to. This is based on my observation of the various github repositories, with no insight into how the work is organize
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
GDS[1] and HMRC[2] don't have much in common besides the fact that HMRC uses GDS's design system. [1]: https://github.com/alphagov [2]: https://github.com/hmrc
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
Without the ability to open your laptop screen 180 degrees, it can be difficult to create an ergonomic workspace on the go. I would recommend opting for a model that does have this feature to make travel a little easier on your body.
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
From what I've seen in Oxford and Munich, scooter drivers are quite considerate in these cities. Oxford: - requires a driver's license - capped at 12mph - highly granular 0/5/8/12mph zones (boundaries are a bit spot
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
If Moore's law continues for a few more years, we'll probably see offenders fined automatically with the use of omnipresent traffic cameras. Since the scooters have number plates just like cars, it isn't infeasible to identif
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
It wasn't necessarily weakly encrypted. The key may have been compromised, which I find more likely.
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
Opening my ThinkPad e590 all the way and using a pair of push up bars[1] as a stand. The result is an ergonomic workspace wherever I go thanks to the top of the screen being slightly above my eye level (it wouldn't work with a smaller
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
ripgrep has been a godsend for my bash workflow. It feels impossibly fast when used on git repositories. The caveat is that by default it omits .gitignored files, hidden files/directories, and binary files.
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
Once upon a time, back in the Vista days, I was looking for a file. I knew the name of the file, and I typed it into the brand new Search Pane. I waited, and waited, and waited... Until I decided to run something along the lines of `tree &#
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
In other words, what all engineering professions have in common is that their practitioners solve problems difficult enough that merely finding solutions is a substantial part of the job.
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
Yes, this is it. I came up with the idea while trying to figure out whether any challenge is solvable in four guesses.
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
I was literally playing with the idea of 'Adversarial Worlde', as I also called it, yesterday! Except it was multiplayer with one player being randomly assigned either the role of the guesser or the role of the defender. Then I le
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
In a report published in July 2020, the British government's SAGE group predicted that lockdowns and social distancing would result in more suicides with the following reasoning[1]: > The lockdown is likely to impact most determinan
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
A better analogy would be HN greying comments that were posted from any device that wasn't manufactured by Apple.
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
The look was entirely different. Black on green IIRC. It's white on somewhat neon green now.
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
iMessage deliberately makes the text unpleasant to read. They could just use a green/blue badge to differentiate the underlying protocols, but instead they render the non-iMessage texts on a background that makes them slightly annoying
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
I used ORATE which was a hilariously bad guess, but surprisingly effective at pruning the search space in later rounds: Wordle 202 3/6 00000 0?0?? 11111
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
The paper does present an "Average American" comparison when it refers to Amazon Turk. The Turk workers performed significantly better on middle-school reading comprehension (RACE-m) while Gopher performed slightly better on high-
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
You took a similar path that I did with my personal website. Kubernetes, istio, redis, OIDC, redux, sagas, you name it. All this unnecessary complexity was, however, deliberate. It was an excuse to learn about all the interesting things peo

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