TheSmiddy

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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
I pay ¥2 for 6 hours at 400w (2400w total) which is ¥0.83/kwh or US$0.128. My household electricity is about 30% cheaper so it's a pretty good deal.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
Your fraud scenario is just straight up not going to happen. It's significantly cheaper to run on electricity instead of fuel so it's in the drivers best interest to charge as often as possible.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
I'm in China where everybody rides ebikes and my building has a free for all parking space where 2/3rds of the parks have no chargers and the spots with charge ports all have qr codes you scan and pay with wechat to turn the port
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
Link where the thread isn't broken: https://mobile.twitter.com/IamRageSparkle/status/12808925350...
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
Yes, I believe I was registered. Airbnb takes a copy of my (and any fellow friends staying with me) passport and does a few extra checks compared to stays I've had in Australia. Having said that I was staying in a pseudo-serviced apart
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
I just finished staying in an airbnb for a month in China and didn't have to go to the cop shop. I've now just rented an apartment and did the registration no issues, they didn't highlight any gaps on my travel record so I as
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
how often do you drive more than 50 miles in a day? If it's rare enough there's a point where it's financially worth driving electric daily and then renting an SUV or whatever for your camping trips.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
During pause you can use that time to drag the forward people (including host) back to the oldest guest so people can "manually sync" if they ever choose to.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
It's funny because at home apps bypassing my dns annoys the hell out of me but in China which is where I currently am DNS-over-HTTPS is necessary just to get online some days. I just wish there was a manual captive portal check button
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
Or respect your customers and make it a round $400
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
If this results in them leaving twitter then is that not a positive? We can't save the people who have already gone down the rabbit hole but we can prevent more jumping in after them.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
You can in most countries that have proper consumer protections. Cars in Australia are often advertised with their "drive away" cost which includes all state and federal taxes etc.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
Yes 10 or 15 years ago driving from Adelaide to Melbourne would require a halfway pit stop to manually clean the windscreen because the wipers weren't able to cope with all the bug guts. Last year i did it and didn't need to even
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
When the carbon tax was introduced in Australia the tax free threshold was increased from $6000 to $18,000 and additional tax benefits were given to low income and welfare recipients. Anybody earning less than $80,000pa at the time were bet
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Supermicro all have firmware patches for their current line of servers that replace the java kvm with html5 versions. I assume most other manufacturers are following suit. It would be exceptionally rare to buy a brand
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
This is an argument for less levels of taxation, ie sales tax should only be at state and not county level. Almost every other country in the world works fine without bait'n'switching their citizens at every single transaction.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
Exactly, our garbage is made up of the most valuable elements on earth, as proven by the fact that they were used to make useful products, eventually we will be mining garbage to extract the value once the cost is cheaper than traditional m
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
In Australia there are no uncontrolled intersections (that I am aware of). Every single junction clearly marks who must give way and we don't have any 4-way stops, instead using roundabouts in these situations. It's possible that
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by TheSmiddy 7y ago
Same thing happened in 2010 with digg. I was aware of reddit and primarily using digg, then digg completely changed the way you could submit content in a way which favoured big publications and there was a huge exodous to reddit.
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by TheSmiddy 7y ago
The OS knows the destination app (and with the correct apis the context within that app) so this would be trivial to implement once the base exists.
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by TheSmiddy 7y ago
It's only the traffic that is encrypted. It's still cached on the server and the client.
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by TheSmiddy 7y ago
I bought a weighted quilt inset and use a breathable quilt cover specifically for summer sleeping because they're much cooler than a regular doona and I like some weight on me. I got a 10kg version at the recommendation of the store bu
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by TheSmiddy 7y ago
Your TV probably has a setting to turn that light off, or do what I do and put black electrical tape all over anything with a useless status light.
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by TheSmiddy 7y ago
To maintain partner status you need to sell a minimum quantity of products, with a tiered system that grants better discounts and more benefits for hitting higher tiers. This has the flow on effect of managed service providers recommending
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by TheSmiddy 7y ago
This is the new licences available to partners: https://assetsprod.microsoft.com/en-us/mpn-maps-software-iur... I work for a silver partner and this literally doesn't affect us. There aren't many "good f
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by TheSmiddy 7y ago
Can get a $5 vps and set it up as a reverse proxy and vpn host then vpn to it from your locally hosted server to get around that. Not "free" but this method allows you to use whatever fancy hardware you have which would be signifi
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
buying a $35,000 Tesla has the equivalent cost of ownership of buying a $26,950 ICE car. It's not a massive amount of mental gymnastics. I definitely don't agree with Teslas practices of framing it that way, I'd rather they j
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
Personally I find that Google is great for "social knowledge" like the examples above, but for work related troubleshooting/documentation/error codes/etc duck duck go brings me better results. If I'm searching
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
I use a Lenovo T480 for work and disabled the trackpad so I just use the nipple + hardware buttons when I'm not using a mouse. When I need a new personal laptop I'll probably buy the same model. https://www.lenovo.com&#
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
The original trolley problem of "should you let 5 people die or actively kill 1 to save the 5" has genuine philosophical merit, these however are just so contrived they can't possibly offer any meaningful insight while at the

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