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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I recently recreated a facebook account merely because many companies offer more prompt customer service through that platform. Instead of filling in some broken "contact us" form and wondering if you get a reply it's just on
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Cloud providers (especially Amazon) can definitely be a bit greedy / shady about pricing and lock-in, but the key thing is that they have room to lower prices whereas a bespoke data center does not. Most data center machines run at a t
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This is why I only use .com and .{country code of stable country, like iceland}, as the likelihood of shenanigans on these is so low. .io definitely is one of those cool CS street cred domains, but 2x- or 3xing the price is just ridiculous
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Yes I'm so glad this guy posted, as I think removing myself from brokers is somehow less fun than doing my taxes, bordering on trying to negotiate a car deal during 'rona times!
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https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li... It's a pain to do, but it really helps to opt out of data broker lists. I have a reminder to do this once per year, and only the "diff" of
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Even things like not having to budget for groceries and the occasional going out to eat is something I often take for granted. I stay frugal, but have never really had to hem and haw about whether I should spring for the organic produce or
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Do most people ask that their vehicle carry furniture and appliances on a regular basis? Honestly any time I have a larger item either being hauled to my place or away from it, it's someone else's vehicle, e.g. delivery of a new a
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What 4-cylinder crossover is getting mid-20s (at least hwy mpg)? Certainly a lot of these lil crossovers with natural-aspirated 4-cylinder engines can really strain to heft a bigger vehicle up from a stop (I'm looking at you, Subaru!),
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
A couple of things come to mind that I'm struggling with now: 1. how to install outside of NixOS, mostly to use home-manager, in a flake-y way using the new `nix profile` thing that supercedes nix-env. The few folks I've spoken to
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How portable is an app using serverless? With VMs (and especially containers / k8s stuff), you can just pick up the whole app and ship it off to another cloud provider (except if one uses custom offerings). Can serverless functions be
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I see a lot of fellow millenials thinking that the only way to escape the poverty trap that is being chronically burdened by onerous rent payments is to "play the game", i.e. to do all of the house hacking stuff to by MFUs, live-i
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Yes, a common construction are these five-over-ones, with a steel-reinforced concrete first floor (for retail) and then wood framed 5-story apartments above. This podcast goes over what an absolute disaster this type of construction is [0],
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Ultimately this comes down to the communities. The Emacs community, although perhaps lacking the sheer number of vscode users, is incredible. There are folks like Henrik Lissner who are almost pathologically addicted to making Emacs awesome
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Alas, in the US we are not as wise to the ways of steel-reinforced concrete construction as you guys are :(
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Is there a dearth of skilled labor for building houses? As a "youth", I don't have any insight into this as I'm a renter for the foreseeable future, but my parents' and their friends complain about how difficult it
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
mRNA vaccines are not really new [0]. This article [1] specifically shows that we've used the mechanisms of mRNA vaccines since the 70s, and at least modern iterations of mRNA vaccines since ~10 years ago. Even if they were new, they&#
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Yeah this is straight up propaganda. Anyone who goes to the homepage for this site can see that it's clearly not aligned with the truth, as a pro-fossil fuels propaganda journal. It's shocking how many other comments in this HN th
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It's so strange how people are looking to truly foreign substances / drugs (from ivermectin to bleach to SSRIs now) compared to a vaccine, which is basically just a bunch of mRNA and a few preservatives. That is, a bunch of stuff
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Yes it is incredibly heavyweight, but it's very batteries-included in its approach, which helps zsh newbies get started. For those who want to shed the heavyweight omz stuff, I recommend zplug [0] [0] https://github.com&#x2F
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The Netherlands is the place I always point to when people say "no we can't get rid of car-dependent infra in the US". They completely undid the mess of cars and now it is like visiting another planet, where bike lanes often
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I always use competitive coding as an example. There are children in Ukraine / India / Russia / wherever who I'm sure will always be able to whoop my ass in these competitive coding things. I try really hard and get nowh
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Drew also gave this talk about NUMA optimization that I found enjoyable (from the same conf): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NSzkYSX5nY
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Let's hope someone comes up with a coin staked on the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere!
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Honest question: is it possible to make a cryptocurrency that does not rely on some real-world scarce resource (e.g. chips, electricity, drive space)? This seems to be a cornerstone of what makes any crypto valuable in the first place (scar
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No matter how far I get in my career, I don't think it's even remotely possible to have that much fun at work on a regular basis. These dogs have dream jobs!
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I'm not in a manager position, but from a managee's position, I'd say the best approach is to make whatever process for advancing (in salary, title, responsibility) as clear as possible. You can't convince people who are
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Yeah it's too bad the world didn't go nuclear as France did. iirc they have a standardized way of making power plants off site and then assembling on-site, vs. the bespoke custom way they build them in the US (part of the bonkers
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iirc one main difficulty besides electricity is the cathode or anode material, as on industrial scale I think they may need to be replaced due to corrosion or something (again, not entirely sure). However, we really ought to solve that prob
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Ironically, "Bad News" is exactly the type of clickbaity title that is endemic in the bad news that the article talks about, e.g. "Bad News! You won't believe what happened next!"
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Do you think I'm anti-science? Hopefully the sarcasm of the parent comment was not lost on you. I wish Lymerix was available because I no longer want to have to hike or bike in the great outdoors head to toe in clothing design to avoid

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