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by aix1 4y ago
Yeah, I abandoned Android on my TV for this exact reason and now I use the TV as a dumb screen for an external streaming box (also running Android TV, but one that's less locked down and allows me to install my own launcher and control
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by aix1 4y ago
> We are seeing things we didn’t previously, particularly with cartilage injuries. I am curious about the process by which you ensure that the things you see are actually there and are not side effects of the enhancement?
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by aix1 4y ago
Transport for London once spent £39m (about $60m 2010 USD) on attempting to build two lifts (elevators) before abandoning the project: https://www.mylondon.news/news/local-news/transport-london-w...
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by aix1 4y ago
Quite an incredible compilation of photos on your reddit page, thanks for sharing.
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by aix1 4y ago
I agree that the title is not very clear. However, giving the author the benefit of the doubt, I guess what they're trying to say is "protect my H-1B and [my eventual eligibility for a] green card [that stems from my having an H-
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by aix1 4y ago
I just wanted to quickly highlight the difference in units in the parent and the grandparent: 0.1 uSv vs 0.27 mSv (i.e. three orders of magnitude).
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by aix1 4y ago
This reminded me of "Cog", a British Honda ad from 2003. Two tracking shots stitched together (~100 painstakingly set up takes, no CGI). Great stuff. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl2U1p3fVRk https:/&
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by aix1 4y ago
My thoughts exactly. I just ran a quick search of my inbox for noreply@ and almost everything it found is highly relevant. Just in the last few days: 1. a refund from an airline; 2. new health insurance policy documents; 3. a response fro
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by aix1 4y ago
> think of how professional wrestlers often cut their scalp on purpose Wait, what? (I am even hesitant to ask as I'm not sure I'm ready to hear the answer, whatever it might be.)
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My reading is that they're implying it'll be launched but under a different name.
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by aix1 4y ago
Another example is the geoduck (pronounced /ˈɡuːiˌdʌk/). Geoducks typically live to ~140 years and are considered a delicacy in certain parts of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck https:/
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by aix1 4y ago
What an amazing idea! (I've just submitted a request to have my local library added.)
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by aix1 4y ago
There's also https://www.usedbooksearch.net/
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by aix1 4y ago
One might also consider the quality of the power supply itself, and how much of a fire risk it is. Here is an (unrelated) PoE injector catching fire: https://community.ui.com/questions/Litebeam-5ac-gen2-poe-ada... It&#
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by aix1 4y ago
> you're going to be putting it pretty much near an outlet anyway so why did you think you needed PoE? I think the idea is to use PoE to power devices plugged into the router. These may or may not be nearby (think a PoE camera).
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by aix1 4y ago
> they’ve been known to rescind someone rescinding their citizenship ... > he had applied to restore his Chinese citizenship in 2018 Unless I'm misreading this, or if the latter claim is false, these are two very different scenar
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by aix1 4y ago
> Not necessarily. Learning enough English to understand the UI is much lower level than being able to converse. Exactly this. For example, I am learning German and have changed the language of my reading tablet's UI to German. Th
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by aix1 4y ago
> Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.) Of course there are differences, but both Dutch and English are West Germanic languages (desce
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by aix1 4y ago
I was referring to the tone adopted by what looks like a key participant in that discussion towards other participants. (I'll go back into my bubble now.)
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Wow, what a toxic environment.
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by aix1 4y ago
And also the very first item of the 3.12 plan (the subject of this post) is about tweaking the GIL.
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by aix1 4y ago
Language Reactor is an absolutely incredible tool along these lines: https://www.languagereactor.com/ I've been using it with Netflix and YouTube to study a couple of languages, with really good results. The gist is th
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by aix1 4y ago
> Combined, there was a 16 % higher risk of serious adverse events in mRNA vaccine recipients: risk difference 13.2 (95 % CI -3.2 to 29.6); risk ratio 1.16 (95 % CI 0.97 to 1.39). I am not a statistician, but isn't this saying that
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by aix1 4y ago
Yeah, I do wonder what might have caused such a massive difference between the two placebo groups (17.6 and 42.2 per 10K). Small samples? The confidence intervals look pretty wide.
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by aix1 4y ago
Here is an interesting historical note on the subject: http://www.gsmhistory.com/chapter/chapter-22-unintended-cons...
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by aix1 4y ago
That's right, for SWE positions there's only one set of interviews and each interview lasts 45 minutes. The composition of an interview slate varies by level and role applied for (e.g. some roles require domain knowledge and it&#
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by aix1 4y ago
I really enjoyed this video of Jordan describing the creative process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ozxnrs0BP4
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What's a "pass back"? I'm guessing some form of fare dodging, but could you explain the mechanics?
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Post-Brexit. Why?
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by aix1 4y ago
There are definitely issues with Google's comp system, but the fact that pay depends on location is IMO not unreasonable. Especially so given that there's often a lot of flexibility with regards to location. For example, I chose t

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