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by avidiax 3y ago
I do this all the time, but the bags start mostly empty and get filled up with purchases over time.
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by avidiax 3y ago
You can do something fairly similar in Japan. They have luggage shipping services that are quite cheap and reliable, and have some days of storage built in. So you can take a train between cities without carrying everything, or maybe skip y
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by avidiax 3y ago
It is good that America is taking a hard look at its technology companies. They are stifling innovation by technical and legal means in a way that would have killed early Silicon Valley if it had existed at the time. The equivalent of IBM P
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by avidiax 3y ago
I have also heard that managers like to keep job postings for every role up if employment conditions create a flight risk. If someone gives their 2 weeks notice, there is a nice long pipeline of would-have-been ghost candidates for their ro
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by avidiax 3y ago
Yes, real life is always more complicated. It would be necessary to block sales of a personal or vindictive nature, so the local rich guy can't force their enemies out of their homes. And have robust antitrust. And correct the perverse
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by avidiax 3y ago
Imagine, for a moment, an even freer market. Someone opens a car wash in a central area. They self-declare a tax value for the land and its improvements. We also allow that anyone can forcibly buy that land by paying that same self-declared
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by avidiax 3y ago
> https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/I-m-an-employer-What-ca... Interesting that of the 4 options to address bad employee reviews, none of those options is: * Address the review by improving your company cult
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by avidiax 3y ago
I doubt this is the only request that NYPD sent in this matter. How did the other companies behave? The NYPD may have pulled this request to avoid scrutiny, but they probably didn't pull all the similar requests that succeeded. The pro
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by avidiax 3y ago
Is there some reason that open source is better? Even open source software is opaque. You can't know that the software is unaltered when it's running on a machine. If that machine does something other than produce and print a pape
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by avidiax 3y ago
> I occasionally wish someone would make a camera with a circular sensor that captures the entire usable field of view from the lens. I've had the same thought, though I wanted just a 1:1 square camera sensor. It could perhaps be &q
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by avidiax 3y ago
We restrict nuclear and chemical weapons, guns, cars, pills, etc. I think that as a practical matter, the genie is already out of the bottle. Any state sponsor that wants an unrestricted gen-AI model can have one, and can deploy the product
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by avidiax 3y ago
I used to own the TS-E 24mm II. It was a great lens, and using it was a process that made you slow down and consider things. But I think your pro photographer friend is right. Modern DSLRs and a really good wide angle (say 9mm or 12mm) will
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by avidiax 3y ago
> I’d imagine a small batter pack and motor could even make it vertical takeoff too. That makes it a helicopter. A gyrocopter has to have an unpowered rotor, which makes it much easier to fly, since there is no reaction force requiring a
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by avidiax 3y ago
The non-noobs also don't have all the skills. The main skill is being able to progress towards a goal even though you don't know how, by searching for others that have done similar things and adapting their instructions. Some star
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by avidiax 3y ago
I've done enough code archaeology to say that looking at the code to understand the design is a good way to understand that the two halves of the bridge didn't mate up, but there was a deadline, so... The design from a design doc
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by avidiax 3y ago
You are not wrong, but there is a material difference in scale, degree and speed of onset. Drawing something realistic on paper requires lots of skill and time. Photoshopping something is probably 10x less skill and time, or 10x the quality
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by avidiax 3y ago
Definitely is a valuable service, but probably hard to scale in the same way that the crime does. Professional thieves either chop the bikes up or collect them and export. It would be nice to have some kind of international theft settlement
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by avidiax 3y ago
It is 100% white if you ask for something that is a negative stereotype, like "a family eating fried chicken".
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by avidiax 3y ago
There could be a technical reason. At this point, Google's search ranking algorithm is probably a pile of interrelated heuristics designed to maximize revenue without sacrificing quality too much. It would not be simple to integrate an
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by avidiax 3y ago
If it is really good, it will probably hurt their Apple Cinema Display market. If it is not so good, what's the point? There are also many regulations and market issues with making a panel TV, everything from standby power regulations,
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by avidiax 3y ago
Is this actually widely implemented in WiFi clients and APs? I have never seen the "Enhanced open" indication in Android.
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by avidiax 3y ago
It is surprising that all the esoteric high pressure dielectric oil and pumping stations and monthly tests is apparently more practical than just a very large conductor that stays cool enough for plastic insulation.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Also that police learn literally nothing after 47 fake call outs. It is literally video game NPC level "intelligence".
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Can you factory-reset your phone and check if the issue persists? This is a big red flag for organizational dysfunction. When the QA team puts up a big roadblock to even filing a bug, wants to play 20 questions for every bug report, it
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by avidiax 3y ago
The conditions for those alternative stores are so onerous that it's not an effective alternative. There are significant financial costs and every app in that alternative app store has to be notarized by Apple after a security review.
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by avidiax 3y ago
The day that anyone from corporate sees employees "slacking off", the machine will be programmed to keep employees busy whether it matters or not.
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by avidiax 3y ago
30 year mortgages plus the 1/3rd of salary mortgage approval heuristic means that desirable real estate costs 10 years of salary. If we had 10 year maximum mortgages, real estate would cost 1/3rd as much, roughly.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Congress says: "Hey agency! You're the experts. Figure out and enforce the policy details." The agency: we have determined that this action by company X is against our policies. The courts: Congress said that the agency decid
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Its main reason to hire is to deny talented programmers to its competitors. Maybe they think that they don't really have competitors at this point, or rather, no competitors that can meaningfully reduce the market share in key are
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by avidiax 3y ago
Now would be the time to unionize. Nobody wants to join a union during a hot market. It's easier to negotiate for yourself at a new job.

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