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by bckygldstn 3y ago
Eh I only have 2 servers with them. I had difficulty with one becoming unresponsive right after setup, but after grabbing a replacement I’ve had no issues with them for the last year.
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by bckygldstn 3y ago
OVH has a US West Coast datacentre that is probably going to be the most similar: https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/prices/ They were the only provider I could find to match my Hetzner SX64 specs for less than 2x
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by bckygldstn 3y ago
In hindight, it was an unrelated and needlessly-negative statement that undermined the rest of my argument. But seeing as you asked, doormen hit some of the aspects of US culture I've struggled to adapt to as an immigrant of ~7 years i
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by bckygldstn 3y ago
A human has a level of accuracy and decaying memory appropriate for the task of improving security for an apartment building. They’ll stop a stranger walking out with a package and keep an eye out for your abusive ex for you. They won’t rem
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by bckygldstn 3y ago
What legal basis do you have for enforcing a $1mil civil penalty on stalkers? I'm not a lawyer, but it seems out of proportion to any damages sustained to Tile and likely unenforceable (not to mention uncollectable)? (FWIW: I think ID
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by bckygldstn 3y ago
I opened Google Maps at dinner time last night and searched "Chinese", it took me to the country of China. Also yesterday I asked Siri "what's 1300 mils in ounces". The text-to-speech worked properly, but instead of
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by bckygldstn 3y ago
In my experience, it's not common in English-speaking countries outside US/Canada. "Leave" is common, or just "holiday", or non-abbreviated "time off" (the "paid" is implied!)
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by bckygldstn 3y ago
Perhaps the OP is referring to laws preventing employers from asking employees to work while on holiday: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-law-in-Germany-or-any-other...
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
> stage left / stage right Outdoor recreation often uses climbers left/right and skiers left/right (even when there's no rock or snow) to orient direction relative to slope, which is similarly descriptive and clear to
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
I’ve had plenty of conversations like this with friends over a beer or coffee, incredulously diving into some bizarre aspect of their work or life!
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
Also wrong are "a hour" and "an cats". Sometime Spanish uses one word ("hablo") where English needs two ("I speak"). Comparative analysis of language isn't taboo [1]. It's just vastly more c
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Parametric Disaster Insurance(content.naic.org)
1 points by bckygldstn 4y ago|0 comments
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
The US and Canada since 2018. The EU since 2022 (for new models: existing models get until 2024)[1]. As for why in the US: literally too many kids being killed by their parents in SUVs and trucks [2]. [1] https://bmdv.bund.de&#x2
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
- Applications and DBs run in docker containers. Deploying is basically git pull && docker-compose up --build -d - Apt auto-upgrades, other software updates are handled in docker. The only software on the machine is haproxy, git and
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
You'll have no problems getting by in English, either professionally or in day-to-day life. Most software business is officially done in English, and most people you'll interact with speak very good English! But if you're p
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
The great thing about a long generalist career history is that you can extract highly specialised threads for different applications by highlighting different parts of your experience. I'm personally a generalist in the web and data sc
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
From [1] it looks like * You pay $400 for 3 years of coverage. * Must have the bike locked and file a police report. * They can choose whether or not to attempt recovery. * If they choose not to, or fail to recover the bike, they'll re
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
Ah to clarify: VanMoof make (very expensive) e-bikes with integrated GPS that's used mostly for "smart bike" features. I doubt the researchers could afford a used VanMoof for their study, and the company only tracks their own
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
There's a Dutch bike company (VanMoof) that offers a Theft Recovery service for their bikes: they have teams of people that track down the bike (using GPS primarily) and basically steal it back. They used to produce monthly videos of b
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
1. I see reddit's bodyweightfitness routine [1] recommended frequently (though I personally lift weights so don't have experience with callisthenics) 2. Keep in mind that most influencers, actors, athletes, and trainers have gaine
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | SF Bay Area, CA | Remote Hi HN, I'm Andrew. I have 10 years of experience with Django web development. Some projects I've worked on recently include • Performance optimization of Django apps to get below 100ms respo
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MapLibre Bounty Directions(maplibre.org)
1 points by bckygldstn 4y ago|0 comments
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
As an immigrant to the US I hate the window screens and have removed the ones I can: it feels like being in prison not being able to truly open the windows. We live in an area without mosquitoes or bugs to speak of, but all the apartments h
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
You (the consultant) sets the rate you get paid. Toptal adds a secret margin on top of that which is what the client pays. I haven't done Toptal in a while, but my rate was always higher than that. I got pushback from from Toptal'
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
It seems to vary greatly by browser. Based on this SO answer [1] MS edge only supported 2000 characters in 2017, while Chrome currently handles 40 million characters (of compressed, encoded json). [1] https://stackoverflow.com&#x
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
> most of us are more concerned by the identify theft To give a single datapoint, I am much more concerned about automated discrimination than identity theft. (I do agree with you though that the bill ought to cover more information). &g
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
All models are wrong, some are useful. CICO is neither a religion nor a complete explanation of metabolism. It’s a super simplified model that leads to some useful practical conslusions (eg it’s easier to eat less to lose weight than exerci
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
It’s accounted for in the “calories in” component: the calories printed on the side of a package are the calories absorbed by an average body, not the total chemical potential energy of the food.
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | SF Bay Area, CA | Remote Hi HN, I'm Andrew. I have 10 years experience with Python web development. Some projects I've worked on recently include • Turning machine learning notebooks into production http apis • Buil
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Used some creative adjectives so that [Carvana's] AI wouldn’t flag it(old.reddit.com)
2 points by bckygldstn 4y ago|0 comments

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