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by ben7799 4y ago
Yes, it was always common for cleaning in the US.
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I thought bleach and alcohol were thought to not create pressure for resistance because of their nature. It is interesting they talk about benzalkonium chloride, that stuff absolutely destroys my hands. When the FDA shut down triclosan all
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I think this is a more common thing than people realize, people who have quite a bit of expensive camera gear and have been into the whole thing since the film days but yet are simultaneously really happy with a smartphone. For me multi-len
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Definitely sad as this is a site that has been around and is/was an important early website. However I don't really think it's much of a loss for photography. DPreview was always pushing the whole equipment acquisition as t
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The way this was handled where I went to school the DB class was basically presented as a history of database technology class where the CS fundamentals behind how each type of database works, what it's weak points and strong points ar
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This is definitely not a US problem either. Foreign CS degrees are extremely variable in their quality as well.
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I went to Rensselaer as well, graduated 24 years ago. I am mostly shocked at the stuff it is obvious other schools are not interested in teaching these days in terms of core computer science curriculum. Maybe the issues around high school
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I’m curious how long till we figure out if these algorithms are plagiarizing OSS or other code they come across like GitHub Copilot. It requires special tools to actually figure out if this is happening. Having seen tests with such tools
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Reader's price expectations had already dropped to $0.00/month before the Kindle newsstand launched. The newspapers had already set the price to free for about 10-15 years before Amazon launched the Kindle newsstand. The newspaper
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The NYT has held their quality standards up pretty well, but most of the newspaper industry had already raced all the way to the bottom by the time Amazon ever launched the Kindle newsstand. That ship basically sailed away a long time ago.
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They obviously care about the Kindle a lot with respect to reading books. They have regularly designed new hardware and the hardware has gotten very good and very affordable. The book side seems awesome. Magazines and newspapers have al
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The problem is a lot of the papers and newspapers want more money for a subscription to one single magazine or newspaper than the entire Apple News+ subscription. And especially the newspapers already dropped their content quality decades a
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This has been doomed from the start. I bought the first kindle that supported this when it was introduced, I think it was around 2010 and have always occasionally bought issues here or there thinking it would improve. The newspapers never
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It would have been Lego's responsibility during due diligence to do a software inventory of Bricklink and determine if there were liabilities around software licenses. It is a very common thing to do. Startups cut corners and don&#x2
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Where I work (we sell software) there's nobody in engineering with certifications. IT has all the certifications. I've been working since the mid-1990s and this has almost always held true. No one building the stuff has a certi
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I have several pieces of Schitt gear. I don't have one of their external DACs though, the digital pieces I have in my setup have very nice DACs that I like. Those internal DACs have similar chips to what is in the Schitt DACs.
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There's an equalization filter built into every single phono preamp to deal with this. It's called the RIAA equalization curve. Basically when you master the record you put something down that has rolled off bass and lots of trebl
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Boomers were responsible for the late 90s VR hype train. This latest round is a re-run. VR was talked up like crazy then and fizzled. Zuckerberg is old enough to have been an impressionable kid when that was going on. I remember being ver
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This is a huge factor! In my experience having a whole bunch of stock can be a really powerful anchor to keep you in place at your job even if you're not 100% happy. If the stock tanks that vaporizes really quickly.
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It's hard to see how anyone has thought FB/Meta would be a great place to work for a long time. They have been involved in so many shady things and have had such a "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" appro
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This already happened once when the USSR broke up. The world got through that. I think in the end you can't dismiss how much it is in every state's self-interest to not start a nuclear exchange.
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I do it too, also with a toothpick.
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Also that they can tell the difference between stirring with an expensive tool vs a toothpick or needle. Sure stirring grounds to break up clumps seems like a good idea. But it's mind boggling someone managed to name the technique aft
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Make it really really expensive seems to be a really critical part of the business model for audiophile product. I opened up Stereophile magazine on apple news recently and their was a breathless review of a $10,000 external DAC. They had a
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I don't think we're talking about the same thing at all. There were low rent artists that had seemingly recorded every single famous classical piece. Not just piano pieces but all kinds of stuff. They pop up in search results, b
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That's basically what made me switch. Apple has a huge advantage there, at least over Amazon.
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Another example is orchestras that record historical pieces with period correct instruments that are intonated/tuned/tempered in a period correct way as those changed over the years. Look up Well Temperament versus Equal Temperame
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Sure, spotify doesn't care that much about money. Must be why they are on the stingy side of compensating artists compared to Apple and just about every other streaming service.
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I've noticed there's a problem on streaming services where low quality artists basically spam the service with extremely low quality recordings of classical pieces. They often sound like they just got a midi file of the score and
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The 3 series had already been supersized by 2006. They were compact and then they started going back for a 2nd helping. There was a period where the 3-series gained about 1000lb of curb weight. A 3-series today is more like the size and

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