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by bickfordb 1y ago
Maybe it's time for new document formats and browsers that neatly separate content, presentation and UI layers? PDF and HTML are 20+ years old and it's often difficult to extract information from either let alone author a browser
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by bickfordb 1y ago
In my experience in my city [Portland, OR, US], PE owns most of the large clinics (NW VCA, BluePearl, Banfield). There are still a lot of smaller vets, but it's harder to get an appointment with them and most don't do urgent care
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by bickfordb 2y ago
It's a similar effort. Flutter is a cross platform Dart UI framework that compiles to WASM for the web and also has Android/iOS build targets. The web version can be laggy on trivial examples. I would guess this younger Rust fr
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by bickfordb 2y ago
I have a smalltime Airbnb and I feel the same. Their only value is in their marketing distribution and they take 30%+. Their hosting tools could be worse but are not particularly great. Usually things work fine, but they have zero /
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by bickfordb 2y ago
If you use glass, whiteboard material / laminate (formica eg) you can use any kind of marker and then dissolve it with alcohol or acetone.
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by bickfordb 2y ago
Nope
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by bickfordb 2y ago
It is a big win, but in the Oregon version at least it excludes large sectors like vehicles which is obviously a big expense to most US consumers. Hopefully it will continue to be extended.
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by bickfordb 2y ago
There are a lot of semi-consumable ICE components that these comparisons often omit: mass airflow sensors, oxygen sensors, gaskets/seals, emissions components, starter batteries. These often cost in the $100-500 range/ea and the
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PG: SV cooled on Democrats due to Wokeness and Warren appointees(twitter.com)
4 points by bickfordb 2y ago|20 comments
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by bickfordb 2y ago
They seem to work well in Rust.
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by bickfordb 2y ago
The market is already distorted by the telephone and cable companies being granted local monopolies.
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by bickfordb 2y ago
FWIW medical workers often belong to unions
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by bickfordb 2y ago
If they're no longer a technology company, won't that crush their multiple?
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by bickfordb 2y ago
It's still there?
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by bickfordb 2y ago
This article is from the school's PR dept
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by bickfordb 2y ago
Seems smart. They'll continue to have all the leverage since they own the tech and will offload all the operational risk
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by bickfordb 2y ago
Does this mean that if Hollywood shifts to AI for production that none of it will be copyrightable?
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by bickfordb 2y ago
I use beancount and I use ofxget for some accounts and then keep a CSV archive for the rest and wrote some scripts to sync them into beancount when a new file shows up. It's annoying to download everything and keep it organized, but i
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by bickfordb 3y ago
We also didn't require you to enter recovery programs.
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by bickfordb 3y ago
The engineered flooring is generally superior technology: 1. It requires less hardwood (rare) for the veneer, and uses softwood (plentiful) for the plywood base. 2. It can be milled exactly to one thickness. Generally with solid hardwood f
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by bickfordb 3y ago
The site is huge. It's two miles square
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by bickfordb 3y ago
Many plastic items are single use items with a low lifetime. Recycling all these short lived single use items is absurd. An Amazon box lasts 1 day and then needs to be turned into pulp again and made into a new box if everything is recycl
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by bickfordb 3y ago
Ruby web applications have a history of absurdly high resource usage and failure stories compared with something like Go. If the selling point of this is for individuals and small businesses to run this instead of AWS/GCP, it may not
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by bickfordb 3y ago
This is the interesting part of all of this. The meat of Terraform is in its provider ecosystem. Anyone can make a new frontend (or even fork the existing one?), get rid of all the warts, add the missing encryption features gated under en
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by bickfordb 3y ago
Aside from reducing the blast radius of any Terraform state (split by envs, then by teams as you grow), I highly recommend using cdktf with Python for Terraform projects. Huge timesaver
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by bickfordb 3y ago
I'm surprised there isn't a reasonable setback for fences abutting public lands like this
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by bickfordb 3y ago
A good example of this is Youtube
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by bickfordb 4y ago
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by bickfordb 4y ago
What could possibly go wrong with a centralized password database
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by bickfordb 4y ago
real talent leaves

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