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by blamazon 4y ago
This part is at least good for me as an Embedded fan who has been frustrated by the irregularity of appearance: > NPR says that the investigative podcast series Embedded, which has appeared irregularly, will become the umbrella under whi
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Perhaps related, in 2017 a piece of I-85 in Atlanta that carried ~250k autos per day collapsed after a major fire and was rebuilt within 44 days: Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_85_bridge_collapse Timela
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't both of these links about proactive recalls to address something that may happen, whereas the Tesla news is more about pictures of wheels having already fallen off resulting in NHTSA investigati
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"McDonald's!" https://mobile.twitter.com/TheStreet/status/1612888601196433...
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Yeah, I really should have said good modern tow truck operators. Ah well. Thankfully every tow truck operator I've worked with has been very professional.
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That does remind me of one time when I was living in Boston and my apartment window was right next to a tiny "golden street" - no resident parking restrictions, no street sweeping, no snow artery, nothing on restrictions. Room for
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Eh, not full well. I myself have towed a Miata rear wheels down after removing the driveshaft. (In a parallel universe I very well could have been the tow operator that the commenter some levels up saw) My understanding is that re:Miata the
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by blamazon 4y ago
In theory the driveshaft could have been removed.
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It's amazing the vast library of very make/model/config specific "put this in neutral" hacks that are basically required knowledge for modern tow truck operators. Edit: If you'd like to see pictures and an expl
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I think generally yes, it's a worthy jump, but one reason why not - these types of jobs can take a serious toll on your body. This can be mitigated of course, just like how a desk worker can mitigate the risks of sitting for so many ho
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"The aurora borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?" https://youtu.be/JJl-mlUYNZE?t=2m7s
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Yeah... that's FinTech. I find it soothing to consider how little I trust my bank with those credentials when I'm handing them over.
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I'm not sure how folks regard privacy.com (the domain is a little... lofty?) but I use that to present my bank to PayPal as if it was a credit card. I change charge limits on the fly to be just a bit more than I need.
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Definitely other products at Walmart vary this way, I notice it as a frequent traveler across the US, I think practically all SKUs are fair game. Dehydrated camping meals are one thing I frequently take advantage of when I'm traveling
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Easy hack for night persons to be a morning person - just fly from the east coast of USA to the west coast, but continue to sleep and wake on the same schedule, just with a minus 3 hour offset. Works perfectly for me.
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A check? You're gonna pass on all those credit card points?
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Sure - again I'm a layperson so take this with a grain of salt but in USA the Sarbanes-Oxley act[1], one of the pieces of fallout from Enron and other corporate scandals, has various requirements for accurate and fulsome reporting of i
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In 2021 the CEO earned 82 million total compensation according to SEC proxy statement[1], then about 7-8 million for the next two named execs. [1] https://s27.q4cdn.com/619704647/files/doc_financials/2021&#x2F
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by blamazon 4y ago
Layperson here and I didn't look exhaustively but DigitalOcean seems to only be announcing 11% layoff publicly through investor relations documents[1], IE the legal minimum requirement (sarbanes-oxley etc) which seems a bit cold: >
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Think way more boring. On that page linked above, towards the bottom they show various construction project management integrations and use cases.
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Not that commenter but to draw an analogy-when I worked at Amazon, the name Tesla had cachet because people coming from there had data that they could survive (or thrive) in an even less structured, higher pressure environment, so they woul
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I choose to believe in an idealistic liberator of machine souls with a procrastinatory flair for bike restoration :)
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I would be right away dialing my congresspersons to demand an appropriate victory marking[1] be placed on the relevant aircraft. It would make for a great photo op someday when all this is just a historical footnote. [1]: https:/&#x2F
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Interesting! I'll have to visit sometime, sounds like a fascinating place.
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> My anecdote appears to confirm that bikes stolen in Oxford don't stay in Oxford. I've never been to Oxford but I'm guessing it has a lower density of bicycles per square meter than Amsterdam. Presumably it's easier
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I had a ratty bike in college that I never bothered to lock to the bike racks, because I had bought it very cheaply and I had insufficient money to repair it properly. Almost everything that could be broken while still remaining technically
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VanMoof is also responsible for the clever hack of disguising bicycle packaging as television packaging for shipment, as US carriers are much more careful with TV boxes than bicycle boxes: https://www.vanmoof.com/blog/e
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One way to see the level of indoor location precision available to them is to open the mobile app in-store map of a retailer which often shows a little real-time dot to represent your location. (Readers should note, of course, that this is
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One thing I didn't see in the comments yet: at many stores in my region you can pick up a discount card and not register it, and it will still apply discounts when scanned. Of course it won't work everywhere and it's a half m
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This could be flipped - I.e. using a Japanese domestic fuel cell[1] one could install a hot water heater in the home, and get 'free' electricity to run a server, that could possibly do something productive to offset the associated

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