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by bmelton 2y ago
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond
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by bmelton 2y ago
Or perhaps the octopus regard us as under-evolved for having done similar
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by bmelton 2y ago
Thanks. Another counter-claim I've seen to this is that WPEngine used to provide developers and sponsor events, but no longer do. Any insights there? Not trying to come across as interrogating or particularly concerned with the answe
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by bmelton 2y ago
I've seen conflicting claims made. Everything from "WPEngine gives nothing" to (in this thread) "WPEngine sponsors a dozen developers" [1] I do not use either Wordpress nor WPEngine, so I don't have any stake i
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by bmelton 2y ago
You're right. Apologies for the error. The correct figure per day is ~$1.70. $35 was for a month's worth of meals.
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by bmelton 2y ago
Apologies - I left out some words in my comment. The meal-per-student cost was roughly $1.70 a day. The $35 figure was for the month.
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by bmelton 2y ago
Sorry, I was accidentally very confusing. It cost $35 to deliver a month's worth of those meals to a given student
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by bmelton 2y ago
It costs $35 to deliver 20-22 meals of that quality to a given student. One every school day for the month. Effectively, that meal was delivered -- SOMEHOW -- for a cost of $1.70 Edit: I see that not all of the words in my thought made it i
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by bmelton 2y ago
I remember seeing a brief documentary on Youtube, detailing how school lunches were made in Japan. They just followed the lunch production for a single day, but it was enlightening. The menu that day was teriyaki yellowtail tuna, with roast
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by bmelton 2y ago
I'd never used Fastmail and as a sometimes-UI guy, thought I'd check out their 30 day trial to see what all the praise was about. I saw your comment before going, so kept that in mind. With a brand new user account, I was not at a
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by bmelton 2y ago
> i discovered that there was a arc featured called easels, easels > are a whiteboard like interface, and you can share them with people, > and they can view them on the web. when i clicked the share button &g
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by bmelton 2y ago
`install -y` is a fun analogue to consider here. A "Hey, this is really going to delete files. If you're just playing around here, maybe try it with the --dry-run flag" seems sane and (so long as it's asked for) means le
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by bmelton 2y ago
Fascists can fight wars with other fascists, so that's not a counter to the argument. I think it's a debatable point, but if I were to steelman the argument, LBJ significantly expanded federal authority through his Great Society p
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by bmelton 2y ago
Arguendo, having to type extra characters to enable the functionality that the tool says it will do in its very name seems backwards to me.
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by bmelton 2y ago
With the additions of Gorsuch and Jackson, we have the most 4th amendment friendly court we've had in a long time. That said, it still looks like a 5-4 tossup, with a clustering that will likely confuse the media. I'd wager Gorsuc
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by bmelton 2y ago
Hobby Lobby's CEO provided a handy list of reasons why they do not use bar codes, none of which have anything to do with them being marks of beasts https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hobby-lobby-mark-of-the-be...
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by bmelton 2y ago
What strikes me as the likeliest implementation of a fair-market system is what we have in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) system, which is that the bureaucracy of ensuring fairness is so high that we end up with $400 tablets cost
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by bmelton 2y ago
This seems... unsafe? I get that it isn't your fault if someone rear ends you, but the best advice I've ever hear on the roads was "be predictable." Stopping abruptly seems like a sure-fire way to cause an accident. I do
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by bmelton 2y ago
This just further illustrates OP's point, of how very limited this market segment must be The buyers of this product are people who: - spend enough time in their car to want streaming audio - spend money on phone and internet
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by bmelton 2y ago
I was recently looking at starter cars for my daughter as a college graduation present, and I think you'd be surprised how far down-market those features have moved. A brand new Toyota Corolla is $22k and comes with both. For older car
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by bmelton 2y ago
Or it means that the people who can afford fast phones and expensive internet are capable of buying a $300 car stereo with AA/CP capability. My 2001 Jeep Wrangler has both
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by bmelton 2y ago
What a weird critique. American or not, if you don't have a car you're probably not in the target market for a CarThing I purchased mine without any intent on using it in a car, and in fact I never did, but it was clear that I was
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by bmelton 2y ago
Ekaros answer is definitive, but if you didn't have those facilities and wanted to buy more time, you could beach the boat during a high spring tide (which is when the solar tides and lunar tides are in line), which would only occurs t
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by bmelton 2y ago
I think you'd be so hard-pressed in finding a court that would convict someone of "stealing" for having been in the path of trash that was jettisoned through two stories of your home as for the prospect to be infinitesimal
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by bmelton 3y ago
FWIW, I think there are even more errors in my figures. That said, I wasn't trying to bunk or debunk, as much as the grandparent's comment intrigued me enough to wonder "What if earthen barrier?" -- how much earth would
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by bmelton 3y ago
There are other issues with my work, namely that the central span is over 300m in width, not 30, as I had wrongly discovered, ergo the channel is passable even with my extremely half-baked solution. That said, the dolphin-bulwarks around th
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by bmelton 3y ago
Yes, and that's an important correction. I Googled the distances before the post but apparently got the wrong value. Danke!
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by bmelton 3y ago
Starting from xoa's calculations above, assuming you can pack a berm with well-compacted soil enough that it can absorb 1,000 joules per cubic meter, you'd need a buffer of something like 10 meters surrounding each piling with 3 m
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by bmelton 3y ago
There are similar warnings for sailing vessels, but because the standing rigging of the ship is usually kept in high enough tension that putting your hands on a pilon to stop a collision might leave your hands vulnerable to being cut off by
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by bmelton 3y ago
Get a waterpik or the Sonicare equivalent. Use it with very warm but not hot water and a half cap full of Peridex or mouthwash. My dentist told me I build plaque faster than most, and asked me to floss more (I hadn't been flossing any.

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