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by bradfa 3y ago
Natural gas supply companies incentivize their sales channel to install the connection which is needed in order to consume the gas product. This seems like business 101. In many places, heating your home and your domestic hot water is stil
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It's not that unpopular of an opinion, just maybe it's unpopular within the HN demographic. I work remote. I rent an office about 3 miles from my home. If I continue to work remotely for 10 years, my total cost in rent (which in
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by bradfa 3y ago
What was your used Tesla buying experience like? Did you buy from a dealer or a private party? Any issues with the transfer of ownership? How has the car held up other than the battery? You say it has wear and tear like a 10 year old car
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This! At a previous job we moved all our less expensive products to capacitive touch buttons and resistive touch screens because it's tremendously cheaper than physical buttons. Cap touch buttons or physical buttons both require a cir
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Yes, it required me to chat with a bot to do the process. It could have been a form but some of the choices for which recalled products and how many of each recalled product would have likely made the form rather convoluted. Chat bots like
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I chatted with a chat bot this morning for getting reimbursed for a recalled product. It went fine. It was quick and easy. Chat bots type a lot faster than call center pay-grade humans.
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25 years ago when I worked in a small shipping department for a computer reseller we had amazing experiences with UPS. Everything just worked. Their software was good, pickups were on time, delivery end was never a problem. Our computer co
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Trailers are also often parked for a while so could be a viable recharge scenario for the trailer batteries.
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If you want color, so far I've been happy with an HLL8260CDW going on almost a year. I previously had HLL8350CDW which I very much liked even though it destroyed a fixing/fusing roller after about 5 years (repaired with ebay part
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No one is smoking?
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You can use a normal file system on top of UBI. There's some rather large caveats, however: http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_ubiblock
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Thanks! I had started watching what I thought was the SpaceX live stream on YouTube but turned out just before launch to switch itself into some computer generated video of a fake Elon trying to scam people about crypto. Ended up switching
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With 2.8kHz of bandwidth, the requirements to obtain a license to transmit, and the restrictions on commercial use in the ham bands, I don't think your fears are warranted. I definitely think the ham bands would get more active for da
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The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk. It’s the only programming book besides K&R that I routinely reference when doing my job.
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My first internship in college, on my last week, my entire organization got laid off. We all went out to lunch at 9am, none of the engineers went back to the office that day. My first job after college, I was there for 6 years, we had I t
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You will almost certainly experience a layoff in your first few years of post-college work. You may or may not be affected directly by the layoff, but either way your first layoff experience makes an impact on you. You will watch others a
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I think it's totally unreasonable for a mapping app to ever assume you can travel at a higher speed than the posted speed limit, but they all seem to do it.
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I've consistently observed the same creeping ETA on Apple Maps. Sometimes it's blatantly clear when planning a route when the estimated travel time and distance results in needing my average speed to be higher than any speed limi
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Exactly. And if we get UBI *AND* I have saved money then I’m better off than those who didn’t. Even if I only saved a little.
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Most of the IO comes out of the FPGA fabric. This seems both very interesting but also kind of annoying. In a past life looking at these Polarfire chips, one downside of this kind of configuration of IO was that the bus between the FPGA fa
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It depends on how many kids you have. If you have 4 kids all needing full-day daycare, or even partial day to wrap around the school hours, it can often be less expensive AND significantly more convenient to just hire a nanny. Wrap around
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Doesn't feel that different than how YouTubeTV prices have steadily risen since it's introduction. It's now $72.99/month. In 2017 it was $35/month.
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Microchip seem like a likely buyer to me. They have been buying up various silicon semi-specialty companies like mad over the past 10ish years and they already have some RISC-V SOCs for sale. If Microchip could offer a semi-custom chip des
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Having professionally been doing embedded/kernel/systems development since 2011 and a variety of software and hardware engineering before that, I'd say embedded software pays decently, but I'm definitely not making $400-
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Again? https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/01/14/will-amds-seattle-pu...
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Ticketmaster is the official ticket seller for the NFL. It would be interesting if the NFL decided to do tickets themselves, as they easily have the scale and sway over the venues and teams. But there’s probably not enough money in it to ju
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I got a fiber Internet connection installed recently, the contractor ran a 300 foot long cable from across the street. When he finally had it all routed, tested it was good, then somehow he broke the end of the fiber when connecting to the
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The refurb market seems like a crap shoot still. I tried to buy an "excellent" rated refurb iPhone SE from backmarket.com 2 weeks ago but returned it for a refund because the physical quality of the phone was VERY clearly NOT exc
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It depends. For me, I consider any phone which holds very important access to data critical to my life (my email, texts, signed in apps which can spend my money, etc) to be unsafe to use once there's an update available for supported i
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These are generally referred to as "pay to play" awards. They're very common. People who are in the industry generally know which awards are real and which are just "pay to play" type. But for customers who aren&

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