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by cbhl 7y ago
The magic trick here is that Starbucks Rewards -- their "free" loyalty program -- requires using a Starbucks Card (virtual or physical) in order to make your purchases. Under the old system (prior to ~Apr 2019) you had to make $15
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by cbhl 7y ago
A lot of anime have hyper-realistic buildings and backgrounds; I would expect that these would be built with the same CAD tools as real buildings.
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by cbhl 7y ago
My read on this is that this is really "price simplification". If you want to run Windows on the big public clouds, you used to have three options: (1) rent a VM with a license bundled into the per-minute/per-hour rate (2) br
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by cbhl 7y ago
Indeed, and the first line of the merge description: "Merge floppy ioctl verification fixes from Denis Efremov."
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by cbhl 7y ago
Looking at this again, I just realized that the person who mailed the patch that triggered the orphaning of the driver is also the person who is now volunteering to maintain the floppy driver.
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by cbhl 7y ago
I've had ADSL2 and VDSL on Bell Canada lines in Ontario, but last I checked (maybe four years ago?) I was under the impression that in SF proper AT&T wasn't able to get permission to build out the nodes to do FTTN/VDSL in
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by cbhl 7y ago
That depends on whether you get ADSL (6 Mbps per copper phone line, resold AT&T, but a real phone line) or Fiber Optic (gigabit fiber optic to the apartment, but you get an additional box that exposes a phone jack plugged into the ONT i
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by cbhl 7y ago
90% of Canadians may live within 100 km of the US border, but the reverse does not hold true with the Canadian border :)
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by cbhl 7y ago
> auto repair shops Apparently the city governments want lots of these. They call it PDR zoning; apparently auto repair shops pay more for non-college-educated workers than other jobs.
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by cbhl 7y ago
Presumably the IMAP or Exchange server is only exposed to the LAN. (It's non-trivial to configure these properly to be exposed to the internet...)
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by cbhl 7y ago
If you're using fixed point, wouldn't you just as easily substitute 16-bit integers instead?
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by cbhl 7y ago
It's possible to run IP networks over HAM radio, and there's an allocated IP block for such a purpose. Though I'm not sure how practical it is; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet suggests the speeds a
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by cbhl 7y ago
I wonder if Go just needs syntactic sugar that's similar to the RETURN_IF_ERROR that's common in Google C++ code (for example, in protobuf: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master&#x2
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by cbhl 7y ago
In my personal opinion, you should move off of Google Play Music, but not because of the dependency on Google infrastructure. https://9to5google.com/2018/05/23/google-play-youtube-music-... https:/&#x2F
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by cbhl 7y ago
There's a link to https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/investing... which discusses this: Vanguard is one of the two Right Answers(TM). My experience with roboadvisors is that the pretty user in
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by cbhl 7y ago
Broad compatibility is important, but is there someone who has actually hooked up a USB floppy drive to an Android or iPhone or iPad and read files off of it?
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Cloudflare's Time Service(developers.cloudflare.com)
1 points by cbhl 7y ago|0 comments
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by cbhl 7y ago
I would argue that the causes in SF are more complex than you portray. For example, race relations and racism are a factor, which is why NIMBYism is so strong in the Mission. There's even a "no-fault eviction map" that is dep
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by cbhl 7y ago
dang and the other moderators are happy to update submissions to original sources when folks leave a comment and the original source better satisfies HN's goals. But I do acknowledge that's a relatively recent change (last few yea
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Poster layout could communicate findings more quickly(npr.org)
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by cbhl 7y ago
What I don't understand is that Lyft is suing the city of SF. It literally should just take the Ford GoBike stations, and convert them into bike parking for only their brand of "dockless" bikes. Even if they don't have e
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by cbhl 7y ago
Friendly reminder that "T1" Bluetooth Titan keys were recalled last month; they don't work with iOS 12.3+. Details are available at https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/titan-keys-update.ht...
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by cbhl 7y ago
This is true, and it is dangerous (once the key fails, folks get locked out). I don't use security keys with such providers. It would be nice if someone made a library that made incorporating Webauthn login into an app as simple as usi
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by cbhl 7y ago
The way $dayjob makes this work is to issue a nano security key for each computer, and then a bluetooth security key for the iPhone (Android phones can use both NFC and Bluetooth security keys, but iPhones can only use Bluetooth security ke
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by cbhl 7y ago
From what I can tell of the notice PG&E sent me in the mail, they're not turning off the lines permanently. They're temporarily turning off the lines for a few days so they can fix the problem (trimming trees near power lines,
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by cbhl 7y ago
Not doing retries is a cost thing -- last mile is expensive (human drivers, fewer packages) and retrying delivery multiplies that cost 2x, 3x or more. Bufferbox (YC Summer 2012) was trying to reduce this cost before Google Shopping acquired
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by cbhl 7y ago
"Database" seems like the wrong word for the headline. Did they delete the training data (the photos and labels)? The models trained on the data? Both? The article only appears to talk about the training set. If they only deleted
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by cbhl 7y ago
Americans also call US customary units "imperial units", even though they're not the same as the British ones.
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by cbhl 7y ago
Yes, it says the contrapositive. I feel like a lot of advice of the form "it's cheaper to eat at home" comes from fairly privileged folks (middle class and up). If you don't a priori have a kitchen, then you might have t
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by cbhl 7y ago
"The most inexpensive fast food item is almost 2 times more expensive than eating at home" My read of this is that if you can save more than $1000/month by not having a kitchen (say, you're in college or a high-cost-of-l

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