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by cbhl 5y ago
Their "backup credits" system has helped mitigate churn from price increases (and they've gotten very good at using it), but agreed that there are a lot of turned down / discontinued offerings in the unlimited backup spa
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by cbhl 5y ago
The ones that I have met did so because their children were into it. An hour or two a day adds up pretty quickly if you're building
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by cbhl 5y ago
I believe "pumped water" is the currently available battery technology that has the capacities required, but I'm under the impression that it can't scale further (new dams / loss of green space)
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by cbhl 5y ago
That sounds like an expensive mistake -- BRK.B doesn't show anywhere near the same price movements. One does not simply place a market order during after hours trading...
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by cbhl 5y ago
After reading the article I realized the photo is actually a depiction of two new maps being tested side-by-side and not a comparison of a new map to an old map (as I would have expected from the headline).
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by cbhl 5y ago
Extremely early days -- the pilot runs at four post offices (one in each of the four cities), and AFAICT it converts a single check into a single prepaid debit card (no reloading, yet). Hopefully it reduces some of the need for check cashin
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by cbhl 5y ago
I think that's the thing? Block programming languages come from folks who write "CS education" literature as opposed to the "new programming languages" literature. They're turing complete, because curriculums
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by cbhl 5y ago
If memory serves, a decade ago LabView was fairly involved in the robotics-education space, as a "real" block-based language that industry actually used and that kids could theoretically graduate from teaching languages into. Only
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Power-to-Power Hydrogen Demonstration Involving Largest U.S. Nuclear Plant(powermag.com)
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by cbhl 5y ago
OLPC also suffered from durability issues (repairs required sending the laptop back to the US, IIRC?) and cost issues (they never did hit the $100/unit price point) Even Raspberry Pi leverages the scale of Broadcom chips, which also ge
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by cbhl 5y ago
I fondly remember the 90s, when 8pt was a normal font size, and 12pt was considered "big". Folks have their system / browser font settings default to way too small now, but that's partially hardware folks' fault (pe
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by cbhl 5y ago
Which works fine until they buy a new phone and trade in or reset the old one without transferring the private keys -- and now you're locked out of your own account because you lost your second factor.
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by cbhl 5y ago
You know what else mid-career employees tend to have? Children. Constantly changing return dates is stressful for parents; you can't buy/build/sell a house that fast. Especially if kids have now gotten to run around in the bu
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by cbhl 5y ago
IIRC Japan's FeliCa (Suica, PASMO, etc.) is much faster because it had more stringent timing requirements in the spec because of how many people they needed to be able to walk through a turnstile, which increases the cost of the associ
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by cbhl 5y ago
I've had good luck with a Thunderbolt 4 Hub from Anker as of late. The hub has a power button of its own, and when the hub is turned off it turns off the attached USB-C-to-Ethernet adapter.
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by cbhl 5y ago
They seem to have started adding shoulder belts in some of the newer fully-lie-flat business/first seats on some airlines.
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by cbhl 5y ago
Beverages are interesting because there are now financial incentives to switch off of sweetened beverages: sweetened beverages are taxed higher in some municipalities (e.g. SF) and even banned in some school districts (e.g. PepsiCo has been
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by cbhl 5y ago
[disclaimer: my opinion, not that of my employer] Changes to road hardware for autonomous cars have been happening on civil engineering timescales. For example, Caltrans commented in 2017 that it was increasing lane line thickness from 4&
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by cbhl 5y ago
Understanding your audience (and your audience's knowledge) was one of the first things I learned in public speaking / rhetoric class in college... so I suspect more generic examples would hurt your ability to persuade folks. But
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by cbhl 5y ago
It looks like the source for their FBOSS agent that runs on switches will enable PTP in two kinds of supported switches: https://github.com/facebook/fboss/blob/master/fboss/agent/hw... They hav
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by cbhl 5y ago
The CUPS web front-end also has rough edges; Apple maintains CUPS these days and OS X now ships with the web interface on :631 disabled. If you still need a print server, it can be well worth the extra $100 or so to buy a business-class pri
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by cbhl 5y ago
Yes, apparently there will be an exceptions process: https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/vacc...
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by cbhl 5y ago
Feeling bad is not that unusual of a feeling here; achieving great things when you're young requires a combination of hard work, privilege, and supportive adults (parents/teachers/etc) and most people just didn't (or don
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by cbhl 5y ago
The key words in the headline are "collapsed condo" -- the reference is likely to this collapse that happened last week: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_building_...
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by cbhl 5y ago
Is H&R block actually an independent code base? The last time I opened it, it looked like a page-for-page copy of TurboTax, which made me wonder whether it was just a white-label reskin of the same.
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by cbhl 5y ago
They already did. Circa the early 1900s -- the Sears catalog offered kit homes by catalog. All the necessary parts would come, pre-cut, in a wax-sealed boxcar.
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by cbhl 5y ago
You want to err on the side of letting proprietary closed-source code bases (think "electronic health record" systems) adopt the reference implementation, even if they don't give back. Otherwise the proprietary folks will com
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by cbhl 5y ago
McDonalds does offer mobile ordering, but their own-branded apps are segmented by country. If my App Store is set to the US and I order in Canada (or vice versa) then I have to fall back to more traditional ordering methods like going to a
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by cbhl 5y ago
Zipcar was acquired by Avis back in 2013, and the service seems to have been in maintenance mode since then. In the SF area, I've been rather fond of Lyft Rentals. But if I'm traveling to other metros, it's back to traditiona
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by cbhl 5y ago
Planet Money had an episode where they used the metric "minutes of light per day's wages". Here's the transcript: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/503769949 But there are qualitative changes that are

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