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by clairity 4y ago
no, drywall is basically chalk sandwiched between paper and provides no structural strength to a wall. studs provide compressive strength while plywood provides shear (and some impact) strength to walls. metal strapping is usually added to
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by clairity 4y ago
i haven't used windows since 2008. the writing was already on the wall back then about which direction microsoft was heading. you see the same thing happening with apple now. they have enough market dominance that they're no longe
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by clairity 4y ago
that's true for any sociopolitical system, and the reason why i push back on dichotomous thinking, especially "left-right" or "democrat-republican" in political discussions. this is the central exploration of Wisdo
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by clairity 4y ago
it's important to differentiate though. climate change is largely mediopolitically-driven narrative playing into the aims of the fossil fuel industry to delay action (e.g., carbon pricing). pollution is a concrete, immediate issue that
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by clairity 4y ago
> "...'the missing middle' (i.e. 20-30m high buildings)..." the missing middle isn't just what's between two extremes, so here, it's not 20-30m (~65-100ft, or roughly 6-10 stories) as you've state
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by clairity 4y ago
> "I don’t measure or actively mitigate carbon dioxide; however, we do run particulate filters 24/7." this is the right order of concern. pollution (particulate matter) is much more damaging to our tissues than CO₂, which
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Nothing Plans to Launch Smartphone in US to Take on Apple's iPhone(macrumors.com)
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by clairity 4y ago
exactly, this is the kind of essential detail that gets glossed over by climate zealotry, and also one of the reasons why we direly need to shift the conversation away from CO₂ (a gas that is essential to life on earth) to pollution (shit t
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by clairity 4y ago
dave's doesn't seem to do so any longer, but makes you sign a "waiver" for the hottest spice levels now even though they've toned it down quite a bit at this point. howlin' rays (which dave's copied) still
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by clairity 4y ago
there seems to be two main issues: (1) the uploading of thumbnails regardless of user settings and (2) the ability to watch a video stream unauthorized. the discoverer only details the first, to give anker time to investigate and fix the la
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Anker's Eufy Cameras Upload Content to the Cloud Without User Consent(macrumors.com)
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“The Yellow Car and Los Angeles”(thesource.metro.net)
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by clairity 4y ago
> "the stuff covering the bones to prevent bone on bone contact in joints" that's a meniscus, and coats the articulating surfaces (called condyles). synovial fluid in the joint capsule acts as a lubricant for the menisci.
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Apple Device Analytics Contain Identifying iCloud User Data(macrumors.com)
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The Anatomy of Visually-Hidden(tpgi.com)
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UnoCSS: The instant on-demand Atomic CSS engine(github.com)
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I used Notion to track my job applications(blog.andri.co)
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Set up a design system(thedesignsystem.guide)
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by clairity 4y ago
first, it uses "PM" in the title, but note that upbase is a project management tool, not a product one. project management tooling could be viewed as a subset of product, but in other ways, project management is a related, but s
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by clairity 4y ago
that’s called the income valuation method and is used extensively for commercial property valuation (along with the comparative approach). in residential, it’s usually a combo of cost approach (replacement value of house plus value of land)
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by clairity 4y ago
for perspective, i built a personal crm that told you who to engage next (via a dynamic contact list powered by interaction data streams). it failed[0] because this was not actually the biggest pain point of sales people (folks most likely
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Hanami v2.0.0.rc1(hanamirb.org)
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Jamstack Community Survey 2022 Results(jamstack.org)
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Experiments with Astro and the Shared Element Transition API(maxiferreira.com)
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by clairity 4y ago
looks like css nesting is really coming! "Chromium as of 109.0.5394.0 is updated with the new syntax."[0] the syntax has been finalized to allow an implied "&" so that it matches scss more closely than the initially
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Updated CSS Nesting Syntax to Avoid Common Copy-and-Paste Errors(github.com)
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by clairity 4y ago
i used to tutor mba students on such topics. i'd be happy to address your questions at my standard hourly rate.
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by clairity 4y ago
what you're saying makes sense (that this process difference could lead to differences in outcome) but i'd still hesitate against extrapolating to industry-wide conclusions from it. there may be other ways that checks & balana
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by clairity 4y ago
i think my critique is more about the idea the process differences have led to materially different outcomes between chinese and american building projects. i've seen some projects in my neighborhood being made with cheap materials and
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by clairity 4y ago
you can't simply classify servers or employees categorically as direct or indirect costs, but must consider how the inputs contribute to outputs. a janitor is a direct cost for a cleaning business but not for most others. if you'r

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