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by consp 3y ago
> And for class size, our schools are huge! That's not a sole US thing. We have schools of hundreds to in the thousand here as well. Then again they build new buildings if the school grows too big (usually, not always). Usually the
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by consp 3y ago
Manuals are actually less easy to open, if at all, once you get to the point where you are mostly under water. The electrics will function for quite a while and when you get to the point where they don't the manual is not going to do m
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by consp 3y ago
The [capital, number, special] scheme reminds me of the passwords at my uni. Everyone got a plaintext stored (you could recover and get the pw back, I doubt there was any encryption) 7 digit (yes digit, not alphanumeric) password for your a
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by consp 3y ago
As a bonus the public chargers are about 2-4x as expensive as home charging (at least where I live), and that is without possibilities like solar power etc.
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by consp 3y ago
> Nearly everyone can charge at home. People living in cities would most likely not agree with you, which is more than half of the world population.
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by consp 3y ago
> $.64 / kw At these prices it's even cheaper to buy gas in the most expensive places in Europe (it you do not have a gas guzzler).
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by consp 3y ago
Probably someone made money off it as according to the article this was the clear outcome.
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by consp 3y ago
> That's windows and games. Truly a PITA. And the worst thing is the rich companies can just bribe their way into people's computers by offering their games for free. EA and Epic are both guilty of this and I won't instal
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by consp 3y ago
Why can a startup not provide one or become one?
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by consp 3y ago
The Peter principle applies since in a lot of countries engineering is undervalued and the only way to gain anything is to become "management" to the detriment of everybody else.
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by consp 3y ago
What people call AI might be an algorithm but algorithms are not AI. And it's definitely algorithms which do what you describe. There is very little magic in algorithms.
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by consp 3y ago
> come first, before anyone gets cash Only after the taxman came over. And in most places the banks are preferred too. In my case you are only first in line if you have a court order for them to pay (give them notice to pay, repeat three
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by consp 3y ago
You also have to overcome the little but non zero friction of the power steering and your steering wheel is considerably smaller than they used to be.
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by consp 3y ago
> it's damn near impossible to turn the wheels when the car is off and not moving. That was also strongly discouraged on older cars and only possible with big steering wheels and good grip. Just move very slowly and the turning beco
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by consp 3y ago
On most turbo engines these days they are electronically operated and have no linkage anyway. That's even the case in most modern petrol cars where people think there still is a linkage. And that trend has been going on for at least 20
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by consp 3y ago
The radio is a feature in which a move to change station should not take more than a fraction oft a second. If it takes more you should stop. That is valid for any action but for some reason people start adjusting their entire audio setup w
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by consp 3y ago
> resale value Even with the insane idiotic second hand Apple device prices, the refurbish shops are still going broke every time they show up, so I doubt it as good as people say.
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by consp 3y ago
> Many don’t believe that simply importing a GPL Python module is enough to make your extension have to comply to GPL Wasn't this the, "if the source is in your tree everything is GPL" and otherwise "if it's down
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by consp 3y ago
KPMG asked me once: "Can you show it's actually encrypted?" Do you have any programming skills? ... No? Then no. Then they started blabbing about what the data could be and it basically came down on them not understanding wha
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by consp 3y ago
because it's a float and not an int, it's strictly talking about integers here, not floats. All int conversions of floats are converted by discarding the remainder afaik but I could be wrong here (e.g. int(1.9) == 1, and int(-1.9)
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by consp 3y ago
So people should just accept that they get poorer every year and then the plant still moves abroad when the tax incentives stop? The fairy tale of "unions are bad" is only good for the rich who get paid either way, just more witho
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by consp 3y ago
> It’s because they don’t want to carry that constant burden of thought with them With me it's the thought of how it's going to prevent me from doing what I want because "it's not the Apple way" (but that applies
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by consp 3y ago
Did this in France when I was younger. We were on a hillside and could see the darkness coming in very quickly and everything going silent. Not only bugs, birds also went silent for a moment.
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by consp 3y ago
The fun part is that there are at least two different, non standard, DB9 serial configurations.
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by consp 3y ago
The FedEx one is meh and does afaik, but some (looking at you dhl) are almost useless as they provide little information (tracking info is hidden sometimes), sometimes do not allow you to add the parcel as it has a tracking code from a fore
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by consp 3y ago
> then all financial and legal consequences of ignoring it are on the sender. They are, since non compliance will either result in destruction of the package or sending it back (differs a bit per country and type of goods). It's a b
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by consp 3y ago
As a bonus the speed of sound on mars is usually quite a bit lower than on earth, since it's usually colder. Or you'd have to wait for warmer weather at the right spot at the right time.
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by consp 3y ago
Don't know how they are called in Germany but I guess it's similar as in the Netherlands: These "non drug" stores are called a "drogisterij" (and the English translation will be 'drugstore'), which is
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by consp 3y ago
> getting "something for nothing" With renting, you never get anything. You just are allowed to live there while you pay.
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by consp 3y ago
Success stories on HN of people doing great despite being bullied coming in ... Which undermines the vast majority and should not even be considered. I've been bullied pretty much continously as a child and I'm 100% sure it made m

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