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by daggersandscars 4y ago
In the US, there are (at least) two competing views of contractors. One side believes that contractors are cheap, disposable labor that costs less than hiring an employee with benefits. Another side believes that contractors are a way to ac
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
(Note: US-centric) Please read the latest copy of your employment agreement before doing this. In the US, it is not uncommon for employers to claim everything you do, on or off the clock. Some places restrict this to "related" wor
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
My apologies for any confusion. My answer was to the commenter's questions, which, to me (perhaps incorrectly), did not involve the article's discussion of "Top Tier" gas. As you point out in the article, a Top Tier gas
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
Potentially out of date, but: "Regular" gasoline (87 octane much of the US, lower in the western states) was (is?) a commodity. What one bought at the pump was whatever 87 octane was available at the depot, regardless of the brand
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
Thanks! I will give this a try.
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
Thanks for your response! It's a Samsung S22 Ultra, purchased unlocked. As far as I can tell, Kindle was not pre-installed by Samsung, as it would have been preinstalled from the Galaxy Store. The version of Kindle that keeps replacing
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Ask HN: How to stop Google Play Store from replacing apps from other app stores
32 points by daggersandscars 4y ago|7 comments
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
If you're looking for a cross-Apple-ecosystem reader, News Explorer provides MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS apps and uses iCloud to sync. No affiliation, just like using it. If you're only following feeds on MacOS, NetNewsWire is also gre
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
This is from 2016, but an oversized system can be more prone to having the condenser freeze. Ask This Old House ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33wjzNxgSw )
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
I wonder if going to a top fuel drag race would have a similar effect[0]. The sound pressure levels are intense, to the level of moving one's internal organs around if one is close to the cars. It is something that has to be experience
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
Quobuz also sells 24-bit audio files. You can do this without a subscription, but certain subscription tiers provide a discount.
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
T&T was awesome. A group of us in grade school / junior high played T&T and passed the solo dungeons around. A few of us lived within a bike ride of one of the few "gaming" stores that carried T&T and monitored th
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by daggersandscars 4y ago
In addition to the other comments: find something you enjoy doing and do it. I find I'm more able to look past the things I cannot change, if only for a while, if I regularly do something I like.
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
After watching far too many videos comparing the iPhone 13 Pro Max, Samsung S22 Ultra, and Pixel 6 Pro, I decided against the iPhone because of the automatic skin smoothing. The iPhone 13 Pro Max removed wrinkles, sun spots, moles, hair, et
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
While not one click, GrapheneOS is fairly easy to install (series of clicks on the phone and a web page), and does not require digging through forum posts. However, it is based on AOSP and only supports relatively recent Pixel phones. Also,
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
Adobe uses them Lightroom / Photoshop for some functions. https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/apple-m1-chip-makes-...
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
When I am using 24" displays, I put one in landscape directly in front of me and one in portrait off to one side. Upper/lower half of the portrait monitor works well for terminals / email / chat. Entire portrait for read
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
> we did use the damn things for stuff beyond games back in the day, you know. This. The Amiga's multitasking was amazing back in the mid/late 1980s. My favorite example: I'm in my dorm room, writing a paper in a non-weste
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
Apple provides a plug-in for Chrome to allow use of your stored passwords on Windows. Announced last year. I've tried it on Windows, appears to work, but do not know how secure it is. --- Edited to remove references to Linux. Appears t
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
Everyone's addiction is different. A question that may be useful for some: When you started, why was it enjoyable? Be specific. Many attempts at addressing addictive behavior focus on stopping the behavior. If there was something speci
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
Your RX300 is doing the best it can with what it has. Some reasons why: The 2002 RX300 has a coefficient of drag of 0.36. The 2013 GX460 has a coefficient of drag of 0.35. The GX460 looks boxier, but it's experiencing similar air resis
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
I use Divvy[1]. It also works on MacOS. I use gTile on Linux. The combination lets me use the same keyboard short cuts (or close enough) on all 3 OSes.
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Shakespeare in the Bush (1966)(naturalhistorymag.com)
1 points by daggersandscars 5y ago|0 comments
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
Wheeler Dealers: Trading Up, season one, episode three shows these off and Mike buys one.
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At the time I'm writing this, this hasn't been mentioned. How this interacts with state laws, I have no idea. When it comes to businesses, the US government reserves the right to institute international boycotts. Companies may not
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
Thanks! I did not know HN serves "fresh" pages when logged in.
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
Firefox + uBlock Origin on MacOS: fast, zero error pages. Safari, no adblocker: slow, error pages. Looking at uBO, it's not reporting blocking anything on the page. Yet the performance difference is real. Weird.
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
Thanks to Detaro for pointing out that login status changes performance! Leaving the comment below, but that's the answer. ---- If I access HN from a web browser that blocks all known ad-related sites (including FB), HN is as fast as n
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
My apologies for not being clearer that this is not only about the CPU. It's about all the components in the laptop, not just the CPU. I used the CPU in the example because it's a component most of us are familiar with. It's
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by daggersandscars 5y ago
Thermal sensors measure temperature in specific points / small areas. There are a finite number of these and they do not cover the entire CPU / GPU / motherboard / etc. If one puts a massive load on a CPU, the temperatur

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