flyingpenguin

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by flyingpenguin 6y ago
From the many people I have asked this question, I think the disconnect between toilet phone users and us is the availability of "Alone time". Specifically no matter what you do in your house/work for some there is always low
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by flyingpenguin 6y ago
But holy crap, the process for updating AirPods without an iPhone is a real hassle. Took my bank account months to download my an iPhone to update with.
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by flyingpenguin 6y ago
As a angular developer... I apologize for the pollution I create, and also strongly encourage you to have more than 4gb of ram.
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by flyingpenguin 6y ago
I don't want to defend Gnome because I also can't stand it over KDE most of the time, but I think GNOME is built for one actually useful thing... laptops. Gnome feels good on a computer with a single small display.
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by flyingpenguin 7y ago
The obvious solution seems like some kind of service which tracks all of the shows you watch and are interested in, and changes what service you subscribe to every month. If there is a new season/show coming out on one service that you
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by flyingpenguin 7y ago
Also because this product is more targeted at business use, assembling it in the US may open the product for more customers. I work in defense and some of our HP computers have to come from a special division of HP that assembles the comput
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by flyingpenguin 7y ago
the best part is that we have up, and upwards. Fuck "vertical ascent water conveyance" if you NEED big awesome sounding words.
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by flyingpenguin 7y ago
Or convince them there is nothing more wrong with socialism than capitalism and the world needs more balance and nuance.
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by flyingpenguin 7y ago
I mean every company has problems... Microsoft just seems to be generally headed in a better direction vs worse which seems way more common.
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by flyingpenguin 7y ago
I think caffeine and other uppers play a large role as well. I am sitting at a desk doing nothing but I need my brain to be in the state its in when I am doing harrowing physical activity. My quality of sleep reflects this.
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
Just tell your manager you need a moment and want to go see how much your coworkers make. Then go to your co-workers tell them how much you make and that you want a raise and ask them how much they make. I generally tell people at jobs how
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
But how much is a backpack?
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
Are they objectively better? I have a hard time seeing either as better than the other, just horrifying in their own unique ways.
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
You can actually get new credit card numbers generated super easy. There are services that will give you a unique credit card number to use at every online retailer to limit your risk of theft.
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
We have also obfuscated what you make. Combined its very strange. You could tell someone they get a new job paying $30/hour and you are selling them this house for $10/hour. After everything is said and done, those numbers could b
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
The increasing trends of the world to be dependent on a single source fo things... Must be something pushing the trend.
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
Every single time I mention something good about any country other than the US to my relatives they get SUPER angry and shout "Then why the F * don't you move there". It is so confusing to me. Not saying I love the US but if
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
Maybe a different emergency happened in early december that tanked their fund?
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/18...
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
It is also about not teaching people that you can subvert democratic practice and get what you want.
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
The thing that really bothers me about that "They should have savings" logic, is the expectation that they should have to use them. Yes. They should have savings. EVERYONE should have min 3 months of income in savings. No one shou
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
> as well as some more sensors than lidar. Like... cameras behind some kind of glass with special heaters and moving wipe thingies to keep the glass clean? I am sure I have seen something like this working somewhere.
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
I have always wondered about this sensor thing. We drive and our only sensors are a pair of cameras on a mobile swivel and two microphones. I feel like at Some point we have to have enough computing power to just stick Multiple Cameras behi
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
> And if they put pads and/or tampons in toilets they'll disappear in a matter of minutes. If you think only a dirt poor woman would steal them, you are wrong. Why? If every single bathroom everywhere had them why would you bot
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
How is this a reason to push anything but cups?
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
At my school almost all of the electives where taught by people in industry. They either taught a 2 course long elective and offered internships at their company during the second course (Hey you spent the last 5~ months training these peop
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
There is also a factor with lag in budgeting. When I first started computer science at my school it was a smaller department (maybe 2-3 intro cources of 50 people). When I was a JR, my department didn't have the budget to put out a off
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
The problem seems to come when the incentive to ensure that the borrower can actually pay goes away. IE: My understanding of the 2008/9 problem where banks were more interested in their banky uses of loans than just "Hey, an inves
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
How much is that AWS instance?
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by flyingpenguin 8y ago
uhh, in 2015 a i7 had 4cores, boost of around 3.4 in 2018 a mobile i9 had 6cores/12threads, bost of around 4.8 (so lets be reasonable, thermals might let us keep 3.6). For a super optimized parallel load you could totally see more than

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