happyopossum

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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> I don't physically share my machine with my coworkers. Yeah, you probably do - in fact you share physical machines with a TON of other people if you use EC2, GCE, Azure VM etc...
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> but at least it doesn't leave trash all over the streets Last time I was in London I saw enough disposable vapes on the sidewalk to build a home-sized backup battery...
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
Considering that DKA accounts for 160k hospital admissions a year, your lived experience translates poorly to such a flippant dismissal. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/diabetic-ketoacidosis.htm...
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> as it's even better for launching into those orbits When the weather agrees, yes. Sooooo many launches are scheduled around weather patterns and are affected by weather delays - I'd be shocked if LA didn't have 3-4x mor
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
Understandable assumption if you haven't been paying attention to Apple and privacy, but incorrect: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/sign-in-with-app... >When you use Sign in with Appl
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> I don't think I've seen a public bathroom in America in my lifetime. You've never been to the beach, a city park (or state or national park), a highway rest stop, or any of the thousands of other places public restrooms
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
There’s something to be said for using the tools your comfortable with. I’m a woodworker by passion, and a technologist by trade so I dabble in everything from cnc to 3d printing to hand tools. If I happened to be super comfortable with fu
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
Fun writeup! I was surprised by the part about styrofoam boxes though: Despite their popularity, they have a few disadvantages: They come in predefined sizes which mandate a certain weight allowance They cannot be flexible for you
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> for every $2 invested Ocean Conservancy can remove a pound of trash from the environment and invest in scientific research and upstream policy solutions to prevent plastics from being produced and/or entering our ocean in the firs
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> abusive software supplier would be fired and replaced. Rose colored glasses much? We've never had the environment you're describing. Do you recall the 00's and '10s? It was cluttered with closed systems that had ri
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> No, I just use it to write message via telegram dictating by voice. Umm, can't your phone do that natively without a convoluted cloud-based agent? >The only gotcha is that you cannot use this when your phone is blocked, but see
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> from $0.013/hr up to 60 vCPU / 240 GB RAM and GPUs It ranges from cold to orange! From one earth gravity to 32* Kelvin! If you’re gonna pretend to give pricing give pricing. If you’d rather hide it, don’t throw out $0.013
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> This is a labelling law, not a "You can't buy the bumpy tires" law. No, the labeling part seems to be mostly secondary: FTA "designed to ensure that replacement tires sold in the state are at least as energy efficie
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> and had to spend 45 minutes on the internet and phone to get refunded anecdata and all, but i've had the exact opposite experience - I've never spent more than a couple of minutes getting a refund, and it's always been
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
This is the virtual equivalent of manufacturers paying for premium floor/shelf space in a brick and mortar store. The way to avoid it is to ignore the sponsored results and do some actual browsing - just like comparison shopping in a
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
> surviving the siege It's pretty clear he didn't pull that off...
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
It’s been policy that membership is required to eat at the food court, but some stores with outdoor food courts don’t enforce it. It’s absolutely false to say they’ve “always been accessible “.
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
None of that has anything to do with the model - your issues are all with the harness/app you used...
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
Anyone can name their boat Boaty McBoatface - i'm shocked there aren't dozens of them...
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by happyopossum 2mo ago
"no taxable income" != "fixed income" 401Ks, IRAs, and a few other "retirement fund" options give you the option to access either your principal or investment earnings tax-free depending how they were set up.
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by happyopossum 3mo ago
FTA: The extensions, each measuring several metres, will replicate a folding wing in the fully extended position during a flight So no, they are not foldable today - the headline submitted to HN is total clickbait.
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by happyopossum 3mo ago
-> and we are nowhere near a data center. Please square that with a rational argument against data centers then?
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by happyopossum 3mo ago
Nobody wants to pay for a house that would take a year to build, with multiple 30 day work stoppages for concrete curing….
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by happyopossum 3mo ago
That is highly location dependent. Many cities had/have large lots in older neighborhoods and have transitioned to zero-lot-line construction or smaller lots in the past 30-40 years as demand for housing grew. In fact in most of the
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by happyopossum 3mo ago
> Crucially, this is where, unlike with Apple’s standard child screen-time restrictions, you can choose to completely block internet browsing by simply not allowing Safari Very odd take given that you can block access to safari with iOS
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
Headline is absolute clickbait: please don't use quotation marks when you just make things up.
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1.08M cannabis users data leaked in PuffPal disclosure(github.com)
2 points by happyopossum 4mo ago|1 comments
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
Kids and convenience. 99% of the movies I’ve bought from iTunes are kids movies. Some of them were watched over and over and over. DVDs and Blu-rays I purchased from the same era required a) advance planning and b) care. To the second po
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
> Healthy people spend roughly 15-25 days each year—about 5% of their lives—sick with respiratory infections like the common cold and influenza This seems completely unbelievable to me. Totally outside of my personal, professional, and f
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
The difference is that with a slate you’re not limited to buying one of the versions of the modular platform - you can swap them out yourself. Want an open air 5 seater in the summer and an enclosed pickup the rest of the year, except for N

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