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by htek 1y ago
I don't see how the US can compete with China on sheer production and access to manufacturers and suppliers of tech, compared to cities like Shanghai, Qingdao and Shenzhen, among others. It's like a candy store for engineers. Buil
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by htek 1y ago
Shhh! Do you want to kill AI? All the C-suite and middle management need to hear is that "My QoL has never been better since I could use AI at work! Now I can 'quiet quit' half the day away! I can see my family after hours! O
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by htek 2y ago
Once 23andMe gets sold, all of that data belongs to whoever owns it and they can sell it to whoever they want. Perhaps to the government where they can do a warrantless search to find a relative of someone who may have been at a crime scene
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by htek 2y ago
I'm really not. The government consists of many people with a range of ideologies and ethics. Are there problems? Of course. But, the government has checks and balances, well, HAD checks and balances, separation of powers, and a Consti
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by htek 2y ago
The difference is that there are culturally inappropriate things to say--that is, things that people who aren't completely toxic bigots generally agree you shouldn't yell in public, and then there are things ON THE LIST the right
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by htek 2y ago
I hate the age of deepfakes, has this been verified as unedited?
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by htek 2y ago
What most people mean by gravel road is macadamized road, which is a gravel/aggregate material bound in crowned layers from larger rocks to smaller on top often by a tar or asphalt binder or at least through compaction. There are true
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by htek 2y ago
My neighbor had work done on their roof, the company doing the work ran a rolling magnet over my property (driveway) along where the work was being done and the neighbor's property with a rolling magnet. It should be SOP to do this reg
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by htek 2y ago
Obesity leads to diabetes, fatty liver disease, various cancers and other problems. It's shortsighted to not cover drugs that can actually reduce it, but if the actuarial tables are silent on the matter or actually support obesity lead
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by htek 2y ago
And that's why health care should be universal and not subject patients to the worst outcomes of capitalistic tendencies.
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by htek 2y ago
Our insurance just started covering Ozempic for weight loss, but they will only supply it via their online pharmacy for diabetes. If you are prescribed it for weight loss, you have to find it retail and pay a $200 copay. But at least it&#x2
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by htek 2y ago
Yeah, gotta love the modern conveniences of fobbing your customers off to automated hell. Reminds me of my experience buying something on eBay without creating an account, having a problem with the item and no way to contact the company oth
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by htek 2y ago
You would think for a 30% cut of all your [insert eStore name]-related business, it would include at least basic developer support explaining their decisions.
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by htek 2y ago
Isn't it a moot point anyway? The corrupt SCOTUS tossed out the Chevron doctrine, putting into question the "constitutionality" of administrative enforcement of Executive Branch agency rules and enforcement of federal law.
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by htek 2y ago
You know the White House isn't personally building these charging stations, yes? The money is available and awarded to state entities that have to approve and bid out contracts, which come with their own set of local legislation that s
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by htek 2y ago
Testing for marijuana does not provide accurate data with respect to when it was consumed. It could have been a factor in the crash, or it could have been consumed days to weeks in the past, as the study author states: “Our testing methods
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by htek 2y ago
For several years, beverage companies have been complaining about CO2 supply being low. During the pandemic, I switched to a SodaStream, converted it to use a 10 pound CO2 tank and started buying the syrup for my preferred soft drink. It al
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by htek 2y ago
Those "health sharing ministries" are a complete scam. They take your money and provide you nothing. Sort of like church and the donation plate, only they purport to provide a genuine service in the health care field.
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by htek 2y ago
Here, you have good advice: "I ... consider regex expressions as the wrong solution. They're notoriously hard to get right." However, the conclusion of "use something somebody else wrote that does it properly", whil
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by htek 2y ago
That is not minimizing. Minimizing from a psychological perspective is to present an event that has occurred as unimportant or insignificant. Had the OP said "suburbanites have nothing to worry about if they are targeted in a home inva
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by htek 3y ago
Have you tried fresh halibut? I don't like fish generally, including salmon, but actual Alaskan halibut (not flounder deliberately mislabeled as halibut) is quite tasty, to me.
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by htek 3y ago
It doesn't take a majority of voters to elect a President in the U.S. thanks to the electoral college.
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by htek 3y ago
How does that one guy in a tractor or that one guy watching the machines get paid when no one has a job to buy food, widgets, health care, et cetera? A sudden disruption like AI is purported to potentially cause is a recipe for total societ
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by htek 3y ago
That's why strong unions are needed.
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by htek 3y ago
A large chunk of cost is drilling the holes for the loop. New, compact drilling rigs that use 10' drill sections are a good deal cheaper to run labor-wise and require less space to maneuver. Costs will come down as more companies switc
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by htek 3y ago
Why do people need to return to the office? I have Teams, Zoom, email, Slack, and a cellphone. I also don't have an hour commute each way. I've gotten more done "at work" at home than I ever did in the office. Meetings a
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by htek 3y ago
If only this were a law. I can't stand when sites play "hide the scrollbar" or "find the hover sweet spot to display the scrollbar" and I click on where I think the scrollbar is and instead click on a link that&#x27
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by htek 3y ago
Also, tragically, people go to college wanting to get into law enforcement are working at cross purposes to what police departments want to hire: less intelligent cops. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/too-smart-to-be-a-co
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by htek 4y ago
It's used in fire spread prediction models and land use/urban growth models among other things. SLEUTH is one such model adapted from a fire spread prediction model. We used it in modeling urban growth in the NYC region 2 decades
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by htek 5y ago
'Tis a bit of a silly article, I'd go insane trying to keep my application windows in the sweet spot for viewing them at a 22 degree rotation. One thing strikes me that I've wondered about when I would rotate some of my monit

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