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by illumin8 4y ago
The problem is the bill creates a new secretary's office reporting directly to the president. This secretary is unaccountable to any voters and can designate any party as an adversary. Sure, it starts with only PRC, Iran, DPRK, Russia,
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by illumin8 4y ago
Recently I’ve been having trouble with a few batches of cheap LED lights that were “Amazon’s choice” and advertised as having 23 year lifespan (3 hours per day) that died within 6-12 months. Amazon tells me I’m outside of the normal 30 day
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by illumin8 4y ago
Yeah, hilarious how people are complaining about wipers when they literally have a 1-shot button on the stalk to trigger a quick blast at any time. Hold down for 2 seconds to get wiper fluid/de-icer. Seems like Tesla actually has the s
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by illumin8 4y ago
Yeah, the paywall is also a huge part of it. They basically committed suicide when they locked everything behind a paywall. At least most Substack authors are smart enough to make most their content free.
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by illumin8 4y ago
True, the drip drip drip continues...
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by illumin8 4y ago
It's a mandatory tip so we view it just like the restaurant that adds a mandatory 20% on a party of 6 or more. We'll pay it but we're not going to pay an additional tip. 20% (or 18% if you think it's not going to the wai
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by illumin8 4y ago
I always tip on my alcohol purchases, and usually tip 20% regardless of how good or bad the service was. It's mainly because the sales tax is over 10.25% in our county. If the tax were only 5-6% like in most places in the US, it wouldn
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by illumin8 4y ago
One small township near us does this. They passed a law that states restaurants must put an additional 2% charge on every bill that is used to pay "kitchen staff." When we asked our server about this surprise charge they said &quo
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by illumin8 4y ago
One thing I've noticed recently on 2 restaurant trips in the last couple weeks: The automatic tip calculations are wrong in the server/restaurant's favor. Most of us typically check the 20% option and don't double-check
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by illumin8 4y ago
Salt Lake County, Weber County, and Utah County all suffer from inversions during cold weather months, which is much of the winter. Inversions are where a layer of warm air traps cold, polluted air inside the valley and air pollution accumu
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by illumin8 4y ago
This was an incredible statistic I noticed in the article: > Air pollution already causes 1-in-5 deaths globally—around 12.1 million premature deaths annually. Is this accurate?
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by illumin8 4y ago
That's the term I was looking for: resonance modeling. When you hear it in action you realize why most digital pianos sound so terrible. A quality digital or virtual piano models all the resonant frequencies and is a joy to listen to.
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by illumin8 4y ago
You need to go hand over hand. If you're good you can use the palm of a single hand to rotate the wheel (kind of like those handlebars that people used to put on steering wheels years ago to turn them easier).
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by illumin8 4y ago
It is. The CA95 just has Grand Feel II action. I agree, it's one of the best digital pianos I've tried.
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by illumin8 4y ago
I have a Model S Plaid and they do have haptic feedback when you press them, but the problem is they require muscle memory to know the exact place to press to get left/right turn signal or horn. I'm 6'1" and the horn is
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by illumin8 4y ago
I sort of prefer the ones without. The Kawai CA95 doesn't have it, but it does have a line input and USB/5 pin MIDI in/out, so you can simply place a tablet (iPad or Android) on the music stand and use a USB cable to play wha
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by illumin8 4y ago
Kawai makes quite nice digital pianos. The CA95 that we bought about 5 years ago has real wooden hammer action and a wooden soundboard. It also reproduces the harmonics (through digital samples) that you get when you hold the sustain pedal
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by illumin8 4y ago
I'm pretty sure this would be considered a deceptive business practice by most courts of law. You can't just straight up lie about the terms of a business agreement - i.e. if you say you've evaluated a customer's creditw
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by illumin8 4y ago
Strange New Worlds is very good. The story arc about the medical officer who kept his daughter in the transporter buffer was awesome and reminded me of TnG while Gene Roddenberry was still around.
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by illumin8 4y ago
It's even more bizarre when you consider that all of Tolkien's works are based on an incredibly Anglo Saxon/European centric view of the world. I find it extremely ironic that people are so bent out of shape about a couple ch
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by illumin8 5y ago
I read the timeline and it seems like he started in mid-late 2018, was having performance problems throughout 2019, and didn't even get fired until mid-2020. This is super generous, and while I have a lot of empathy for his personal si
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by illumin8 5y ago
I'm not a Tesla engineer so I don't know all the details, but this video shows some testing on this subject: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-research-group-autopilot-cra...
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by illumin8 5y ago
There is a huge disclaimer that you must agree to when you purchase a Tesla vehicle before you drive it off the lot. One of the first things it says is: > Warning: Traffic-Aware Cruise Control can not detect all objects and may not brak
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by illumin8 5y ago
Most likely the root cause is acidification of the ocean. Increasing the carbon dioxide in the ocean decreases the ph level of water, making it more acidic. While some animals and plants have evolved to handle highly acidic environments, mo
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by illumin8 6y ago
I stopped working there in 2019 and in the few years I worked there I never saw prices on the IT kit in the vending machines. The IT vending machines were one of the better ideas I've seen at companies I've worked at. Many compani
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by illumin8 6y ago
In the early days, they had a ton of special configurations, like w.amazon.com - the internal wiki, which was probably running in a datacenter somewhere. But in recent years, they run entirely on AWS. They even have solutions architects to
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by illumin8 6y ago
> "Andersen Horrowitz"? Does the author have any idea who he is criticizing or what industry they're in? Once I saw this obvious error and realized the author doesn't even understand that VCs are different from a stoc
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by illumin8 6y ago
You're trivializing the value they provide. If mitigating large scale DDoS attacks was as simple as adding a few iptables rules they would have solved this weeks before paying AWS $3,000 a month for what is effectively an insurance pol
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by illumin8 6y ago
Even though Spotify "lets people drink," it still suffers from many of the same problems that piracy solves. For example, music publishers can arbitrarily decide they don't want you to be able to listen to their music any mor
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by illumin8 6y ago
This is a great idea, and I'd like to point out that having such a system in place would have prevented one of the largest Internet outages in recent memory - the Amazon S3 outage in 2017: https://aws.amazon.com/message

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