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by istjohn 5y ago
They are quite efficient in terms of emissions per kg, too. Boats are a very energy-efficient way to transport heavy things.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Windows is full of ads. They are pushing Edge on users who select other browsers as default. Have they really changed?
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by istjohn 5y ago
Maybe she just edited it, but actually it's 30 DNS queries. 26 of them are to the 13 root nameservers. > So it’ll make about 30 DNS queries. (I checked using tcpdump, it seems to make 2 queries to get A/AAAA records for each o
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by istjohn 5y ago
1. There is no data export tool. The only way to pull data out is either to copy and paste from each and every table into Excel or Google Sheets and export from there to CSV or to roll your own custom export script using their poorly docume
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by istjohn 5y ago
After getting burned by the dumpster fire that is Amazon Honeycode, I wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot pole.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Surprise, surprise, increasing concentration of market power in tech and other industries seems to explain much of the productivity slowdown: Computer and electronic products incurred a massive slowdown, with a contribution to MFP growth o
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by istjohn 5y ago
Thanks--these look great! Edit: There are a lot of great Vim videos on thoughtbot's YouTube channel, too.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Water expands when frozen under constant pressure. Since meats and produce contain a lot of water, they normally expand when frozen, too. This expansion damages the cellular tissues, ultimately making the food less pleasant to eat. They are
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by istjohn 5y ago
There is nothing wise about cynical amorality. The best you can do as a talented person is look to where you can apply your talents to make the world a better place.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Three quarters of adults believe FB is making society worse[1]. Maybe a moral panic has taken hold of the world, or maybe the world has recognized that FB is the business equivalent of the Paperclip Maximizer, optimizing growth metrics with
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by istjohn 5y ago
They are applauding the pun, not the company the pun refers to.
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by istjohn 5y ago
I suppose it's probably a good idea to wrap it in a microservice in production.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Also from that article: Yet a 2010 report by Arizona’s Office of the Auditor General, based on data from the state Department of Corrections, noted that privately-operated prisons were actually more expensive than their public counterparts
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by istjohn 5y ago
Here's a video of the Forever Lock being defeated with a custom-made bump key: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4f1H6mYHOI
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by istjohn 5y ago
You just need a technology that only works across spaces no larger than a couple feet.
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by istjohn 5y ago
call out != outcall call in != incall insight != sight-in in turn != turn in instill != still in upend != end up
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by istjohn 5y ago
Your 2012 account name is oddly apropos.
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by istjohn 5y ago
TIL strace[1] exists. What a handy tool! 1. https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/04/03/what-problems-do-people-solv...
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by istjohn 5y ago
Just tax imports from countries that don't have an equivalent carbon tax.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Perhaps a machine learning model trained on the masters would be a better approach.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Do you mind explaining why one fingering would be awkward on an upright but natural on a grand? I always assumed the human-piano interface was basically the same on uprights and grands, all the difference lying behind the keys.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Serving a blank white screen to user agents without JS is the internationally understood symbol for "This webpage requires JS." "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?"
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by istjohn 5y ago
Probably should disclose that you're a Sentry employee.
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by istjohn 5y ago
What's worse, there are an infinite number of fractions that equal each whole number.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Yes. Imagine a chair with one pair of diagonally opposite legs very long and the other pair of legs very short. On even a flat surface it is impossible to touch all four legs to the floor simultaneously.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Their eyes are so bright because they are retroreflective[1]. Just like road signs, they reflect light back in the direction it came from. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum_lucidum
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by istjohn 5y ago
They didn't synthesize any data. > We compared data from the USA National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to three non-governmental, open-source databases on police violence: Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, and The Counted
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by istjohn 5y ago
Chaos arises in very simple (Newtonian) systems, e.g. the double pendulum[1]. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_pendulum
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by istjohn 5y ago
Wow, the FBI's failure here is astounding. > The FBI's investigation into Nassar started in July 2015, after USA Gymnastics President and CEO Stephen Penny reported the allegations to the FBI's Indianapolis field office.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Here's a quick and dirty DIY system: 1. Create 10 files of encrypted random data. Discard the passwords. 2. Replace a random selection of these files with encrypted fake data, using different passwords for each one. 3. Replace one file

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