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by jefftk 3y ago
Just get a tiny dongle for <$5 and leave it attached on the end of your headphone cable.
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"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa
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There's no need to seize any buildings: the issue is that building dense new housing is illegal. If cities allowed much higher density ("upzoning") then we'd see prices for new units fall to not much above the cost of co
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> ok google add the next gas station on the route I say "ok google, add a stop for gas" a lot, and it works well for me.
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The impression I have from your comment is that you think that the US is unusually bad at this? Which seems a bit hard to square with no other country having sorted out a caries vaccine either. Including many rich countries with socialized
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> Hopefully the patent has run out by now and others can get in on the action and make it affordable. The patent has run out, and in the ~20y since it expired no one has tried to revive the idea. Why are you faulting the people who ar
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> These people don't exactly have a stellar track record of medical startups (recall all the hype around MetaMed, which delivered precisely nothing). I can only think of one other medical startup coming out of the Berkeley-area EA
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> South America in its entirety lies East of Florida Miami, FL: 80.2W Manta, Ecuador: 80.7W It's close, but not quite.
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> Certainly, [free food] isn't for everyone, but for those in need. Why would we not extend similar policy to healthcare in a more efficient manner? But we do have a similar system for healthcare! If you're poor enough you q
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> certified by our beloved LetsEncrypt Are you saying that CAs should be refusing to issue certs for potentially spoofed domains?
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An individual has more power in the airline case: you can fly a different airline much more easily than you can move to a location with a different representative.
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https://cartalk.com/radio/puzzler/finicky-volare
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> Essentially all these stories are apocryphal. Even this vapor lock story. The vapor lock ice cream story might go back to this 1997 Car Talk Puzzler, where Ray claims it was a customer of his: https://cartalk.com/radi
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Before 2009 would you have predicted that a 100 Trillion Dollar bill would never be issued by a central bank?
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Would you at least agree that the rectangular metric is misleading for cases where all the water usage is along a single wall, and so the rectangle has an area of zero? If you want a simple metric the perimeter of the rectangle seems much b
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I don't understand why they talk about it as a rectangle, and not in terms of the total length of pipe? For example, if I arranged everything that used hot water along a single wall of my house, I could have a rectangle of zero area an
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In Boston I see basically the same: dry roasted peanuts at $3.49 for a pound, cheaper if you buy more at once.
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Thanks! Implementation details: https://www.jefftk.com/p/preview-on-hover
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That's right: I draft each post in HTML, then have some scripts which add indexes, headers, footers, and css, and make an RSS feed.
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What's your background, and what are your skills? I did this in 2022 [1] and have really liked my new work. There are a lot of nonprofits doing important things, and I think it's likely you could switch to one. [1] https:/&#
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When I worked on ads at Google we had many A/B tests that had been running that long, generally holdbacks where a feature was almost entirely but not 100% launched. It was relatively rare that the holdback would show markedly different
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I bought an eeepc netbook in 2008. It was my main computer until 2012, spent several years sitting on a shelf, and now is my daughter's. It's still doing fine, as are the two other eeepcs people in my family bought around the same
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> if one fails, he will have no idea which one is correct Depends how it fails! For example, say, when you change direction one turns and the other doesn't.
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I don't interpret "met at the park, talked for hours, became best friends and fell in love" as all taking place on the first date?
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Why does this annoy you?
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It's typical that prices change by different amounts in different areas. For example, if you go to https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ you'll see that the overall +3.2% for June is broken up into +4.9% for food, -12.5%
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> Games are never hard realtime Depends how high your standards are! One of the things that makes playing old games on the original hardware really satisfying is how consistent they are.
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> It wasn't long ago that the enlightened people writing news stories were informing us that public toilets encouraged homelessness and crime. Link?
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If you want to do this with someone who doesn't play, the experienced person can play in Eb and then the black notes make an Eb blues scale.
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It looks like you're stripping MathML out of the RSS feed -- is that intentional, or are you using an older sanitizer that doesn't recognize it? For example, my RSS feed [1] for my most recent post [2] has: <math dis

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