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by jhatax 3y ago
If you’re in the Bay Area, please add me to the list of lucky recipients of your hot sauce!
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by jhatax 3y ago
Public note from Sundar Pichai to kickoff Google’s 25th birthday “celebrations”.
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Questions, shrugs and what comes next: A quarter century of change(blog.google)
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by jhatax 3y ago
This is particularly grubby behavior by Toast. They are already charging restaurants to use their platform. Reaching into every customer’s wallet for $0.99 (hidden fee) per transaction > $10 is greedy. They know it’s disgusting, which is
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Netflix Q1 Earnings [pdf](d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net)
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by jhatax 3y ago
Answer from the Bing Chat feature (no edits): Truman Capote and Gore Vidal were two American writers who had a long-standing feud with each other. The feud began when Capote wrote an article for Esquire magazine in which he claimed that Vid
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by jhatax 4y ago
At less than a USD a month--currency vs. cost of living conversion--this subscription is extremely cheap considering the many positives: confirmation of payment from a new revenue stream, multiple language support, low-ish latency, fraud pr
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by jhatax 4y ago
How does your personal experience with carrying new electronics into the country apply to broader supply chain difficulties? You don’t have to “grease a palm or two” to carry new electronics into the country if you are willing to pay the la
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by jhatax 4y ago
Indian made cars are exported to multiple countries (1). Exports are growing YoY. This is HN; when making blanket statements like these in the future, please provide a citation. 1. https://wap.business-standard.com/article&#
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by jhatax 4y ago
We have two external units that serve to both heat and cool, one for each zone / floor. Bryant is the manufacturer, if memory serves. Summer on-peak is $0.49 per KWH (1). Our average is $0.38, I had a math error. Even with my error, th
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by jhatax 4y ago
Before someone chimes in with the obvious suggestions: a) Water heater is a heat pump set to high efficiency. b) Construction is 2016, so relatively new. c) We have done a lot to insulate the home. Net-net, this is an electricity cost issue
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by jhatax 4y ago
As a Bay Area resident with no gas connection, here are points to ponder: 1) PG&E electricity costs are among the highest in the country per KWH. They have received approvals to increase these astronomical costs by 10% in the near futur
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Rules and guidelines for my behavior and capabilities as Bing Chat(twitter.com)
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by jhatax 4y ago
Calling a bonus chump change is reductive. Two key items to consider: 1) You don't know the size of the bonus relative to their annual salary. If this is a 10%+ bonus, it's sizable. 2) The bonus was given to all -- "have j
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by jhatax 4y ago
Stock is up almost $33 after hours. 4.57M new subscribers is the key metric. Almost all other analyst estimates were met or bested.
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Netflix Earnings by the Numbers(cnbc.com)
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by jhatax 4y ago
North Beach has some good spots. My go to after a night of drinking is Golden Boy.
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by jhatax 4y ago
Recipe, please? These sound easy to make, easy to store, and healthy. That’s the trifecta! If they are delicious too, billions!
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Waymo’s robotaxis are basically mobile weather stations now(theverge.com)
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“Mischief and delay”: How Musk and Twitter finally sealed the deal(ft.com)
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by jhatax 4y ago
Or implement their own locks and support structures to eke out performance [1]. Hat tip to @pizlonator. 1. https://webkit.org/blog/6161/locking-in-webkit/
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by jhatax 4y ago
Great to hear that Firefox on macOS might get snappier with these changes. The reliance on undocumented APIs is the only potential red flag. Out of curiosity, does Chromium use spinlocks on macOS? If they do in a scenario where characterist
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by jhatax 4y ago
Great idea that I will incorporate into my pizza-making process. Here are two methods that I used to get the crust to brown: a) Pre-topping: Prep just the crust by putting the pan into the oven for 5-minutes as the temp rises from 400 to 50
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by jhatax 4y ago
Two-legged desks that have a horizontal bar at the bottom connecting the two legs don’t exhibit said wobbliness, in my experience. The Lumina team could consider this modification to add stability if that is an issue in their product’s usab
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by jhatax 4y ago
Yet another tab management (YATM) recommendation here. I use the OneTab extension to help me manage tabs. In a recent update, they added the ability to: A) name tab groups; B) lock specific groups which mimics the capability of bookmark fol
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by jhatax 4y ago
It might just be my devices (iPhone, iPad), but the fonts for stories and comments have changed since the restore. Anyone else noticing this?
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by jhatax 5y ago
I’m not offended. Not one bit. My response is based on something more fundamental that the person missed: the Indian system enables kids to get jobs. At that, the Indian system is amazing. Period. Hypothetically, if the Aussie system were b
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by jhatax 5y ago
I understand that your perspective is colored by your immediate colleagues who might not have the bandwidth or horsepower to solve simple problems, but please note that Indians are a large diaspora globally. If your Indian peers cannot solv
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by jhatax 5y ago
FWIW, the team is retrieving details from the support screenshot that you shared (imgur), but your contact info might be the fastest path to getting this resolved.
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by jhatax 5y ago
Hi -- I have someone from the OCI team who can help you. If you send me an email: manoj dot mehta at oracle dot com, I can get you in touch with the team that can resolve the issue with payment verification. thanks!

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