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by jimmy1 8y ago
One of the more interesting use cases I have read in recent memory: Chick-fil-A used it to set up a bare metal edge compute network between all it's restaurants The how: https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k
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You are right -- I live in a low CoL area. 55 dollars an hour is astronomical. I would expect it to be double as well.
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I am someone who still has all but my immediate family still over there, and I really appreciate you saying this. It really goes a long way. Greece has been at the very short end of the stick on some EU trade deals, austerity measures, incr
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Might be anecdotal, but hooo weee, if you are a good electrician right now, you can essentially name your price. Companies will pay it because they aren't willing to take the risk of having it done wrong. Family knows a couple career e
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> willing to impact their own comfort or convenience to truly follow them. *method of survival. You can "stand up for your principles", or you can not be an ideologue, survive, and live to fight another day making progress and
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Which is why you should purchase Extra Virgin Olive oil from Greece, directly from Greece. There is a greek food importer in almost every that has a few Greek restaurant owners where you could go and get the real stuff. Also the irony here
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> I really hope that web components take off, because I'm getting pretty tired of having to learn different ways of building components every damned year. I feel like this is a gross exaggeration. You would have had to learn a maxim
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Maybe not one particular article but reading the same messaging over and over again until it eventually sticks with me and then my brain is the one that reminds me of it rather than the article. Articles on a subject also lead me to the boo
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Deploying my go web application is as simple as copying a small binary to a server and running ./server
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Also this is a great lesson to the younger generation that seem to be wooed by the Ocasio-Cortezes and Sanders of the world. Unfortunately the world needs a reminder every generation or so that socialism doesn't work, it never has work
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I don't mean this to side with any particular party or another and mean this in purely objective fashion: She really seems to have no clue about economics. She's had quite a few Gary Johnson "What Is Aleppo" moments when
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Since this isn't being flagged for some reason I am not going to let you get away with posting a garbage useless reply for free. Depression is on the rise. Suicide is on the rise. We have all these "freedoms", society has mad
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I was making two separate points about current assistance technology and the capabilities of LIDAR. (I think the technology in Tesla's are pretty good - Elon tends to think LIDAR isn't necessary, who is to say he is wrong and thei
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> From what I've seen, they have been extraordinarily hazy about what the cars can actually do (e.g., time of day, weather, locations, dealing with non-road complexity). Not sure this is 100% related, but the driver-assistance techn
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It's easy now that family life is no longer held to the same high esteem as it once was in American culture and we have traded our real, face to face, immersive, relationships for digital ones. (I've heard all the apologetics for
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Another thing I don't like about Gitlab is their interview process. They are the exact kind of puzzle-gotcha-question asking interviewers that are looking for a particular right answer that get ridiculed on here quite often. They ask
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by jimmy1 8y ago
I find Quillette to be more libertarian-leaning than anything, which to me, ironically, would be what most would consider the left to be in the 90s. I certainly held most of the views found on Quillette and have historically considered myse
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by jimmy1 8y ago
It wasn't 20+ years ago, that was my bad (there were some anthrax cases in the 90s, but the high profile cases were in the 00's). There are cases of the USPS finding traces of anthrax in mail every 5 years, on average, probably mo
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I don't rely on the rankings to find the "best" I just use reviews as a basic litmus test if it is terrible or not. I am basically just looking to avoid getting food poisoning or eating somewhere with terrible service, stuff
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reddit and imgur are two of the worst offenders as well.
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Unfortunately, Yelp's dead corpse will be drug around a little bit longer because of Apple Map's dependency on it.
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It's always been easy to commit crime, it's just harder to get away with them, and luckily most people don't want to commit crimes (and then another percentage don't think the risk is worth the reward -- hence deterrence
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Informed Delivery is just them offering a service based on infrastructure that was already there -- the mail scanning was put into place during the 90's anthrax in the mail scares, and that's really it's purpose.
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This isn't a case of "identity theft" at least the modern sense of the term, this is a case of impersonation, which has been a problem since humanity existed.
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> Teslas are basically hacked together, according to multiple reports and analyses, teardowns. I've got a news flash for you my friend: everything is basically hacked together.
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Your city sounds very unfriendly to people with disabilities, that are out of shape, or temporarily disabled that does not allow them to bike or walk (think having surgery on your leg, undergoing chemo, etc). I would at least have a tram, t
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I mistakenly assumed there wasn't a paid offering. So it's becoming clear that the only revenue model going forward is open core model.
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Of course I can't prove what may or may not happen. I just know that I do in fact have these things today because of advertising.
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Whenever advertising makes me angry, I think of all the free things I wouldn't have without it.
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> and .Net is by far my favorite language. Isn't .NET the runtime/environment and C# the language?

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