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jnsaff2
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Money. The hype is really strong, the hype might even be justified, insane amounts of money flow in. There is a land grab going on. Blood is in the water, all the sharks are circling.
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> We’re joining forces with News Corp to support the highest journalistic standards and enrich our products with its premium journalism. Newspeak with Newscorp
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My reaction was that the bash version is a monstrosity indeed and I got shudders thinking about being an on-call operator getting a page and then having to read and understand what the hell is wrong with this script.
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> energy efficiency I care about energy efficiency deeply. But in a terminal? You can't be serious. Each terminal is in the end tied to a single person so there is no runaway scaling of instances possible. Your win in energy consump
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> The best way to avoid turning a meditative hobby into a job is to resist the urge to monetize it. This is exactly what I meant. However OP started off talking about switching careers. As a hobby they are doing great, producing stuff th
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> when people started coming with so many unrealistic and absurd expectations and demands about what my furniture should do There, fixed it for you. People are the same just pay sucks way more. I wholeheartedly endorse woodworking as a m
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One could argue that your TV screen is 2-dimensional.
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> The only way to make it cheaper in the US is to make your pay more. I think this is very unimaginative to claim that the developer/manufacturer costs are fixed in stone and THE ONLY WAY is for customers to zero-sum it amongst them
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The angle of attack is the angle between the chord line of the wing and the oncoming air (or relative wind). This is distinct from what the artificial horizon measures. The artificial horizon is concerned with the aircraft's orientatio
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Exchange rate is 1 EUR to 25 CZK.
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It's 88 EUR/month in my EU-Baltics country. I'd say it can be made much cheaper here and therefore in the US as well.
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It won't be anywhere near 12V while supplying those 100A.
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Fun chair anatomy video by arguably one of the most talented ones currently active. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2g6kGl66XU
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> HashiCorp always felt like a company made by actual engineers. IDK about this, in 2018 I was in a position to pay for their services. They asked for stupid amount of money and got none because they asked so much. Can't remember wh
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In here though the skeptic is providing a useful service in which they educate the user about edge cases (or properties) that the user might not be aware of. You know, being well informed beyond marketing materials. The user then might dema
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Synchronization is a one time event. Once the networks are coupled the physics itself keeps it in sync. The problem is that physics also dictates that the interconnection links need to be big enough to handle the power imbalance between the
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About 20 years ago I was kinda accidentally the guy who dealt with the DDoS attacks in the sysadmin team. There was a sequence of extortion emails during about 2 week period: 1. $50k or we attack - didn’t register anything 2. $25k or else -
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Step 1: go to ebay Step 2: search for "humanscale monitor arm" Step 3: pay the 1/5 of retail price for the thing Step 4: never think about this again Seriously, they are really good and plenty of offices do refurnishings afte
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> I always drive with the max distance to the next car when on autopilot. This. Also the Tesla Model 3 max-distance setting is really not big enough for my taste, especially for winter driving. I have a feeling that it does not even sati
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So according to their stated information it consumes about 6L of gasoline per passenger per 100km. Which is: - much higher than a car - much lower than a power-boat - about 25% lower than a Cessna Caravan (which is faster tho).
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COP depends on the temperature difference. A single COP is some yearly average usually but in these measurements it is probably a shorter period. In europe there is a somewhat more rigorous measure of Seasonal COP (SCOP) where the typical c
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I'd be curious to hear your reasoning behind this? Why does this being computer generated ruin it for you? Auto-tune has been around since 1997 so it's not like computers have not been a big part of a lot of music we hear every da
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Just reading the saga. Definitely one of the better Sci-fi series. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkosigan_Saga
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You just eliminated the whole point of insurance. If every time the government is going to pay, then the obvious next step would be to get rid of insurance altogether ant everything would be cheaper yet.
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> non-fiction book by Frank Abagnale yea, as others have pointed out, non-fiction is not appropriate label for this book.
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My hot take on the MAX is that the decision to go for a clean sheet or modernization is immaterial here. Engineering and product development can come up with an analysis that points to the current design having enough room for improvement a
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The best example for Nuclear is Barakah [0]. I just so happened to do the napkin math for it compared to solar + batteries yesterday. TL;DR Barakah is 4 reactors with total of 5,6GWe and came $5B under budget at $24.4B to about $4.4B/G
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I've been a sway/i3 user for almost 10 years and when I tried to switch to Hyprland I ended up with the realization that once I had replicated my sway config there was no advantage over sway that I could think of. This obviously h
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You can take figma out of adobe but you can't take adobe out of figma.
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russians are bombing Ukraine. No matter how much mental gymnastics you try to go through it does not change the fact that russians are doing it. They started it they are the ones operating the bombers and guns.
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