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by kevindong 5y ago
Counterexample: in Summer 2019, I took a one way flight from Rome to Lisbon via Ryanair for $57.40 USD / ~€48.77 (current conversion rates, my receipt was denominated in USD). That's a 1,160 miles / 1,870 km / ~2.75 hour
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by kevindong 5y ago
If you use Google Flights, you can specify the number carry-on/checked bags you want and Google will include the pricing info in its rankings of flights which is handy. I don't agree that airlines (or really any travel provider) s
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by kevindong 6y ago
Reminder to take a step back and evaluate what you actually *need*. In my experience, software engineers tend to go overkill and buy the $300-400 prosumer routers that doesn't actually give them any tangible benefits over a normal $50-
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by kevindong 6y ago
Not OP, but my preferred push notification provider is IFTTT. Their API for sending a push notification to my iPhone is just amazingly simple. Basically set the trigger (the "if this") to an incoming webhook and set the action (th
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by kevindong 6y ago
I don't know if people are actually doing that, but it's crazy that it's plausibly possible to do so profitably. For example, this prebuilt desktop from Maingear costs $2,500 [0]. The notable components are a AMD 5900X and Nv
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by kevindong 6y ago
Modern blog-y recipe websites do tend to go and on about things I really do not care about (e.g. the worst I've seen is a recipe that included 68 wedding pictures before anything related to the recipe came up [0]), but they also tend t
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by kevindong 6y ago
The delivery models are fundamentally different. Domino's (and restaurants like it that have historically had in-house delivery drivers) is always single source, multi-destination. Uber, Grubhub, DoorDash et. al. are multi-source, mult
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by kevindong 6y ago
The onus of providing proof is on the claimant. At the time of writing, there was none. I agree with rblatz's response's reasoning.
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by kevindong 6y ago
This *FEELS* (not saying it is) like a false claim. Much like the much upvoted (and later debunked) HN post from a while back when a iOS developer claimed that Apple always keeps it 30% commission, even on a refunded purchase. I consider it
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by kevindong 6y ago
I just checked and the entirety of the wallpapers folder is 1.14 GB which admittedly is a lot bigger than I originally thought. /System/Library/Desktop Pictures
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by kevindong 6y ago
For a while, Walmart had a brand called 'Price First'. As the name implies, it was their lowest end store brand. The label never had pictures. It was always just a blue label, with white text, and a yellow arrow pointing downwards
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by kevindong 6y ago
As it turns out, virtually all electric heating is equally efficient (in terms of electricity used per unit of heat outputted). The only difference is that with electric heating, the desired output is the heat itself. While as with computer
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by kevindong 6y ago
The national US average is ~$104.50/MWh (1000 kWh = 1 MWh). So, it's about ~9 times more expensive right than than normal. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
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by kevindong 6y ago
LastPass was my first ever password manager and I used for it ~5 years. A few years ago, I got fed up with how sluggish it was (at least, at the time). So I switched over the Bitwarden. Unfortunately, the Bitwarden Safari extension for macO
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by kevindong 6y ago
The list of sponsors for the PSP [0] is surprisingly short considering how relatively affordable it is [1]: Visionary: $150k (this is the level created for Google) Sustainability: $90k Maintaining: $60k Contributing: $30k Supporting: $15k P
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by kevindong 6y ago
But web browsing is the vast majority of network usage now. The only big exception I can think of that don't go through standard HTTP/HTTPS rails is email. And even then desktop email clients are pretty rare now and they're p
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by kevindong 6y ago
> Ars Technica's main feed, with truncated article previews, currently has 470k subscribers on Feedly But how many of them are actually using their feed? You reminded me that I signed up for a Feedly account years ago right after Go
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by kevindong 6y ago
I have the same humidifier that the author does and I largely disagree with her points. It is rather ineffective at humidifying larger rooms (e.g. for the ~350 sq. ft. room I have it in, it humidifies the room +10% above what it otherwise w
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by kevindong 6y ago
I use a kitchen sponge to get around the corner and it's been quite clean for me.
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by kevindong 6y ago
The NYSE provided short interest data is only released twice a month. The last time being on Jan 27. https://www.nyse.com/market-data/reference/nyse-group-short-...
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by kevindong 6y ago
To date, I've never found a better pencil than the Pentel Twist Erase III (0.5mm). So simple, so affordable, yet so great. https://www.jetpens.com/Pentel-Twist-Erase-III-Mechanical-Pe...
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by kevindong 6y ago
My price estimates are only for the "traditional" bulb size/shape (A19) used in the US [0]. GU10 bulbs do seem to be much more expensive than that (I'm seeing ~$5~6 being pretty typical) [1] which is basically exactly ho
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by kevindong 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the exact product you bought? And do you keep your bulbs on 24/7? The mass market, "budget" (really, the baseline bulbs that most people buy; ~$1.25/bulb) LED bulbs are usually rated for aro
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by kevindong 6y ago
In most cases, I fully agree. But there's the hefty edge case (for developers at least) of showing off a piece of code that essentially requires a developer environment to be running. It's simply not possible to create a developer
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by kevindong 6y ago
Meetings are generally held in meeting rooms (well, pre-Covid that is). In meetings, you typically have something to present or discuss over. It's generally better for employees to have a single machine (that they're very familiar
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by kevindong 6y ago
Kuo has a remarkable track record of being right, but he's not perfect. Currently he's ~78.2% accurate. https://appletrack.org/ming-chi-kuo/
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by kevindong 6y ago
That's an opinion piece. > By Mariame Kaba > Ms. Kaba is an organizer against criminalization.
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by kevindong 6y ago
A pet peeve of mine when I still drove was when drivers would leave 1-3 car length's in front of their car when stopped at a stoplight. And then after the car in front starts moving, it'd take them a solid second to start inching
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by kevindong 6y ago
For me personally, the value of IFTTT is not the automation/rules. It's the API integrations. Some of the inputs/outputs have horrifically complex APIs that I do not want to deal with. For that reason alone, I pay IFTTT their
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by kevindong 6y ago
Slack makes ~61% of its revenue from US customers which only has 4 time zones compared to the remainder of their revenue being spread out across ~20 time zones. It's not an unreasonable hypothesis. See page 12 of the document (which is

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