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781.
by lmz 4y ago
Chinese-Russian it seems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33922218
782.
by lmz 4y ago
Some jurisdictions have 0% capital gains taxes. Would be great for those people.
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by lmz 4y ago
Install the `manpages-posix` package: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/all/manpages-posix/fileli...
784.
by lmz 4y ago
This would be considered silly if a web dev said this about e.g. a script breaking because someone entered a single quote into a text field and it was interpolated directly into an SQL statement. We should not tolerate this from sysadmins e
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by lmz 4y ago
> Actually a decent language that would transpile to POSIX sh would be interesting, now that I think about it. Isn't this how we got the ultraportable monster configure scripts? Not sure about "decent" though...
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by lmz 4y ago
Powering a mechanical hard drive on an emergency battery seems hard. I know RAID cards have battery backed write caches that either store in RAM or flush to flash storage on power outage, and then rewrite when power is back on.
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by lmz 4y ago
I believe the answer is "CD-ROM drives" but the SCSI ones were a bit before my time.
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by lmz 4y ago
Was the Debian Maintainer Guide https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/index.en.html not helpful enough? When I tried to package stuff I found it easier to understand than the RPM docs.
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by lmz 4y ago
If the difference was 70 or 80% would they even be the same species?
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by lmz 4y ago
> I don't think these folks have seen traffic in Jakarta, and yet kids still walk to school there. You can't compare the two. Traffic in Jakarta is often barely moving while the suburbs have the opposite problem.
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by lmz 4y ago
Would you really replace the screen yourself on a laptop that's still under warranty?
792.
by lmz 4y ago
What makes you think the Thinkpad in the linked article is still under warranty?
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by lmz 4y ago
It's not a "review", more like an architectural look back? RDNA3 is here https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/01/07/microbenchmarking-amds...
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by lmz 4y ago
Civilization Revolution was also released for the Nintendo DS, which should be easier to get a copy of and emulate.
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by lmz 4y ago
The part about code reviews and meetings is about working to rule, to further delay progress. Don't take risks with bugs, review thoroughly. Don't ask for forgiveness, ask dor permission and escalate it in meetings.
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by lmz 4y ago
Why is this kind of argument valid for countries but not for pronouns?
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by lmz 4y ago
This works better if you both are in roughly the same time zone. It's not so great when you have to play "guess what the reviewer wants" with one day of latency between iterations of the review.
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by lmz 4y ago
Those are useful for ticket inspectors and also for troubleshooting issues e.g. if the fare gate won't let you out.
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by lmz 4y ago
130 / 4500 is roughly 2.9% which seems reasonable - application fees are from the third party application ("platform") you use: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/direct-charges#collecting-fe... Some o
800.
by lmz 4y ago
Don't you guys have SCT Inst? Finding a tech provider / bank who can wrap that into a nice UX and API is the challenge.
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by lmz 4y ago
Straight from the card networks e.g. https://www.visa.co.uk/dam/VCOM/regional/ve/unitedkingdom/PD... Processing a "Visa Infinite Business Credit" @ 1.5% would lose them money.
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by lmz 4y ago
Thermalright still seems to sell the HR-02 http://thermalright.com/product/hr-02-plus/ / "Macho" family which still says "fanless" somewhere in their description but it's unclear how
803.
by lmz 4y ago
I wonder which is more wasteful - compiling these packages for the nth time vs mining cryptocurrency...
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by lmz 4y ago
> In some ways Mozilla achieved the impossible: a truly cross platform, compatible desktop application infrastructure that is powerful and rich. It can play video, show images and play sound and do 3D graphics. Unfortunately the market d
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by lmz 4y ago
Yes - it's hard to automate because it's offline, it's higher risk because you have to show your face, it's usually low value products, and if there's any issues people usually go back to the cashier and then void t
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by lmz 4y ago
Unless they need something Pi specific I don't understand why this would be preferable versus just virtualizing instances on a "big ARM" server. I'm sure those exist.
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by lmz 4y ago
Disputes and chargebacks for in person payments especially for food/drinks immediately consumed would be rather rare.
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by lmz 4y ago
It says they're put in a pouch so they won't be directly on your skin. Not sure how much crawling you'll feel though (and hopefully we're never put in a place to find out).
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by lmz 4y ago
If a random employee can do that, a random employee can do that and I guess it's better for everyone if no employees can bypass user security based on a forum post.
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by lmz 4y ago
Doesn't that depend on the delivery mechanism? City gas would be fine but LPG tubes would probably use up more fuel in transport vs existing power lines.

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