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The UK has this and it's super-frustrating! (aka it works!). With those radar based grey box cameras you see in urban areas, you just have to make sure you were not speeding when going past them (they even put handy calibration marks
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There's precedent, when Apple named iOS, Cisco had (and still has) IOS. They just came to some licensing settlement for Apple's use of the name [0]. Actually, it looks like Apple also licensed the iPhone trademark from Cisco too!
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2y ago
If you've been to a Home Depot or Lowes recently, there's maybe 1 or 2 staffed registers open and usually a decent line of customers at self-checkout trying to figure out how to scan items & check out with several staff trying
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2y ago
It's an exercise in recreating how an Objective-C app works in C from first-principles. For example, the creation of the AppDelegate (see CreateAppDelegate() in AppDelegate.c) is interesting because it shows how to create a class from
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Exactly, but they have no easy way of direct metering domestic sewerage usage, so they do it indirectly via your household water usage (usually something like 75% goes down the drains). There needs to be a second meter to "subtract&qu
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I suppose it depends, but it's pretty common to see signs saying "Non-Potable Reclaimed Water used for Irrigation" in and around housing developments, hotels, shopping and commercial areas as well as resorts and golf courses.
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There's a second meter that tracks the irrigation usage and that's how they subtract the sewer charges for irrigation. Of course you have to pay extra for the meter to be installed and there's often an additional "stand
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Well they sort of do already — typically you pay less for water for irrigation (usually because sewerage is metered by water usage and obv if it goes on the lawn it’s not going down the drain). In places like Florida however irrigation wate
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... if you don't get the H1B after 3 tries, some international companies will send the employee overseas to an office in a more tech-work-visa friendly country, have them work there for a year then bring them back on an L-1 (intracompa
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New calculations have raised concerns popular eclipse maps might be off
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I'm staying at an AirBnB (with only a 15A exterior outlet), there's a supercharger not too far, but TBH, it works well enough plugged in overnight, I know if I needed to drive more, I can just go to the supercharger station. We w
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3y ago
Ironically I have a Tesla Model 3 (base) rental from Hertz right now. I saw it as a way to really "own" one albeit only for a week (vs a 30 minute test drive). I like it enough that I thought it might make a good commuter car, bu
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3y ago
See discussion on BBC version of this story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39916102
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In fact many states require LLCs created in other states to register as a foreign entity if they do any business in that state (incl. having a presence there). For example in Massachusetts [0]: Pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 156C, §48, a f
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The definition of a second is as follows [0]: The second is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency ∆ν, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9 192 631 77
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Of course they can. Have you not seen any Bond or Mission Impossible Movies? But seriously, why would they not be able to? They will almost certainly have high-level connections into the State Dept. (or whatever agency issues passports fo
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So this looks like it might even support "cloud" based email services with OAuth2/MFA authentication such as Outlook/Exchange in the cloud: https://pimalaya.org/himalaya/cli/latest/configur
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3y ago
Justine with an `e` and two `n`s in Tunney.
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Exactly, while the legislature let EMC "lobby away" the attempts to meaningfully reform non-competes, Gov. Healy wonders why the AI lead has slipped from the state and is now forming an AI "task force": https:/
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I don' think it's a bad gamble, it'll just take longer then expected to lease all of this. IMHO, I think the Boston "tech hub" has pivoted in the last 20 years to biotech/life sciences. Kendall in particular
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3y ago
"boustrophedonically": now there's a word you don't get to use very often (possibly unless you're Indiana Jones). That's got to be worth something in Scrabble!
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The question is, would the craft now need help from reaction wheels to offset the inertia from the moving print head / paper feed? Or would there need to be a special version of the printer firmware that kept track of its movement so
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@lawn, There's a typo towards the end (about 80%) down in the section on nvim-treesitter, should be `TSUpdate`, not `TSUdate`: :TSUdate sdjot Excellent write up though!
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3y ago
I do the same and it usually only takes a few days to a week to learn a 16 character pretty random looking password, which with an 6-monthly change-your-password-rule is no big deal.
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3y ago
Except for the 346 people who died in two MAX-8 crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019. FWIW, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was a MAX-9.
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3y ago
Thank you for the comment, apologies if I came off a bit antagonistic! It's just a little frustrating when you see really great apps potentially ending. It's really too bad there's not a better indie-dev model for the App S
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3y ago
Love this too -- I use this to document source code, being able to visualize a buffer or structure layout in the code is so nice!
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Please not more app-store abandonware. I have a decent amount on both my phone and my MBP. Sad to see, I really liked Monodraw for creating ASCII illustrations for source code (e.g. buffer layouts etc). Of course, probably it'll be o
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I use make's `wildcard`, for example to locate all of my unit tests with the project sources (I don't use a `test` subdir): TEST_SRC = $(wildcard *_test.c) If you follow TFA's guidelines about having a `src` dir, then:
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Yes the classic one is that you make a transfer on the checking acct instead of savings and end up using a bit of you line of credit. So you get the payoff amount and pay it, but it doesn't include the interest for today . So tomor
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