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by metaphor 1y ago
Consider water spinach[1]---a.k.a. swamp weed in Florida, but also known as kangkung amongst Asian households---to which the USDA apparently classifies as a "noxious weed". It can be prepared for consumption in many ways, but I es
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by metaphor 1y ago
Source? Consider a contractor in a software maintainer role; accounting for this as capex makes zero sense.
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by metaphor 1y ago
> What if your neighbours climb on your roof and start banging on your windows at night? Worth noting that in the US, castle law[1] is ardently defended and not something to be tested by FAFO. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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by metaphor 1y ago
To be fair, the concept of iced tea as an objective desire is considered the provenance of blasphemous original sin by a not insignificant percentage of natives where the parent hails from.
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by metaphor 1y ago
> La choy is to soy sauce what Maruchen is to real ramen Oh come on now, surely Maruchan deserves a bit more credit...at the very least, no one is breaking the bank while desecrating their soul. In contrast, at my local Walmart, a 15-o
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by metaphor 1y ago
Yes[1]. This includes every major appliance in my primary home...and HEPA air cleaners too. [1] https://www.energystar.gov/about/federal-tax-credits/air-sou...
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by metaphor 1y ago
Bad faith argument, and certainly not the case for homeowners intending to leverage certain tax incentives[1]. When I tapped this two years ago, it was for a ducted heat pump system replacement where the only immutable requirement was that
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by metaphor 1y ago
Paraphrasing this[1]? [1] https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/132936/files#diff-98...
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by metaphor 1y ago
https://archive.is/Jqokr
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by metaphor 1y ago
Nope[1]: > Is Julia named after someone or something? > No. [1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/faq/#General
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by metaphor 1y ago
(2023) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35858778
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by metaphor 1y ago
https://archive.is/JozhY
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by metaphor 1y ago
The complaint[1] by the SEC against Qwest during the dot-com bubble...you decide if Nacchio serving "a trumped-up 6-year federal prison sentence" was appropriate. [1] https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/
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by metaphor 1y ago
Curious how the blog post published April 10 goes out of its way to highlight Speedometer 3.0...almost 2 weeks after 3.1 was released[1]. [1] https://browserbench.org/announcements/speedometer3.1/
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by metaphor 2y ago
High probability the target interprets prompt as routine automatic update notification and does nothing. It's not clear what would actually happen, but it also seems plausible that the hotplug event gets triggered by merely (un)pluggin
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by metaphor 2y ago
The exploit struck me as exceptionally nasty given screen mirroring[1] is one of Supernote's attractive features. Am I correct in understanding that the public debug key firmware signing faux pas was plugged in Chauvet 3.21.31 [2], whi
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by metaphor 2y ago
That's all motherhood and apple pie, but it's a red herring with no basis in pragmatic reality (i.e. not how the calculus of utility-scale power generation industrial planning/ops works), and wholesale disingenuous to posit t
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by metaphor 2y ago
My condolences...looks[1] painful. [1] https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid...
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by metaphor 2y ago
Uhhh, sanity check: If you lived in a state like Hawaii where the cost of residential electricity approaches outrageous territory (i.e. ~$0.50/kWh), then you'd be hard pressed to save $1 per month trimming -2.4W nominal consumpt
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by metaphor 2y ago
I use --- to represent em dash in prose here, e.g. [1][2]. The behavior is just a residual of long time exposure to TeX. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833665 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by metaphor 2y ago
Was thinking the same thing as well. I've hunted in this region a long time ago (on a private hunting club in Ocala) with an old friend from uni who explicitly advised that wearing gloves while handling wild hog was an absolute safety
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by metaphor 2y ago
> Accurate (within 3deg F) weather predictions Sniff test: ASTM E230 standard tolerances for the venerable Type K thermocouple is +/- 2.2°C or +/- 0.75%, whichever is greater. Expectations are in need of recalibration if anyo
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by metaphor 2y ago
To be fair, it's probably naive to blindly assume that a company like Philips, with a long history of litigious behavior, isn't playing patent continuation games.
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by metaphor 2y ago
Perhaps less widely known is that if you market a commercial product that actually uses PWM to modulate LED intensity, you're liable to be litigated against by Philips for patent infringement? Wild...yeah, I know. Heard that from a bud
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by metaphor 2y ago
More details in the DoJ press release[1]. [1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/federal-jury-finds-feedin...
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by metaphor 2y ago
I'm a R&D plebeian; not my job. We have a lifecycle management team that monitors metrics---e.g. system availability, failure rates, spares inventory, obs, etc.---and postures as risk/budget considerations permit. In the aggre
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by metaphor 2y ago
From the article: > The BG29 chips will be available in 5 mm × 5 mm QFN and 2.6 mm × 2.8 mm WLCSP form factors That "wireless oral health monitor" example is a concept from Lura Health[1] that integrates a marginally smaller
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by metaphor 2y ago
To clarify, assume in good faith that pivot in context means compelled towards involuntary action---i.e. unexpected loss of local data, as opposed to a matter of routine shift in workflow---where the remote forge is being tapped for its s
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by metaphor 2y ago
Paraphrasing UX expert Johnny Lee: UX = P_Success*Benefit - P_Failure*Cost ...and yet with every new generation of tech, it's never surprising how the hype cycle results in a brazen dismissal of the latter half of this fundament
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by metaphor 2y ago
All of the above; being a mid-career IC/TL with visibility into actual outcomes in prod has organically matured a deep respect for boring technology---warts and all---especially when cumulative NRE is well into 10-digit territory. I&#x

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