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by notatoad 2y ago
in the wild, plants compete for space and resources and the leaves act as a funnel to direct water (including dew) to the roots that might not otherwise be captured. the leaves can also serve as a shield to prevent the soil around the root
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by notatoad 2y ago
but what does "a generous deal" even mean. they have no pricing at all listed, so there's no reference point. if i want to index ten pages more than the free tier is it going to cost me $10/mo or $10000/mo
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by notatoad 2y ago
from the washington post version of this article, the winners are slower but everybody else is faster... >But the “slow pool” theory does not hold up as well when one looks beyond the winning times. In fact, it appears a bit, ahem, shall
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by notatoad 2y ago
that has a seating capacity of 5000, which is a size that can have future uses. la defense arena has a capacity of 40000.
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by notatoad 2y ago
this is the reason that the leftmost and rightmost lanes of the pool aren't used for competition.
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by notatoad 2y ago
It's definitely possible, it just means the professional level of the sport can't be funded mostly from the amateur level of the sport. cycling is getting there, a lot of the big teams have petrostates or oil companies as sponsors
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by notatoad 2y ago
same thing happens in cycling all the time too. the UCI bans new equipment all the time, and the rules for what is allowed are very strict, to the point where there's a limit on sock height. there is a limited list of frames that can
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by notatoad 2y ago
e-bike racing is a thing that exists. nobody wants to watch it because it's incredibly dumb.
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by notatoad 2y ago
The olympics don't really set the protocol for any of this. the rules and procedures for each sport are set by their respective international sport organization. for cycling that's the UCI. the olympics is only one event, and on
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by notatoad 2y ago
365 is a hosted service. you don't need to run windows on your servers to use it SQL server is also offered as a managed service on Azure, and you can query it from your linux server just fine.
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by notatoad 2y ago
is it a problem at all? why bother trying to switch people over to windows when you can just make money off hosting their linux servers?
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by notatoad 2y ago
>a flood of crap content so, status quo? this sort of content only has value because google links to it when people search, and because google runs an ad network that allows monetizing it. google is also working furiously to provide the
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by notatoad 2y ago
Claude also seems to be available in canada now, which it wasn't last i checked.
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by notatoad 2y ago
Nobody is paying for trail apps just to see the trails. That’s not a paid feature, and the data is just scraped from OSM anyways - it doesn’t have value. People are paying for access to the social data layer on top of that - the reviews, t
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by notatoad 2y ago
>Is it common practice in the US to publish the names of suspects of a crime? yes. I won't defend the practice, but that's how it's done.
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by notatoad 2y ago
we implement one for event registration. without queuing, you end up with some hidden complexity around whether a ticket in a cart counts towards the limit or not, and when it goes back into the available pool if that cart doesn't che
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by notatoad 2y ago
i love that gap registered .bananarepublic and .oldnavy as TLDs. those brands aren't even the top level of navigation structure on their own websites!
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by notatoad 2y ago
this is one of those things that's true for the trivial case, and then quickly falls apart as soon as you add even the slightest amount of complication. writing html by hand is easier if you post infrequently, you only post basic text
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by notatoad 2y ago
> if they were going to re-allocate the 88-108 MHz block, but that doesn't seem to be the case. they definitely will do that though. spectrum is valuable, they're not just going to let unallocated spectrum sit there unused.
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by notatoad 2y ago
>some online payment systems (especially ones in Canada) have trouble with it. it's not really anything technical that they "have trouble with", most gateways launched visa debit as an "opt-in" payment method for
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by notatoad 2y ago
>effectively pushing the responsibility back onto the clients of the library. well, yes. that's how this should work. if you want to use a library, it's up to you to decide whether or not it is a good fit for your project, in
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by notatoad 2y ago
how about instead of telling people to read more, you just tell us what point you're trying to make.
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by notatoad 2y ago
>There are more bike lines than real roads now NYC has 650mi of bike lanes and 6300mi of roads for cars.
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by notatoad 2y ago
every time somebody posts the M5stack site, i just want to order everything. but on some level, i know it'll all end up on the pile of projects that i've started and not yet finished.
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by notatoad 2y ago
i'm sure i'm not the only one who wanted this information: >AlfaZeta makes brand new displays, with a controller board. Their XY5 displays (14x28) sells around 500€ (VAT and shipping included). https://hackaday.io&#x
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by notatoad 2y ago
that sounds like rss
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by notatoad 2y ago
10% slower on a 30-minute journey is 3 minutes. if i'm in the back of a taxi, i'm on my phone or reading a book or something. getting there 10% slower really just doesn't matter. humans drive fast becuase when they're
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by notatoad 2y ago
yes, i definitely meant risk in aesthetic design, not risk in safety or structural design. building codes to specify safety standards are unquestionably a good thing.
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by notatoad 2y ago
you don't have to - apache will execute your python cgi scripts just as happily as it will execute your php cgi scripts. it's just that python developers figured out that having options other than cgi, and being freed from the rig
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by notatoad 2y ago
>There's nothing stopping anyone from implementing a cloud that runs CGI or FastCGI that scales down to zero (with per second billing), and scales up to infinity. >It's just that nobody has chosen to do so i suspect they hav

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