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by npongratz 3y ago
Suppose I give plasma or blood, and it removes PFAS from my body. Does it give those PFAS to the recipient of my plasma/blood?
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by npongratz 3y ago
Interesting justification for their subscription model [0]: > Naturally, developers benefit from the subscription model by having a more regular income, but customers also benefit because they hold more power over the developer to fix bu
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by npongratz 4y ago
I'd suggest that is not unique to frauds. One could say the same thing about any corporation, or currency, or government, or celebrity.
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by npongratz 4y ago
> Plus the new CEO has very little to work with at this point due to truly unbelievable attrition. The C-suite told everyone in an all-hands sitewide roundtable "We're not adjusting salaries for inflation, if you feel you'
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by npongratz 4y ago
If I may humbly offer a suggestion, looping over filenames should [ edit : almost] never be done with ls. find can be used with much better fidelity: https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2012 "ls is only intended for
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by npongratz 4y ago
Sure, but just remember that it can't do math, so any mathy answer it gives is just bullshit.
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by npongratz 4y ago
How do fat cells encode the information about one's weight when the cells are created?
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by npongratz 4y ago
It could be sold as a meatspace chaos monkey.
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by npongratz 4y ago
I don't mean to be trite, but that won't work since everything is chemicals.
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by npongratz 4y ago
And 21.5 years ago, we were (or at least, I was) celebrating mere multi-terabit photonic switching: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/01/04/23/1233235/multite...
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by npongratz 4y ago
> Also some studies showed people preferred rancid oil! I was once in a casual, blind taste test at an Anheuser-Busch facility where at least half of the dozen testers preferred the beer whose kegs had been sitting out in the hot sun for
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by npongratz 4y ago
> It's true that the G4 processor was introduced in 1999, before OS X was even in beta. While it's true the beta of OS X as a desktop OS wasn't released until September 2000 [0], OS X Server 1.0 was released into "pro
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by npongratz 4y ago
A trigger on a timer that notifies the fuck-it-provider (email, calendar entry, text message, whatever) that they need to go back and enter a value.
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by npongratz 4y ago
old.reddit.com links help immensely for anyone who isn't logged in, and/or doesn't have an account.
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by npongratz 4y ago
But that basket of currencies is composed of 57.6% EUR. I'm barely an amateur observer of these markets, but it seems to answer the question " dollar sinking or euro strengthening? ", it'd be better to look at a basket o
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by npongratz 4y ago
> I also don't recall running into Nazgul and Orcs while growing up near Oslo, and imagine facing that might have been a rather severe deterrent to growth. But you did have trolls, right? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by npongratz 4y ago
For every new device Apple markets, I'm curious if they still have that famed "#courage" they so loudly advertised a while back. Let's take a look at the tech specs: https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-m2&#
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by npongratz 4y ago
Not primary source, but includes link to source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_Boox#GPL_Compliance
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by npongratz 4y ago
Someone does :) HN discussion (2009): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=921524 https://tarsnap.com > Tarsnap uses a prepaid model based on actual usage: > Storage: 250 picodollars / byte-month of e
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by npongratz 4y ago
> ... would all but guarantee a catalogue full of $CURRENT_DAY political messaging, which would be poison for subscriber retention. Seems to me that's what they already have; which upon reflection, is indeed probably why they'r
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by npongratz 5y ago
Agreed, especially when preceded by "apropos".
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by npongratz 5y ago
I see MacPorts includes the following clients (I took the liberty of removing servers and proxies from this list): $ port search gopher bombadillo @2.3.3_2 (net) Bombabillo is a non-web client for the terminal, supporting
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by npongratz 5y ago
> In my example this is roughly due to the time between now and the exercise date. Over time, this shrinks, this is called beta-decay. I think you mean theta decay. Theta is the time factor of an option's value. Beta is, roughly,
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by npongratz 5y ago
To be fair, one company did: Digg. And that's why no one uses or remembers Digg anymore.
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by npongratz 5y ago
We already do: https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program... HN discussion (among others less recent and/or less popular): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19922062 More
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by npongratz 5y ago
It gets even worse. LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice [0]: > OpenOffice.org Initial release May 2002; 19 years ago Which itself originated as StarOffice [1]: > StarOffice Initial release 1985; 36 years ago [0] https://en.w
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by npongratz 5y ago
I was also unaware of Plato's possible slavery, and found this [0], but I do not have the background knowledge judge the veracity of the information: > One source of the story of Plato being sold into slavery is Lives and Opinions
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by npongratz 5y ago
The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide also has some (IMO) good advice, with a footnoted mention of sysexits.h: https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exitcodes.html > The author of this document proposes restricting us
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by npongratz 5y ago
That may well be, and everyone, I'm sure, saw it differently. I happened to perceive their use of "courage" as condescending, hubristic elitism. Anyway, I'm happy they are including a genuine, pretend-spec'ed 3.5mm
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by npongratz 5y ago
Indeed, I was lampooning their terrible decision to remove the headphone jack and their gall to refer to it as "courage." I'm still salty about the whole ordeal.

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