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by nrki 4y ago
Come now, this could be verified with evidence. I'm sure these actions exist in a database and email trail. Musk could release the evidence himself, or use an actual journalistic process and have someone impartial review it. But there
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by nrki 4y ago
This is why I often booked using airbnb.com.au - Australian consumer protection laws mandated that Airbnb had to show you the REAL end price upfront. It's been that way for five+ years, as well.
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by nrki 4y ago
Another plug for Volumio. I added smart features to my hifi system with it. Very reliable and great Spotify integration.
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by nrki 4y ago
The fact that Coca-Cola sponsors a climate conference is crazy to me. That a UN climate conference NEEDS a corporate sponsor is also ridiculous.
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by nrki 4y ago
Anecdotally, I purchased a surface pro 7 and the ridiculous number of unexpected automatic updates and reboots without warning (overnight) lost me a bunch of data. Luckily it wasn't work related, but it has continued my deep-seated hat
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by nrki 4y ago
The word's "gritty" these days... :)
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by nrki 4y ago
The incredulous of people commenting on this kinda astounds me. The people who made adtech what it is today are your (our) colleagues, friends, bosses, peers. This didn't happen by itself.
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by nrki 4y ago
In many places in the US, and indeed other countries, the "stop line" can be worn almost completely away, or a road just repaved may not yet have one.
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by nrki 4y ago
> Perhaps I'm not as well-informed on this subject as I thought, because I had done some research months/years ago but I'm not really finding solid information reporting on the dangers as was the case with you. Would you m
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by nrki 4y ago
My Asus Android tablet, abandoned without a single Android OS update, begs to differ.
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by nrki 4y ago
That is HN. Anecdotes taken as gospel. Comments written as absolutes. Simple tech blog posts that turn into 500 off-topic-comment threads. It's wonderfully useless at times.
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by nrki 4y ago
But they got pizzas! I agree, I think these things are able to be found at other organizations without everyone doing 15 hour days.
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by nrki 5y ago
I agree. It's not the link to the tool. And the tool doesn't even work.
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by nrki 5y ago
Given the labor cost, it's more like $600! Mass-produced ones would be nice.
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by nrki 5y ago
I couldn't agree with you more. I was thoroughly in the "screw Microsoft" camp until about 2018, when I thought they were on the way to redeeming themselves. Unfortunately they've continued their prior "hatefully co
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by nrki 5y ago
I was recommended The Comfort Book by Matt Haig. It didn't and doesn't solve all problems - but it helps.
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by nrki 5y ago
This is pretty funny from an EU employees perspective..."unlimited" == ~3 weeks?! Our guaranteed 5 weeks + ~10 public holidays is better than "unlimited" PTO.
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by nrki 5y ago
I grew up with the Southern Ocean being a thing. It was always marked on Australian maps.
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by nrki 5y ago
Actually, yes, British people do rather respond well to calm people with authority during a crisis.
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by nrki 5y ago
This is the approach taken in Star Trek it seems. Very few personal possessions in general. Anything you want can be replicated for free. Obviously on the starships, personal furniture isn't encouraged though.
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by nrki 5y ago
This isn't 4chan or parler.
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by nrki 6y ago
Well, this was in Australia. The settlement payouts were orders of magnitude larger in the USA! I keep no money in major banks, not just because they are largely morally bankrupt though. :)
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by nrki 6y ago
I also bought a VW Golf GTD and ended up having to sell it right as the scandal was heating up. Apart from the ~$10k I lost and the betrayal by VW executives, I was also upset that the car I bought to try and be a little bit eco-friendly wa
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by nrki 6y ago
As a rebuttal: you chose either the workplace or home that is a 2 hour commute away. You choose to buy $15 lunch instead of making something at home and taking it in. Other people have different situations. My commute is ~30 minutes to a fu
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by nrki 6y ago
How about analysing driving habits? People staying home and Netflixing then cycling to the store >>> most patrons of drive-thru anything.
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by nrki 6y ago
An example of Silicon Valley technology assumption. Many apps assume 100% internet connectivity at all times. i.e. not even minimally functional when offline. They assume a certain speed, latency and packet loss (zero). The adage should be:
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by nrki 6y ago
Not a great source. Science is based on evidence, not lack of evidence. A rebuttal to that article appears in the same publication, and adroitly takes apart it's claims: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations
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by nrki 6y ago
The difference between "dies suddenly" and "died after falling from one of the company's buildings" is left to the reader. Very sad.
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by nrki 6y ago
"huge" antennas usually have high gain, which increases your signal-to-noise ratio - both Rx and Tx. So one can "hear" signals further away and "speak" softer than would.be normally necessary.
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by nrki 6y ago
Try Patroni for Postgres HA, seems really trivial.

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