plantain

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   by plantain 4y ago

   I thought getting an Australian partner visa for my German girlfriend was an expensive and arduous process - a few solid weeks putting together a big binder of all our information, but for 'only' 10,000$AUD and a 3 month wait, she
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   by plantain 4y ago

   >An Aribnb in Queens has accumulated nearly $1M in fines, according to Bloomberg. It hasn't paid any of them. Is there no copyediting done at publications at all any more? When the second word is misspelt, I really wonder how much e
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   by plantain 4y ago

   it's on an IronKey.
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   by plantain 4y ago

   There's something in the water in Munich - I had the same experience, probably because it was just coming into Oktoberfest...
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   by plantain 4y ago

   For what it's worth, I had similar experiences with GCP's paid support. Callback from a real human within 10 minutes kind of support.
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   by plantain 4y ago

   As a tourist, despite the pretty poor food I love the novelty of the DBahn restaurant carts. Something about having a sit down meal whistling along silently through the countryside at 200kph just seems cool.
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   by plantain 4y ago

   I assume they've succumbed to law enforcement / money laundering pressures...
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   by plantain 4y ago

   Baffling difference in outcomes compared to Robodebt in Australia, where no one took any responsibility.
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   by plantain 4y ago

   Samsung as a company is a terrible experience - horrible first party sales experience, unfathomably bad support. I can't bring myself to buy from them again. My guess is they just tick along from their tight vertical integration and co
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    by plantain 4y ago

    Zero interest rate phenomenon.
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    by plantain 4y ago

    That's the official name
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    by plantain 4y ago

    >If the capsule is on or very near the road, a single trip from start to finish with a NaI(Tl) or CsI scintillation counter will find it. Every CBRN team in the world has these, so they have obviously completed the first run at this with
13. 193.▲
    by plantain 4y ago

    Good. ADS-B Exchange's API is horribly broken and they never even replied to my support/refund requests so I had to chargeback. A shakeup might help.
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    by plantain 4y ago

    Your clock messes up because your Debian and Windows are disagreeing on whether your Real Time Clock should be set in local time (Windows) or UTC time (Linux). fix: timedatectl set-local-rtc 1
15. 195.▲
    by plantain 4y ago

    I had the same for SRE @ Google - really simple question that probes the entire free-form depth of your systems understanding.
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    by plantain 4y ago

    Is this the normal price for a solar install in the US? In Australia it's ~$7000AU (~$4000 US) for a system like this, unsubsidized - then we have a 400$/kWh subsidy. Our 10kW solar system was $4000AU installed, and the payback pe
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    by plantain 4y ago

    What changed? Governments used to aggressively intervene in the housing market.
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    by plantain 4y ago

    >Builders build homes, not governments. Why? Why did the government just watch this crisis develop? Why not... build some homes?
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    by plantain 4y ago

    I really don't understand why governments around the globe just throw their hands in the air and pretend housing is an unsolvable problem for which they have no obligation to fix. It wasn't always like this - in 1922 in Australia
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    by plantain 4y ago

    Smearing is probably what most people actually want...
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    by plantain 4y ago

    >they treat everyone who enters like a potential criminal. They check your bags for weapons and run metal detector wands over you. Basically the worst library experience I've ever had I don't believe there are many other parts
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    by plantain 4y ago

    Every big city? Or do you mean every big American city?
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    by plantain 4y ago

    I run a SaaS for what you might imagine would be highly technical, educated clients, and despite this I am bombarded by users who seemingly have never done a Register -> Activation email workflow. Users are hard.
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    by plantain 4y ago

    Oracle has a much more effective sales team than PostgreSQL. A few basketball tickets to the right managers makes all the difference.
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    by plantain 4y ago

    Forced currency conversion. International fees versus local. Low average charge (so the per tx fee is more significant)
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    by plantain 4y ago

    Apple has had poor support for PWA's for a very long time - the CacheStorage was limited to a useless size, still no Web Push Notifications, just generally broken and noncomplaint.
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    by plantain 4y ago

    So both sites lose? That'll make manipulation easier than ever before. Or does the older site win? Frequently scraped / already popular sites will love that.
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    by plantain 4y ago

    I'm baffled to read stories that suggest Azure is a viable competitor to GCP/AWS - they're an absolute nightmare on capacity. It took me six months to get approved to start six instances! With multiple escalations including b
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    by plantain 4y ago

    Firefox seems to have very inconsistent behaviour on Mapbox/Maplibre sites. I deal with a lot of bug reports with no pattern to them except Firefox is slow but on the same device, Chrome is perfect...
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    by plantain 4y ago

    Plot twist - iCloud uses Google Cloud for storage. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/29/icloud-data-stored-on-g...