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by plantain 4y ago
Several states in Australia don't have technical car inspections, or only have them on change of ownership.
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by plantain 4y ago
You can't simultaneously posit that you drive 1500 miles a year, and then complain about the charging speed. 1500 miles a year doesn't need 230V 16A. You would achieve the level of charging speed literally with a laptop charger.
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by plantain 4y ago
Much like investors through the great booms for whom all manner of terrible trading strategies still made big money, we're now at last going to find out who actually knows what they're doing and who's fooled even themselves.
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by plantain 4y ago
I travel with a tiny 15W GaN charger, only slightly bigger than my thumb. I don't know what you do with your MBP, but for 15W charges up overnight and holds battery level or even slowly charges while being used. If you're transc
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by plantain 4y ago
I'm not commenting if they're wrong in this case in particular, but Macrobusiness's business model is sensational/doomer headlines funnelling into their private newsletter. They may look prescient if you read the last ye
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by plantain 4y ago
>Today, we’re excited to announce we’ve started to roll out Communities on WhatsApp globally and this will be available to everyone over the next few months. Does anyone else find these soft-launches irritating? Give us a date?
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by plantain 4y ago
JPEG-XL is already implemented in ~95% of browsers in the wild (Chrome, Edge, Opera and Firefox), just only behind a flag.
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by plantain 4y ago
Why is catalytic converter theft seemingly worse in the US/UK than in Europe/AU/NZ? I think the problem is underlying societal collapse rather than consequences.
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by plantain 4y ago
I really hope this is revisited - JXL seems to be faster and better compression than HEIC/AVIF.
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by plantain 4y ago
My favourite timezone oddity - the border between Afghanistan and China has a 3.5 hour time difference! (yes, Afghanistan and China share a border)
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by plantain 4y ago
I do the exact opposite. Buying a gift for an expert when you are not an expert is always going to lead to disappointment, no matter how well they hide it. I buy gifts only from areas that I am an expert in, and I hope my friends may not be
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by plantain 4y ago
I've spent a lot of time trying to capitalize on these mispricing - and often they're priced like that because the capacity in that region/configuration is much lower and you are exposed to more more preemptions than in highe
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by plantain 4y ago
For a short period of time, couchsurfing.com was that magical place.
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by plantain 4y ago
Pretty par for the course with airbnb support. Twice now I've had reservations cancelled hours before arrival with airbnb absolutely useless at finding an alternative. One time I was able to get some meagre compensation (the difference
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by plantain 4y ago
Azure support is just so bad it floors me. Azure forced me onto invoice billing against my will - and every month without fail they don't automatically match my payment and I have to endure increasingly threatening emails that my accou
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by plantain 4y ago
MacOS, not iPadOS.
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by plantain 4y ago
At least previously they had unattainable minimums for most small enterprise. Looks like that might have improved since.
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by plantain 4y ago
>throughput of 2.5 simulated days per day Will need to be at least 10x faster to be operationally useful.
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by plantain 4y ago
Risk isn't free, if you want government workers to bear the risk of jail for their mistakes, you'll have to pay them like engineers or doctors.
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by plantain 4y ago
I use GCP and the killer feature IMHO is the WebUI is "discoverable" but then for almost every operation it will tell you the associated CLI or JSON. So I'm able to do things once in the WebUI and repeat it programmatically f
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by plantain 4y ago
That's the tool they used to get in, then they went sideways from the corporate network and eventually into Gmail. I was on the team that cleaned it up...
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by plantain 4y ago
You don't have to make lithium from brine. In Australia it's mined out of the rock, it's only South America that it's from brine.
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by plantain 4y ago
>Google got hacked by inside actors planted in their physical offices by the Chinese government. This just isn't true? It was an IE 0-day.
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by plantain 4y ago
Weather forecasts would be as good as they are now, perhaps 1-2 days further ahead.
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by plantain 4y ago
An OP on a 90's IRC channel I hung out in used to find it hilarious to forcibly change my username from banana to plantain with /sanick and I got bored of changing it back. banana was originally picked because it was an adjacent o
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by plantain 4y ago
The often not considered factory is the type of pilots that are attracted to (or advertised at) Cirrus's are generally considered to be high risk / low hours / non-current, so the accident stats are even more remarkable.
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by plantain 4y ago
$120US for work I think will be interesting or rewarding, scaling to $300US for work that sounds like it's going to suck.
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by plantain 4y ago
As long as you define century as 2000-2100, and not 1922-2022...
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by plantain 4y ago
What? We had a triple dip in 1998, and before that 1976.
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by plantain 4y ago
Have you tried Uber lately? It used to be way cheaper than taxi's, and you'd reliably get one much faster than calling a cab or trying to hail one. Now they've approached monopoly and need to actually start becoming profitabl

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