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by positr0n 4y ago
I had a similar experience as OP. Maybe you can't imagine it because you went to a competitive high school where kids talked a lot about stuff like that? I barely tried and was in the top 1% of my class yet I didn't prepare for th
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by positr0n 4y ago
I've heard about similar circumstances when I briefly helped a startup that provided software in the hospice industry. Supposedly a big client in Oklahoma City trialed their software one week and employees said the would quit if they w
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by positr0n 4y ago
What drama with the Factorio devs is he talking about at the end (and namesearchers?.. I don't get Twitter sometimes) I've never heard anyone say anything about the Factorio devs except praise their productivity and professionalis
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by positr0n 4y ago
Instead if changing the terms, couldn't the owner of the building refinance with a new bank that does residential property mortgages?
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by positr0n 4y ago
Yes using less is better. That's what I'm saying.
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by positr0n 4y ago
Both PFOF and HFT are good for the little guy and neutral to negative for the big traders. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone... https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog&#x
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by positr0n 4y ago
> Utilization under 30% still hurts your score I don't think this is right, and your first supporting link directly refutes that in the second sentence.
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by positr0n 4y ago
My reading is humanwhosits is just proposing what we have today, which doesn't have those problems. When you get a mortgage today they verify your assets, debts, and income. There's less of a need for a score if they're alrea
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by positr0n 4y ago
Is a heat pump any different from regular air conditioning in that regard? I'm from an area of the country where you run the AC 8 months out of the year so this question is weird to me unless somehow a heat pump (reverse AC) is differe
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by positr0n 4y ago
Was Tom Clancy actually involved in the games at all? I always thought the studio just bought his name to use for branding after the first game was made after his book Rainbow Six.
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by positr0n 4y ago
The theory is that buying twitter provided him a good "excuse" to dump a ton of TSLA. If he had just randomly sold billions of TSLA it would have spooked the markets because it would seem like Elon didn't believe in the fut
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by positr0n 4y ago
Yep, at Microsoft's level you definitely want to have monitoring that will catch an incident like "50% of T-Mobile customers using IPv6 from Atlanta can't connect". But it is hard! Even harder is "have slow connecti
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by positr0n 4y ago
We put everything but our mortgage on credit cards and always pay them off. But still the statement each month is always at least $3000. Does that show up in this statistic? Or does it only count as debt if you haven't paid it all the
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by positr0n 4y ago
Microsoft and your ISP probably peer directly at your nearest IX. This means that a packet between your house and Microsoft would never traverse the "public" internet. It would go on your ISP's network to the IX, then directl
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by positr0n 4y ago
> Stay off the granola bar with high fructose corn syrup. Would a granola bar sweetened with the exact same number of sucrose/fructose molecules from organic coconut sugar (or palm sugar, or date juice, etc) be any more healthy? I c
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by positr0n 4y ago
Ha. Whenever I recommend that channel to people I always say "he is riiiiight below the line between 'informative' and 'arrogant pedantic neckbeard' for me. If your line is different you might hate it"
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by positr0n 4y ago
> where the nation saw its first-ever 40-degree-Celsius temperature reading Unlike a residential house that is hard to model accurately, I'm guessing 99% of the heat load of a DC comes from the servers inside it. So you can create a
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by positr0n 4y ago
Wow really? That is hard to believe given half the US drains through it. I can't find anything on Google on the subject though maybe I am using the wrong search terms.
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by positr0n 4y ago
Slack is intended for exactly that durable use case. The name is an acronym for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge
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by positr0n 4y ago
Here in Dallas I was seeing gas for $4.85 a couple weeks ago and sub $4 today.
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by positr0n 5y ago
To me it can have a few meanings based on context, which I'm sure everyone has their own interpretation ha. Sometimes it means "giant influential tech companies" in which case you could make a good case that Netflix doesn&#x2
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by positr0n 5y ago
> lumber is a limited and valuable natural resource I assume this is still true, but a year ago when I unfortunately had to start a large lumber project the stumpage fee, aka the price a tree owner gets when they sell their tree to be lo
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by positr0n 5y ago
Mostly unrelated, but few years ago I realized that buying the $3/box pasta has a trivial impact to my food budget but it really does taste better and soak up sauce better (due to the slower extrusion process)
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by positr0n 5y ago
> people like you, i.e. people who become parents at a relatively young age, literally have their brain chemistry altered to protect their offspring, WAY before you have actually experienced life as an adult. Do you have any links or ter
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by positr0n 5y ago
I think Sevii means brain drain from other industries in to tech. E.g. potential doctors and lawyers deciding that being a programmer has way better ROI than all the years and debt involved with medical school or law school
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by positr0n 5y ago
https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1463885539619311616 Some tweets from this thread linked in the article. Sadly as terrible as Twitter is for long form content, I found the tweets easier to read and more succi
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by positr0n 5y ago
You'd need a small town in Texas for this to be effective. Everywhere I've ever lived in Texas had tons of tech jobs available.
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by positr0n 5y ago
Woah is sun exposure a trigger all by itself? I almost always get a headache if I've been outside all day, but I always assumed it was a second order effect like being outside makes it harder to get enough liquids so I was dehydrated.
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by positr0n 5y ago
But datacenter CPU/GPUs take the same wafers, machines, and factory time slots as consumer GPUs. Which that is the price increase this article is about.
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by positr0n 5y ago
Luckily the number is not trademarked in the context of calendars.

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