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by pxx 4y ago
The concert analogy is close but not perfect because the problem is that grouping necessarily puts you into premium seats. If they can sell aisle and window seats at a premium, you can't allow people to group for free without putting p
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by pxx 4y ago
You're still going to get to where you want to go and you'll still get a seat. That's the service you're paying for. Disregarding the kidnapping part of your straw man: we also do already charge for priority disembark. T
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by pxx 4y ago
You only get to fly to see your loved ones if you have enough money too. Ancillary revenue like seat assignment fees makes it so that more people can afford to see their loved ones.
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by pxx 4y ago
I'm actually fairly upset when airlines _don't_ do this. They're just leaving money on the table. If you want to pick your seat, pay for it.
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by pxx 4y ago
The "to" line is just a header and you can put whatever you want. The actual recipient is specified out of band (RCPT TO). This is how "bcc" works. Likely the To: line is some sort of mailing list in this case. The maili
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by pxx 4y ago
so much for "unlimited data period". And it's not like this is less confusing: Cricket's unlimited with hotspot plan has completely orthogonal features (cloud storage, HBO max, more high speed data) to what you get if yo
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by pxx 4y ago
What are you talking about? Cricket does the exact same thing. https://cricketwireless.com/cell-phone-plans : "Unlimited": $55/mo. Video streaming restricted to 1.5 Mbps. No hotspot allowed at all. Add hotspo
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by pxx 4y ago
The cardinality of one set is much bigger than the cardinality of the other one. Pantone 871 is mapped to #84754e. If you see #84754e and also get the instruction "use only Pantone colors", it is not ambiguous!
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by pxx 4y ago
Your last sentence is just wrong. Pantone encodes thousands of colors. RGB/CMYK can encode references to as many (within-gamut, but you can also hack around this) colors as you want, typically millions, often billions. Sure, you might
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by pxx 4y ago
It seems like people are misunderstanding the approach here. Let's say I want to print something in Pantone 123 (careful, Fluke might go after me!) I send over a design artifact that uses the color #ffc72b. Now, when it comes time for
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by pxx 4y ago
That's... exactly the argument that I'm responding to in my original comment. My argument is there are billions of CMYKs to encode thousands of Pantones with. Just do the reverse mapping if you know it's supposed to be a Pant
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by pxx 4y ago
Why is everybody insisting that the lookup table isn't 1:1? Can't you do a reverse mapping of "closest Pantone color to this CMYK"? There are only thousands of Pantone colors and as many CMYKs as you have bit resolution.
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by pxx 4y ago
Laptops are often in a 2-in-1 form factor that convert to a tablet. Sure, sometimes they're a bit further away, but this doesn't mean the resolution is never needed. The smaller iPads certainly hit 300+. But Retina is more of a ma
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by pxx 4y ago
There's a lot of one-off nonsense in here, but then there is also: > Another example is using a 4k screen ona a 13” laptop. Much better in terms of battery life and price to use a 2.5k screen. Humans can’t tell the difference. Why d
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by pxx 4y ago
I don't get it. People seem to think that if you ban this practice, you'll get the premium package for free. That's not going to be the case. Currently, you can pay for heated seats all up-front or via a monthly subscription.
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by pxx 4y ago
The "S" in "SRE" is pronounced "ess" which would take an "an" as the article. The title is grammatically correct. You would also say "an FBI agent" or sending "an SOS message."
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by pxx 4y ago
I find 25C fairly unpleasant and definitely "warm." OSHA recommends offices to be cooled below that point, with 24C/76F being the upper end of acceptable. Some of this observation is also dependent on metabolic rate, which ma
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by pxx 4y ago
But that's literally not the case. There are ATM cards that reimburse you for fees and also give you great exchange rates. Again, this is assuming that there isn't some sort of black market for exchange that's causing publish
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by pxx 4y ago
> "You can almost always change cash with no commission and at a better exchange rate than credit cards charge" Can you? This doesn't seem to be the case except in countries where the real exchange rate has drifted from a
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by pxx 4y ago
Can you offer any citation on losing cases for the practice (other than specifically in Italy, which I'll explicitly note is surprising)? Also what is the "2015 eu consumer rights act"? The closest thing I can find is "T
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by pxx 4y ago
What in the world are you talking about? It's perfectly legal. In fact, you're technically not even allowed to skip the second leg of your ticket. Lufthansa has sued people for doing this as well: https://pointmetothepl
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by pxx 4y ago
sorry; whoops, I don't know why I said multiplications there. I somehow thought the "more additions" somehow meant "fewer multiplications," but no, it's just "more additions but faster performance on targe
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by pxx 4y ago
what, no, you have this all wrong. the complexity of multiplying two 4x4 matrices is clearly constant. the important thing about the constant, however, is that you can use this primitive on the block matrices recursively to possibly improve
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by pxx 4y ago
Amazon's medical coverage is no UPS but it is extremely competitive against plans that union members try to tout as better. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26753455 as an old discussion where the thread creato
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by pxx 4y ago
People sell consoles at over retail price because demand is outstripping supply at MSRP. A heated resale market is a symptom of the lack of supply, not the cause.
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by pxx 4y ago
I mean, honestly, I would be somewhere between "somewhat miffed" to "laughing out loud" if I saw /Quicken. It would not surprise me in the least to see something like Quicken completely violating standards and/
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by pxx 4y ago
Hobbyhorse: Verbal communication is communication in words, which also includes written communication. You mean oral or in-person communications.
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by pxx 4y ago
You do a free trial of two 1:1 lessons? That sounds like an incredibly expensive way to acquire students.
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by pxx 4y ago
0x1337 is only two bytes. 2^32, for four bytes, is not a particularly large number.
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by pxx 4y ago
People still use antivirus in 2022?? I think it's well-understood that antivirus has somehow managed to be worse than not having it, as antivirus programs themselves often have vulnerabilities that make full system compromise easier. N

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