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by pxx 3y ago
Considering reorganization under bankruptcy is not equivalent to going out of business.
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by pxx 3y ago
I have never seen Turo be anywhere close to competitive. Are you comparing to rack rates or something? I'll take unlimited mileage and the lack of weird car rules any day, also. I don't understand the other convenience factors eit
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by pxx 3y ago
> I can't count the number of times I've seen people say "md5 is fine for use case xyz" where in some counterintuitive way it wasn't fine. Help us out by describing a time when this happened. MD5's weaknes
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by pxx 3y ago
This happens at a different layer than the printer driver; you just need to modify the postscript. Paper trays, duplex, duplex with tumble, and cutting are specifiable in postscript; this is `setpagedevice`. Even things like custom stapler
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by pxx 3y ago
That is likely to be extremely slow. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37823805 Also, the 8-bit lookup table only saves you a couple subtractions and conditional moves from the naive solution? That seems like one of the
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by pxx 3y ago
A crimped and soldered connection is weaker than a properly-crimped cold-welded connection. Solder will fill any voids in your contact, causing the bond to break as your entire assembly heats and cools. Solder will also wick up the strands,
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by pxx 3y ago
Because this isn't a dark pattern??? The alternative is you not being able to buy this product, which is much worse! This fare comes with preselection over a limited set of seats. There are no more seats available for preselection in t
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by pxx 3y ago
Stop spreading these lies. This cannot be done on any major airline (one large enough to be on a GDS). Airline pricing may be complicated but the way fares are constructed is public. You may be witnessing: * An ota changing their markups (w
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by pxx 3y ago
You have to not care about price at all these days to fly Southwest. It's gotten to the point where even if you have a companion pass, and the tickets are essentially buy-one-get-one free, it's still not worth flying them
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by pxx 3y ago
You don't have to select a seat. Your screenshots (specifically the last one) indicate the product you want to buy is available at the price you want.
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by pxx 3y ago
There's a saying in M&A: if you're reading the contract you've already lost. For anything that is not open-and-shut (sure, sue the seller if they literally ran away with the earnest money), your specific wording is not go
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by pxx 3y ago
the post involves actual Intel firmware engineers solving actual problems for their embedded devices; one example of such a device is a power management controller within a chipset. it is quite astounding to me that you're going to try
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by pxx 3y ago
No this is all wrong. Fire crackles clearly depend on state. Nuclear decay is memoryless; decays are independent events. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay#Mathematic... > theoretical >12 sources W
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by pxx 3y ago
Edit: removed previous post. The increment happens as fast as the clock allows, which means any reasonable rate is much more than the cycle time. It delays 250us once it hears a click. I'm not quite sure why we bother with resetting th
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by pxx 3y ago
Err equity compensation is not taxed as capital gains unless there's growth. Depending on how things are structured you pay taxes at different times but the value at grant is taxable as ordinary income. The only taxability difference i
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by pxx 3y ago
You're missing an important nuance. The best advertisement is for a product that, in expectation , makes the most money from me. My relative interest is still important, and you can't just jump from the fact that somebody is maki
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by pxx 3y ago
I'd much rather my ads be targeted than generic. It increases value on both sides here. Comparing against the baseline of terrestrial broadcast, this is a far better experience than before.
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by pxx 3y ago
The counteroffer can easily be conditioned on seeing a copy of your offer. They don't need to see it today, but they might when you start your job...
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by pxx 3y ago
The esp32 has a low power coprocessor; have you considered keeping the main processor off most of the time and utilizing the coprocessor for more logic? The tooling is kind of bad for the base model but it gets better with the more modern v
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by pxx 3y ago
Entities like The Work Number already give companies 100% transparency, to the cent, of your full compensation history.
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by pxx 3y ago
Title insurance is part of a weird subsidy that is US-unique. The fact that it's part of a weird subsidy means the terms are subject to politics. Fannie/Freddie can easily self-insure against title risk but the political winds are
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by pxx 3y ago
Lenders could internalize this risk, which is miniscule. But mortgages in the United States are a subsidized product. The real problem is that the lender wants to sell the note to Fannie/Freddie, who require title insurance. Title insu
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by pxx 3y ago
The very first paragraph talks about a signing bonus. It is very common practice to claw back signing bonuses if you don't stay a predetermined amount of time. From the article: > Signing bonuses aren’t unusual in the mortgage indus
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by pxx 3y ago
Notation and terminology? Sure, some explanations and mechanical manipulations are elided in mathematics because with context they're clear. Rigor? Ha, you have got to be kidding me. Math is rigorous to a fault. Typical computer progra
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by pxx 3y ago
> Encryption gets broken eventually as we get more compute power What, no. Encryption gets broken only because we find weaknesses, not because compute power increases. You can never straight up brute force a full-strength 512-bit key. Th
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by pxx 3y ago
The very nature of a startup, especially one funded like this, means that your whole existence is predicated on the hopes that you make it big. As such, spending your last cent to try to find a lifeline makes far more sense than calling it
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by pxx 3y ago
The company can certainly be saved in a period of months. FedEx supposedly had less than a week of jet fuel opex remaining when the founder decided to try to win the missing money by gambling. https://www.google.com/amp&#x2F
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by pxx 3y ago
It sounds like you shouldn't join a startup then. The very concept here is that you're taking some of this risk.
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by pxx 3y ago
(void *) 0 is a null pointer constant and is not necessarily an all zeros representation. This has been defined virtually forever. https://c-faq.com/null/null2.html https://c-faq.com/null/machexamp
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by pxx 3y ago
Income per square foot in _rent_. The important thing isn't that the lawyer's office makes more money. That's just correlated with the important thing, which is that the lawyer's office is willing to pay more rent. Note

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