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by ralferoo 2y ago
Maybe you want to give an example of a specific type of data, but I think I covered everything I can think of. I think there's a big difference between "data" and understanding principles of something. If you knowingly use &q
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I shouldn't have mentioned NDAs there to relate to customer lists, it got left in that paragraph after I trimmed the comment down a lot. Taking customer data would be considered as a form of corporate espionage. There are so many diffe
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> But you can be forced to work through notice period? No, they can't force you to work per se, but you could (in principle) be sued for breach of contract if you don't serve your notice period. Most employers are fairly prag
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by ralferoo 2y ago
That really is an abuse of employees to enforce non-competes on restaurant workers. There's nothing proprietary or top secret from one place to another, it's just a way to screw someone over if they leave so that they have no choi
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by ralferoo 2y ago
It's interesting how many US people think that non-compete agreements are fair. In the EU and UK, the general rule is that you employment contract ends as soon as the company stops paying you. Once you have left the company, you cannot
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by ralferoo 2y ago
This must be what people mean when they say they are short on time.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
My toilet paper routine, which started even before covid, is to buy about 400 rolls of toilet paper from Costco, and then I never even think about buying toilet paper ever again for a couple of years. And then one day it runs out and I real
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by ralferoo 2y ago
https://hetrixtools.com/ It's free if you don't have too many servers - 15 uptime monitors (the most useful) and 32 blacklist monitors (useful for e-mail, but don't know why you'd need so many compared t
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by ralferoo 2y ago
It's a shame Bumble has changed. As a guy, I think even a token "hey" is good to know if they are at least interested in you. The ratios are skewed so badly that women get at least an order of magnitude more likes that men on
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by ralferoo 2y ago
The thing is that this is a tiny amount in the grand scheme of things. It's been a while since I looked at the financials, but IIRC it was something like $33b per year of revenue, and $26b per year for R&D. Selling off ARM is somet
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by ralferoo 2y ago
It seems you're arguing based on the assumption that real time is exactly 365x24x60x60 seconds every year or exactly 366x24x60x60 seconds on leap years. It's not. The problem is that we have a very precise definition of a second i
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Again, the same question: what would be a better solution?
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> it doesn't mean literally seconds since epoch, but instead some unix-style monstrosity That "unix-style monstrosity" is literally seconds since the UNIX time epoch, which is unambiguously defined as starting on 1970-1-1
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Why do you wish that? I can think of a few plausible reasons, but the only one that is really significant is "what epoch"? In the case of UNIX-based systems and systems that try to mimic that behaviour, that is well defined. But a
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by ralferoo 2y ago
It should be approximately the same in theory - £1 was pegged to the price of silver, although of course there might be local differences in demand causing the price of silver to vary relative to the price of gold. In practice, I think the
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> I think the original link already includes the conversion w/ inflation. It says that the book retailed for fivepence in 1735 which is ₤10 8s. 4d in today's money. No, it didn't say that, that was the total. It said that
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Also, I don't think it particularly counts as an invention as it was heavily used in publishing well before the computer era, and was just shifting to a computing context and re-using the same metaphor. For a long time, text was printe
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by ralferoo 2y ago
also https://antiquesexchange.com/ (now gone)
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by ralferoo 2y ago
There was another classic from that era, powergenitalia.com, which purported to be the Italian division of Powergen, has now disappeared and apparently was a prank. Interestingly, some of the early captures of it seem to be another company,
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> seems prone to the same serving size tricks used in US I've only noticed it on what we call "squash", or fruit juice concentrate. When I was a kid, the labels would say 1 part concentrate to 6 parts water, and we'd
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Adding to the list of related games at the end of the article, I recently played "Poetry for Neanderthals" and thought it was quite fun, although really once you've figured out how to trick your brain into thinking with grunt
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Plus it helps that Fifth Element has that scene... where the General "would like to take a few pictures... for the archives"!
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I'm not a particularly fast cyclist (usually average around 20km/h), but I'm generally in zone 2 for most of my ride and just creeping into zone 3. On the other hand, being quite fat, I find hills push me much harder than run
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I referred to it in my other comment in this thread, but if you really want to boost your range, look into MAF (maximum aerobic fitness). The general principle is that you stay in the metabolic range where you're primarily burning fat
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by ralferoo 2y ago
The article seems to actually be answering a different question than it poses. From my experience of roughly analysing this a couple of years ago when I was losing quite a lot of weight, I drew two main conclusions: * Calories used is a fun
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by ralferoo 2y ago
This is presumably fine for an initial install, as long as it auto-configures correctly via DHCP. However, if you ever have issues and need a rescue image, you'd need to figure out how to do something like the OP, and do it while learn
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> only produced when sun shining?- which means the quoted OP is only for a few hours a day? China has a very large desert region in the northwest that receive a LOT of sun year round, so I'd expect the panels to be producing a decen
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Yeah, I'd re-read that section of the article and edited my post already to reflect this before I saw your reply. My fault for reading the first proposed solution, thinking it was stupid for having the continuation bits the other way r
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> And, for reasons we’ll see in a bit, we flip the meaning of the continuation bits: we’ll use 0 to mean “another byte follows”, and 1 to mean “this is the last byte”. EDIT: just noticed that I'd skim-read over: "imperial varin
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by ralferoo 2y ago
There's little point in re-certifying, because if the pens only contain 80% of the dose in these conditions, they will almost certainly fail the certification in those conditions. They presumably contain the dose they do to ensure that

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