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by rchowe 6y ago
Buying Annapurna Labs also means they don't have to contend with the chipmaker's margin on the Graviton chips -- Intel's margin on server chips seems to be quite high.
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by rchowe 6y ago
I believe Uber used to have a web app.
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by rchowe 7y ago
That's really interesting! They only support disbursements in six currencies (AUD, EUR, GBP, NZD, PLN, and USD), but they can accept eighteen currencies; presumably because they already have a large balance of those and they are relati
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by rchowe 7y ago
What is the secret sauce to TransferWise? Are banks greedy, or do they have access to an exchange market that nobody else does? I've avoided them because whenever I look up wire transfer fees I get their SEO'd blog posts, but it s
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by rchowe 7y ago
I think point-to-point is supposed to be the most efficient provided you accurately match airplanes to the routes people want to fly. Hub flying is useful for folks that want to go from one small city to another; on a given day there might
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by rchowe 7y ago
I used the Free Fillable Forms to file my taxes this year. However, it seems that the backend for the free fillable forms is provided by Intuit. It seems you really can't escape them unless you file on paper and mail in the forms.
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by rchowe 8y ago
ASP.NET Core in a (Linux-based) Docker container and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk works pretty well.
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by rchowe 9y ago
Bombardier is not a part of Airbus now, they just sold 50.01% of the C-series program to Airbus so that they could manufacture them in Alabama and dodge the 300% tariff imposed on them by the US government. It is unclear where the C-series
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by rchowe 9y ago
The real trick with an aggregator would be to say what you want (e.g. I want a carry-on bag, but I don't care where I sit or about in-flight food) and it spits out a list of total-cost airfares with those features. It would probably st
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by rchowe 9y ago
Airlines (in the US, mostly) are incentivized to add these fees for two major reasons: 1. Fees are exempt from the 7.5% federal excise tax on airfare. 2. It makes the initial fare lower on airfare sites like Kayak, for people who choose the
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by rchowe 9y ago
This really makes me miss the Stripe CTFs. I'm guessing Google's are aimed more at top security people working together as a team, not to teach ordinary programmers how a buffer overflow acts. I usually got about 80% of the way to
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by rchowe 9y ago
They seem to imply that humans may see your Style Check photos (ostensibly "our team of experienced fashion specialists" for machine learning purposes). I'm wondering a bit if that team of fashion specialists is Mechanical Tu
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by rchowe 9y ago
Probably because he paid the lowest fare for that segment and had no frequent flyer status. When involuntarily denying boarding to a passenger, an airline in the US has to provide 4x the fare paid for that segment , up to a maximum of $135
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by rchowe 10y ago
I've had more luck (i.e. more usable performance) with the NoMachine remote desktop product (basically X11 forwarding). For a while I was also using GNU Screen over SSH too.
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by rchowe 10y ago
I found that using the LaTeXiT app that comes with the MacTex distribution is pretty easy; it offers drag-and-drop of an image into Keynote / Pages.
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by rchowe 10y ago
Their long-term plan seems to be that Azure is going to be the best / easiest platform to host the projects they contribute to on. Therefore, their open source projects like TypeScript and .NET Core act as a funnel to drive people to A
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by rchowe 10y ago
My thoughts too. And in this case, phrasing it as a question is more honest than saying "there may have been a nuclear incident in the Arctic", since the statement would still likely cause some panic.
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by rchowe 10y ago
Amtrak is the contracted operator for a number of commuter rail services, such as MARC. Not sure if that counts as "by or for Amtrak". The real issue is that often operationally, a passenger train has to stop for a freight train.
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by rchowe 10y ago
Compared to other manufacturers (Bombardier, Embraer) that tend to make regional jets which max out at 2x2 seating, this is a large jet for a non-Airbus/Boeing(/Tupolev) manufacturer. Only the longest stretched fuselages on the ne
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by rchowe 10y ago
This is actually a common myth. Cable initially was a service where the feed for certain terrestrial broadcast stations was transmitted over a cable for users who could not receive a clear signal. Since the same feed was used, it had the ad
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by rchowe 10y ago
MathJax by default doesn't use $ as a delimiter for inline equations, but instead uses $ and $ to avoid confusion with monetary quantities. Perhaps a similar thing could be done.
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by rchowe 10y ago
I believe that Netflix mainly uses AWS because their needs tend to surge dramatically at certain times, so that if they built their own worldwide server network, it would have to be vastly over-provisioned for when people get home at 7 PM a
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by rchowe 10y ago
Yeah, I guessed on that one. They may be able to use the third freight track that already passes through the station for that. The reason I said four is because there actually are just as many southbound commuter trains as northbound commut
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by rchowe 10y ago
There are a few issues with getting these train stations built though: A. The state of Rhode Island currently reimburses the MBTA for all operating expenses south of the RI/MA state line, and they just funded a commuter rail extension
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by rchowe 10y ago
I would argue that when people read articles critical of transit, they aren't necessarily thinking of the environmental benefits or the fact that the transportation they use gets a subsidy. And newspaper articles on transit don't
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by rchowe 10y ago
Public transit is a very visible part of government for people who live in cities that have it, and it's controversial because it's partially financed with taxpayer money whether you use it or not. I feel like especially in southe
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by rchowe 10y ago
You may not have seen that many dedicated electric car charging outlets, but I bet many of the RV parks you've stayed at have a 220 V / 50 A NEMA 10-5 connector, which can give you about 30 miles of charge per hour in a Tesla. Not
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by rchowe 10y ago
Even better point than mine. This is probably gonna suck for independent medical practices.
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by rchowe 10y ago
I've been working on a web app that integrates with Office 365 using OpenID Connect. If someone is signed into their Microsoft account instead of their corporate account, the sign-in process just gives a generic error page with light-g
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by rchowe 10y ago
I suspect that the removal is actually an artifact of them saying that later versions of Windows will be incremental updates to Windows 10. Normally they would just wait until Windows 11 to make the change, but since they can't do that

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