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by retzkek 3y ago
Absolutely. RHEL 7 (and downstreams) has maintenance support for another year, so there are many systems that administrators and now looking at upgrading. Speculatively, Red Hat timed the source availability change strategically to coincide
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by retzkek 3y ago
I assume you mean for crossing busy roads and highways, not city streets? Certainly there are places for that, like Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. They're expensive and take a lot of space themselves, though, especially to meet acces
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by retzkek 3y ago
Sometimes it's a lazy rich person tax, but sometimes it's required because there's limited parking, and the valets can jam the cars in double-parked (or more), since they can shuffle them around as needed.
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by retzkek 3y ago
The $445M figure is for another mobile pizza startup, Zume. https://www.axios.com/2023/06/12/softbank-pizza-robot-shuts-... Discussed last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3629363
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A Germ Theory for the Internet(theatlantic.com)
1 points by retzkek 3y ago|1 comments
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by retzkek 3y ago
Allemansrätten is the name IKEA gave to its sauce/gravy mix, perhaps to bring awareness?. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/allemansraetten-mix-for-cream-s...
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by retzkek 3y ago
"See the problem here is you're projecting your emotions and empathy onto my business. From a business perspective that's a bad thing to do. What I've done is operate on data. My customers are faceless numbers, not peopl
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by retzkek 4y ago
Paolo Bacigalupi explored the other side of that coin in his short story Pop Squad (also made into an episode of Love, Death, and Robots ). If you live forever, what's the point of having offspring? It also touches on a theme of Th
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by retzkek 4y ago
And then there's Minneapolis, which has four 2nd Sts and four 2nd Aves: N, S, NE, and SE. Although once you figure out it's a tilted quadrant system it's not too bad. While there's (up to) four "2nd and 2nd" in
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by retzkek 4y ago
> a problem in a secondary system (an added safety system) "Secondary" in nuclear parlance for a PWR refers to the loop of water that cycles through the steam generators and turbines, while the "primary" loop cycles t
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by retzkek 4y ago
Also "Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum" as seen in The Handmaid's Tale .
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by retzkek 4y ago
Fortran has subroutines and functions. Functions can take multiple arguments and return a single value (however arguments can also be modified). Subroutines can take multiple arguments, which can be inputs, outputs, or both (arguments can b
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by retzkek 4y ago
Dave Gingery's "Metal Working Shop from Scrap" book series is what you're looking for. https://gingerybookstore.com/MetalWorkingShopFromScrapSeries... Disclaimer: while I've owned the lathe book for
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by retzkek 4y ago
I assume you understand basic economics in a capitalist system, supply vs demand, etc, so I'll interpret your first question as "why isn't it banned," which goes to your second question: Sure, "we" can ban it,
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by retzkek 4y ago
Yes, punish them with a cushy private-sector job lobbying and/or on some corporate board, that'll teach 'em! This is not a game "we, the people" can win, any more than the pawns can win a chess tournament.
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by retzkek 4y ago
mtail is handy for such cases, when you really only care to extract a few metrics from the logs. https://google.github.io/mtail/ Generally though I've found once you start aggregating logs you find many more uses
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by retzkek 4y ago
> I think someone could make a few billion running a positive happy news channel. Isn't that essentially what TikTok is? A 24/7 feed of all the positive, happy, dopamine-triggering content you could ever want, tailored to you
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by retzkek 4y ago
It should be pointed out that "guix shell" is currently only available in the unstable "latest" version, not the stable "standard" release (v1.3.0). If you are running an older version, "guix environment&q
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by retzkek 4y ago
> Overall, Guix seems like the more polished product Possibly when comparing the Guix vs. Nix package managers, but for Linux distributions GuixSD ("Guix System" now) is very far behind NixOS in this regard. I've tried to
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by retzkek 4y ago
1. Train AI model using your massive library of stock images and offer image generation to your massive existing customer base. 2. Sue or C&D all other image generation services that can be shown to be using models trained in part with
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by retzkek 4y ago
This sounds even more terrifying than Popolac vs. Podujevo from "In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker. (spoilers) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Blood#%22In_the_Hills...
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by retzkek 4y ago
> The logic seems highly unreasonable in a capitalist society There's your answer, or at least for some substantial portion of people posting in r/fuckcars and others like r/latestagecapitalism, r/antiwork, etc - they
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by retzkek 4y ago
That was probably Paco Ŝako, aka Peace Chess. Only similar insofar as two pieces can share a space, otherwise quite different - there's no captures, rather pieces embrace, with the goal to embrace the opponent's king. https:&#x2F
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by retzkek 4y ago
The Great Salt Lake in Utah is split into two lakes by a railroad causeway, creating two very different ecologies with much higher salinity in the northern lake. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/08/the-great-salt
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by retzkek 4y ago
3. Daily (correspondence) tournaments and a larger correspondence community. That's mostly what I play, since it allows me to play whenever and for as long as I want. 10-20 simultaneous games means there's always something for me
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by retzkek 4y ago
> 3-panel comic strips are too small to address these topics even in a properly satiric manner. And yet single-panel political cartoons have been doing it well for centuries. Of course they can't encompass all the nuance, 1000-word
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by retzkek 4y ago
Was it just entertainment though? I recall hearing years ago that he was making a not-insignificant amount of money via EVE, whether through legitimate (e.g. themittani.com news site) or illegitimate (e.g. selling ISK or supercaps) means.
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by retzkek 4y ago
What might save FIDE, or at least keep it relevant, is if Ding being in the championship now can do for chess in China what Fischer did for chess in the US, or Anand for India. There's a potential huge market and player base that so fa
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by retzkek 4y ago
> Both parties are better off after that transaction. What about the externalities of that transaction? * If meat, what was killed to produce it? If veg, what was removed from the ground (and how will it be replaced)? * Who was exploited
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by retzkek 4y ago
I switched to freetaxusa this year (from TurboTax), and after such a wonderful experience working through my somewhat complicated taxes I was happy to pay them $15 to save me the trouble of typing the information into my state's free-b

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