rippercushions

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by rippercushions 3y ago
> For example, in Spanish and Italian, words are written exactly as they are pronounced Nope. Spanish is admittedly far more phonemic than English, but there are plenty of exceptions, eg. the letter "x". And of course Spanis
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by rippercushions 3y ago
The function of the sticker is to make the thief look for an easier target.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
I always figured this was due to DNS caching: if you got a domain you never visit, it has to actually fetch it and that triggers the captive portal login .
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Using FUSE doesn't cost you anything extra, but it doesn't make the underlying storage free.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Is this the same gcsfuse that's been around for years, only now with official Google support? https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse
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by rippercushions 3y ago
TIL, thanks for sharing!
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by rippercushions 3y ago
There are lots of planned cities that are natural experiments in this: Brasilia, Canberra, Ottawa, Abuja etc. They all show that yes, it is possible to "build it and they will come", but it's hugely expensive, takes a long,
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Sure, but how do you ship the aluminum ore to Bhutan?
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by rippercushions 3y ago
I'm deeply skeptical of crypto, but if you have to build mines somewhere, Bhutan is one of the less bad places to do it: cold climate and plenty of hydropower. And it's still more environmentally friendly than other options for
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Bhutan is effectively an Indian dependency, but it's also a small country with a long border with China and has to dance on an awkward tightrope to keep both sides happy.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Bhutan is a constitutional monarchy that regularly holds elections. The people absolutely should have a say in how their tax money is invested.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
People usually distinguish between local and long-distance travel, nobody is arguing that bullet trains should be free and planes fall into the same category. The fact that long-distance highways tend to be free speaks more to politics than
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by rippercushions 3y ago
It's hard to overemphasize just how fucked up public transport ticketing in Germany is. As a simple example, you're a tourist in Cologne for a few days, what's the best ticket if you're planning to travel around the cit
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by rippercushions 3y ago
In both Australia and the US, mass market/supermarket bread is crap. Of course there's plenty of decent sourdough etc to be found (Sonoma etc), but you have to look for it and it will cost you a pretty penny.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Electric trucks have huge batteries and will need super-fast chargers to "refuel" on the road, you can't just plug them into an ordinary outlet. (Well, I guess you can , you just literally won't get anywhere.) The good
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by rippercushions 3y ago
> Many European butters are also cultured (meaning they’re made with added live cultures, resulting in a lactic flavor), which can further enhance the tanginess. I'm surprised culturing is reduced to a single throwaway line, since
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by rippercushions 3y ago
36% of India lives in urban areas and that number is increasing rapidly. It's by no means an easy market due to a multitude of reasons (infra, supply chain, politics, corruption, you name it), but if you can pull it off there's p
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by rippercushions 3y ago
I'll save you the click: this is an extended rant about Elon that never even mentions the Starship launch pad after the title and its accompanying image caption. Which is probably just as well, because not only is it highly unlikely
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by rippercushions 3y ago
It's not, but it would have been more efficient at attracting uncritical press a few years ago. But NTT moves at the speed of the former state telco monopoly it is and that's why this is happening only in 2023.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
That's the news here: Alphabet is arguing that they have nothing to do with the workers and Cognizant is their sole employer, but the judge basically called bullshit on that.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
The article says that Cognizant shifted to forced RTO after the union movement started, in what the union says was an intentional move to basically force people to quit.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Yup, it's by no means equally distributed, but fertility is dropping fast in Africa too.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
The ChatGPT 4 developer demo showcased literally all three of those. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-watch-first-d...
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by rippercushions 3y ago
The world is following suit, and quite rapidly at that: China, Korea, virtually all of Europe, the US (excluding immigration), etc. Even parts of southern India are now below replacement level.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
At least Paris is red, what's the last time you saw more than a green dot with a little exclamation mark on the AWS status page?
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Title is incorrect, this is not a general outage. There are two separate issues: europe-west-9 (Paris) has been physically flooded with water somehow and is hard down. This is obviously bad if you're using the region in question, but
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Cloud is Google's first serious source of profit that's entirely unrelated to ads, so yes, it actually is a pretty nice.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Cloud = GCP + Workspace, and they're been using this definition for years.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
I'm a little skeptical of any theory that makes pronouns super important for the simple reason that there are many languages like where pronouns are not super important. In agglutinative languages like Turkish and Finnish, person is
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by rippercushions 3y ago
LVMH owns literally hundreds of brands, many of them far from luxury (Birkenstock, Sephora, Fenty, etc). If one brand goes out of fashion, they'll have two ready to replace it and the budget to buy three more.

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