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by rockostrich 1y ago
I think Discord is the best chat app for friend groups and it's not even close. At this point I've written the following bots specifically for my friend group's server: # Music Quiz Bot Existing apps work ok. A lot of paid an
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by rockostrich 1y ago
This doesn't really have anything to do with the US though. Importing that vehicle is not possible for another 24 years and USD$15k goes a lot farther in southeast Asia than it does in the US. For the past half century there has been a
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by rockostrich 1y ago
This comparison feels like it's in very poor taste. The article doesn't promote any kind of ostracizing and certainly isn't promoting that anyone in the community is forced to be there. Making friends, especially with peopl
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by rockostrich 1y ago
As someone who loves coffee as well as the culture around locally owned coffee shops, visiting Tokyo (and to a lesser extent Seoul) this past April was like a dream come true. When my partner and I travel, we don't do a ton of planning
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by rockostrich 1y ago
I can't find anything super relevant while searching for Shandling and manifesting, but considering he was known for being a practicing Buddhist and a big proponent of meditation I wouldn't be surprised if he believed that writing
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by rockostrich 1y ago
> I started working on actually deploying a cloud-based data platform powered by GPUs (i.e. Spark-RAPIDS) Based on this, the platform is using Spark-RAPIDS.
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by rockostrich 1y ago
I'm in NJ so as long as it's 30 years or older there's no emissions required. If you're in a state that doesn't allow registration of kei trucks then there are companies that make it pretty straightforward to get th
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by rockostrich 1y ago
Damn, that's a great deal. And yea, $5k seems to be about the bottom of the barrel in terms of getting a decent car. For my "daily" driver (I drive a few times a week and it's rarely more than 20 miles), I ended up buyin
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by rockostrich 1y ago
> used, 100k miles or so, if you shop around $2k-$3k should be doable Where are you finding a 100k mile Honda Fit for $3k? Before I bought my current daily driver, Honda Fits were on my list to look out for and in the central NJ area I n
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by rockostrich 1y ago
> I do see this being great for short utility trips (think running errands, picking something up, etc), and as a utility vehicle (would be nice to be able to have an 8ft bed). Japan and the rest of the world figured this out decades ago.
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by rockostrich 2y ago
I think it's a good idea in general to just try and replace every switch and outlet if you buy a home that was lived in for an extended period of time. We moved into a home that the previous family lived in for 30 years and I've b
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by rockostrich 2y ago
Toby and the team at Tobiko really are a pleasure to work with. They have strong opinions but have shown a good amount of willingness to implement features as long as there's a strong general use case. We've been working with them
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by rockostrich 2y ago
Hit the nail on the head. I went to the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany for a master's in "nanoscale engineering" which essentially boiled down to a master's in being a fab line manager. I finished
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by rockostrich 2y ago
Analytical databases have rows and columns? What do you do when you're ingesting TBs, if not PBs, of unstructured data and need to make it actually useable. A couple of MBs (or even GBs) for storage for metadata is peanuts compared to
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by rockostrich 2y ago
If you're looking for this sense of nostalgia in book form, I highly recommend reading "LaserWriter II" by Tamara Shopsin [1]. It's 90s tech nostalgia wrapped in a concise narrative about a college student going to work
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by rockostrich 2y ago
I know about Zen and Floorp. For my day to day browsing Arc has: # Split screen tabs Zen and Floorp both have this but the UX for both is really clunky. Surely they'll improve but Arc felt like second nature. # Little Arcs As far as I
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by rockostrich 2y ago
It would be nice if I could download a version of the Arc browser with the cloud bits removed. I use it because of the UI/UX and pretty much ignore everything else. Really if there was a browser that let me keep organized spaces in a l
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by rockostrich 2y ago
Hey DGD, fancy seeing you here. It was a pleasure working with you! -jon
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by rockostrich 2y ago
>A smart travel agent could in theory use this to cancel an old booking and book again if the price is reduced, but I think some airlines have changed their practice to avoid this. This is called churn and airlines are pretty on top of i
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by rockostrich 2y ago
Disclaimer: I've worked for the OTA Hopper for 7+ years. > Third party apps are not allowed by airlines to charge less than the airline This is not necessarily true. OTAs are not allowed to list a price that undercuts the airline bu
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by rockostrich 2y ago
> the recent universal basic income study If you're talking about the OpenResearch study that Sam Altman is funding then yes it did [1]. Granted this study was a little bit more money but the results imply that any amount of extra m
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by rockostrich 2y ago
Not the person you're replying to but I tried all 3 sets of standard tips as well smaller 3rd party tips and none of them sat in my ears well enough while doing any kind of moving around (or gum chewing) so I ended up giving them to a
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by rockostrich 2y ago
> Nice money, not enough to make a major lifestyle improvement. It most certainly is enough to make a major lifestyle improvement when someone is living paycheck to paycheck. That could be the difference between just barely scraping by t
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by rockostrich 2y ago
It's not an E Ink display. It's a transreflective LCD.
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by rockostrich 2y ago
I highly doubt this. In my opinion, the much more likely reasoning was that there was a huge drop off in pre-order conversion on whichever page had the price and someone important said "we should try removing the price to see how that
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by rockostrich 2y ago
It seems like it was originally reported to be $799 [1] but more recent articles say $729 [2] [3]. [1] https://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/introducing-new-d... [2] https://www.theverge.com/2
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by rockostrich 2y ago
I like the concept and I'm sure the product is great, but not putting the actual cost of the product anywhere on the website is insane to me. Just say it's going to be $730 and I can make the decision to put down a deposit or not.
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by rockostrich 2y ago
My org solved this problem for our use case (handling travel booking) by versioning workflow runs. Most of our runs are very shortlived but there are cases where we have a run that lasts for days because of some long running polling process
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by rockostrich 2y ago
> Workflow orchestration is a mature category As far as I can tell from the docs, this is not an orchestrator at all. It is a Python-wrapper for certain runtimes like PySpark. I don't see anything in the docs that mentions DAGs, dep
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by rockostrich 2y ago
Very fun. It definitely gives the crossword muscles a little workout once the logic for the given word is figured out. I guess I'll have to add it to the daily rotation of brain games to play daily...

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