rockostrich

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by rockostrich 2y ago
> A small key-fob type hardware which we can send a tiny buzz, with emoticons -- something real simple. That's just a pager.
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by rockostrich 2y ago
> Both were pretty lame tbh. Strongly disagree. While the arbitrary deadline on the bluetooth flasher tool that Google created is dumb, I ended up with 4 bluetooth controllers for free. Seems like a pretty great deal to me.
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by rockostrich 2y ago
AFAIK they aren't on any OTAs. I just checked Expedia and Booking for a route that I know they have inventory on (PHL to DEN).
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Once a period of time is reconciled then you can pre-compute whatever information you need and then you're only computing the current balance for the current period of time that hasn't been reconciled.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
It's not really clear from the article but I imagine that frictionless payments online contribute a lot more than physical ones. If you're making the decision between using a physical credit card and your phone then you've li
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Out of curiosity, why are Plex's monetization efforts silly? Sure, the freemium model is less than ideal compared to OSS, but I gladly paid for a lifetime subscription to Plex Pass 4 years ago and haven't regretted it at all since
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by rockostrich 3y ago
They already started trying. The Credit Card Competition Act was introduced last year [1]. It doesn't explicitly limit interchange fees though. Instead it allows merchants to choose the payment network that payments go through which le
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Pretty much all Amex cards with an annual fee have no foreign transaction fees as a benefit. The issue is that a lot of small business merchants outside of the US don't accept Amex (or will at least say they don't to avoid the hig
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by rockostrich 3y ago
I've found this happens with a lot of first party clients. At work, we use LaunchDarkly for feature flags and use their code references tool to keep track of where flags are being referenced. The tool uses their first party Go client t
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Part of it is our definition of cities versus metro areas. Boston's population is technically only 650k but Boston proper doesn't even include Cambridge which is like not including one of the boroughs when talking about NYC's
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Sorry bad math, it’s only 80 trillion.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Wasn't it just superseded by Vertex AI? According to the banner announcement in the docs: > All the functionality of legacy AI Platform and new features are available on the Vertex AI platform.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Well, the DoD budget is 2 orders of magnitude more than this so it's about 80 quadrillion pennies less.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
If you're this worried about tens of billions of dollars going to Intel, I have some news for you about the military industrial complex.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
GCP products have a much better track record than Google consumer products when it comes to support since there are usually enterprise customers with multi-year contracts worth tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars using them.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
His stories about some of the things he encountered on these walks are pretty funny. Can't wait for the next installment of his memoirs.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Do you mean landing with a tailwind? A headwind should allow the plane to create the same amount of lift it needs to avoid stalling at lower ground speeds.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Yes, the wings are useless once the air is moving close to the speed of the plane. Thankfully, we have jet engines that help planes move a lot faster than the 100-200 knots that jet streams can reach. They'll still affect the flight bu
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by rockostrich 3y ago
The bottleneck when it comes to a plane going faster is drag which increases with the square of velocity relative to the air. More drag means the plane has to consume more fuel to stay at its current velocity. So if a plane normally goes 60
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Weird how close your user name is to Joaquin Phoenix, star of the film "Her" centered around an AI girlfriend.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
It should hopefully be easier in the future when side loading is possible on iOS.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
As are his short stories, books, and olive oil.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
The author of the article, Robin Sloan, is an author that's written a couple of novels and a bunch of short stories (as well a great monthly-ish newsletter). I highly recommend giving his first novel, "Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour B
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by rockostrich 3y ago
I would consider reaching out to commercial scanner companies and see if they have any interest in either: integrating your service into their software or negotiating some kind of referral program for folks that buy their scanners. Same goe
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by rockostrich 3y ago
This is pretty much how I work anyway as someone who technically should be working 5 8-hour days and I tell everyone on my team that I really don't care how much they're working as long as: their output is at least meeting expecta
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Elevation is relative to sea level, not the ground.
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by rockostrich 3y ago
As a dev at a company that almost exclusively uses HOCON for application configurations it's really sad that it doesn't have a bigger audience. I guess Lightbend is mostly to blame for that. We used it in our python projects as we
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by rockostrich 3y ago
My house is new construction (although I had no input to the construction) and it wasn't wired for ethernet which is crazy to me. Although it is at least wired with coax so I just bought 2 pairs of MoCA adapters and now I have wired co
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by rockostrich 3y ago
The point is that you're ok with forcing them to be desexed but not forcing them to live inside. Why?
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by rockostrich 3y ago
Not really sure what the point is here. Microservices work great with database transactions.

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