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by sfteus 5y ago
Smart meters still retain the total overall usage. Even if the power company doesn't read it for 3 months, they'll see the increased usage the next time they come by and apply it to your next bill.
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by sfteus 5y ago
I've posted before on here about my experience getting SIM swapped and how quickly someone was able to gain access to a bunch of my accounts. If I hadn't been at home and looking at my phone while it was happening, it could have b
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by sfteus 6y ago
This always made the most sense to me. You get your return and review it; sign off if it's good, modify and return it if you have more claims, something is wrong / missing. I'd wager the majority of people wouldn't have
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by sfteus 6y ago
> People also like to stomp on what the free market would actually have to do to prevent this. For a rare event, the cost of surviving it (i.e. winterizing everything) would have to be paid from revenues collected entirely during the eve
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by sfteus 6y ago
This is like using only GDP to compare economies; it's a useful data point, but it doesn't tell the whole story. From what we've seen, yes, the mortality rate of COVID19 is similar to the flu. However, the mortality rate of t
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by sfteus 6y ago
I've been WFH for nearly 6 years now. The one constant I've found that hampers my productivity is working from a "shared" space. Working out of a space like the living room or bed room, where you would normally relax, te
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by sfteus 6y ago
Surely you can still be involved in outdoor groups without issue? I participate in an advanced dog training/sport group, and we still meet and just take the necessary precautions (work outdoors, social distance, wear masks).
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by sfteus 6y ago
My last job was like this, but they didn't care if people brought in their own equipment. I brought in an inexpensive mechanical keyboard, a nice mouse, some decent speakers and a headset, then requisitioned a second monitor from the s
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by sfteus 6y ago
From my experience, w/r/t meetings, I've worked from home going on 6 years now. A few years back we were acquired by a large company that had several divisions that worked entirely in office. When everyone started working fro
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by sfteus 6y ago
I have never heard about Tailwind before, but the interactive elements and animated mini examples on the landing page are stellar at conveying what problems the framework solves. I've been putting off the UI for small project of mine a
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by sfteus 6y ago
I know that in Texas, some smaller counties don't use voting machines at all and only do paper ballots. However some of the larger ones like Dallas use a DRE machine combined with a tabulator instead. As long as the Secretary of State
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by sfteus 6y ago
IMO, the benefits of having electronic voting with an auditable paper trail and backup outweighs the downsides, if implemented properly. The process described in the article seems a little different than the ones we used in Texas (Dallas Co
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by sfteus 6y ago
There's a device called Palette, I think, that can do this on the fly. You hook it up between your filament(s) and your printer, and send it your print as well. It basically looks at your print and determines how much filament is neede
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by sfteus 6y ago
I maintain half a dozen PHP apps written for PHP 4-5, all of which now run on at least PHP 5.6, and a few of which I've gotten to PHP 7. Advice given by everyone else is excellent. PHPStorm is a must for me, one of the only pieces of s
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by sfteus 6y ago
They mention in the build guide that the display is sometimes available for $150, that's probably how it gets to around $200. MPU-6050 appears to be about $30, main PCB is claimed to be $5 or so, another $5 for the lens and foam respec
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by sfteus 6y ago
For the public good? Absolutely. Even more so if the government subsidized part of it to help ensure those goods were available to their citizens.
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by sfteus 6y ago
1) Chile, Kuwait, and Singapore have similar rates of testing to the US [1] 2) Current studies show roughly somewhere between 10-20% of hospitalized patients ending up with heart damage, increasing their future risks of heart attacks and st
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by sfteus 6y ago
> if you compare per capital rates ours were actually on par with most other first world nations Not true, we're squarely between several 2nd and 3rd world countries: https://www.statista.com/chart/21176/co
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by sfteus 6y ago
Grocery store workers don't spend 8 hours a day in a crowded room with kids who won't keep their PPE on, won't adequately wash their hands, want to give their teachers hugs / high fives, etc. Cashiers get to stand severa
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by sfteus 6y ago
My mom works as an administrator in a public school. She is one year away from being eligible for medicaid, which is when she planned on retiring. She said as of right now, she plans to go back, because getting private insurance with her pr
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by sfteus 6y ago
Price gouging is based on a reasonable price and is subjective. If the present situation results in inflated prices due to lack of materials or needing to run at a higher capacity, that's still reasonable. California, for example, has
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by sfteus 6y ago
If you're trying to tell me that you think we wouldn't be better off with a leader that said this was a present and real threat and put out a mandatory mask order back in Feb/March, shut down travel and enforced travel quaran
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by sfteus 6y ago
I had several similar experiences through and after college. One in particular was while I was still in school, they had asked a question relative to performance when using views in an SQL database, and my answer wasn't satisfactory to
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by sfteus 6y ago
People are downvoting you because you are clearly not arguing in good faith, using phrases like "think of the children," which is a phrase used nowhere near as often as certain groups claim it is, while they parody it to shut down
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by sfteus 6y ago
The amount of fighting I've had to do with setting up NPM for legacy applications, or with any sort of virtualization is insane. I no longer set up Node/NPM on anything automated without NVM, since they seem to drop support for ol
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by sfteus 6y ago
It absolutely shouldn't, but it _can_: https://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.getdoccomment.... . Zend has/had support for parsing this value as well. I distinctly remember writing a project in PHP
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by sfteus 6y ago
Anecdotal, but having the same in early 30s. Was diagnosed with ADHD, low-dose long-form Adderall has basically reversed my symptoms, which from my understanding involves dopamine or dopamine receptors. Sleeping better and exercise are both
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by sfteus 7y ago
30 patients would be statistically significant. Problem is that they were non randomized, open-label, and they seemingly discarded some of the bad results. They also measured viral load, not cure, and the measurement was not done correctly
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by sfteus 7y ago
No, that trial has some glaring flaws. Several threads go into them way better than I could. https://twitter.com/GaetanBurgio/status/1241201751916568576 https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/sta
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by sfteus 7y ago
Interesting, I figured since they claimed that wasn't possible that they didn't keep records. I'll have to go bug them again to see if they can investigate it further. I'm not sure if this was an instance of targeted soc

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