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by shard 4y ago
Teams, over 2 years on this laptop and I think there was only one single instance of a problem. Excel, on the other hand...
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by shard 4y ago
It seems somewhat simple to just stand firm with the finance person and refuse all the add-ons, but how does one figure out what services are actually needed when the service adviser comes to you with a list of issues?
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by shard 4y ago
To be more general, RSUs are preferable if the stock goes up higher relative to other investments that the grantee could have picked , and cash is preferable if the stock performs worse than other investments that the grantee could have pi
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by shard 4y ago
Or add a backlight to a transparent QR code which turns on when you press a button. This way a simple sticker over the QR code wouldn't work.
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by shard 4y ago
> Meat is nauseating if you aren't raised on it to eat it every day. Vegetables don't do that to you. Let me tell you about Koreans and cilantro...
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by shard 4y ago
Yes, this highlights several points: 1. Different companies have different focus and strategies. I would say Google likes to experiment, but sometimes has poor follow-through. Apple often waits a few generations before committing to new tec
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by shard 4y ago
FYI car crash detection had been available since Pixel 5.
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by shard 4y ago
> 35mm is great up to an 8x10 print. It'll do 11x14 if you don't stand too close. It's 30mp+ of optical resolution. Sure, if you are taking photos of technical drawings or scientific specimens. For artistic purposes, the c
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by shard 4y ago
This reminds me of the tiny mechanical camera that I had as a kid for the 110 film format. It was my first camera and I loved that little thing. It looked something like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/juan-antonio-
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by shard 4y ago
Interesting. Where does one go to buy usernames for social networks?
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by shard 4y ago
I am guessing that the $2M is from selling the usernames? Are the buyers individuals who want a good username, or bot farms who just need a large number of accounts?
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Arm Sues Qualcomm and Nuvia for Breaking License Agreement(tomshardware.com)
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by shard 4y ago
Regarding printing it in 0.5 font, I don't think this kind of passive-aggressive rebellious act accomplishes anything, and actually highlights how powerless he is. It caused extra work and frustration for the poor guy who got handed th
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by shard 4y ago
Is that what being punk means nowadays? Being sexy, and avoiding helmets / seat belts / health insurance / vaccinations because it's security over freedom?
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by shard 4y ago
No implication to promote the commitment of fraud, simply stating a fact to correct the previous comment.
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by shard 4y ago
You can shorten the time you need to be a resident to 3 years by marrying a US citizen: https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/ci...
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by shard 4y ago
Children may be one of the cause of the breakage. It's not always been possible to keep my phone out of their hands, and for young children, they don't have fully developed motor skills yet, and drop things often. Even with a case
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by shard 4y ago
That reminds of the sign "Buy one, get one". Does that mean you pay for an item and you get that item, or you pay for an item and you get another item for free? I expect the meaning to the be the second one, but my brain parses it
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by shard 4y ago
For acetaldehyde, you can take L-cysteine to combat its effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysteine#Reducing_toxic_effect...
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by shard 4y ago
Although the slippery slope is a fallacy, down the road you speak is monkhood and the productivity optimization cult of recent times.
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by shard 4y ago
The reason is momentum. Switching to measuring flour by weight will require households to have both measuring cups and scales, require recipes to be rewritten, require cooks with an intuition based on volume to relearn the intuition based o
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by shard 4y ago
By Japanese style fridge, do you mean a fridge with the freezer on the bottom? How does a Japanese style fridge reduce spoilage?
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by shard 4y ago
Other ways to say this: Baby boomers have 86% less purchasing power than the greatest generation had in their seventies. Gen-X have 86% less purchasing power than the silent generation had in their fifties.
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by shard 4y ago
Listening in on meetings is one level of fatigue, but hosting/leading meetings is a whole other level for me. Having to multi-process in order to: 1. Keep discussions on track 2. Give everyone a chance to participate 3. Watch the time
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by shard 4y ago
Perhaps so, but humans are reproducing later and having fewer offspring, so there are more variables than just energy.
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by shard 4y ago
A soft pair of slippers can give a similar effect as soft flooring. For babies to crawl on, there are mats you can lay on the floor such as these: http://en.alzipmat.com/ The mats are easy to clean, and thus may be healthie
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by shard 4y ago
Carpets also trap food particles and drink spills, so there's likely a hard-to-remove layer of decaying food particles in the carpet, especially if there are kids in the house. With hardwood floors, a robot can run around and pick all
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by shard 4y ago
This is language dependent. For learning Chinese, recognizing radicals (like waht represents water, and what represents tree) can go a long way in helping recall of both meaning and pronunciation. Then moving on to learning Korean, where Ch
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by shard 4y ago
There are other ideological reasons, such as inefficiencies of meat production through grain, water shortage issues, meat factory working conditions, boycotting the importing of low quality foreign meat, possibly others.
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by shard 4y ago
SOHCAHTOA ( https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SOHCAHTOA.html ) is how I learned about the trig functions back in school. It's stuck with me all these years, along with the quadratic formula ( https://en.wikipedia.o

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