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by showerst 4y ago
If you're in the US and near a major metro, keep an eye on bidspotter. Every once in a while you can catch a lot of high end test gear and/or accessories at lower prices than ebay.
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by showerst 4y ago
Walmart is a bad comparison there; they have an enormous headcount of low-paid staff. Many tech companies are far lower headcount, but with high executive pay. Looking at some other companies, Activision-Blizzard's CEO alone makes enou
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by showerst 4y ago
Maybe you’re just slightly allergic to pomegranates?
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by showerst 4y ago
Here’s an example of parsing some particularly annoying old school html. I’m not claiming it’s the _best_ way to do it, just that you can, and I’m not sure this one is doable with selectors. https://github.com/openstates&#x2
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by showerst 4y ago
CSS is nice because it's more readable than XPATH for longer queries, and is friendlier to newer programmers who didn't come up when XML was big. XPATH is generally more powerful for really gnarly things and for backtracking. &quo
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by showerst 4y ago
Yeah, it seems weird that they're a lot more than digitalocean.
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Having a 9 month old I feel this in my bones. Our bottle wash - dry - sterilize - fill pipeline alone has gone from piles of chaos to a finally tuned machine. It’s like a more gratifying factorio, although the biters get larger faster. =)
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by showerst 4y ago
I don't just pay DO for servers, I'm paying them for a cohesive integrated UX, decent support (for the price), and nice hosted database and load balancer options. That's always been what separates DO from the rest of the mark
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by showerst 4y ago
How does this compare to Les' RPI photospectrometer? https://www.hackster.io/news/les-wright-s-diy-raspberry-pi-s... Does it just have a much larger spectrum?
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by showerst 4y ago
I think this price increase is honestly pretty fair, but I really wish they'd show side by side prices, and offer me a tool to see what my total increase will be.
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by showerst 4y ago
We have enough clean water, (potential) power, food, and space to keep many times the earth's current population healthy and happy. The issue is that those things are not distributed in the same amounts and places as people. While unim
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by showerst 4y ago
I’m absolutely joking about the death penalty. I’m not at all joking about the auto ticket. If we won’t enforce it why make it illegal? And with a nuisance violation, what’s the difference between sticking a cop there and a camera? I’m not
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by showerst 4y ago
With the exception (arguably) of the vette, those are uncommon high end sportscars. Much like with the speed limit, the owners are expected to be a little more cognizant of law abiding.
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by showerst 4y ago
I hope this tech catches on, we have a ton people who like to tear around my neighborhood at 4AM in cars with exhaust mods. A few times it’s been loud enough to wake up my infant, at which point I’d probably vote to upgrade it a capital cri
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by showerst 4y ago
Count me as someone who has gotten more interested in the natural world thanks to Joey. His mycology stuff led me to Alan Rockefeller who is also super cool, and does great talks and videos.
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by showerst 4y ago
I’m doubtful of that; politico lives and dies on having friends in government willing to break things (whether by leaks or just telling their reporters public facts first). Looking like a tabloid has only downside for politico — either peop
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by showerst 4y ago
I’m really torn on Integza. It’s a great channel and I love his spirit, but guys like that (and the teenagers that follow them) end up getting hurt or burning down their houses, which makes the news and gets new restrictions passed on all o
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by showerst 4y ago
In some cases they use a bladder or a push plate.
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by showerst 4y ago
If you're interested in starting electronics, I recommend getting one of the elegoo ardiuno kits off of amazon. They're a surprisingly good hands on way to learn a bunch of basic theory and how to use common parts and sensors.
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by showerst 4y ago
Are we sure that is "blindingly obvious"? I think the whole point of studies like this to try to tease out hints at what parts of it are genetic vs circumstance vs choices. FWIW I think that the genetic component of 'innately
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by showerst 4y ago
Apparently not -- https://www.etymonline.com/word/skive Interesting etymology though, I love when you see a random PIE root show up in so many languages.
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by showerst 5y ago
The US is, as usual, large and diverse enough that you can find data for either point. I think many "people" (aka the ones comparing food cultures and rating restaurants) would say that big US grocery stores are incredible, and ou
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by showerst 5y ago
If you're self-hosting gitlab-ce (which should really be open to internal traffic only) and want one more layer of protection from all this stuff, it's easy to throw it behind http basic auth. In your gitlab.rb: nginx['custom
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by showerst 5y ago
I scrape the data that public officials post (thought not on instagram yet) -- that has lots of utility in determining their positions on issues, where in their jurisdiction they visit most, who they're meeting with, etc.
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by showerst 5y ago
Breaking taps has a cool video on how the alignment flexures work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MxH1sfJLBQ
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by showerst 5y ago
I have a desk that's a set of Jarvis legs with a $20 Ikea hollow core table top that I've had for about 7 years. It cost less than $250 (at the time) and it has held up really well.
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by showerst 5y ago
I'm from the US, and when I was in college I took a British Airways flight for the first time, and on the way home I got a stern talking to from the gate agent in London about fraud because I chose some random foreign (to me) royalty t
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by showerst 5y ago
That's a shame, I liked their "covers out" model, and they often had a reasonably stocked tech book shelf, which is something indie bookstores never really do well.
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by showerst 5y ago
I guess I should've clarified that I was thinking more of tasting menus on really _different_ comment. There's plenty of places (e.g. maydan, rose's, taro in DC) that have great but perfectly recognizable menus too. On the ot
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by showerst 5y ago
That's true, especially among the one-stars and bibs. On that top comment I was really thinking of tasting menus, which tend to be more out there. There are for sure plenty of places with an a la carte menu of very recognizable roast c

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