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by sib 2y ago
>> "ask companies to be responsible for carbon capture or in the short term an offset for their employees breathing on the clock" Unless you think their employees breathe more when they are on the clock than off it, I'm
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by sib 2y ago
Per the New York Times: "According to the World Gold Council, recycled gold accounted for 28 percent of the total global gold supply of 4,633 metric tons in 2020; 90 percent of that recycled gold comes from discarded jewelry and the re
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by sib 2y ago
I'm not the OP but I use this [1] enclosure and [2] NVME SSD on my MacBook Pro and get read & write speeds > 2,500MB/s. [1] enclosure: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BB74BQVN/ [2] drive:
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by sib 2y ago
Not the OP but I use the following [1] enclosure and [2] NVME SSD on my MacBook Pro and get read / write speeds > 2,500MB/s. [1] enclosure: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BB74BQVN/ [2] drive
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by sib 2y ago
It's USD2,400 to upgrade the M4 Pro model from 512GB to 8TB, which feels a bit steep, but it's an option. Alternatively, you can get one of these[1] external Other World Computing NVME SSDs for USD1,190 right now. And then you can
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by sib 2y ago
Which was also the common story when WWII Pacific theater airfields were cratered by bombing. It took very little time to re-open.
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by sib 2y ago
"It's really easy to do well in VC" It's relatively easy as a General Partner in VC to collect fees leading to a decent salary for a while. It's quite hard (rare) to do well enough to outperform the public markets c
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by sib 2y ago
Yes - we went through this for a client I'm currently working with. We were migrating from an approved campaign via a different provider to doing it on Twilio and even in that case, there was quite a heavy process to get approved again
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by sib 2y ago
For commercial texting in the US, it is supposed to be opt-in. Of course, there are unscrupulous parties who don't respect this.
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by sib 2y ago
I guess I didn't see a big "this is a joke" label on the site so evaluated it as I would any service purporting to provide maps - where accuracy is a P0.
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by sib 2y ago
Third this. I know ~everybody hates Adobe, but I pay about $120 / year for Lightroom + Photoshop, which are way, way, way, way, way (I ran outta "ways") more complex to build and valuable to me as a user than this.
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by sib 2y ago
Let's face it - a lot of universities are pretty much professional sports teams, so professional sports team do have those things...
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by sib 2y ago
Neighborhoods and golf course labeled as offices...
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by sib 2y ago
Agree that there's not zero room for improvement. I just think that it's a silly reason to reject this app. (And I say that as someone who used to work at Google in the Android org - and I'd make the same comment if the Play
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by sib 2y ago
I think their hypothesis is that it's not the "what" (interacting with content) that prevents phone users from interacting with the world, but the "how" (head tilted down, eyes focused on a small rectangle, peripher
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by sib 2y ago
And they uniformly stink...
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by sib 2y ago
But that's not really precise. Halide needs access to the camera to take any pictures at all, whether there are advanced controls or not, and for crappy or pro-level photography. In other words, "camera app needs access to the cam
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by sib 2y ago
American Standard sells urinals with water use as low as 1/8 (0.125) gallons per flush. https://www.americanstandard-us.com/urinals-list (I only thought of this because the urinals at the companies I've worked at
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by sib 2y ago
This immediately made me think of the Heinlein story, "And He Built a Crooked House." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House
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by sib 2y ago
"Put all of the consequences of being defrauded by a borrower onto the lender" - that seems a bit strange. Imagine saying "put all of the consequences of getting robbed onto the bank, not the robber"
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by sib 2y ago
Sure, but no more than TouchID sucks with gloves or wet fingers...
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by sib 2y ago
As opposed to Adobe [R] Photoshop [R] Lightroom [TM]* Classic's person identification feature which has identified my dog as no fewer than 5 different members of my family, ranging from ~5 years old to > 90 years old. * I think I go
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by sib 2y ago
Agreed - I've had a number of MRIs of the upper spine area and I find it extremely meditative...
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by sib 2y ago
This is not true in my experience in the US (thanks sneakily-placed rapidly-changing speed limit signs enforced against out-of-state plates in Utah!)
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by sib 2y ago
US 9-digit postcodes ("ZIP+4") were introduced decades ago (1983?) and are publicly findable online given an address. The US also has a full 11-digit address code that is printed (by the USPS) on mail in a bar code when you mail a
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by sib 2y ago
These articles are pretty much garbage. They never note which chargers, where, were investigated. For example - are they talking about Tesla chargers or non-Tesla chargers? What geography? From the article: "ChargerHelp conducted a poi
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by sib 2y ago
I imagine most hiring managers don't have a close enough working relationship with the last 3 people to leave the company to give good, clear, insightful, unbiased information. Putting aside whether the company's policies would al
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by sib 2y ago
For many years - I don't know whether it's still the case as I'm out of the industry now - the major mobile operators in the US had (increasing) requirements about the minimum fraction of the front of the phone that was cover
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by sib 2y ago
I would rather say that the fact that there was a (conditional) surrender by Germany and it took place before the Allies had significantly entered German homeland territory enabled certain agitators to claim that Germany had been betrayed r
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by sib 2y ago
The study / field of AI goes back decades further than deep learning, so, no, I would say that "traditional" AI does not imply deep learning.

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