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by simfree 5y ago
If an employee of the store quotes you a different price than the label on the shelf or item, you owe the store zero responsibility. Retail stores change pricing on products and fail to update pricing on the shelf all the time. Home Depot,
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by simfree 5y ago
Properly isolated accessory non-free hardware is a good thing, and for a user whose threat model requires libre hardware, the security model of the PinePhone or Librem 5 where the LTE modem is isolated with a kill switch to interact via USB
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by simfree 5y ago
Apparently a 256GB microSD card is $28.99, so 12 cents per gig is more expensive: https://www.techradar.com/news/this-is-the-cheapest-microsd-... Perhaps Azure should offer to mail you the MicroSD card as well? Postage
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by simfree 5y ago
As did nearly every other vendor
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by simfree 5y ago
Great, close the school till there is adequate staffing to teach the curriculum. Warehousing students is wrong (especially so when creating a super spreader study hall), our school systems should not hold kids hostage with threats like char
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by simfree 5y ago
Have you seen the homelessness problem in Vancouver, BC? Its terrible, as is the housing affordablility problems.
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by simfree 5y ago
Handle billable work, ideally making a profit. There are quite a few new dentists graduating every year, $500k could buy an office in a decent location, plus another $100k to $300k to build out the space and gain momentum. Figure 2 to 4 rec
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by simfree 5y ago
Jellyfin's Syncplay and Roku app work as well, making group video watching easy
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by simfree 5y ago
Saas like Office 365 seems to be Microsoft's current flavor of proprietary, closed software moving forward. MS has released some quality open source code, there are many organizations running fully open source stacks atop Dotnet Core,
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by simfree 5y ago
We had a vendor who implemented their stack with Flask and Postgres on Debian. Their API is consistently slow (seconds to tens of seconds) to the point that we wrote our own app in Dotnet Core (running atop Postgres and Debian) that queries
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by simfree 5y ago
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33246909-Qwest-Website-Cen...
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by simfree 5y ago
Note that this special relationship only likely applies to transactions that use the Amazon MasterCard on Amazon.com, and MasterCards issued by other companies still impose full rates. Costco ran into this with American Express, though in r
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by simfree 5y ago
Baicells will happily sell you cellular basestation hardware. Omscocombb isn't leaked code either, just an alternative implementation.
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by simfree 5y ago
Sounds like a bad pitch then. Shorten it up, better not to overdo a sales pitch than to do too short a pitch. I don't pitch Signal, but when I do see it pitched those that are most successful pitch 1 directly useful feature as why you
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by simfree 5y ago
Were the HDMI output and audio DSP licensed IP blocks from another company? On other Allwinner chips, the HDMI phy is from a different company than Allwinner. Guess this is a super budget respin of this chip, where most licensed IP blocks h
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by simfree 5y ago
Pax had much better APIs for payment integration and was much more friendly to developers than Verifone, Ingenico and other merchant processing hardware manufacturers. They were the equivalent of Ubiquiti in the pinpad space, when they ente
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by simfree 5y ago
Coasting is way more efficient than regenerative braking slowing your roll, causing you to need to accelerate again. Hence why many non-car electrified rides disable Regen braking in Eco mode when your not accelerating or braking as keeping
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by simfree 5y ago
John Wayne Airport sucks. Terrible transit access, and Lyft has been flakier in that area than hiking through the parkag garage then over a few blocks to get to a bus stop. Flying into San Diego is a much better experience in comparison.
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by simfree 5y ago
It takes consistent organizational effort spanning years to build hardware, maintain vendor relationships, merchandize the product (advertise, sell, ship, liquidate), inventory management, and continuously develop new hardware to bring to m
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by simfree 5y ago
Ten Percent Of U.S. High School Students Graduating Without Basic Object Permanence Skills - The Onion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssjokgx0pUQ
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by simfree 5y ago
Prior to the iPhone you could buy a $5 a month unlimited data plan addon from AT&T. The revolution was AT&T increasing unlimited data to $20 a month for the OG iPhone and $30 a month for the iPhones thereafter. It's weird to lo
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by simfree 5y ago
Amazon continues to try and buy elections in Seattle, imports tens of thousands of people to this city and region, many of which view themselves as merely transient residents and thus they care very little about investing in the region or a
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by simfree 5y ago
The state building affordable and midrange housing does have precedent in Finland, where municipal employees build the majority of homes, leaving the upper mid-range and high end homes to be built by private developers. They do tightly mana
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by simfree 5y ago
Busses rarely run at a profit, if your metro service is very lucky user fares cover half the cost of bus service (lookup farebox recovery ratio), hence some US bus systems going fare free since it makes a minimal difference financially.
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by simfree 5y ago
It takes 1 to 2 quarters for silicon to be manufactured, we are seeing the results of decisions that were finalized in early 2021 with regard to what is available today to buy.
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by simfree 5y ago
What do you expect from Red Hat/IBM? We've all seen how poorly they handled OpenOffice.
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by simfree 5y ago
If this is so trivial with front facing camera, why has Tesla not implemented it? Stationary object detection appears to be totally missing, whether it's Tesla repeatedly trying to smash itself into the concrete support posts for the
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by simfree 5y ago
Adding audio is much easier than subtracting audio from a recording when said audio is distorted by imperfect speakers and recorded by imperfect microphones and has who knows what other background noises mixed in. Said denoiser could easily
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by simfree 5y ago
What pool of candidates is the sheriff allowed to be elected from? In many counties the candidates for sheriff must be active employees of the department or similar, making for an extremely narrow pool of candidates with plenty of opportuni
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by simfree 5y ago
I only ever saw this B52 trifecta used when untrained nurses from other units had to do a shift staffing the psych ward. Thankfully that particular psych ward was closed down 2 years ago due to repeatedly assigning untrained nurses to work

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