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by simfree 5y ago
I see latency spike like this often on T-Mobile LTE. One second your under 40ms ping, then your next ping clocks in at 794ms or 2100ms despite having good signal strength.
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by simfree 5y ago
You don't have to have a badge to investigate crime. These staff hours are not being effectively allocated.
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by simfree 5y ago
Oh no, so its now a guessing game just like picking the right audio output on a computer?
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by simfree 5y ago
On this same tangent, does anyone know a cheap API for suggesting and validating addresses?
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by simfree 5y ago
Samy said he was stunned by what happened to Timnit Gebru. Given that Google locked Margaret Mitchell out of her own email, I would expect that Samy's ability to email had been restricted as well: https://m.facebook.com&#x2F
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by simfree 5y ago
The fired researchers were getting job offers a few weeks ago: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/13/22370158/google-ai-ethics... Has Google provided any evidence of substance regarding the exfiltration of
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by simfree 5y ago
Erxes.io does both :P
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by simfree 5y ago
The desktop OSes that use Linux do not have the device drivers decoupled from the kernel. Apple also builds these drivers into Darwin (hence Nvidia GPUs breaking on MacOS), Windows (on x86-64 only) is the only platform that has a semi-stabl
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by simfree 5y ago
Why not let the developer generate the tailored binaries in the first place?
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by simfree 5y ago
Twilio has little competitive moat against Signalwire, Teli, Telnyx, etc beyond developer mindshare.
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by simfree 5y ago
Yes, the point of most franchised chains is to extract wealth from communities rather than invest in a stable, skilled workforce delivering a good product. McDonalds, YUM Brands, et all charge large franchise fees and force use of particula
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by simfree 5y ago
Self insurance is not legal if you do not meet your state's requirements for cash set aside for self insurance purposes and vehicle count. This is usually a sizable sum of money that you need to set aside to self insure.
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by simfree 5y ago
Depending on the car and where you live insurance can be lower or higher. Outside of collector/classic car insurance policies (eg: this is not a daily driver car and you agree not to exceed a low number of miles yearly) or parked insur
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by simfree 5y ago
From what you describe you live on a dead end road or cul-de-sac that needs more pathways. This poor connectivity is part of why states and localities have banned cul-de-sacs and started enforcing road end connection ordinances. Here in Sea
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by simfree 5y ago
Dicks, Burgerville (mostly unionized), Burgermaster, In N Out and other regional chains exist, along with a plethora of single location independent fast food restaurants.
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by simfree 5y ago
Here in Seattle, if you can't quickly solve Fizz buzz and Hacker Rank questions in an interview, most companies interview processes will reject you in short order. It doesn't seem to matter if your getting quality PRs approved int
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by simfree 5y ago
Do you ever question why the sidewalk was unused? Without curb cuts, any potential sidewalk user with wheels is impaired with a detour through the street or a cumbersome stop and lift process. Does a parent with their kids in a stroller get
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by simfree 5y ago
That is pretty messed up that the USPTO granted Amazon a patent for what Opera was doing decades ago.
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by simfree 5y ago
Yes, the Northeast Corridor is the only profitable part of Amtrak, that is why Amtrak tried to cut as much service as possible outside the Northeast Corridor prior to Joe Biden taking office.
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by simfree 5y ago
Were Adam Toledo, Duante Wright or George Floyd threatening anyone's life or liberty at the time of their deaths?
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by simfree 6y ago
There is very little mixed use zoning in suburban areas...
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by simfree 6y ago
The local routing number tied to your parents phone number changed when you ported it to Comcast, thus spammers started calling your parent's known good number.
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by simfree 6y ago
The pay for most Apple contractors in Austin is abysmal. Multiple people I knew from UW earned barely over $30k a year working there.
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by simfree 6y ago
In Seattle today, union electrical apprentices often earn under $18hr, while Safeway is paying new hires $20hr in Seattle and Bellevue. General construction does not pay that much unless your licensed, bonded and running your own business o
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by simfree 6y ago
Prior to Voxbone joining Bandwidth.com they were a provider we had chosen to avoid. Voxbeam and Anveo Direct are solid choices for international DIDs. Bandwidth.com has a poor reputation FYI, they pissed off a few Public Utility Commissions
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by simfree 6y ago
A simple port request (1 phone number) has to be resolved within 24 hours, and complex port requests have similarly short SLAs. The FCC has defined these SLAs and if you ever have a losing provider that is close to breaking the SLA on a por
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by simfree 6y ago
I don't see Qwant on here, I tend to see better results on it than Google.
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by simfree 6y ago
Port your phone numbers out ASAP, you can jump to Teli or BulkVS and pay quite a bit less with much broader numbering inventory available.
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by simfree 6y ago
Take a look at Kaldi and Mozilla DeepSpeech
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by simfree 6y ago
Nearly all cable networks use a low split, cutting off around 42Mhz for upstream bandwidth. Not all bandwidth from 0 to 42Mhz is usable due to external interference, most cable systems are able to get 4 full sized 8Mhz Docsis 3.0 channels i

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