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by sly010 7y ago
Toilet paper is generally not provided in public toilets in China. You should carry your own. So in a way, this is positive.
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by sly010 7y ago
Especially because the IBAN can be unpacked automatically to country, bank name, short code, account number and (apparently) a checksum.
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by sly010 7y ago
My hunch is it uses the MacOS accessibility APIs.
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WeWork to lay off 2400 employees(mobile.reuters.com)
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by sly010 7y ago
> It is "dd" but uses 200MB of RAM. Say no more. I am sold.
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by sly010 7y ago
> "SonyATV & Warner Chappell have claimed 24 of my videos because the royalty free song Dreams by Joakim Karud (from the OFFICIAL YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARY BTW) uses a sample from Kenny Burrell Quartet’s ‘Weaver of Dream`" Isn&
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by sly010 7y ago
If only there was a way to avoid having an Amazon smart speaker in my home...
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by sly010 7y ago
Someone should publish a book of these stories. I would buy it.
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by sly010 7y ago
Emojis.
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by sly010 7y ago
Exactly the same thing happened to me. In fact I came here to write down the same thing :) The test was standardized across the entire country. My IT teacher agreed with me, but was not willing to escalate.
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by sly010 7y ago
In other news, my Pixel 3 with Google Fi keeps reconnecting to Google's VPN without asking me permission.
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by sly010 7y ago
Imagine the job postings for such positions ...
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by sly010 7y ago
In one word, nvidia.
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by sly010 7y ago
... then you get ads served based on that.
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by sly010 7y ago
There are many things they could do with software only without having to change their current scheme. - Use exponential backoff when looking for network (although I find this part of the story hard to believe, my phone survives much longer
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by sly010 7y ago
Could you improve this further by somehow automatically controlling heat exchange between the thermal mass and a separate grocery compartment? That way the thermal mass would really act like a battery, you could save all the energy during a
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by sly010 7y ago
Also, I have yet to find an Electron based app that supports it. On the other hand I was positively surprised when it just worked on Android (for Google login).
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by sly010 7y ago
> I had thought that this was a great opportunity for blockchain, if identity could be solved reliably. If identity could be solved reliably, you wouldn't need a blockchain.
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Administrative costs are costs too.
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by sly010 7y ago
You could charge exponentially more tax based on the number of units rented. That way even if the cost is passed on, renters are incentivized to rent from small landlords.
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by sly010 7y ago
You mean the nights watch
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by sly010 7y ago
> The best way to improve a complex human interaction task like a vehicle is with experimentation and incremental improvements. You have to be careful to differentiate between improvements vs. change. You need to know when to stop (or at
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by sly010 7y ago
Do the instructions in the README count as part of the program? If not, then the smallest binary to bootstrap a C compiler is actually a single jump to a C compiler in memory with a README containing the memory dump in to be typed in :) Ser
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by sly010 7y ago
I have noticed that in most use cases of redis/memcached/etc, one will abstract it into some domain specific data-structure. At scale that abstraction becomes a service of it's own (job servers, caches, pub sub, etc.) at whic
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by sly010 7y ago
I just tried to create an online account with the IRS today and failed to do so because they couldn't verify that my phone number is registered under my name. (Why they can't deal with Google Fi but can with AT&T is a differen
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by sly010 7y ago
Good write up. Don't see the cangoroo sticks on the list.
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by sly010 7y ago
It is an excuse. Formatting (should) add virtually nothing. 102kb is a lot of text. There are pdf books that are smaller than that.
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by sly010 7y ago
There is OSC, which I think is under appreciated. It's super easy to implement, it's literally just UDP.
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by sly010 7y ago
He wanted me to call him.
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by sly010 7y ago
I once asked a question from a potential airbnb host through the contact form. The host answered something totally unrelated like "Hi, good question. We have 3 kitchen towels, 4 spoons, 7 chopsticks 5 plates 5 bathroom towels etc"

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