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by stewx 4y ago
I jumped through a lot of hoops to earn a free t-shirt that says "Everything will be 200 OK". I had to sign up for a couple cloud services and set up some kind of automation, essentially demo-ing the product to myself to get the s
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by stewx 4y ago
Sexual dimorphism is real and has important medical implications.
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by stewx 4y ago
Wow, seems like a hacking Swiss army knife. Very cool, if it works as well as advertised.
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by stewx 4y ago
> even Iran refused to sell their drones to them "White House says Iran is preparing to supply Russia with weapons-capable drones" https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/politics/iran-russia-weapons-
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by stewx 4y ago
Only part of this I would quibble with: > Copying and pasting a few lines of code takes almost zero thought and no time. Find and replace are very good at finding repeating things later if we start to care Find-and-replace is unfortunate
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by stewx 4y ago
I stand corrected: they owned 51% back in 1998 but more like a third now.
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by stewx 4y ago
Wow, somehow I was unaware that Hyundai now owns the majority of Kia.
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by stewx 4y ago
Friendly reminder that trade deficits are not inherently bad. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/051515/pros-...
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by stewx 4y ago
The irony of the "TERF" abbreviation (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) is that many (most?) of the people being labelled as such are not radical feminists to begin with.
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by stewx 4y ago
Robertson is a Canadian invention and is used extensively in Canada. Philips is probably still more common but Robertson screws are readily available everywhere.
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by stewx 4y ago
He stopped updating it a couple years ago, it looks like. Last one is from 2020.
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by stewx 4y ago
Where?
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by stewx 4y ago
I read one expert describe the Phoenix pay system as "garbage in, garbage out". The government signed hundreds of separate collective bargaining agreements with public sector unions, each with their own different rules for pay, ov
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by stewx 4y ago
Reminds me of the Silicon Valley ferret neighbour scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMK_GAyRY0o
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by stewx 4y ago
Reminder that this article is about Canada, where these workers already have maternity leave and health insurance paid for by the public.
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by stewx 4y ago
Office Open XML (e.g., *.docx) is an ECMA and ISO standard format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
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by stewx 4y ago
Why not?
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by stewx 4y ago
What's stopping you from asking them to sign an NDA before disclosing any details of what you are doing?
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by stewx 4y ago
Wouldn't the world be a much better place if we solved the problem rather than finding an angle to monetize it?
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by stewx 4y ago
*Doxycycline (typo, missing "c")
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by stewx 4y ago
> Is a software developer someone willing to learn new languages and uses software to solve problems? Or is a software developer someone who knows latest.js and writes front end code or someone who writes C code to makes the LEDs on the
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by stewx 4y ago
Team Xecutor was not merely selling devices to "run homebrew software on your Switch". They specifically marketed it for piracy, and according to the US Dept. of Justice: > To support this illegal activity, Team Xecuter alleged
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by stewx 4y ago
Those are not contradictory statements, even if their claimed losses are exaggerated.
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by stewx 4y ago
The problem is, if you own a "nice" house, you need very good skills to do many DIY home improvements, for them to actually look good enough to match the house. Otherwise, you are reducing the resale value of your house with shodd
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by stewx 4y ago
No. I was assuming that this blog post was about compressing PNG files for general use on web sites, but apparently that is not the case. He didn't actually state in the blog post what he was using the images for, but he says in a comm
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by stewx 4y ago
Dear site owner: your grey-on-grey text is nearly illegible.
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by stewx 4y ago
This is a strange test to do. The image he used is not really suited to PNG. It is more like a photograph, which is better in JPEG format, than an illustration, which is better as a PNG. Furthermore, he doesn't even post the resulting
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by stewx 4y ago
The issue with the Nintendo Switch is that Nintendo designed their own faulty USB-C charging implementation rather than merely using the reference design. It's not a failure of the spec, it's a failure to adhere to the spec. http
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by stewx 4y ago
Also, the chain is named after its former NHL player founder, who died after crashing his car while drunk and on drugs.
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by stewx 4y ago
I see a blank white page. Is it just me?

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