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by thaeli 5y ago
It's not quite the same thing, but retaliation against people who don't tip well is very much a thing. Since tipping is at the end of the interaction, it doesn't really come up except for repeat customers.. but not tipping wh
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by thaeli 5y ago
For anyone interested in doing real lighting CAD and simulation, one of the true professional-grade tools for architectural lighting design is available for free. Dialux Evo is a great tool, though there's a bit of a learning curve.
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by thaeli 5y ago
R9 is also important in the higher CRI ranges. CRI is based on pastels - it's an artifact of measuring traditional florescent bob performance - and R9 captures the vivid reds that are important to truly accurate color rendition.
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by thaeli 5y ago
Don't underestimate the option of "if the cost of making the old infrastructure hostile to other users is even less"..
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And emacs is.. well, okay, that one's not a good example.
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by thaeli 5y ago
Scrap yards don't want to deal with a tangled mess of barb wire - some won't accept it at all, some pay an extremely low rate for it. But if you cut it into short pieces (3ft or so) and neatly bundle it, most scrap yards will happ
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by thaeli 5y ago
..they did this a few days ago. You nailed the price point, too. Notably, this is only about twice the cost of a high speed "business" internet connection from the cable companies in a high density area. Regular Starlink is priced
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by thaeli 5y ago
So does the Social Security Administration, and they already administer the closest thing to a national ID number we have..
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by thaeli 5y ago
They have to do that for the passenger version of the van anyway.
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by thaeli 5y ago
They might mean "put new upholstery and interior plastics in" which, yeah, an off lease vehicle isn't going to be brand new inside. As someone who runs vehicles for 20+ years, while interior durability has improved, I still d
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by thaeli 5y ago
> compare to free to play videogames What's the music equivalent of abusive lootbox and gatcha mechanics? Those seem to drive a lot of the free-to-play profit..
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by thaeli 5y ago
Has Google Analytics on it though, so..
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by thaeli 5y ago
Discord doesn't seem to have any way (besides kludgy stuff where you run multiple instances of the client) to have different logins on different servers like Slack allows. Instead, it's one account everywhere.. which is frustratin
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by thaeli 5y ago
NASA seems to normalize deviance when they're under political pressure to do so. I'm not sure they can be entirely trusted when it comes to their own launch systems, because of the politics involved - but so far they haven't
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by thaeli 5y ago
The aftermath of many crimes, in America at least, would have been better with no law enforcement involvement at all. It's really that bad here.
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by thaeli 5y ago
How long do you plan to keep your laptop? For my "carry with me" laptop, I just plan to replace it every four years and buy four years of accidental damage coverage. I break the ports or the screen, Dell comes out the next day and
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by thaeli 5y ago
The comparison was between cruise ships and assisted living facilities, which are a lower level of care. Nursing homes have more medical care; assisted living is more "someone cooks and cleans for you, but you can still go to the bathr
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by thaeli 5y ago
Dang. That would have been an amazing ending.
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Yes, this is pretty much what actual "metes and bounds" deeds from several centuries ago look like.
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by thaeli 5y ago
The easiest thing for everyone involved is for their neighbor to grant an easement for the existing driveway. That way they can keep using it, but it's with explicit permission, so the neighbor doesn't have to worry about an adver
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by thaeli 5y ago
Before COVID, Moderna was a startup which had never brought a therapy to market. They've managed to stay independent, instead of a marriage to one of the giants like BioNTech has. As such, Moderna's production capacity was almost
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by thaeli 5y ago
Plus, once the pandemic is "over" at least officially, their best case scenario is that other manufacturers did implement their parents.. because they can start collecting license fees, and those manufacturers are likely to have m
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by thaeli 5y ago
So, replace a system where Big Tech tracks us with.. an immutable public record of every page view ever? I'm really not sure that's an improvement.
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by thaeli 5y ago
As a kid, I was very active on Prodigy's message boards. I remember when they added a per-hour charge to access them. It absolutely wiped the boards out; trying to charge for something people have been getting for free, even "free
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by thaeli 5y ago
That, and the (dramatized, but fundamentally true) "Evolution of the Bradley" sequence from Pentagon Wars.
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by thaeli 5y ago
The test pilots were pushing for no unmanned flights, and famously insisted that the Shuttle's landing gear control be a fully manual control that could not be activated remotely. This ensured the continuing relevance of the astronaut
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by thaeli 5y ago
I assume that so many official emails from my employer are phishing.. it's a mess.
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It _is_ very risky, but the source selection statement lays out in great detail how both other bids were much worse.
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In the long term, everyone with more debt than assets is on the other side of that wager.
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They obtained an "IRB-exempt letter" because their IRB found that this was not human research. It's quite likely that the IRB made this finding based on a misrepresentation of the research during that initial stage; once they

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