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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
> I distinctly remember having conversations about Github struggling to scale well before MS was involved Do you have any sources to back your claim up? At what point did Github fail to scale their search endpoints? > This may be corr
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
I totally agree, you should expect a similar increase and degradation in Gitlab which we do not.
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
I think you need to broaden your focus here - I can't really remember any significant downtime before the Microsoft acquisition and the data supports my memories. Microsoft bought Github and migrated to Azure, which is explains the fin
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
Always gonna happen. Oil margins are gigantic and they'll use every dime of runway they can. Electric is better in every single way and batteries tech is only making that more true every day. The dinosaurs won't go quietly into th
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
> encumbered only by increasingly slower animations or boneheaded notifications or apps stealing focus as they spin themselves up > Instead, go into a three year period of major OS refactoring. Speed above all. I cannot understand why
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
Great, thanks!
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Do you have the links for those? Very interested
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
I have experienced 0 friction swapping between the 2 models, in fact pitting them against eachother has resulted in the highest success rate for me so far.
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
Sure. > Alabama Power, with approval from the Alabama PSC, charges residential solar customers a monthly fee of $5.41 per kilowatt based on the size of their solar system > Alabama Power's residential electricity rates generally
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
In Alabama regulatory capture is such that installing solar panels attached to the grid incurs fees higher than just buying the electricity from Alabama Power.
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USA pays the most for education per capita of any other nation on the planet. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
Same here. Great article. I avoid both and stick with naproxen sodium. Any issues with that one? Lasts the longest too.
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
Absolutely and costco has other interesting business model mechanics that make that margin feasible. Membership fees of course but other things as well. Like the fact they are all warehouses they don't have intermediate warehousing or
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
No no, that's obviously wrong. It's because the sun rises in the East much earlier than the west, it only seems like like they're getting it earlier but it's only because of the way the planet works. And the sun never se
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
Costco mandates a maximum of 11% margin on goods in the store and aggressively monitor suppliers on that cost. One of the reasons I like costco actually 10% or so is a fine margin to pay.
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
You're denying the data because the findings don't align with your feelings about it.
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
> I promise -- promise! -- this is not a factor lol. Study after study after study shows more attractive people do better by the numbers in just about every single metric you can come up with. I imagine a recruiter may bristle at that as
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by the_sleaze_ 6mo ago
I'm on the same path as you are it seems. I used to be able to explain every single variable name in a PR. I took a lot of pride in the structure of the code and the tests I wrote had strategy and tactics. I still wrote bugs. I'd
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by the_sleaze_ 7mo ago
> as ideas worth listening to, on any topic. Shoe Button Complex as coined by Buffet and Munger. I see this all the time from even mildly successful people. Suddenly the Early Bitcoin Adopter is now a Macro Economist and a Relationship G
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by the_sleaze_ 7mo ago
60% of our traffic is bot, on average. Sometimes almost 100%.
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by the_sleaze_ 7mo ago
> Show an elected official What is the problem this visualization seeks to make obvious? Is it just neat to think about and make?
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by the_sleaze_ 8mo ago
> Not just durability, but ergonomics. Somehow while spending the most per capita of any nation on the planet, American schools are in a perpetual budget crunch. It's about getting internet access not whether the trackpad is good. Y
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by the_sleaze_ 8mo ago
> people are out, having fun, and not buried in their phones and where the city isn’t full of strip malls and parking lots. Are we still talking about how to optimize public transportation on city streets?
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by the_sleaze_ 8mo ago
> you need them to agree The app would say - meet here. > One might call such a meeting point a “bus stop” :) Call it what you want, it could be in a strip mall parking lot, a convenient corner or just in front of the apartment buildi
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by the_sleaze_ 8mo ago
> They make it difficult for travelers to predict journey times How do scheduled bus routes standardize a journey time vs a demand shuttle? > out of the way journeys in my experience. How do buses fair in this regard? > It's
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by the_sleaze_ 8mo ago
> has been tried a bunch of times in all sorts of different environments Has it? When, where and with what technology? > Predictability is really important and ridership drops as soon as users start having to plan too far ahead Uber e
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by the_sleaze_ 8mo ago
"when my house burned down, I gained an unobstructed view of the sky" A different translation of the same
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by the_sleaze_ 8mo ago
Why have bus stops at all, waymo should build a transit bus or large van and run them autonomously. Then they could optimize the fleet as they please. Bus stops were a solution to a lack of connectivity and demand.
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by the_sleaze_ 8mo ago
Ok

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