thenewwazoo

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by thenewwazoo 3y ago
For a company in the rental automobile space?
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by thenewwazoo 3y ago
Not really, depending on who you ask. In the 90s, the RAE declared that ‘ll’ and ‘ch’ were no longer letters, but they’re still taught as letters in many places. ‘rr’ was never a letter in its own right, but many people consider it to be, a
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by thenewwazoo 3y ago
Maybe this will finally mean a reduction in security theater on the way to the plane. One can hope, anyway.
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by thenewwazoo 3y ago
My pet theory (and this will probably trigger a lot of people) is that it's because she's a woman. She did some particularly heinous stuff, but the US consciousness seems to have an appetite to see disgraced women in power suffe
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by thenewwazoo 3y ago
They could sue you in court, and the court could find for them and enjoin you from doing a particular thing (an "injunction"), and then if you did that thing any more you'd be in contempt of court, which can result in fines a
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
This list is pretty woefully out of date, even if it's an excellent snapshot in time of a Redwood City that once was. We moved to RWC in '10, and it has changed a lot. Gentrification of the Little Michoacán area has begun in earne
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
Offtopic (and feels weird to ask in English) but I'm looking for good general-interest Spanish-language podcasts. Do you have any recommendations for ways to discover new ones?
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
All politics is local. Every citizen of a city is also a citizen of the state. "Local" is a demarcation drawn where ever it's convenient for the speaker. A smaller group should not be able to supersede the superior author
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
Your comment is not substantive, but this situation is much more akin to putting a purchase on a credit card, and then deciding to stop making your payments when the accrued interest gets too high. The analogy is flawed, of course, because
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
The peer comment to this one gets it right. The Puritans predated the Victorians by a couple hundred years. That'd be like saying the Victorians were reacting to the degeneracy of Fox News. My recollection (vague as it is now after dec
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
I just bought an Apple Watch to replace my o.g. Garmin Swim watch, for which I'd lost the ANT+ dongle (and didn't even bother to look at the state of software). Which is a shame, because the Garmin is a nicer device for swimming,
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
As a data point, I run an open SSID with QoS limiting throughput to 1.5 Mbps that permits only ports 80 and 443. It's enough for someone to check their email (or homework).
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
Pilots do precisely this already.
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
Many newer washers and dryers have sensors, and will adjust runtime on the fly. In my house, we joke about "washing time units", which are most definitely not minutes, and sometimes go up as the wash progresses.
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
The presumption is that it would necessarily be of biological origin if it were picked up in atmosphere.
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
No, because loyalty points are unfunded liabilities on account sheets.
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
> By all means, cite literally anything, nobody is arguing with you, I'll gladly accept any citation at all. But you are arguing, and you're doing it with incredibly bad tone. Or if you're not, your tone is awful enough
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
Because extracting rent does not scale with effort (and, in fact, requires none of it). It's called "passive income" for a reason.
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
> He originally wanted to build a social network, borne out of a 4chan style sense of 'fuck the man' and do cool things that improve the world. he literally originally wanted to build a directory of pictures of attractive wom
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
I've spent the last few years working on a soft realtime control system for doing system measurement, and it frustrates me to no end how little knowledge of controls there is in the SRE space. I regularly encounter teams who want to bu
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
It’s an affectation relating to The Long Now. https://longnow.org/ It’s, as I understand it, to draw attention to the briefness of our lives and contextualize the decisions we make that have effects long beyond “now”. Perso
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
Instead of simply negating and accusing me of being dishonest, perhaps you could expand a bit and explain why you disagree with me. From the site guidelines, > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people'
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
> I take responsibility for those decisions, as well as the difficult decision to do this layoff. I had to stop reading. How can a human being be this tone deaf? You know what's difficult, you great insensitive oaf? Getting laid off
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
I read this post and I think I understand it, but I'm not really sure, so, a question: is there a way to unsafely accomplish compiling the early example by conjuring lifetimes from the aether? Put another way, does the line that fail
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
I had the pleasure of writing embedded Rust in the automotive space for a couple of years about 4 years ago, and it was an absolute game-changer even at that early stage. Being able to write generic drivers that I could easily test outside
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
> EVs have a lifespan of less then (sic) 10yrs This is demonstrably false, as the Model S alone was first released in 2012 and still has a KBB value estimate of over $20,000 for a 100k mi very good condition example.
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
At the cost of some potentially reduced security, I've found that my iPhone will unlock while I'm wearing a full-face helmet as long as the chin bar isn't too high on my face, and the "unlock with a mask on" feature
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
I've got an open-source Homebridge plugin ( https://github.com/thenewwazoo/homebridge-lutron-caseta-leap ) that has a bug in its client-handling code. There is some problem with connection handling that is causing u
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
> What is the "plain text" email world like right now? A barren, lonely place filled with frustration and populated with creaky relics such as ourselves, yelling at clouds.
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by thenewwazoo 4y ago
> almost certainly occurred Citation, please.

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