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by throwaway167 3y ago
That must be it - the first pressing of the olives for extra virgin, as I was sure there was a 'first' something. Interesting this definition is slightly different from that in the article, a different epistemology: The first pre
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by throwaway167 3y ago
> The presence of defects disqualifies an oil from being classified as extra virgin What's the definition of (not necessarily extra-) virgin olive oil? I had it stuck in my head it should be from the first olives of the harvest. Bu
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Just randomise your clock. /s Persistent IDs are a security and information risk. If that's a concern, don't persist IDs.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
The problem with AWS is the temptation to use lambdas when streaming will keep your program running. Adding on egress costs, as parent points out, makes what could be a simple streaming server quite expensive. Better to avoid AWS for this r
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Kitchen Nightmares, UK version. Operations, People, Marketing, Sane decision making, Passion. But not the US version. That's just drama.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
With a headline like that it felt like 2002 again. The article's byline has 2008. A 2023 update could be interesting comparing the streaming providers' choices, and persistence of choices, now that monthly subscriptions, rather th
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Impressive handwriting for 10.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
I quite like Gnome. I also think enshittification is a strong word, and a wrong one. Because praise the shit. Praise the choice of shit. You like your shit. I like my shit. I enjoy my Gnome shit, I enjoyed Gnome 2 shit but I love Gnome
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by throwaway167 3y ago
218,691 registered domains. [1] $3M/month. M as in million, not mille [2]? Mille is still commonly used in accounting [3] $36M/year is $164.61 per registered domain per year. Porkbun [4] offer .ai $72.40/year. Even 3 lette
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Please check the link. It's total global energy consumption, of which cars are a very small part of the mix, of which electric are most useful at displacing pollution from cities to production facilities, not reducing it. Just stop d
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by throwaway167 3y ago
~20% of final energy consumption comes from electricity [1], that's 80% that doesn't. Electric cars driven by green sources whose production create no emissions are a very very small part of the global energy mix. [1] https:&#x2
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FCC to reintroduce rules protecting net neutrality(cnn.com)
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Climate extremes to drive land mammal extinction in next supercontinent assembly(nature.com)
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Less secure people seek to promote their greatness. Starting a comment with 'No.' is a sure-fire sign of this. As is seeking to never be wrong driving a long comment train where OP seeks to assure others they're both neve
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by throwaway167 3y ago
HN book recommendation: Bad Education https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Education-Debunking-Myths/dp/0335... The book is split into self-contained chapters, each of which debunk a (often, still) held myth about learning
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by throwaway167 3y ago
For a HTML survey, there was a heck of a lot about JS in there so I quit it. Not for me. I quit JS for HTMX because time in JS, fully loaded time with framework knowledge and maintenance, is just not very important for my use case which is
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How Australians made the early internet their own(theconversation.com)
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Mullvad gives config files to use with Wireguard and OpenVPN clients. Links to do so are on the app download page(s): https://mullvad.net/en/download/vpn/linux
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[OP]: > In making the regulations used to determine which services are category 1 or category 2B, the Secretary of State will now have the discretion to decide whether to set a threshold based on the number of users or the functionalitie