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   by tppiotrowski 3y ago

   https://jveuxdusoleil.fr/ is another fun one.
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   by tppiotrowski 3y ago

   Interesting because the sun rises and sets from the north (NE, NW) during the summer in the northern hemisphere. The effect is more pronounced the farther north of the equator you are and Germany is quite far north.
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   by tppiotrowski 3y ago

   I wonder how much of this stuff we inhale from our dryer exhaust when washing outdoor/athletic wear? I used the lint from my dryer as a fire-starter once and it definitely smelled like burning plastic.
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   by tppiotrowski 3y ago

   I think of tires as being made of rubber. Where does the plastic come from?
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   by tppiotrowski 3y ago

   I had a virtual care plan from Kaiser Permanente. What I liked: - you can email a photo to the dermatologist and get a diagnosis for free. I used this for moles and rashes. Saved me a visit and $$ - you can email the doctor for free and cha
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   by tppiotrowski 3y ago

   I agree. Ticketmaster, AirBnB, and other services with mandatory fees that are known but not shown until checkout should be regulated but it won't happen. Just like the USA is the only country in the world that doesn't include sal
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   by tppiotrowski 3y ago

   > Some people might not see a difference between bias and fraud, but I personally do. I think of fraud as a very intentional deception, straight up falsifying numbers in a conscious attempt to deceive. Lets say you do three runs of the s
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   by tppiotrowski 3y ago

   I took 1000mg of amoxicillin twice a day for about 6 months. I was terrified that it would destroy my gut flora and I would contract cdiff but in the end I didn't notice any adverse effects. Many people take yogurt with antibiotics but
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   by tppiotrowski 3y ago

   I sense a learned helplessness when it comes to these topics. To say that Meta should police these posts hints at the fact that there is no hope for rhetoric or persuasion and that people are not rational. Have we completely given up on mak
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    I thought the GPs were just fine but it's true that they do offer antibiotics almost every time you have a cold. In the US, you would demand them from your doctor and they would say no. Whether it was placebo or not, it did usually see
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    I wonder if the BBB can be leveraged. I can't find Meta on there but I did find an Instagram entry and they have a rating of F [1] Maybe we should post the BBB page for Meta to the front page of HN and let people voice their frustratio
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    Just wait until your account gets hacked and you realize there's a bug with the "click here if you didn't make this change" links in the security email making it impossible to get your account back. Then navigate to Face
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    You're right. The email yesterday was that the voluntary opt in period to the new pricing was starting. Everyone will be switched over on March 1st.
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    I don't know enough about the unabomber but from what I heard he wasn't trying doomsday stuff. Seemed like more targeted assassinations at certain individuals. Feel free to enlighten me though...
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    That was yesterday. They announced pricing changes for Cloudflare workers. I think it won't affect me but heavy workloads will have to pay more. They used to charge a flat fee but now are moving to $/CPU time. Overall I still love
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    Bad timing: quarterly earnings call is this afternoon.
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    The people who can do doomsday level harm need to complete a level of education that makes them smart enough and gives them time to consider the implications of their actions. They have a certain level of maturity before they can strike and
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    Also needing to log in before you can unsubscribe.
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    First heard about this on Nova probably 15 years ago https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    I was looking at ChatGPT plugins today and they use the OpenAPI convention. Is it called OpenAPI because it was created by "Open"AI or it's something completely independent of OpenAI that they chose to adopt?
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    Cloudflare: 100GB hosting is $1 and $.36 for 10 million requests. If you read the Protomaps docs it explains how to cache the requests on Cloudflare CDN so you only have to pay for each tile request once per cache period. It's quite ch
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    Protomaps generates daily world files I believe [1] but I haven't confirmed that they're used by the download tool yet. In theory you can download the data everyday to pick up updates. [1] https://maps.protomaps.com&#x2
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    You often have to declare more than $10K of cash when traveling so cash makes it hard to flee your crimes.
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    I don't know if it's "street legal" to drive without windows but I want to see a car that covers the windows in solar panels and projects the road on a monitor inside using external cameras. Would also help with heat bui
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    Are you doing repetitive work? Can you take a step back and ask how you could automate or make mundane tasks take less time? I often get exhausted when I know it takes 20 minutes of busy work (manual testing, spinning up environment, openin
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    Thanks for the shoutout. Shademap is actually really popular with the Japanese and a subset of them use it to plan photography of...trains [1]. It's a fascinating subculture I didn't even know existed. [1] https://rail-
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    What is the Rust used for here? Do you manually write x,y pixels to these devices? Can you use another program to rasterize a two tone bitmap image with the appropriate dimensions and then pass it to the display controller without needing t
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    Carbon sequestration doesn't require deep understanding of chemistry or physics. It can be understood by politicians, CEOs, economists and the general public. If we could effectively communicate the science we could support/fund m
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    by tppiotrowski 3y ago

    No need for a testing matrix (Does version X of app work with version Y of MacOS)? Not needing to bundle dependencies that you know are provided by your OS environment? Easy to investigate and fix bugs (You don't need a VM of every Mac