troist

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by troist 1y ago
Amazon's policy on not taking returns for food items can be very frustrating, especially combined with leaving packages on the doorstep without informing you. I've had food items in broken glass jars left on my doorstep, and Amazo
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by troist 6y ago
As far as I can tell there have been similar rulings in other countries and it hasn't caused issues. Germany and Spain have fleets who take the responsibility (Cabify in Spain if you want to look it up). I assume a similar model will p
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by troist 6y ago
I've used Java and C++ in a few low latency applications and I do prefer Java in certain scenarios. The whole ecosystem around Java makes rapid development easier meaning we could make safe changes quicker which is a big benefit in tra
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by troist 6y ago
Should we sink to their level though? I'm not sure tit for tat fighting is going to fix anything, it just drags us all down. I'm not saying I have a solution, but I feel there's got to be a better one than the direction we&#x
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by troist 8y ago
Have you got a source on that? Not questioning that it does sound like an EU thing, but it could come in handy at my current company if there's legislation on that and I can't seem to find any.
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by troist 9y ago
They would turn down the amount of encoding they do during peak streaming. They use their existing servers instead of paying for more servers to encode their Netflix Originals, but encoding isn't time sensitive so can just run on a &qu
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by troist 12y ago
I used to buy the paper copy of 2600 every quarter until Borders in the UK vanished and I couldn't find it anywhere. A Kindle version fixes all of my problems though. Does anyone know if the publisher gets any money off me for buying p
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by troist 14y ago
I've always found Clevo laptops to be durable, I've knocked my 15" off a desk by accident and the screen didn't even crack. I think they have an 11" and 14" in their range which might fit the criteria and you can customise the specs to what
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by troist 14y ago
The current amount of votes for a petition.