wyatt_dolores

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by wyatt_dolores 11mo ago
Good to know! I had never read that America's Test Kitchen actually recommended them. I heard pennies minted after 1982 had too thin a coating of copper and when scratched would release zinc. I guess you need much higher temperatures t
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by wyatt_dolores 11mo ago
Oh my goodness please no one take this seriously. Heating pennies will result in harmful zinc off-gassing. You do not want to breathe this in. Use dry beans for blind-baking. They are almost infinitely reusable with no harmful effects.
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by wyatt_dolores 1y ago
Most people in the US live beyond their means through credit card debt.
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by wyatt_dolores 2y ago
Is it really competition? Do American workers get paid in cash from employers who don't ask for their Social Security number? Skilled jobs require documentation. Unskilled jobs require documentation. Working undocumented means being pa
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by wyatt_dolores 2y ago
He has literally said "Vote for me, and you'll never have to vote again."
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by wyatt_dolores 2y ago
Many do take credit cards. In The Netherlands and Belgium, the pay toilets in train stations allow tap to pay with a NFC card or your phone. Toilets in the airports are always free, though.
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by wyatt_dolores 3y ago
Tesla has implemented a virtual power plant in California using people's Tesla PowerWall batteries: https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/virtual-power-plant/pge
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by wyatt_dolores 3y ago
Yeah this. Several countries in Europe have seen negative electricity prices during the day this past spring and summer because of abundant solar and wind production: Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Portugal to name just a few. If you had a
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by wyatt_dolores 3y ago
First thought: Otis the dog was improperly put into the some kind of vacuum hold on a flight to Acapulco and burst wide open.
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by wyatt_dolores 4y ago
Stocks do have a natural lower bound which is the actual value of the company.
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by wyatt_dolores 4y ago
Yeah the process is to run a full backup weekly, and keep four weeks of backups. This mimics the old rsnapshot system, but sends the data directly to S3. In this particular case, the total amount of data is only less than 50GB, so the cost
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by wyatt_dolores 4y ago
I had to setup a quick backup to s3 storage to replace an aging rsnapshot setup. I looked at Borg, but Duplicity ( https://duplicity.us/ ) was easier to configure and connect to S3. For syncing S3 storage across providers, I
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by wyatt_dolores 4y ago
It's not FUD, man. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59214544 Native American Brittney Poolaw was sentenced to 4 years in prison by Oklahoma in Nov 2021 for a miscarriage in a hospital. The court said her m