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by wycy 7y ago
Part of the crazy markup in the mattress industry might be in the non-returnability of them. Manufacturers need to price in the fact that some % of them will be returned (read: given away for free) because no one wants a used mattress that
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by wycy 7y ago
Wow, I didn't know there was actually more to dislike about "new" reddit.
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by wycy 7y ago
I have. Nowadays it's generally slow enough that it's hard to imagine dying in an accident there. But this was so long ago that I imagine things were different with the Beltway back then, and of course cars were much more deadly a
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by wycy 7y ago
Two parts of interest that jumped out to me: > The overlapping accounts expose frictions between the two partners over money, control and ethical limits, with the West Germans frequently aghast at the enthusiasm with which U.S. spies oft
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by wycy 7y ago
Coincidentally, years ago I had an idea for an app like this and I was going to call it "Bonfire". Aside from an inquiry with the owners of the bonfire.com domain name as to their interest in selling, I never went anywhere with th
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by wycy 7y ago
If Buttigieg holds onto the win once 100% of the votes are counted, it'd be clear evidence not only that there was no conspiracy but also that Buttigieg was absolutely robbed. If the winning number of SDEs does flip to Sanders by the t
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by wycy 7y ago
I'd say a combination of this idea plus a mandatory hand count of a random sample of, say, 2% of the ballots from each machine to make sure the results are similar.
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by wycy 7y ago
Somewhat clickbaity headline. The change is being made to fix a 1.8 metre inaccuracy that has crept into our GPS coordinates, caused by Australia slowly drifting north.
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by wycy 7y ago
I decided to give Apple Maps a shot for my drive home today. At first I thought it discovered a clever new shortcut for my drive, but I quickly realized it was going to have me drive on a bike path. And I live in a major US city. Sigh.
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by wycy 7y ago
Yeah the early return example is wrong. Demonstration code: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio... Try removing the `return` and the semicolon.
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by wycy 7y ago
> * There's no "Send after X duration" or "Send at X time", so you can't write something at 3am and schedule it to be sent during work hours. I have this feature. Next to my Send button is a dropdown to Sche
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by wycy 7y ago
Related question: is Github (specifically) considered a must, or is it just considered a need to have code online? I primarily use Gitlab--is that seen as a kind of demerit?
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Not always. Being in one of these low end jobs tends to beget staying in that low end job longer, making it more difficult to have the time to invest in getting a better job. Numerous studies have shown that giving people a bigger safety ne
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by wycy 7y ago
A valiant effort could be made to make the argument for a social score to achieve a "greater good," but ending the statement by saying you appreciate China's implementation of it kind of ruins the argument. They're not e
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by wycy 7y ago
Doesn’t that describe the rise of JavaScript? I haven’t done or seen any specific benchmarks, but I gathered that JS was among the slowest of languages.
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by wycy 7y ago
This is strange to me. I've always only had crappy apartment dishwashers, and they always get the job done. Beyond about a 1 second rinse, I do no pre-cleaning either. Is it really common for dishwashers to be ineffective?
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by wycy 7y ago
The article examines this through the lens of Windows Vista. Am I the only person who actually did like Vista and didn't have any problems with it? I gathered that most of the issues people had with it was caused by third party incompa
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by wycy 7y ago
> He also has some solutions for Advent of Code. I had looked at his 2018 Advent repo and was disappointed to find that he simply pasted his input directly into the code, whereas I like to compile generic binaries that can read inputs fr
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by wycy 7y ago
Do you have a public repo of your Advent code? I started out trying to use Zig but couldn’t find documentation on how to complete even basic tasks (like passing a filename as a command line arg, then opening and reading a file line by line)
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by wycy 7y ago
Regulatory capture is a market force.
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by wycy 7y ago
Agreed. Additionally, open&unsolved cases shouldn't be a metric that's considered a ding against prosecutors/police. Open & unsolved is far better than closed with an innocent person behind bars.
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by wycy 7y ago
It strikes me that the problem isn't the gamification so much as the fact that it's a case-closing system. The primary motivation of the prosecution isn't to solve cases, it's to close cases as quickly as possible by
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by wycy 7y ago
Who do you suggest solve legal problems if not the government?
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by wycy 7y ago
Day 15 was terrible for me too. The edge condition I missed was that you could both move and attack in a single turn. It only changed the outcome for me in part 2. I was only able to finally debug it by comparing debug outputs every step wi
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by wycy 7y ago
You can search for things, and you can follow accounts that post things you're interested in. For example, I follow several accounts that show clips of renovating homes, or using power tools in interesting ways, or interesting construc
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by wycy 7y ago
What is the best alternative router firmware these days? The last time I looked into this, I believe it was between DD-WRT and Tomato.
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by wycy 7y ago
This happens with Firefox on my work machine too. I use Firefox at home but Chrome at work for this reason. I just assumed something was glitching out due to some corporate group policy failure. But yeah, similar behavior: the Firefox windo
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by wycy 7y ago
Part of the reason for that is that Medicare is forbidden by law to negotiate prices the way other insurance companies can as a result of the GOP's Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
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Lost in points like this, where you’re trying to scare people by saying a large number, is that the distinction between a Medicare for All type of system and the current private system is less about how much it costs and much more about who
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by wycy 7y ago
The "Coding Challenges" list could use Advent of Code[0]. [0] https://adventofcode.com/

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