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cosmie
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About cosmie
Always open for interesting chats, opportunities, and consulting work: hn@gsdanalytics.com
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Comment #48201509
I make a lot of stuff using similar techniques to this guy[1]. Adding a mesh mid-print adds a good bit of structural integrity for thing pieces, and comes in handy for accessories …
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Comment #48055985
“Gender projects” change cultural norms, and don’t have ongoing variable costs. They just need to be funded long enough for the effects to be percolated throughout the community an…
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Comment #46306623
Yea, when I worked at Dominos we were charging like $2.50 for a 20 oz coke and $3.50 for a 2 liter. Since the same 2 liter was like $1 at the grocery store, I thought we were gougi…
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Comment #43740085
That hasn’t stopped Tesla before. They have a track record of treating automotive-grade quality standards as optional when doing electronics sourcing[1]. As the article notes, Tesl…
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Comment #43626292
Even if it feels oddly out of place there and more appropriate for Notes, kudos to whomever on the Reminders app team advocated for and shoehorned in that featureset.
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Comment #43626275
You can control the notifications – just go into the Managed Shared List section, and there's an area to control notifications when adding (on by default) and when completing (off …
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Comment #43626198
That used to be the same mix my household used. I’d suggest giving the Reminders app a try as a drop in replacement for Notes. There’s a really handy list template in the Reminders…
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Comment #43291723
Could be that they relied on AI to generate the gnarly regex ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Comment #43153095
Take a look at Tapo or Kasa devices (both TP-Link products). I recently got a few to try out, and expressly chose them because they do motion and sound detection on device and also…
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Comment #42412298
For me personally, a lot of times it's for table augmentation purposes. Appending additional columns to a dataset, such as a cleaned/standardized version of another field, extracti…
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Comment #42411243
From your experience, what would be the best way to handle spreadsheets?
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Comment #41258937
Yes. The flap created for LASIK (and LASIK-like surgeries, such as SMILE or LASEK) heals, but doesn't have the structural integrity that occurs when the epithelium has to fully reg…
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Comment #41108455
> Websites will just add a CNAME entry that points to whatever service they were using before. Then it's a second party (subdomain) cookie. A lot of tracking prevention mechanisms …
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Comment #40746510
That's what lawyers and accountants are for. A transaction between a sufficiently complex web of inter-related legal entities is indistinguishable from arms-length transactions. Yo…
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Comment #40055131
What modem did they replace it with?
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Comment #38137816
They're specifically formatted ASCII text files[1][2]. A single file can have multiple batches. A single batch can have multiple transactions. For example, a company may upload an …
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Comment #38137475
And that spreadsheet likely has an obligatory off by one row reference tucked away starting halfway down the employee lookup table in a hidden sheet, nonchalantly adding it's own w…
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Comment #35668023
That's the default option. Commingling is an opt-in process to use the manufacture barcode instead of a unique label on each box, and makes it easier for Amazon to potentially fulf…
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Comment #35667989
It's called stickerless, commingled inventory[1], and it's where they commingle inventory from multiple sources based on the manufacturer barcode instead of a unique seller-item-sp…
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Comment #31904323
All else being equal, it could very well be logistically cheaper. But to publishers, increasing the volume of printed copies of a given title is absolutely not equal to a library p…
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Comment #31904091
> except learning it hurts the library more than expected is a downer. Which is likely an incentive for libraries to not expose those costs on a per-request basis. As thebitstick m…
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Comment #30793526
> There hasn't been much of an effort to convert these to USB-C, so they all need dongles. Not that they really improve the situation itself, but you can also get USB-A to USB-C ad…
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Comment #30793059
I bought 10 of these[1] about 4 years ago for the kids, and several more times since. The USB-A side is reversible, and the other side combines lightning and micro-usb into a singl…
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Comment #30758380
> This whole thing doesn’t really add up. If the originally purported intent had carried through to the specifications, it adds up in a sense. If !important overrides indicated an …
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Comment #30751770
As another poster mentioned, YouTube Premium in India costs roughly $2 USD/month. And Premium Family (shareable with 5 accounts) is about $2.50 USD/month. So subscribing via an Ind…