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cure

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About cure

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    Comment #45005060

    > If solar was viable, it would not require forcing tax payers to fund these businesses. This is not true. Solar and wind are already cheaper than fossil fuel generation for new ca…

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    Comment #44787125

    There seem to be a few camera manufacturers listed under "Supporters" on the introduction page, namely Goodcam and RunCam.

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    Comment #43667896

    Pretty much every EV does regenerative baking, because it (greatly) extends range. Even hybrids have done this since the very earliest mass-market models (the 1997 Prius has it). E…

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    Comment #42334313

    Not for everyone: https://www.instagram.com/_dskdrv_/

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    Comment #41419948

    > And EA is basically always broken. This was the case a year ago, but they have really stepped up their game, at least in the Northeast. I now find the EA chargers to be (almost) …

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    Comment #38976287

    VIM is well designed and stable, so you can learn the interface and be confident that it will work for you next time you use it. It's an amazing tool. Today's voice assistants are …

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    Comment #38886882

    There is a school of thought that developers should have hardware that is a generation behind the cutting edge, to make sure that their output will perform really well in the real …

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    Comment #36753429

    I'm confused - are you missing a zero? The F150's towing capacity appears to be 5,000 to 14,000 pounds (random source: https://veteransfordtampa.com/ford-f-150-towing-capacity ). Y…

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    Comment #35379490

    > A “burn all the packaging down and start over” path? In Python land one of those seems to come along every couple of years. They start over and implement a solution for some subs…

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    Comment #35379385

    Compared to the dumpster fire aka Python packaging, Go versioning is easy and predictable indeed.

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    Comment #33855143

    On the plus side, the article provides an explanation for why this is happening, with some detail. On the minus side, the article seems to try to make some weird, more general poin…

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    Comment #32337694

    > ... found that the entire book was annotated with all of his answers, anecdotes, and various other helpful notes. Didn't that defeat the purpose of the critical thinking course?

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    Comment #32021532

    > People who made those exact arguments 10-20 years ago where wrong, since those plants would have prevented a lot of coal, oil and gas from being burned. Those people have both bl…

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    Comment #32017098

    > Every year coal is still here, instead of nuclear, is 100 years of death. If > building powerplants (of any type) were instant, and solar were one year away, > then we should STI…

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    Comment #31963296

    > although we have setup some aws billing alerts just in case. My experience with these has been decidedly mixed. As in, you define them and never, ever see an alert.

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    Comment #31740910

    > do you think lawyers work on Jira tickets? Probably not, but instead they get to bill their working hours in 6 minute increments. And they have to bill a high number of hours a d…

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    Comment #31731974

    > There are many large employers here like Apple, Google, Cisco, Microsoft, Github, Redhat, SAAS, Epic Games, etc. Yeah. And based on the idiotic bills coming out of the NC state g…

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    Comment #31658054

    > This kind of logic I would expect only from a bean-counter, and a bad one to be honest... Why would anyone pay $80k/month to solve a problem that could be solved with 0.5 FTE? I …

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    Comment #31608262

    > When I see that many open postings at once, alarm bells go off. It all depends on context though - for a company as massive as Tesla, 20+ open postings for SWE is nothing. It cer…

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    Comment #31584659

    Curii Corporation | DevOps Engineer | Somerville, MA or REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/devops-engineer-at-curii-... Join Curii ( https://www.curii.com ) as…

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    Comment #31496433

    Presumably because the cable would be (much) heavier and thicker. There is some movement towards having more pairs in newer cables, e.g. the Grace Hopper will have 16 pairs, cf. ht…

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    Comment #31437103

    Definitely not everyone. For example, Google jobs have a narrow, specific range, e.g. https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/117083209834865350/ =================== Additional Inf…

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    Comment #31396666

    You could probably donate or sell the older Raspberry Pis...

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    Comment #31372731

    I have news for you - the "PC LOAD LETTER" meme works all around the world. Printers and drivers a generally quite dumb about this, and default to Letter format (and this does not …