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https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/online-vs-in-store-s... Basically, 80% of sales are still brick-and-mortar. That doesn't seem very depressing?

> SPF record syntax follows one shape: The first six words do not scream "human written" to me.

I took one of the examples ("Leveraging sqlpipe's robust...") and just prefixed it with this: > Rewrite this using ASD-STE100 simplified technical English: And you get a good-enoug…

I believe a big issue was that significant amounts of parking were closed at each of the host stadiums for "security reasons", fan watch areas, etc. When they did some overhead sho…

`timestamptz` is probably poorly named. It doesn't actually store a timezone at all - all values are stored as UTC. The underlying storage is 8 bytes and otherwise identical for bo…

Very similar detailed site for the Chicago L. Here's the signals page, but a ton more to explore as well: https://www.chicago-l.org/operations/signals/signals.html

Just an FYI- your "Read more" link under "Seat Reservations" on both pages just leads back to the same page, rather than actually linking to anything offering more information.

GTFS is widely adopted, "standardized", but also quite a wild west when it comes to the actual details. I've been building http://mobility-bot.com/ as a spare time project for two …

Meanwhile, the sad state of intercity trains in the United States, outside of the Northeast Corridor. https://asm.transitdocs.com/ https://amtraker.com/map

Billion dollar company can't afford one human copywriter. The future is great! (edit: copyrighter -> copywriter)

> The test suites run in public CI. > Each card links to the CI pipeline. Thanks for being explicit, AI written marketing site. Wouldn't have been able to figure that out! Every cu…

> unveiling it to the confusion of officials and competitors in a 150 yard medley race in 1933 The article doesn't say, but did the medley relay/IM become a 4 stroke event around t…

This feels like what is really splitting the programming community right now- those that have typically enjoyed the journey, and those that just want to be at the destination as so…

> After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "…

I definitely misread it, thanks for the empathy comment!

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> For example, when the GPU is fully idle, nvidia-smi tells me that it’s only pulling 88W of power. I haven't used a non-laptop GPU in some time, but that is a crazy amount of "idl…

I believe they tried to inject some chemicals to slow the reaction, but the pump and/or valves failed and clogged.

My first MP3 player used it as well. I remember how much this memory card style felt like a 5¼ floppy disk, as opposed to most other formats at the time which were hard shell.

> As a side effect, Terms-of-service acceptance records were also reset, prompting users to re-accept on their next visit to the dashboard. Don't get me wrong- the rest of this mes…

I wanted to find this interesting, but it has AI/LLM signs of writing all over it. The dig in the middle - "you can skip the next part, but if you do skip, are you even a real read…

This reads like LLM generated post. "actually" is in three of the headers, among other signs. https://tropes.fyi/

This is an Internationalized domain name ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name ) - the actual domain shows up in browsers as マリウス.com but HN unfortunately d…