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rkalla
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About rkalla
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Comment #49060007
Externalizing feelings.
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Comment #40039360
350% more _than assumed_ (because people drive them like hybrids and don't charge them) They aren't inherently more polluting.
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Comment #38220426
THIS case is exactly why all these companies do this.
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Comment #33247135
... to add to your point, then take companies like Google who rely heavily on ML to improve the quality of the photos further and the distance between "RAW data off sensor" and "th…
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Comment #33076258
Nothing to do with the project, but I read through it, so... 1. It's built natively on Jetty - very tight integration, not just some libs running in a Jetty container. 2. Web is in…
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Comment #32810371
I used an approach similar to Peter's here to both an old streaming parsing library as well as a GUI (event handling) library -- effectively, re-use the same instance of the event …
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Comment #31663067
I would look at sys admin type jobs at law firms, small medical practices and other places that need a “tech guy” but don’t need to hire a full time developer.
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Comment #31327503
Your last sentence nailed it - they feed some of that money back into Uni so it's a win-win.
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Comment #30992333
This won't be successful - ETSY is a publicly traded company, unless corrective action can replace the loss revenue from ads/punishing duplication/aliexpress - it's not going anywh…
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Comment #30907539
lol same and would have never thought to comment on it because obviously user-error, then I saw this and thought twice.
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Comment #30749540
With the inflation we've seen in the last 24 months do you think the tuition will still come back to earth or just stay put for a decade or more?
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Comment #30237601
This was a _fascinating_ read and I thank you for writing that all up - I'm in your "3 year" dip and in the past made attempts at tackling the gut biome issue with cycling probioti…
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Comment #30089421
When I think of what a FinTech darling Wealthfront was when it came out, all I can see this is as a colossal flop. For what it's worth... About a year ago I opened a robo-advisor a…
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Comment #30052700
I understand how you end up here - after a decade or more of micro-optimizations down a pit of the newest/most advanced scam and take over techniques... but at some point you need …
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Comment #29979523
I would _guess_ that ousting a CEO AND acquiring the core company at the same time are expensive propositions - I'd also guess that MSFT fully plans to address the leadership issue…
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Comment #29594821
I've been a Google Fi customer for 6 or 7 years now and what constantly scares the hell out of me is the subreddit where about every 3-6 months you see someone saying: "Google Fi d…
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Comment #29418840
I love your last sentence here - so well stated.
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Comment #28919681
He also has a church and is a life coach on Only Fans... you know, real classy person. :smh-forever:
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Comment #28342299
They have specifically strengthened the motors in the sliding door to cut the average adult person in half if they take longer than 30 seconds to exit. (lol I like your example sce…
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Comment #28238802
Serious Question: Do they all use it for adult content? I've never used OF but see the porn/adult references all the time so I assumed that is all it was (obviously not it seems?)
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Comment #28170864
Same - Fedora 34, nvidia driver. Excellent performance though.
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Comment #28118290
This blew my damn mind 10 years ago when it was first written up in Wired - the way the article was written, the build up to the actual run... all of it was so inspirational and to…
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Comment #27999380
This is slick. 1 suggestion - make a Created (published) note optionally editable... so when the note is originally being edited there is a checkbox to allow it to be editable or n…
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Comment #27965174
This - before the update to Model S that included the rear screen, it was getting REALLY hard to figure out why you would want to pay 2x for an electric car unless you wanted the..…
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Comment #27824889
FWIW, this is what CouchDB has done from Day 1 and it _always_ seemed like one of the most magical and surprising things tool or platform providers would suddenly realize and then …