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Astro DB 2 years ago

Gotcha, so you guys use readonly edge servers and just eat the latency on writes

Astro DB 2 years ago

What do they do to mitigate the roundtrip latency introduced by using a hosted database on a separate network? Is the idea that you wouldn't use this if you have pages that do many queries to render?

To affix your spool, or to access the string at all you need to go through the airtight robot and you need to know the exact distance that you need to run the wire since you can't access it unless the robot is fully extended. Kinda only makes sense if you have exact measurements and are willing to destroy the robot after it fully extends. Still probably a great way to run wire through long pipes.

The video said that you'd be able to pull cables along, but I'm struggling to see how you'd do that given that the actual walls of the "robot" are static once deployed. Is the idea that you somehow turn the cables inside out too?

Pixel 8 Pro 3 years ago

I've been wanting to get off of my s21 ultra because it's extremely bulky and has gotten slow over the years. The killer feature keeping me on it is the 100x zoom for identifying birds and I haven't seen another phone rival it yet. To be clear the 100x zoom is awful quality and not really useful for anything beyond getting basic shapes and colors but for identifying far birds it's awesome.

Deno Queues 3 years ago

If Deno doesn't get adequate funding, the company developing Deno will not exist 5 years from now.

[dead] 3 years ago

Skimming this post was hard when I had to read past "woke, Soros funded district attorney". How do you people take yourselves seriously?

There were three points I saw:

1. Fraud isn't a crime, no one was harmed so we should be allowed to commit fraud freely

2. Some of the inflated properties actually grew over a decade to be worth nearly half of the amount declared and so it's not actually as bad as it seems (Read: It's still bad)

3. Biden is being investigated and people don't have the ability to follow two news stories at once

These three points really seem to be reaching desperately for any way to what-about away this case. I personally haven't interacted with a single person who thinks that Biden or his son should be let off the hook because of who they are if any evidence is found but every single Trump supporter remaining (You really have to be a specific kind of person to support Trump at this point) seems to think that Trump is above the law.

How about we agree to all hold our politicians and community members to the letter of the law equally?

At least once she's been lectured about starting a family by pharmacists when trying to pick up her prescription which caused us to switch to a different pharmacy.

It's possible it's all imagined, but I don't really understand why a pharmacist would only give one month when the prescription is for multiple months, or why the prescription can't be for longer as to require less doctors visits / bills. We certainly haven't had the same experience picking up other prescriptions.

Yes there is a lot of gatekeeping happening across the board. From my wife's experience living just outside of Portland Oregon:

- Prescription has been cancelled twice for no real reason.

- Pharmacists have refused to give more than one month at a time more than once.

- Even if everyone is on board and not hostile she's only able to get a few months at a time so she has to do this multiple times a year.

I can't imagine how it'd be if we lived in a more conservative state or in a more rural area.

I don't know, it makes sense to me the way the IRS does it. If I get a massive windfall and the IRS didn't send me information about it, then I would be able to just not file it because I would know they don't know about it. Not so if I don't know what they know.

Ideally the IRS would tell you what they think is accurate and you'd submit amendments for anything that's not accurate. That's no different than the current arrangement since you already need to report all income, it just eliminates the extra cost and effort for the majority of Americans that don't receive windfalls.

It's not hard if you have simple incomes and deduction, it's just a bloated process that you have to pay to complete (if you make enough money) and you are at risk of penalty if you accidentally fat finger manually copying printed text into a computer since the IRS already knows all the values and will know if you submitted something wrong.

What would be better is if the IRS just sent you the stuff they know and you affirm that it's true. This prevents people from accidentally committing tax fraud and eliminates the need for middle income Americans to pay a yearly fee in order to be law abiding.