greenpresident

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Comment · 6 months ago
My experience has been quite the opposite. Some bank processes remain oral traditions about clicking excel filters by hand because any code would have to be extensively documented and tested.
Comment · 8 months ago
They will be bought in bulk by businesses. The same for some of the laptops what you might find in a strange place within the lineup.
Comment · 9 months ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/mercedes_benz/comments/1oq9xum/acti...

This is an example of what I am talking about.

Comment · 9 months ago
It’s built in. There is a dedicated button for it. Hard to justify imho.
Comment · 9 months ago
Pressing the lane assistant button on a Mercedes steering wheel and getting a “you’ll need to activate your subscription first” message really drove up my blood pressure.
Comment · 11 months ago
List prices are not real when it comes to the kitchen. They exist to be „limited time“-offered.
Comment · 1 year ago
Baldurs Gate 3 runs great on m4 pro at 1080p (I’m on a Mac mini though).
Comment · 1 year ago
Ifixit score of 7 plus best parts availability of any phone makes for a great combination in my mind.
Comment · 1 year ago
That would ideal, yet we still got things like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

Woman at a cotton swab factory was identified after being considered a serial killer.

Comment · 1 year ago
That’s the engineering solution.

You could also hire two interns to do it layer by layer, call it the consultant‘s solution.

Comment · 2 years ago
There is a generation of tech users that downloaded TB of media for local storage. It’s just not something a lot of people do anymore but it created a psychological need, even if it’s not a technical necessity.
Comment · 2 years ago
This has been my impression in social science academia: a lot of ready to run methods are released as R packages.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not OP but for everyone I know the desktop is mostly either empty or a messy “temp” folder.
Comment · 2 years ago
Also important: When asked to peer-review, tell editors that you won’t be doing free work for for-profit publications that land behind a paywall.
Comment · 2 years ago
A leaky microwave would do the trick.

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