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dmtroyer··on UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years
haven't food price changes historically been under inflation for a long time?
dmtroyer··on UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years
right out of the oil industry playbook.
dmtroyer··on Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat
Kind of looks like overlapping t-shirts.
dmtroyer··on Miller test
How often is this used? The amount of subjectivity necessary to interpret the "test" makes my head spin.
dmtroyer··on Using a Mac without a network connection
some day I may be able to downvote posts.
dmtroyer··on “Clean” code, horrible performance
Glad I don’t work with this person.
dmtroyer··on Apple’s Mac security is so good, it’s sending used M1 MacBooks to the scrap heap
“millions”, huh? I see hyperbole like this and I just skip the article and move on.
dmtroyer··on Warming up your car before driving in cold weather can damage the engine (2016)
Lots of experts in the comments on this one.
dmtroyer··on Help choose the syntax for CSS Nesting
genuinely curious, how does option 5 prevent specificity bombs?
dmtroyer··on How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
can't wait to re-read this headline in the morning so I can spit out my coffee.
dmtroyer··on Reddit's photo albums broke due to Integer overflow of Signed Int32
unique identifiers are so passé.
dmtroyer··on Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)
I had the same understanding and it was very distracting reading this article.
dmtroyer··on Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)
I think balloon framing preceded drywall by quite a long time.
dmtroyer··on SPACs collapse as $11B of deals are called off within an hour
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/spac.asp
dmtroyer··on Woodworking through the mind of an engineer
He must love video editing. Surely he could afford to hire a few video editors with this many subscribers if he wanted to focus more on woodworking.
dmtroyer··on A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux
save yourself a bunch of hassle learning another set of obscure commands and use the iTerm tmux integration. https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html
dmtroyer··on Apple Announces iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus
I'm surprised it sells so poorly. It seems like I see them everywhere, but obviously this is a good example of the failure of my own biases.
dmtroyer··on AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
I generally just put my XM3s straight into pairing mode and then select them from the device I want to use them on. Otherwise they are bound to pair to the wrong device, usually my sleeping mbp.
dmtroyer··on Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)
as someone who is maintaining mountains of legacy bash, for all that is holy, yes. or Go. or Rust. anything.
dmtroyer··on Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)
doesn’t mean you should, for the sake of the next person.
dmtroyer··on Toyota RAV4 Prime hybrid SUV now selling for 48% over MSRP
comparing an outback to a rav4 hybrid or plug-in hybrid is not a very direct comparison. although I agree the subaru awd is superior, I am paying a lot more to keep my high mileage forester on the road than i would a Toyota.
dmtroyer··on Toyota RAV4 Prime hybrid SUV now selling for 48% over MSRP
sounds like you might be able to upgrade to a Model Y for not much.
dmtroyer··on Toyota RAV4 Prime hybrid SUV now selling for 48% over MSRP
at least you have some idea what you’re dealing with without having to haggle with a salesperson.
dmtroyer··on Toyota RAV4 Prime hybrid SUV now selling for 48% over MSRP
you should probably at least consider selling it according to these numbers.
dmtroyer··on The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence
"Mark Horowitz is co-founder of a company aiming to help people safely stop unnecessary antidepressants in Canada"

hmmm....

dmtroyer··on How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
sounds like we just need a new acronym, or can we just call it REST2 and move on?
dmtroyer··on How I clean my glasses
suddenly very self-conscious about my very dirty glasses...
dmtroyer··on Nikon to stop making SLR cameras and focus on mirrorless models?
For all the people who have left high end DSLR to go to high end mirror less, I’m genuinely curious how the viewfinders compare in quality. I’m behind the times with an A6000 but have always been kind of disappointed when looking through the viewfinder compared to similar gen mid level DSLRs.
dmtroyer··on Guest WiFi using a QR code
my recommendation would be to also just print out the password below the QR code and people can select the one they recognize.
dmtroyer··on Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present
come again?
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