Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I know this is a controversial idea, as it opens up the question of UX design certification and licensure (if you require UX for critical infrastructure...But I think Hawaii makes it clear that the status quo is unsafe and unsustainabl
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> that's not Android keyboard. That's Google keyboard. Solution: use a different keyboard. I've used the AOSP keyboard since I started using Android. How to I try the AOSP keyboard? I have a Google Pixel and it looks like
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
There was a very similar incident in 1971 ("code word hatefulness"). Back then, three tapes were kept next to a EBS transmitter, two real alerts and one for testing. One day, an operator accidentally loaded the real alert rath
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I think the most interesting lessons to learn from this have to do with long term software maintenance. Yes! And with re-engineering too! When you redevelop a system, you need to build up historical knowledge of its antecedents, and te
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
This isn't the first time a scary EBS message was mistakenly sent out (there was a famous incident in 1971), and it probably won't be the last time. I see no reason to doubt that it was a UX failure.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> How would you test whether the big red button with the locked cover still works though? Simple: you don't put the button behind the cover, you put the media with the scary message behind it. Then you can test the whole transm
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Do you want a mere "button pushing clerk" operating a system like this? IMHO, it should be operated by someone with some training and authority.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> There's no shortage of humans on this planet, and by the time we're retired, automation will have advanced considerably. To be honest, that's a very freeloader-like mindset: "I don't have to contribute to X bec
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> My biggest problem with the movie was using the hyperdrive as a weapon. Why couldn't that have been used on the first, second or third deathstar? Or even by the two other captial-ship escorts, which Holdo left to run out of gas a
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I said: >> It depends on your perspective. You didn't change yours. If too many people choose to not have kids, their community dies. So, if you change your perspective to the community then childlessness starts to sound like:
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Although some sections of the canal had access to a fiber optic internet connection, other areas had no access and passed through remote areas with spotty or absolutely no cellular network service. As a solution, Yang and his team deve
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> A critical part of life would suggest to me that you die without it. Food and water are critical. Kids are not. It depends on your perspective. For instance, if all your cells decided to totally stop reproducing one day, you'd di
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
You can still love your job and feel that someone else is a freeloader. I'd think the same would apply here.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Security-First Pledge So, I take it Intel will be sharing lots of info about the Intel ME, as well as supported ways of disabling it? Or am I getting my hopes up?
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I will sell you water from my sump, only $10 a bottle.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> A 2 year loan for $500 is 24 chances for me to forget to make a payment Are the payments for those "loans" included in the buyers cell phone bill? So no extra payment to remember.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Most people aren't going to get a loan to make a $300 to $500 purchase. To be pedantic, that's wrong. Most people make $300 to $500 purchases with a credit card, which is a type of loan.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I think they used to literally sell routers with pirated versions of Cisco IOS. https://www.networkworld.com/article/2223272/cisco-subnet/60... : > Folklore within the routing and switching community was th
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> China is capitalist Lots of its companies are state-run or otherwise state-owned. It definitely takes some "capitalist" practices to the next level compared to the rest, but it is its own weird thing.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Protectionist is a good way of describing it. The general strategy in China is to handicap foreign corporations sufficiently so that domestic competitors can establish a foothold in the market before the network effects of foreign comp
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
This is such a bizarre comment. Why would the NSA even try to get a Chinese company controlled by a former PLA officer to "play ball" and install implants? What reason is there to think the NSA can't intercept Huawei rout
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Is ATT really better? Yes. This is Communist China we're talking about here. They take eavesdropping to the next level. > Dude called out the US for generally lacking on the mobile front, and I don't think he's wr
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Yeah, he should come back with a 50:50 joint venture with a US manufacturer.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I've never understood why people buy phones from the carriers rather than from a retail store or online and insert the SIM (for GSM carriers). Cultural momentum. In the US, phones used to be heavily subsidized by carriers via con
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Wasn't it sort of the same way during the first AI boom? Expert systems providing some real value in limited and sexy prototypes working with a simplified blocks world that hinted at something power world-changing. Then... > the t
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
>> Because the options are either do that or exit the country unfortunately. > The subtext I guess is that in my view it's worthwhile for Apple Exiting the country might be the most worthwhile long term choice for a company.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
How do they define "Chinese users?" What about an American traveling or living in China?
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Counterpoint: I've been to gyms when the music system broke, and the silence instantly makes it feel lonelier and more uninviting. This was late in the evening when there were few other patrons, so it might be ok during busier times.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Yeah, it's how it works where I live too, but what I had in mind was cranking the taxes (and the homestead savings) even higher to drive out bad landlords and up enforcement against the ones that stay.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Could taxes be drastically increased on rental properties in this area to incentivize owner-occupied homesteads? It seems like neglect by absentee landlords is a big part if the problem, so the money could also be used to increase enforceme

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