CommieBobDole

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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
What accuracy does a human have? What's the false-positive rate?
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
It's not, actually - the E39s are incredibly reliable compared to more recent models. I drove mine for 20 years. That said, it's the difference between "fairly unreliable" and "spectacularly unreliable".
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
Could the folks at E Ink not afford a stock photo of a mall to Photoshop their product into for their press release? That first image looks like a fever dream.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
Funny is subjective. I don't find it particularly funny or good, but I guess the editor who published it did, which implies someone else might too.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
My E39 (which is a beacon of reliability for the brand) had a radiator neck made of a kind of plastic that becomes brittle with prolonged exposure to heat. It's a good thing there's no heat associated with the radiator. "Repl
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
And on a lot of Reddit and Stack Overflow-type posts. Nobody much replies to a question to say "I don't know".
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
The writer is a comedian, so I'm going to assume 'satire' or at least 'tongue-in-cheek'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Gondelman
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
> be more realistic if you could hit any number of spaces The docs say that's how it works, but clearly that's not how it was implemented. "Move straight or diagonally up to the dice value"
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
Something is terribly wrong, then; my following feed shows posts (and certain replies) from people I follow in reverse chronological order, and nothing else, ever. Are you maybe seeing things that have been reposted by people you follow? Th
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
While I also have a distaste for AI stock photos, their crappiness just highlights the fact that a stock photo already meant "This article does not need a picture to communicate anything, but I know that articles with a picture perform
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
That's just basic PR-speak; it's apparently important to release a statement saying "we are and have always been very serious about not doing (thing that we do and got caught doing)" after you've been caught doing a
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
Why do we do this all the time? Somebody makes a slightly hyperbolic statement, and everybody replies to them with the most outlandish and extreme examples of things that would be problems if they literally meant the exact thing they said.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
What a timely observation of this phenomenon that definitely didn't happen twenty years ago. Now that they've discovered anime, I wonder if they're going to start investing in other current crazes like Y2K compliance or maybe
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
With a powerful enough microwave beam, you could lift and propel the thing through surface ablation and wouldn't need the propellers at all.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
The best thing about articles describing "technology that would be incredible except for the one obvious and insurmountable-with-current-technology problem that makes it absolutely useless and is the reason that nobody else did this&qu
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
I think generally the benefit of cloud is either where your demands are very elastic, or if you are essentially a fractional user - a single server or GPU would be overkill. Once you have heavy and/or unconventional compute needs, it&#
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The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
7 points by CommieBobDole 2y ago|2 comments
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
The Walmart one is particularly egregious because most of the marketplace is just "item that Walmart sells except 5x the price" designed to ensnare old people who click on the wrong thing.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
This makes me happy I have copper plumbing with nice, healthy 1970s lead solder.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
I don't know; it was after I left. I don't think they have the same CEO anymore, but they're still at the new location. Maybe they hired local.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
A company I once worked for hired a new CEO who lived literally on the other side of the country. He didn't want to move, so they moved the whole company with a couple hundred employees to a new office near his house.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
On your second point, Aperture Science was originally founded to manufacture shower curtains for the military and we all know how that worked out.
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
'Invest your money' is a great way to go bankrupt, if you choose bad investments.
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Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it(jalopnik.com)
62 points by CommieBobDole 2y ago|100 comments
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
The counterpoint to this is these are people who have dedicated their lives to becoming astronauts. They want to go to space and they want to do things in space, and they have sacrificed a lot of the comforts of a normal life to reach that
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
I'm using these (Samsung 970 QVO) as the data drive in a couple of workstations right now. Not the fastest SSD for a number of reasons, but still a lot faster than a mechanical drive. https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
Evergreen: https://i.redd.it/bp22t4c46zk01.jpg
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
Why is the first paragraph in the article an affiliate link to some medical scam site? Edit: Also, the user name 'drericlevi' seems to be used on pretty much all other social media outlets by a very online ENT doctor from Melbourn
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
My understanding is that it changed in 2012 - the church released a statement then saying that the prohibition only applied to coffee and tea. Before that, it was ambiguous but customarily interpreted to apply to all caffeinated drinks. As
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
This is a mayonnaise-spicy take as far as I'm concerned, in the sense that I agree with it entirely. Once you've read someone's resume you should have a pretty good idea whether or not you want to hire them. The interview sho

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