FireBeyond

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by FireBeyond 3y ago
Jim Whitehurst, who was Red Hat's CEO through the deal planning, resigned from IBM 2 years and 1 day after the acquisition was finalized.
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> I have a series of screenshots and recordings where United would change information on their official app from, say, insufficient crew, to crew rest, to blaming weather. Is very close to one of the many ways Best Buy got in trouble. Ba
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> I think it's more likely that they decided it would be cheaper to pay the claim than to continue denying it, which would incur costs on their end to provide documentation and defend its denial. Except... they already stated they H
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> It's not as if these things happen suddenly, either. There's months of effort by the lender to try to get you back on track. Repossession comes with risk, and it always comes with a fee. No one is eager to do this. Not quite
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
... because Meta's engineers know nothing about scale and are relying on Twitter's ex-engineers to help out?
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
Aimed more at adults, but the Architecture Studio was intended to be more free-form: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/studio-21050 There are no 'models' to build, and the "instructions" that
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> Update: fortunately there's still Mac OS. Go download the source for Darwin.. https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu Compile it. Install it on your MacBook. Tell us how well MacOS boots that kernel.
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
As numerous other commenters have noted, who the hell knows with Tesla? They announced and had an ad campaign that they were the best selling car in Australia, which surprised Toyota. And Australia's consumer watchdog, and it was disco
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> Indeed. But the thing is that Red Hat is veering on the abusive edge of exploiting the work of FOSS contributors Which FOSS contributors? The repackagers? Who are free to repackage Ubuntu, Debian, etc.?
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Name some of these projects?
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
The what now? RAV 4, Camry, CR-V all might argue about that, given that each of them outsold Tesla models. Source: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g39628015/best-selling-car...
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
Yup. Avoided the site for a few days. Saw the company's response. Then saw them forcibly re-opening communities. Deleted my account. Reddit believes that they make the communities, when in reality the communities make Reddit what it is
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> in darling paypal days Not even. Musk had a company which had plans for an online bank (can you imagine?) but it wasn't working out so well. So his company merged with one that was in the process of creating PayPal (trademarked, p
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
Michael Liebrich, who can't find a single negative thing to say about Tesla, is poo-poo'ing hydrogen? I'm shocked.
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> What tech is Toyota going to sell to other car companies to make money? What tech is Tesla going to sell to other car companies? Beyond allowing access to a charging network? Other manufacturers want as little to do with Tesla tech as
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> or reasonably exceed Toyota’s market share Hah, if only Toyota... At one point, Tesla was worth more than: Toyota, Volkwagen Group, Hyundai/Kia, General Motors, Ford, Nissan, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Renault, Suzuki, Daimler, BMW, Ma
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
At one point, Tesla was worth more than: Toyota, Volkwagen Group, Hyundai/Kia, General Motors, Ford, Nissan, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Renault, Suzuki, Daimler, BMW, Mazda and Mitsubishi combined . (Plus several Chinese manufacturers: SAI
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> The plaid has upgraded brakes, and they work just fine. What’s not safe about them? Well, hopefully they actually remember to install all of them at the factory... https://www.autoevolution.com/news/another-tesla-i
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
Not to mention Tesla's fantastic quality control... ... where >70% of brand new Teslas require at least one service center visit in the first 30 days to correct a factory defect...
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And then there's the whole matter of lap 2, and 3... Where the ICE is still cruising along, and the Tesla is in thermal shutdown...
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
I worked for a healthcare IT company that did a lot of work in Ubuntu. We discovered this - that there were two types of customers - the ones who did not care what OS we used underlying our software and ecosystem, and the ones who did. For
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
As someone born in the UK, grew up in Australia and now in the US, who knows of paying a seven thousand dollar copay after my “platinum” insurance for “elective” surgery to remove a kidney stone that was too big to pass, versus a nine day s
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
It’s very well documented that US healthcare and insurance costs are the highest per capita in the world.
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> not to mention tons of possibly illegal but still very real discrimination after that High schools in Georgia have had segregated proms as recently as 2019 (and possibly since then too), either formally, up to 2012, or informally (one
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> More and more people have dashcams now for this reason. Of course those can be used against you as well. Most dashcams can track speed too. When I was shopping for a dashcam, many of the reviews/comments said that the first thing
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
Stepdaughter was just in an accident at an intersection. Officer, when they did show up: "Did you have a green light?" "I believe so." "Okay." Walks over to the other driver, then walks back to her with a citat
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There absolutely are. I work as a paramedic and among other things we have a contract with the state run secure mental health facility which has people who are civilly committed, but also people who have been adjudged not fit to stand trial
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> And then, when they say "you must keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road", people tend to understand that they risk a ticket because "legal reasons", but that otherwise it’s perfectly safe to ignore
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> Macs ship with SIP enabled and it's easy to disable, I don't know what the (comparable) issue is there? I generally use a Mac too, connected to Linux systems, but from the last time I disabled Secure Boot on a PC, the process
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by FireBeyond 3y ago
> on MacOS they allow other browsers and respect the systemwide defaults on a new install of MacOS, when you have installed Chrome and explicitly set it as the default browser , MacOS will still ask you, albeit once, whether you really

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