JackCh

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by JackCh 8y ago
Not unless they decide to form a consortium to organize/cooperate with each other, perhaps motivated by a desire to reduce their liability. What would prevent the nominally independent security teams at LAX, ORD, LGA, etc from freel
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by JackCh 8y ago
That's only true if you limit your focus to phones. There are a lot of other consumer electronics that only let you download software from their appstore. Game consoles are a big one (as I understand it, purchasing physical media fro
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "…so it uses the VPN API, just like the apps that have been banned from the App Store/Play Store/Appstore." Yes precisely. And that's not a problem because F-Droid doesn't ban these sort of things.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "but in an aircraft auto pilot systems are actually more primitive than Tesla's offering." I contend that while that's true, it's not something your typical consumer is aware of. There is a common misconcept
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by JackCh 8y ago
Yes the UX design is very poor, but the core conversion functionality works well once you figure out how the awful GUI works. The `ebook-convert` commandline tool is just fantastic though. It has a very straight forward interface. e
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by JackCh 8y ago
If your friend, like you, had received a powerful narcotic painkiller instead of a diagnosis, might the painkillers have covered up her symptoms and caused her tumors to go unnoticed longer? I'm very skeptical of the medical industry
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by JackCh 8y ago
He almost certainly means 15 meters horizontally. Besides most hobby free divers not going to 15 meters very often, I'd wager 15+ meter deep pools are pretty uncommon even in Iceland.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Calibre is very good at converting epubs to mobi (and the other way around.) It ships with a commandline tool called `ebook-convert` too so you don't have to mess around in the GUI. https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gen
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "- There is no reason to think that the drowners wouldn't have passed a "do three laps in the pool and tread water for N minutes" type test" Just to be clear so you understand where I'm coming from, I&#x
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "The requirements for the Swimming Merit Badge aren't all that much better, though." As I recall the "lifesaving" merit badge at least requires 400 yards without stopping, which is a lot more reasonable. If i
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by JackCh 8y ago
Yes this is in the US. The school district owned one pool. A few years of your 12 years in the school district system, students would get a week or two of lessons during gym class (being bused to the pool from the other schools in the dis
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by JackCh 8y ago
I can't speak for him but in my case I know that advice is good because it's an accurate summary of what I was taught in a Red Cross certification course. I can't prove that to you so your epistemological objection still sta
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Not as a replacement for lifeguards, but to help them." You'd need very careful lifeguard training for such a system at the very least. If it worked 95% of the time, a lifeguard may become complacent with manually sc
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by JackCh 8y ago
With respect to that last example: a flip like that can be very disorienting, and even a skilled swimmer can be imperiled like that if they fail to disentangle their legs. She did manage to free her legs and right herself, but at that poin
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by JackCh 8y ago
Relatively few people who've not been on a competitive team have ever taken enough swimming lessons to be good for a few brisk laps of the pool. Where I come from every school child gets probably 20 hours or so of swim lessons in publ
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Seems insane to allow non-swimmers to use floating tubes that can flip over without also wearing personal flotation devices." Years ago I worked as a lifeguard at a public pool where the policy was no flotation devices unle
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by JackCh 8y ago
What you're describing seems like an inexcusable state of affairs, but as a practical matter `man -k <search term>` or `apropos <search term>` is useful for finding poorly named manpages. Of course in the specific case of &
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by JackCh 8y ago
Eh, it encourages me to get up and have a stretch periodically.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Presumably the point of #2 is that it's easier than the implied #3 ( "The computer always drives" ) which is their as-of-yet unrealized goal. Of course deploying #2 into the wild may prove to be ethically unjustifiable. Bei
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by JackCh 8y ago
I doubt the camera can give you a good idea of whether or not the 'driver' starts to daydream. They could be looking at the road and not paying attention. Worse, the 'driver' could be unaware they aren't paying at
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by JackCh 8y ago
Failed water lines can ruin your house. Failure of a compressed air vessel of sufficient size could turn your house into shrapnel flying fast enough to endanger your neighbors.
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by JackCh 8y ago
He said that he can "guarantee" Uber engineers gave it careful consideration (or at least more than people in this thread), but in truth he can do nothing of the sort. There are a plethora of examples where engineers and "
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by JackCh 8y ago
Again, very charitable. Your assumptions are baseless, seemingly motivated by little more than your trust that incredible incompetence and negligence is rare in the real world.
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by JackCh 8y ago
You're being very charitable in your assumption that Uber 'engineers' gave it much thought at all. (Were any Professional Engineers even involved in this? Or was it just a bunch of "software engineers"?)
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by JackCh 8y ago
The intent behind this tool seems good, but I don't think it's a good idea. To actually anonymize data requires semantic understanding of that data and an understanding of what sort of data, harmless by itself, is transmuted into
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by JackCh 8y ago
There is also rash , with Racket: https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash
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by JackCh 8y ago
> Things like being able to recognize someone in cardiac arrest, or who is at risk for a stroke. Can those things actually be done with a vanishingly low false-positive rate? If I'm walking down the sidewalk and a camera sees me su
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by JackCh 8y ago
Buy advertisements from whatever publication you think your target audience is most likely to read. That's how it used to work.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Mozilla might publish and promote their own^ Google Container if the possibility of ever receiving the majority of their funding from Google was never on the table for them. I really doubt they'd ever do it otherwise. Skepticism of G
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Sometimes. My impression is that sometimes they're mostly funded by Yahoo instead, and other times perhaps Bing. But one way or the other they're always getting most of their money from one of the major search engines. So even

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