JohnWhigham

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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
This. Elon is all "move fast and break things"; "things" in this case being Teslas and the people inside them. And why wouldn't he? The federal government barely pays attention to wanting to audit self-driving techn
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
And yet a couple years ago, they claimed Autopilot was full self-driving.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
No, they fail spectacularly at ad-hoc road work lane setups or setups where the "official" lanes are temporarily blacked out. I think that was the cause of the Tesla smashing into a freeway median a couple years ago.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
What makes you think the stock market is any different? If anything, a private company has greater leeway to share the wealth because they don't have nagging institutional shareholders. How many public companies have robust profit-shar
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
A recruiter got me my first job a decade ago when I was fresh out of college and my internship place didn't hire me and I was panicking to find something as I didn't have a backup plan. He helped me interview at multiple places un
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
I think it's safe to say that modern civilization will be positively fucked when a Tambora-level eruption (let alone a 536 AD-level one) occurs. Like, decades-long economic depressions. And no nation is equipped to handle that. It&#x
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
That's funny. So what does this change actually mean? Next time this won't happen?
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
I remember reading something that the acidity in sodas was way worse than plain club soda. Something about the sugar reacting with the CO2 acids.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
I mean, when it's mostly stupid people playing the lottery, all that money isn't going to make them magically smarter.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Everything you just described is a privilege, not a civic duty.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Bitter divorcees probably. Having a marriage like that is a luxury though. Let's be honest: marriage is not the same as it was 40-80 years ago, and that's because society is not the same it was. Long term commitment to your spou
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Because the federal government doesn't stop them, quite plainly. They fear it would stifle innovation and competition. It's the same reason why egregious white collar crimes rarely get punishments. I wish I was making this up.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Nadella transformed a company that was at risk of turning into the next IBM into the 2nd most valuable company in the world. Where have you been the past 9 years of his tenure?
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
One can be more discerning of where they spend their discretionary income than other necessities like gasoline.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Why is this an acceptable sentiment to have? This defeatist "who cares, the planet will be fine!" stance? Who gives a shit if it's happened numerous times in the past? Do you just want to sit by idly and let things get worse
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
TLDR: Because SAMs have gotten so good at their jobs, air forces don't even bother.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
There was also a lot of FUD about what data the feds were collecting about the general public during the Bush era. Then the Snowden leaks happened.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
It's very scary shit. We could soon have no privacy at all in our own homes because of other people's WiFi networks. If the output is strong enough, all you have to do is connect to/crack someone's WiFi and use it to get
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Consider funding work to make Gecko better suited to embedding. Well, with that said, Mozilla is the wrong shepherd for Firefox given that they laid off 25% of their workforce last year.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Yup. I've noticed recently that when I search for a public figure (whether it be a politican or businessperson or celebrity), their Wikipedia is now at the bottom of page 1, or not at all anymore. Never used to be the case 5 years ago.
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Netapp developer responds with racist epithets after receiving bug report(twitter.com)
27 points by JohnWhigham 5y ago|5 comments
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Electronics/anything that uses ICs should never have been as cheap as they are now. NAFTA has been a fucking disaster; we're addicted to cheap shit we don't need, and it's near-impossible to break. It affects every aspec
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
He's a VC, he needs to project that they invest in things that have value. They're part of the grift. I have 0 faith in anything coming out of a VC's office to be beneficial to society. An interesting business? Sure! But in
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
It'd be better if we didn't need them and journalists did their fucking jobs of checking their own facts instead of relying on others to do it for them.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
All because this new generation of journalists are utterly incapable of doing their jobs.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
I was heartened (and a little surprised) that Jack Dorsey recently mentioned that the draconian control of the Twitter API was the worst thing Twitter had done [1]. I wasn't, because he didn't do jack shit to change it. We hear
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
I could only wish the US had something like that. Very few Congresspeople could even succinctly describe email to you, let alone express the need for a system like this. And even if they could introduce a bill, Big Tech lobbyists would i
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
People can now no longer say those who wish for the games of decades past are wearing rose-tinted glasses when there's this dog shit that's actively being peddled as the future of games.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
You should be worried because every other phone manufacturer has a nasty habit of copying whatever Apple does.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Look how long it took Zuckerburg to merely appear before Congress, and nothing even fucking happened. It's going to be a long time before our decrepit boomer legislators do anything of note regarding them.

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