Libcat99

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by Libcat99 3y ago
I was randomly billed for tolls up to 6 weeks after I had a rental car for a multi state trip, so yeah, that's probably what they would do.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
I went back and checked the prices. None have changed since my prior update except a Lego friends set which is now on clearance, so they should be evaluating even better against inflation.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
They cost less even before inflation. Here's a write up I did a few months back. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37657077 As far as I can tell, Lego just keeps getting more affordable.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
I gave up on it for the same reason. Kept getting flagged for commercial use when all I used it for was ham radio stuff and helping my parents. Sounds like a shakedown to me.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
I have half a dozen of these and have never needed anything else. Bonus: way easier to get everything inside at home.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
Even if it never touches the battery, I'd imagine there's a noticeable efficiency loss running from inverter at all times, which means higher power and cooling costs.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
If humans can reason, then physics allows it, and software can too, eventually.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
Software engineers destroy plenty through data breaches, lost time due to (often deliberately) terrible design, etc. If organizations and software engineers were held to account for data breaches, we'd have a whole new landscape. Lives
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by Libcat99 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for. They'll grant this, at $4 an episode.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
Sounds like apple should be liable for any damages from malware or malicious software that does make it on their platform.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
If you need a book to tell you this is wrong, that may be part of the problem.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
> Citation needed https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/24/24049848/no-car-company-h...
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by Libcat99 3y ago
A shame for who? Boeing had the option of not destroying their reputation and chose to do so in exchange for a few good quarters.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
I use the self check out unless my order is huge and I need more space to pack it. The scan->wait->scan drives me nuts though.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
A lot of the longest living people (and maybe more telling, communities with the longest living members) are not very gym focused at all. If you walk everywhere every day, do most of your daily chores by hand, and don't sit in an offic
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by Libcat99 3y ago
It's a very different product then. The fixed ip product more or less lets a user use it for anything they could with their own static ip. The single ip product only allows the end user to use protocols for which you have built forward
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by Libcat99 3y ago
I'm not sure it can? My interpretation of what's been suggested is basically an ip you can port forward, as if you had a public ip. For example, let's say you want to run a minecraft server for your friends from your home. Yo
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by Libcat99 3y ago
This is a non issue if putting on the seat belt fixes it.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
Or ride with the damn bell ringing the whole time. I have a co worker who I won't ride with anymore simply because of that.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
Parental controls on devices suck, and are wildly ineffective. I'm not in any way saying the solution is requiring uploading id or similar verification, but thinking parents can actually effectively control what their kids access is ju
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by Libcat99 3y ago
Last year my father in law passed away. While dealing with the estate I had to write perhaps 20 paper checks and received a similar number from various sales. Many of the vendors we dealt with only accepted paper checks or cash. I did, howe
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by Libcat99 3y ago
I think you are misunderstanding my comment. I'll add some context that may help. The discussion centers around automated tools to detect infringing content. These tools are not 100% accurate and may cause false positives. I am of the
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by Libcat99 3y ago
Automated review doesn't need to be 100% accurate. You don't actually need to automatically stop 12 year Olds from using your music in the background of their minecraft video to turn a profit. Manually review cases where it's
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by Libcat99 3y ago
And yet, many of the products we buy are exactly that. Gaming consoles dependant on online stores, smart TVs with software that could become useless at any moment, hundreds of little iot devices that are dependent on the manufacturers cloud
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by Libcat99 3y ago
Is it actually more complex to provide good results, or is it just more profitable not to? I have a hard time believing an organization like Google doesn't have the resources to provide a search engine that's just as usable as wha
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by Libcat99 3y ago
They chose to buy a product with a set of known characteristics The manufacturer then changed those characteristics. If a manufacturer makes changes post purchase to a product resulting in harm, they should bear the majority of the liabilit
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by Libcat99 3y ago
We have fail2ban send a request to a central server, then edge ban ips that have hit a couple hosts. Works well for us.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
It's just a subscription model for physical goods.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
There also often software to strip the drm out of direct purchase games. The existence of drm removal tools does not make a product drm free, in the same way ms office isn't open source if you steal the source code.
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by Libcat99 3y ago
They require steam to be running, don't they? What happens if steam goes away?

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