PMan74

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by PMan74 8y ago
I was thinking the same as I typed the comment but my assumption is that there has to be some kind of mobile data because of #1 live traffic updates & #2 map updates. On #1 comment below says this is done by radio RDS On #2 however ther
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by PMan74 8y ago
And car companies presumably have global agreements e.g. I can drive my car across Europe and have all the navigation related stuff continue to work. But easier for Amazon or big car company to broker such an agreement. I think the question
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by PMan74 8y ago
> most people use Google or Cloudflare DNS now Do they? I'd say most people would be troubled to find their DNS settings let alone have the confidence to change them. I'm open to correction on that, is there any data on Google
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by PMan74 8y ago
The automated systems are designed to detect and prevent abuse. Do they detect and prevent abuse? Who knows but that's what they were designed to do. It's great (if weasel wordy) copy.
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by PMan74 8y ago
Ask Babu Bhatt
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by PMan74 8y ago
You can buy egg poaching pouches, they work but it seems terribly wasteful though, given most of the other methods seem to work well enough https://www.amazon.co.uk/Poachies-Non-Stick-Poaching-Bags-Wh...
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by PMan74 8y ago
> But recipes, for all their precision and completeness, are poor teachers. They tell you what to do, but they rarely tell you why to do it. This drives me crazy about recipes e.g. adding vinegar to poaching water is recommended in lots
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by PMan74 9y ago
ALDI Junior Nappies Size 5 (40) €2.99 - €7.5c each Pampers Premium Size 5 (35) - €8.99 - €25.5 each Bigger packs are cheaper per nappy. If you can wait for offers you usually can get the Pampers much cheaper e.g. right now 2 x 72 pack for €
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by PMan74 9y ago
This is also confusing. > Made my money back and then some Made what money back? My guess is that this is some sort of a shady company where 1. Employees pay something for e.g. training ("check of every employee") 2. Employees
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by PMan74 9y ago
I think video in general is not well suited: skim, skim, skim, read that one section 3 times, skim, skip back to that section at the start to re-read, skim, .... is a lot easier to do on text than video. At least for me anyway.
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by PMan74 9y ago
> you'll be made to take one for the team as it seems to have happened in this and countless other cases. Is there any evidence that this employee took one for the team? Who is to say that it wasn't simply a lone sales employee
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by PMan74 9y ago
I'm pretty sure their speed test (fast.com) is designed to hit the Netflix content servers making it difficult (impossible?) to throttle either independently.
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by PMan74 9y ago
Nice photos but it good that the word travel is in quotes because looking at curated pictures online is not travelling. Not even close.
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by PMan74 9y ago
> What future does an asset have if people don't actually buy stuff with it? Not sure what you're getting at here? There are loads of assets that people don't buy stuff with e.g. gold, stocks, bonds, property, etc. Aside f
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by PMan74 9y ago
> It's probably true Is it though ....? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
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by PMan74 9y ago
I think he was running out of steam at this point, "ah whatever, a networked oven, that's good"
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by PMan74 9y ago
> As a non-american, what can I do to help you? Well the EU seem to have a decent (if slow moving) record on consumer protection (PSD, PSD2, roaming, data protection, etc.) so maybe lobby your MEP > I'm from the UK No, wait ...
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by PMan74 9y ago
> Battery life has been much better I'm guessing this is a gut feeling as opposed to any empirical data? Either way I'm curious as to why this would be the case. Unless I misunderstand the kernel is identical between LineageOS
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by PMan74 9y ago
There are companies doing just this for feeding https://mymomsense.com http://milksense.com (and one other one that had IoT nipple shield that measured flow)
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by PMan74 9y ago
My wife tracked the breast feeding data. Very useful to know how long (so you know roughly home much the baby is getting) and which side (so you can alternate). Without an app this is difficult enough to keep track of e.g. remembering the f
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by PMan74 9y ago
Keeping the details of your security setup secret or obscure is not security through obscurity. Security trough obscurity is using the secrecy of your security setup as a pillar of that security. It's perfectly sane to keep the detai
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by PMan74 9y ago
Why does that even work? I get technically what is going on - WSJ see the link as having been referred from Facebook. But why does the WSJ display the content for free to somebody that seems to be coming from Facebook yet look for a subscr
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by PMan74 9y ago
All I could think of when he said that was this: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by PMan74 9y ago
The whole idea of having the pretty lady in the tight top to demo the product itself is what threw me. Such a throwback.
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by PMan74 9y ago
> In general, handshakes between men and women could only be initiated by the lady. Still the custom in the certain Muslim counties, you'll never get it wrong if you wait for the woman to offer.
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by PMan74 9y ago
Indeed, Tesco in the UK where doing 8% on home delivery about 3 years ago. Can't find more recent numbers but you have to think it's 10-15% now. Anecdotally at least it's not uncommon to see the delivery vans around.
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by PMan74 9y ago
This is why I don't especially worry about fake influences, bogus ad clicks, etc. Any advertiser worth their salt should be able to see the results (or lack of results) very quickly. Sure there'll be dumb brands throwing money awa
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by PMan74 9y ago
> Is anyone making money on Ethereum in ways that are unrelated to just currency appreciation/speculation? Yeah, the hackers seems to be doing alright out of it.
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by PMan74 9y ago
I'm sure it has happened but at least with banks they have the option of following the chain of the money to wherever/whomever it ends. And with ever more stringent ID requirements to open an account that person should be identifi
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by PMan74 9y ago
> IBM's recent demise Somebody should let them know! Certainly on a downward trend of late but ~80BN in revenues last year is far from dead

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