Phlarp

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by Phlarp 4y ago
Tesla stans showing up to defend their sunk costs in the sibling replies should be some kind of internet constant. Like rule 42.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Exactly like this! In my case, the center console + shifter assembly and driver side instrument panel all needed to be removed to access a sensor that is positioned behind the passenger side air bag.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>Someone runs the reliability analysis and says that the sensor isn't likely to fail during the car's expected lifetime Why exactly does the 'expected lifetime' of durable goods keep getting shorter? Forest, meet tree
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Car manufacturers are not without blame in this situation. Their products are designed to be difficult and expensive; bordering on impossible to service. I have a mid 2000s sedan from the Ford motor company, recently the air conditioning st
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Worse actually, there is no physical indicator LED on the latest (M1) laptops, it's an indicator icon in the menu bar. In the "better" category, Apple claims webcam access is controlled by the secure enclave processor, which
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by Phlarp 4y ago
There is a WaPo writer salivating over this take.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Yes, but think of the F150 as an entire vertical-- it accounts for ~40% of Ford's North American sales. To say they have "lots of different trim levels" is a little too basic. There are the standard XL and XLT versions, Laria
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Everything you say is well and good, but the businesses with the legacy codebase (PHP or Javascript) are still trying to pay someone to work on their systems, and quite frankly, their money is the same shade of green.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
And Elizabeth Holmes
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by Phlarp 4y ago
If the CEO picks the board, and packs it full of his other CEO friends, who all have him sit on their boards too, and everyone rubber stamps each others compensation packages; isn't this circular blame game awfully beneficial to all of
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by Phlarp 4y ago
If nothing else, he also got unlimited personal use of the company jet.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
https://www.semi.org/en/blogs/semi-news/fluorinated-chemical... Big tech has a big PFA problem
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Enforcing it is trivial for a sovereign nation that issues it's own currency and collects taxes in that currency. Just as we've seen; they can regulate the on/off ramps between local currency and crypto. If you've got a
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by Phlarp 4y ago
> One day, we may be able to be a standard for this tool to be used in OpSec where a number can't be added as 2FA if it's below a specific score Or more likely the data you've collected gets liquidated (or stolen) at some
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by Phlarp 4y ago
I gave it my "throw-away" number, after going through the text code validation it spit out a relatively high score, listed my carrier as Tmobile, "no associations" in all the categories and then sent a follow-up text &qu
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>Also, is Bloomberg having a conflict of interest to report on these issues since they get ads from Fortune 500 companies that resented the great resignation? It's so much deeper than that. This is a journalism organization by the t
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by Phlarp 4y ago
In any other situation, testimony or evidence from such an easily impeachable witness would get laughed out of court. Why do we allow it from cops? If a journalist or academic gets found to have knowingly fabricated even the smallest detail
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Did anyone die as a direct result of Ross giving an order / paying for a murder? Did the police investigating Ross misrepresent these murders to him while they were occurring? Did the police investigating Ross attempt to enrich themsel
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by Phlarp 4y ago
That's certainly how the courts have interpreted things. As always the distinction between "Legal" and "Justice" is left as an exercise to the reader. For my 2 cents it seems entirely reasonable that an armed gang b
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by Phlarp 4y ago
He also never actually had anyone killed, the feds created the personas attempting to 'extort' or 'steal' from DPR. The feds detailed their transgressions to DPR and introduced the idea of murder + offered to commit the
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by Phlarp 4y ago
I was thinking of a gimbal to point the laser, but now that you've introduced mini telescopes and the jerk plus reaction control systems on the rx side of this equation I'm out. For inter-sat comms directional / beam formed
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by Phlarp 4y ago
So instead a foreign company gets all that power?
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>Virginia did all the investment to attract tech companies to the area Aren't these tech companies all there to do government services contracting? Seems more like DC is providing industry / jobs to Virginia
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Wow I just looked up Sunset Valley, population 700 and a median household income almost double that of Austin. They get fire, EMT and education services from the larger Austin area, but provide their own municipal police. Obviously all this
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by Phlarp 4y ago
The laser part seems easy, the targeting part seems hard. I'm imaging some type of gimbal, is there a better way? Also seems likely that if they can find a way to make small sats with the ability to accurately point a laser at another
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>I'll believe it when I see it. This whole "yea inter-sat free space fiber links are totally going to happen" charade smacks of the same hype baiting as "full self driving by end of year" nonsense that Elon has b
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>You can't lie to people to get money out of them. Ok grandma, lets get you to bed.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
I guess I'm stocked up on cringe for the whole week now
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>Each consecutive job hop past 15 years got me better pay, better benefits and sometimes a better job (sometimes it was equaly shitty as the prevous one but for better money). This does not happen for unionized workers. As a counter-exam
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by Phlarp 4y ago
And still too busy smelling our own farts to unionize.

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