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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Read the article and stop with the personal attacks please! Boeing's dangerous business practices are well documented.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Edit: Here is a piece New York Times did on exactly what I'm talking about: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline... Go to Georgetown and start talking to people, the quality
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Its already ruined his life and pushed him back to the bottle, I doubt I could entice him to do anything relating to Boeing. Edit: Here is a piece New York Times did on exactly what I'm talking about: https://www.nytimes.com
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
My friend made it slightly under a year at Boeing after working for another airline as a maintenance mechanic. The level of quality control at Boeing was so abysmal he quit to work on busses, paying all $20k in relocation back to Boeing. He
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Did they refuse a warranty repair? They do pitch those tablets at a loss leader price to try and own the low end tablet market. I think the Fire tablets have severely undermined people's opinions of what a non-Apple tablet is.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
This is why I find the Fediverse so compelling, PeerTube is already starting to get traction: https://joinpeertube.org/en/#register Neat instances to check out: https://pe.ertu.be/ https://q
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
New Zealand abolished patents for software, that is what I was thinking of: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/29...
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
What value does Symantec have beyond selling antivirus software to vulnerable and clueless people? Their consumer Norton antivirus software is known to MitM connections and break the security of browsers and OSes, while they sell BlueCoat T
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Microsoft did try to hijack LinuxFest Northwest a few years ago, taking over half the event space, sponsoring the event and providing the afterparties (which were tightly controlled, compared to prior/following years where any LFNW att
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
What stops someone from viewing that repo over Tor, on a different git server, or at a public library, unsecured WiFi network, etc and being considered tainted? At what point is someone considered untainted? This seems like a grey area that
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Brazil tried this tariff tactic, which resulted in some middling performance knockoffs. China also has some tariffs (hence the tariff bypass AMD recently did with the JV that rebranded 3 year old Zen for the Chinese market). In terms of bui
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
SUVs are becoming more popular despite the serious danger they pose to our environment, both in terms of climate change and significant danger to every other user of the road. Getting hit at 25mph is likely survivable if hit by a sedan (you
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
He cashed out $1 million in shares not knowing if these shares would become near worthless shortly after selling them. Considering it was a $175k fine, he eliminated serious risk to his personal finances. Many rational people would do what
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Everything short of the customer data can be opened up, and even then the customer data can often be partially scrubbed and then shared for the benefit of all your customers. One example was a Point of Sale system I worked on, we were able
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Choose a vendor that isn't actively fighting the OS they sell and support if you want your hardware to work as expected: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/ eGPUs in a lapto
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Yeah, the "happy path" here is applicable if you don't attempt to install janky/poorly maintained proprietary out of tree drivers. The reason these drivers are out of tree is usually due to either serious hardware flaws,
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Windows has less hardware support than Linux. Most single board computers can run mainline Linux, whereas just a handful support Windows IoT. AMD, ARM (CPUs & Mali GPUs), Intel, VIA, Qualcomm (Adreno) all have support in kernel 5, where
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
This is in large part due to BNSF, UP and other US railways spinning off or closing all the unprofitable short rail lines that used to go to local warehouses, industrial and commercial districts, resulting in many decrepit, barely usable r
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Most linux desktops work fine on ARM chips FYI. GPUs in the ARM world are usually just for OpenGL used by video games. Video decoding/encoding is handled by a VPU (not GPU), HDMI is handled by a separate HDMI PHY, and most of these com
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
If a company can't stomach AGPLv3, then they shouldn't be using software I write. I seek contributions back, while not leaving a gaping hole for SaaS vendors to extend & close my codebase.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
I think this is to avoid the plentiful 12v adapters that use those sizes, as you could fry the board with a bad PSU. The 5v adapters that do use those more standard sizes are generally 500mA or 1A, which is enough to (unreliably) boot and r
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Old and new Mali GPUs just got mainline kernel support: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19908741
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Sounds like Salesforce just wants to extract the maximum in BS licensing possible from each client...
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Best Bu, Target & Walmart all do lower prices online, and higher in-store prices. The former two have repeatedly refused to match their own website's prices for me.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The OrangePi 3 at $40 is also pretty neat, PCIe 1x, 8GB onboard eMMC, 4x USB 3.0, Bluetooth 5, Wireless AC (pretty sure they beat Raspberry Pi to the punch on this...) and it has mainline kernel support: http://www.orangepi.org&#
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
eBay is generally where I go for those kinds of things, as I get granular control over exactly what I'm buying.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
>we'd have automatic multiplexed Twitter/G+/FB streams a long time ago. Perhaps aggregation apps should have the client do the scraping, rather than being entirely dependent on server side scraping? Regardless, the state o
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
I'm not attacking Bunnie, everyone has their own view of the world. Bunnie has repeatedly stated that he views IP as an impediment to R&D, and anything that threatens the quasi-open sourcing of hardware (eg: how data sheets, BSPs a
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
We need a cultural shift, security should not be a whimsical dream. A company running vulnerable websites should be culpable for their neglect, and likely shouldn't be administering their own IT affairs if they are repeatedly negligent
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
See Cisco's handling of their low-end routers as a great example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507225 It is rotten corporate culture that is starving critical maintenance work at these companies, creating the

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