Wingman4l7

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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Aptera has been trying to get some form of vehicle out the door since 2006... I wouldn't hold my breath.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of this; IMO it's a loophole they've been heavily abusing. I would deem this "practicing telemedicine". We do have /some/ regulations on telemedicine (I think? I hope?) -- you could argue
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
How much is the fine for practicing medicine without a license? This is basically what they're doing by denying claims.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Solely because the French government hasn't decided to use force to disperse them.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
> The Chinese, for all their faults, don't seem to care what you do in your spare time. No, they'll just dutifully record all activities in a dossier, until something interesting presents itself to be leveraged against you, or
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
I'm specifically talking about the T2 chips in the laptops. The newest Macbooks can be activation-locked, just like the phones. This has already bitten legitimate owners who are trying to restore backup images, etc.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
I wouldn't give them too much credit. With the addition of the T2 "security" chip, your devices are bricks if they can't authenticate against your Apple ID. Combine that with them soldering together formerly modular co
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
> USB-C to follow most likely Only because Apple was forced to by an EU ruling. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they restrict sales of USB-C phones to EU-only, out of spite.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
We could end the scourge of Chinese junk overnight if we overhauled their status. It's unconscionable that it costs more to mail something domestically within the US than it does for a Chinese seller to mail a comparable item internat
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
This also happened with the TV show Northern Exposure , which had a notably great soundtrack. They couldn't get rights to a lot of the music, so it was replaced with more mediocre stuff on the hardcopy releases. Apparently, it's
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Paypal was still eBay's main payments processing provider until 2021-ish. Personal accounts are completely acceptable to use for receiving eBay order payments, and they definitely charge the transaction fees on sales. Lastly, sweepin
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
I ended up writing my own "sweeping" tool, as their support for this is (TLDR) limited: https://github.com/Wingman4l7/autosweepy Unfortunately I can't test it or keep it updated anymore because, despite
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
One of my favorites as well. For the uninitiated, the "basilisk" stories include: "BLIT", "What Happened at Cambridge IV", the above "comp.basilisk FAQ", and the Hugo-winning "Different Kinds of
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
It's possible it could have a ballistic full-aircraft recovery parachute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_Syst... I would hope these would be standard on vehicles that cannot "dead-sti
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
That's encouraging to hear, but then why lead with this commercial-use-ready fantasy video instead of showing a real flight test?
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
What a fantastically BS header video -- everyday people getting into what appears to be a real vehicle, using a customer tablet interface, seatbelts... and then no shots of it taking off or even spinning up. Might as well be a fiberglass mo
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
I've read elsewhere that claiming water damage is a common tactic by their employees to avoid honoring the warranty. IIRC there are moisture indicator stickers scattered around on the internal components, so I don't know how they
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
It's not -- FAT32 is the one with the 4GB limit. NTFS has much less native support on Macs than exFAT, though.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Richard Stallman's "The Right to Read" sci-fi short story has, unfortunately, aged very well: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Tell that to Australia -- they banned Huawei from their National Broadband Network and/or 5G hardware rollouts, IIRC.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Western countries don't trust China's computing hardware, for obvious reasons... why on Earth would they trust equipment that supports agricultural infrastructure?
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
The plastic halves of the earbud casings are ultrasonically sealed together; you have to break them apart to get at the guts (and IIRC the battery is also soldered in). Just look up the iFixit teardown; they're completely unrepairable.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
As I've said before, it's very highly likely they are not actually repairing the unit by replacing the battery -- IMO that's false advertising to make them look "green". The plastic halves of the earbud casings are
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
I call bull on this -- the plastic halves of the earbud casings are ultrasonically sealed together; you have to break them apart to get at the guts (and IIRC the battery is also soldered in). Just look up the iFixit teardown; they're
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
I've also read anecdotes of shoe computers for poker, IIRC. Worth mentioning the book, entitled "The Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas".
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How Russia Uses Low Tech in Its High-Tech Weapons(nytimes.com)
8 points by Wingman4l7 4y ago|5 comments
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
You can also purchase heavy zippered containers or Velcro-ed pouches made of fire-retardant fabric that are intended for use as safe charging containers for lithium polymer batteries.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Not to mention, why should big corporations get to have what would essentially be customer-subsidized tax write-offs?
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Considering that the Indian immigrant proprietor of the convenience store in the show is actually brown, I'm confident that the vast majority of people considered the yellow-colored Simpsons to be a white family.
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by Wingman4l7 5y ago
The used folks definitely still exist, you just have to be judicious with your search filters, unfortunately.

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