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by acoard 5y ago
> Everyone works for the company, from the most entry level all the way up to the CEO and is thus "staff", and there is thus no indication in that sense of the word as to what its level is. Absolutely. It has no bearing on sen
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by acoard 5y ago
Staff means you work for the company. If you go to a movie theatre and want to find the bathroom, you'd ask the staff (i.e. employees). There's no particular context to staff that doesn't also come with "employees.&quot
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by acoard 5y ago
I love Signal and use it as my only messenger, but there's no guarantee the server side code is as secure as they say. For a private citizen like myself it certainly looks secure enough (eg in their warrant responses), but I wouldn&#x
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by acoard 5y ago
As per the article: > Americans workers at TSMC’s Arizona fab may chafe at becoming the humble students of their mentors in Taiwan, who nearly 50 years ago transferred semiconductor technology from RCA of the U.S. It was more geostrategi
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by acoard 5y ago
The top comment on HN for any given topic is usually contrarian. It's in our cultural DNA. Perhaps the effect is intensified for some topics like tech giants — I haven't noticed — but keep an eye out and you'll see it happe
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by acoard 5y ago
Dread Pirate Roberts did have a kill switch. The FBI agents distracted him by having two pretend to be a couple fighting. He turned his head to watch. Then the other FBI agent beside him swiped his laptop. Theoretically he could have hi
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by acoard 5y ago
I'm a bit confused behind the substance of your argument. I use RHEL at work a lot which is admittedly pretty corporately, but use Debian at home just fine. But as for windows-y? How so? And regarding backwards compatibility, isn&#
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by acoard 5y ago
You're basically correct. RDP can model and transfer data semantically - i.e. it's not just pixels, but higher order objects like toolbars, buttons, and the like. VNC and most others just do raw image/video transfer, with w
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by acoard 5y ago
Friendly heads-up, your SSL cert shows as untrusted to me.
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by acoard 5y ago
It’s not fiction you’re spoiling, but a factual conversation about events that you’re not going into due to spoilers. It is an odd defence that kills the conversation when other people bring up good points. The parallel construction argumen
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by acoard 5y ago
Appreciation means it would increase (i.e. appreciate). Price appreciation = it will cost more. Essentially saying if you give people a bunch of money for X, the going rate of X will increase as that's how supply and demand work.
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by acoard 5y ago
What hyperbole! It's entirely possible for some process to be bad, and it still have (some) good consequences. The Black Plague was terrible; but it lead to increased social mobility in the aftermath. Likewise, Apple's "one
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by acoard 5y ago
For what it's worth, I still mentally pronounce it as "dang" (i.e. part of dang-it). I know it's not his name, but it's so perfect, I thought it had to be intentional, like a little joke.
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by acoard 5y ago
Worse, at least in the government circles I work in, people pronounce "SME" as "smee." Almost like you're saying the first syllable of Smeagol. Good luck googling that.
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by acoard 5y ago
That's a fair question and it depends on what you're trying to get out of the framing. It's similar to the "mean vs median" thing in averages. The absolute average divorce rate is 50%, but the typical marriage su
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by acoard 5y ago
> ~50% of married couple divorce That figure is outdated and I'd challenge what it represents. Here's more up to date info: >The most recent data we have from the 2019 American Community Survey puts the rate at 14.9 divorce
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by acoard 5y ago
So to be clear, your argument is that I have the right to full control of my devices, and that right entails that I _don't_ have the right to buy a locked down iOS device? I understand that I don't have the right to take an unsafe
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by acoard 5y ago
You are right they are largely allegations. I just checked, and it's not like we have smoking gun emails in disocvery as far as I can tell, though happy to be mistaken. >249. The speed benefits Google marketed were also at least pa
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by acoard 5y ago
I'm new to this so asking earnestly, but: >That hydrogen is grey hydrogen from fossil fuels usually, but the actual Haber process does not use any hydrocarbons. Using hydrogen to make ammonia is therefore not a new process. It liter
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by acoard 5y ago
I have worked in a windowless room from the beginning of COVID. I would prefer this to having a roommate. Currently I could commute into the office and work in our big window'd office with others, but regardless of COVID (and even as
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by acoard 5y ago
>but let them actually build it first. By being so critical before it even exist you are only sending the message "we will hate it irrespective of what it actually is because we hold a grudge". Facebook has already put out posi
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by acoard 5y ago
My understanding is this is what Amazon Sidewalk is, at least in part, about. Your TV could easily bypass your network, and connect through your neighbours Echo. If I understand, it's opt-out and enabled by default. So, essentially
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by acoard 5y ago
You're not wrong, but in practice I'd imagine >99% of bugs are in the rendering / webkit layer, not in the OS integration layer. Sure, if you're making a plugin that plays with bookmarks or 'Read Later', y
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by acoard 5y ago
I sync data from my concept 2 bike that also uses the PM5 to apple health. The ErgData app just does it. I must have granted it permissions during setup. Now I just use ErgData during a ride and when I finish the workout it appears in Apple
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by acoard 5y ago
Your code calls a library. A framework calls your code. This often makes frameworks incompatible, whereas libraries can be used in conjunction.
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by acoard 5y ago
Where do you play puzzles?
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by acoard 5y ago
Correct, but this is the same legal exposure of uploading any copyrighted material (eg songs, movies).
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by acoard 5y ago
Wanted to support your point on emotions with a quote from my favourite philosopher, David Hume: "We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave
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by acoard 5y ago
At most, it would be copyright infringement if Twitch (or Amazon) claimed copyright ownership of the code, which I assume they do. There's no such "trade secrets" laws or anything like that you're violating. Perhaps the
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by acoard 5y ago
I've heard that the general industry estimates for something like this are 5 (up to 10) years. However, both Intel and TSMC's USA are saying 2024. Potentially related is that 2024 is a presidential election year. It's like

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