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91.
by avh02 3y ago
your key word there being years edit: made it snarky without considering the reply's full meaning, I'd like to retract the snark, but I leave this in so the author's reply makes sense.
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by avh02 3y ago
> Most importantly, if you don't pay for the service it does nothing at all. Until someone gets in to onstar's systems and activates this for every device at once.
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by avh02 3y ago
If you really want, there are devices you can install to do this yourself and self-host the infra for (minus the mobile data), not sure how well they work with fancy modern cars, but they exist. example: https://vandogtraveller.c
94.
by avh02 3y ago
We're fostering a dog and it recently ran away while with one of the prospective adopters, was missing for a week. We retrieved her 7 km from where we were searching. After that I looked in to GPS trackers for pets and it's all ei
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by avh02 3y ago
definitely not recent - i wish someone would map out the amount of padding in webapps in a chart, as well as the frequency of the phrases "simplify", "helps you focus", and "distraction-free" in announcements &
96.
by avh02 3y ago
this is very often so the service can choose if you have a regular password or need to be redirected to an external SSO service (though i guess it's not the only case) (not that i like it.)
97.
by avh02 3y ago
If you're sneaking in USB's, why put an LLM on them and not just articles/data/wikis? (Curious if I'm missing something here)
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by avh02 3y ago
i remember something similar in Dubai, while riding in a taxi hearing the driver listening to the commentary on a cricket game: very fast/excitedly: <something in Hindi><something in Hindi>"OUT OF THIS FIELD!!"&lt
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by avh02 4y ago
stayed in an airbnb once where the TV would take ~15 seconds to be ready to control, of that time, about 5 seconds was already playing content but you couldn't control the volume. I don't remember the brand, but it wasn't som
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by avh02 4y ago
Where I am, the heating costs include a shared portion for this reason... you can turn your heating completely off and still pay 1/3 or 2/3 of a regular bill (don't remember) as the building's "shared" heating
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by avh02 4y ago
as someone who has a crappy passport, I laugh at "fees are going to add up" given we regularly pay $50+ (sometimes several hundred dollars) "application fees" for 1-3 week visit visas (sometimes you get lucky with 6 mont
102.
by avh02 4y ago
"Alexa, delete notifications" should be more effective.
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by avh02 4y ago
I disagree, most apps are designed for the lowest common denominator, though they do a poor job of that. Power users want settings and customizability to make their flows better, but those are not "beautiful" or are "distract
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Lebanon news agency's photo archive stolen(bbc.com)
6 points by avh02 4y ago|0 comments
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by avh02 4y ago
"I moved (edit: willingly) to the UK because of brexit" is not a statement that's often heard either.
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by avh02 4y ago
This has been what stops me from going full webauthn, instead right now I use 3 yubikeys with pass (password store) and encrypt with 3 separate gpg keys (one private key stored on each yubikey), I haven't touched one of the yubikeys in
107.
by avh02 4y ago
I remember trying to book a rail ticket in india the night before my flight there, only to find out (through lots of googling) that their system goes down every night for 'maintenance' (I guess to run nightly scripts and stuff w
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Data stolen from Australia health insurance available online(bbc.com)
2 points by avh02 4y ago|0 comments
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by avh02 4y ago
Ah yes, airports which operate on the backs of modern day slave labour, I can guess why they don't have a problem.
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by avh02 4y ago
not the OP, but i think the OP meant the school told OP to put airtags on the child rather than the school themselves doing it, the sentence leans towards your interpretation though.
111.
by avh02 4y ago
not sure exactly what disruptions they did on the storage area, but this happened recently: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-arrests-as-climate-protests-di...
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by avh02 4y ago
Unfortunately I can't find altitude graphs or anything for national airlines 102, so can't really back up my argument with facts, but I'm gonna take a guess and say it wasn't flying like a rocket vertically upwards for 1
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by avh02 4y ago
you will notice a rapid lack of upwards ('vertical') movement in that video.
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by avh02 4y ago
Of everything you said > A tail-heavy half of a 747 could absolutely go vertical for a bit with the entire nose missing. Is doing some very heavy assuming.
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by avh02 4y ago
I kept contacting support every time my account got blocked for not providing a number stating that i refused to provide a phone number. I think after the second or third time they decided i was human and haven't had a block since.
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by avh02 4y ago
I'm not sure that, at least historically, that would be looked upon amicably by their neighbouring countries or populations. That has changed over time though which has allowed this to happen.
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by avh02 4y ago
I guess I was unclear - i was referring to the "just disappearing and not even knowing it" part more than the experience of something lapsing whilst you are unaware.
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by avh02 4y ago
I had my first full anesthesia experience as an adult - emergency but minor surgery, so not an extremely scary ordeal. I was very distinctly trying to pay attention to the process of going under, as in: do i feel it fade? etc. I remember do
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by avh02 4y ago
yes, but saying "there are no layoffs coming" and then laying people off cheapens the meaning and trust of "there are no layoffs coming" - then "there are no layoffs coming" doesn't mean anything and peopl
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by avh02 4y ago
I tried giving atlassian some feedback recently when they asked for it (via email). Unfortunately the very end of their survey had some fancy widget to upload a recording (which was absolutely unnecessary). The widget didn't load, and

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