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901.
by avidiax 3y ago
A "grassroots" initiative comes from the people. "Astroturf" is commercial or political interests that masquerade as grassroots.
902.
by avidiax 3y ago
There are plenty of videos of people dying in regular elevators that lack the inner safety door. Typical is the someone wheels a large object like a trash bin or stacked boxes and then the edge catches on a landing and crushes an occupant a
903.
by avidiax 3y ago
I really want these to be a thing again. So many buildings have a pair of elevators that simply can't handle the various rushes during the day. Leave one traditional elevator for the edge cases, and replace the other with 2 or 4 patern
904.
by avidiax 3y ago
My theory is more subtle. I think that the long, opaque, fairly bureaucratic hiring experience is a type of "shit test" (to co-opt the term used in another less-respected community). These companies need insecure overachievers. Pe
905.
by avidiax 3y ago
> It’s been decided you want a perfect track record, as close to flawless - to appease regulation bodies. This is why I feel China will be the first to have unlimited self-driving. They would be able to treat self-driving cars the way th
906.
by avidiax 3y ago
> Maybe I could have some faith if regulatory bureaucrats were fired when there are major regulatory failures e.g. 737 max. If I were Boeing, I would hire the fired bureaucrat with a lavish comp package and make sure he's at every m
907.
by avidiax 3y ago
> That's a very shallow reading of that particular situation. Yes, with a bit more depth to the reading, you'd know that the robber had already collected the money and was leaving when he was shot in the back. And what happens
908.
by avidiax 3y ago
When I read about it, I couldn't understand it either. They didn't explain precisely, but IIRC, it was a pistol with a tactical light, which explains why there might be more space that usual. I couldn't find the particular in
909.
by avidiax 3y ago
Yes, the "he had it coming" "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" argument. America has this weird contradiction of being a place where anyone can get rich, be great, etc. But on the other hand, a criminal is irredeemab
910.
by avidiax 3y ago
Yes, this is a huge problem with U.S. gun culture. The "make my day" crowd is hoping that they will get to end someone's life legally. Case in point: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan&#x2F
911.
by avidiax 3y ago
There were some cases of officers shooting through the floor of their cruiser because the seatbelt tang somehow could get inside one brand of holster and pull the trigger. It does seem like the right balance hasn't been found yet.
912.
by avidiax 3y ago
> "Registered to a different person" -- for the most part, guns are not registered in the USA. Was this in a state or city with a registry for AR-15s? Handguns are registered to a tiny degree. The NICS checks records may be kep
913.
by avidiax 3y ago
But who uses RTF? I can't recall ever receiving an RTF file. Scanning my drives, I've only found a single Readme RTF file in some old Windows utilities.
914.
by avidiax 3y ago
This will always be situational. I live in Switzerland, pay about CHF6 per commute day for the train, roughly 4 days per week. That's CHF96/mo. A parking spot for a car is >CHF200/mo, on just one end. So even if I bought a
915.
by avidiax 3y ago
This seems like a missing UX feature. Give the NATO (or regional) phonetic alphabet for the code, have a synthetic voice saying those characters, and maybe have an audio modem.
916.
by avidiax 3y ago
> Yet we consumers love to envision the maximum usage for a particular item – like a house or a car – then buy the item with a capacity high enough to accommodate our visions. It's one step worse for houses. Even a single person sho
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Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists(theregister.com)
5 points by avidiax 3y ago|2 comments
918.
by avidiax 3y ago
> "In many case [sic], such restrictions are essential to ensuring the safe and proper use of the device, which is essential for the device manufacture [sic] to maintain its reputation and goodwill." "If we can't sue
919.
by avidiax 3y ago
If you have baseboards or carpet, this job becomes much easier. You can get thin or flat cables that you can just push between the carpet and baseboard. If you have hard floors, you can get a trim crowbar and pull the baseboards off. As lon
920.
by avidiax 3y ago
It's an interesting optimization problem for the attacker. The most common passwords are problematic. They will frequently work, but they will work for the other guy, too. So then the question is "how do you pull up the ladder?&qu
921.
by avidiax 3y ago
It would be better to have a box that converts 2 NEMA 5-15 120v plugs to one 6-15 240V plug. I've seen such a box for sale, I think for the RV market. You plug into both phases of the 120/240V split phase and get a dryer plug at a
922.
by avidiax 3y ago
You can always build from source in this scenario. The cache server lets you skip two things. First, you can prune the leaves of the tree of intermediate files you might need. Second, where you do need to compile/build/link/p
923.
by avidiax 3y ago
I think it's orthogonal. "Monorepo" is a culture around having a single branch with a single lineage, and not developing anything in any isolation greater than a single developer's workstation. I agree that Git is not ve
924.
by avidiax 3y ago
It is still only "ours" per hunk. But yes, it could obliterate changes. On the other hand, the default merge strategy is a huge waste of developer time. There is rarely a genuine conflict. It's usually just that we want to ke
925.
by avidiax 3y ago
> Something being autogenerated, or binary, doesn't mean it shouldn't be in version control. I think the SHA should be in version control. The file should be reproducibly built [1], then cached on a central server. This means t
926.
by avidiax 3y ago
How does a "monorepo" differ from, say, using a master project containing many git submodules[1], perhaps recursively? You would probably need a bit of tooling. But the gain is that git commands in the submodules are speedy, and t
927.
by avidiax 3y ago
> Can we tune the adaptive algorithms to work better? > We have also experimented with using an adaptive algorithm to change the size of FIFO queues in S3-FIFO. The results show that using an adaptive algorithm can improve the tail pe
928.
by avidiax 3y ago
> It’s a terrible shame because I think there really is value in a computer that fills the space between a phone and a “real” computer. Apple has the technical capability to make a Macbook that is separable. The screen comes off and make
929.
by avidiax 3y ago
It's also a mathematical tautology. There's only a few ways to evenly space the cloudy days. There's exponentially more ways to clump them.
930.
by avidiax 3y ago
For Android users, the Google Assistant can produce white noise, shore sounds, etc. You should probably use an app though. Noise doesn't compress well, which means that you can get strange artifacts when it is compressed from the serve

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