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If you are right, T-Mobile's effort to get Apple onboard with making the necessary changes to separate iMessage payload from regular cell data on these special low-bandwidth space-cells could be a challenge.
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> At most, we can say that Netflix chooses to buy a lot of middlebrow drama shows, and middlebrow drama shows today share a similar aesthetic Exactly. The article did concede that there are other examples of the phenomenon, such as Hal
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> The Music app is barely functional for listening to your own music files... The fact that you can't click a band name to navigate to that band's list of albums when playing local media is perhaps the thing I hate most about
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Social media is a scapegoat, hiding a more important issue that doesn't receive enough attention: increasing polarization is the inevitable product of our two-party system. As someone who doesn't fit within either major party'
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From the article: > It is better to focus simply on the e. Yet even that is not precise enough. The environment is an all-encompassing term, including biodiversity, water scarcity and so on. By far the most significant danger is from em
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As I wrote elsewhere in this thread (though I was downvoted), I suspect the reason is that this benchmark is measuring the total execution time of a single run of an executable. This would include any time spent by the executable to bootstr
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I only skimmed the article, but I suspect they are including the time necessary to spin up the executable and any runtime environment prior to executing the relevant code. "Lightning fast" can mean a lot of things, and it might n
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About a 2013 vehicle. You need to be better than this to be convincing, especially with a green account.
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Bjørn Nyland's review of the 2022 Model 3 Performance [1] confirms your view that the Model 3 is absolutely not dated. He tests scores of EVs and still considers the Model 3 the best balance of comfort, features, technology, performanc
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> The screens melt in Arizona heat. That's a very old talking point about the original Model S screens from ~2012. Do you have any recent justification for this claim?
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He was the director of AI at the company, an important position. Notably, however, the AI director position is distinct from the director of the Autopilot team. That position is held by Ashok Elluswamy.
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It was exaggeration as a figure of speech to suggest that if self-driving is solved, it will make the EV business look incredibly small. What's shocking is how many people interpreted it literally--that the value is literally zero with
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This monitor would be perfect as left and right side displays. It needs a matching center display that is twice the width and the same height, yielding a three-monitor configuration with a nice large central display.
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While I partially agree with the premise, I perceive the situation a bit differently. By not adequately prioritizing performance at the early technology-selection phase of a development project, teams often find themselves forced to prematu
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I laughed when I saw the high score awarded to Los Angeles.
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Precisely. Which is why he wants to acquire it and move it in the direction he has in mind.
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Precisely. Because it's about Tesla, this gets reported and generates clicks. But anyone who pays attention to cars knows horror stories about service, from any manufacturer you name. Dealerships aren't just awful for the buying e
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> Is performance inversely proportional to dev experience? No. I feel there is great developer experience in many high performance languages: Java, C#, Rust, Go, etc. In fact, for my personal tastes, I find these languages more ergono
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Ford is telling dealers to stop selling the Mustang Mach-E over safety concerns
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> In some areas, US administrative capacity remains world-beating, most obviously the military, which enjoys bipartisan and popular support, and vast investments of resources. I think this claim requires support. Yes, military spendin
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Agreed. I'm not familiar with PDP or VAX Basic, but I did grow up on GFA Basic with its PROCEDURE and FUNCTION. Both could be called by just using their name without a GOSUB. PROCEDURE printfoo(bar%) PRINT "foo: &quo
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I'll quote myself: > How is it not easy to check a reputation database for domains when evaluating a mail server? The point I'm making in this thread is that they have the ability to maintain a database of domains that have
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I'm sorry, but I don't buy that argument. Google--a technology giant with algorithms and heuristics running most operations--is not up to the task of improving algorithms for email server reputation? No, they are definitely capab
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> The problem of identifying if a new IP is used for spam is not easy to solve. How is it not easy to check a reputation database for domains when evaluating a mail server? Using DKIM records, Google could cross-reference the reputat
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> The real story is nobody cares. Exactly. Why should the major players care about those too small to matter? > Sure you would have to catch people buying a "good" domain that expired Adding to my earlier point, Google
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> The hobbyist/small mail server is historically more likely to go unpatched and pwnage is more likely to go unnoticed, so it’s unfortunately a good defensive move to penalize them reputationally by default. But to reiterate my ea
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The annoying thing about the major email services (Gmail, Outlook, et al) using reputation as a key input in their spam prevention algorithms is that they don't handle reputation in a way sympathetic to small and hobbyist mail server o
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The clarification email Musk sent to all staff had this to say: > Tesla will be reducing salaried headcount by 10%, as we have become overstaffed in many areas. Note, this does not apply to anyone actually building cars, battery packs o
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> Not one of them had any QC issues. Same in my experience, though it's not as extensive as yours. It's surprising how often you see negative anecdotes about quality control amplified as representative of a larger trend. It o
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My unconventional take: The early death of Home Server before the concept could really take hold is the most disappointing loss here. I often think modern computing could be superior today had more consumers become comfortable with home ser
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