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by cge 4y ago
There have also been the intentional blackouts of a sort, if I recall correctly, but those were to mitigate fire risk, not because of capacity, and aren't particularly related to electricity generation .
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by cge 4y ago
They certainly do offer ISO-ish keyboards (with the exception of the unfortunate arrow key layout, which breaks 9995-5), as I'm typing on one right now. They don't offer them pre-installed for US orders, if you're looking th
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by cge 5y ago
That's not the problem. The problem here is that Fuji appears to be claiming that any use of the SDK voids the warranty entirely , regardless of the defect. t would be like if you swapped out your car's engine with a more pow
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by cge 5y ago
Are there even any limited-access divided highways in California where speeds under 40 mph are safe? I'm not sure what they would have mapped. As the default speed limit for such a highway would presumably be 65 mph (and traffic usuall
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by cge 5y ago
My understanding is that the preferences should not be an opt-out of a default setting per the GPDR, they should be preferences that requested and then saved. So surely the opt-in setting would take just as long as the opt-out setting,
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by cge 5y ago
> I could get Fi notifications and check voicemail online. I used to do that as well, and still have Google Fi, but aggravatingly, all its integrated features fell victim to Google's butchering of messaging services. You can no long
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by cge 5y ago
Hawking was perhaps unusual in being both a very accomplished physicist and a very accomplished physics communicator, explaining the concepts of modern physics to the public. Sagan, I think, was neither a particularly accomplished scientis
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by cge 5y ago
There is an enormously frustrating segment of the software development community who seemingly refuse to imagine that there might be others with different language and communication needs than their own, and their particular formulation of
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by cge 5y ago
I think a somewhat comparable scenario could be: it's reasonable to expect that Walmart should defend against most counterfeit currency on their own. But should they be expected to defend against counterfeit currency made with state-l
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by cge 5y ago
At this point the IRS is completely confusing as to understanding whether they've received things. I've seen a non-profit where the IRS was sending them a request for what the letter said was an unfiled annual return, while at th
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by cge 5y ago
There are a few conferences in my field that, for some reason, use Teams, and a number of UK universities seem to have been pushed into using it. It is bad enough that one warned everyone that, if their university used Teams, to please prov
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by cge 5y ago
>I'm sure that fifteen years from now, DuckDuckGo will be ad-infested crap In terms of direct ads, perhaps. But for SEO spam, in many cases, DDG already seems to be there. For example, things as simple as "python datetime&quo
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by cge 5y ago
Mail may also be simply going to the completely wrong address, for some reason, and there needs to be some way to ask that this be corrected without requiring credentials that the recipient might not have. If not an unsubscribe link, then
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by cge 5y ago
>This is why for any store over the size of a mom and pop operation in a neighborhood, you can't just tell the owner who you know by name to put it on your account, and instead for credit purchases you use a credit card company whic
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by cge 5y ago
As much as I'm not a fan of Rogan, that definition of censorship would exclude almost all US censorship in the 20th and 21st centuries, including the Hays Code, the MPAA rating system, and the Television Code. Censorship in the US has
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by cge 5y ago
I've been using FFP2 and N95s with the straps cut off, under a rather stiff cloth mask that is largely the same shape in the front as most respirators (so it doesn't crush the front), and is attached by a large velcro strap around
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by cge 5y ago
But that---a $50m donation from an individual, then sustaining the organization off investing that donation---is exactly what, whether it makes sense or not, a public charity in the US is usually not allowed to do. That would make it a p
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by cge 5y ago
My guess was that it is a way of keeping the organization from failing the public support test ( https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organizatio... ), which generally requires that at least 1/3 of the o
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by cge 5y ago
Note that this was an unusual arrangement, to say the least. My understanding, from memory of having briefly looked into this, is that Acton loaned $50m to the Foundation, rather than donating it, in what appears to be a 50-year, interes
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by cge 5y ago
You can unfortunately see this with DuckDuckGo: people are clearly targeting more than just Google. Python results, for example, are so infested by SEO-specialist spam that searching for standard library functions will return spam above the
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by cge 5y ago
Another, rather surprising example, is that while almost every proprietary EULA has clauses prohibiting it, reverse engineering, including decompilation, is legal regardless of EULA terms in the EU for several purposes, including interopera
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by cge 5y ago
>Every single time we have to go back and forth with the guy at the counter for 10 minutes, before he realizes that we won't buy the insurance, that our insurance is valid, and that we're going to get off with a super-cheap car
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by cge 5y ago
Note that Oxford Nanopore seems to have very much a "sell the ink/razor/etc" business model with their devices: that $1,000 package comes with one flow cell, which is a consumable and costs $900. They're essentiall
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by cge 5y ago
Attack surface reduction? On a device with unencrypted storage, the root password displayed in the about screens, no verified boot, no password by default (with password protection that amounts to a lock screen), and unprotected USB access
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by cge 5y ago
Much of the Remarkable 2's design shows this level of suspicious hardware design choices that cripple extra functionality, functionality that wasn't advertised, but would have been possible had work not been done to prevent it. B
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by cge 5y ago
Beyond this, there doesn't appear to be any explanation of how this works from a legal and tax perspective. There's no mention of a legal entity receiving the funds, but at the same time, they state these are donations, not fracti
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by cge 5y ago
Kgeist gives citations to the more general trend here, but in Modern Greek, terms for children of particular genders often also don't have matching grammatical genders. Thus, το παιδί and το τέκνο (child, nonspecific) are both neute
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by cge 5y ago
>Worth mentioning that they have given lifetime access to existing customers, but I had been planning on giving devices to staff at the end of the year, this announcement has significantly cooled my enthusiasm. Notice that they avoid say
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by cge 5y ago
The new service is currently offered for free to people who purchased a device from them before October 12, 2021, if they accept the new terms and conditions. I have to wonder how long that free subscription will last. There is nothin
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by cge 5y ago
While he had socially conservative political views, it doesn't seem that he spent an enormous amount of effort pushing them. From the coverage I've seen, I get the impression that he was a perpetual backbencher by choice, did not

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