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by conductr 1y ago
We have early voting, nobody has to wait, they choose to wait
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by conductr 1y ago
So, if you have a minor emergency, like a kidney stone and hospitalized for the day - you just miss your chance to vote in that election? If so, I see a lot to dislike. As the point I was making is you can’t anticipate what might come up. J
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by conductr 1y ago
I still find it much easier to just self host than learn cloud and I’ve tried a few times but it just seems overly complex for the sake of complexity. It seems they tie in all their services to jack up charges, eg. I came for S3 but now I’m
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by conductr 1y ago
Is voting there a one day only event? If not, I feel the solution to that particular problem is quite clear. There’s a million things that could go wrong causing you to miss something when you try to do it in a narrow time range (today afte
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by conductr 1y ago
Then the US English is winning out because we never said earphones over here. I’m much older so have a clear memory of when they hit the market. We said earbud for a while but that was a momentary distinction and it seems we’ve mostly rever
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by conductr 1y ago
I’ve never understood the hype around AirPods noise cancellation. It’s been noticeably worse than Bose from the beginning and I just keep going back to Bose. I don’t know how others may rank, but it’s just that I was using Bose noise cancel
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by conductr 1y ago
I just don’t see how that helps their business at all. Does Llama 3 correlate with any sales? Maybe some momentary market gains as everyone was chasing AI but at some point the people smart enough to avoid built-here stuff will win. They pr
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by conductr 1y ago
With mounting costing more than replacement, I like those odds. They’ve been up several years and have survived many 70+ MPH storms. At this point I’m actually curious what kind of conditions would cause them to move/lift. It’s obvious
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by conductr 1y ago
I laid a set of panels on my low slope shed roof and just never secured them. They’re offset about 1/2” which enough that water flows under them and off the shed. I’m in a very windy location but they are heavy enough to not budge.
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by conductr 1y ago
The you in that example is the Org, or the person leading it. I find that what usually happens is the executive in charge of it all either wises up to the situation or, more commonly, gets replaced by someone with fresh eyes. In any case, i
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by conductr 1y ago
How should this have played out in a regulated market? DynamoDB gets released, then what? Has limits on the market share it's allowed to steal? Should we similarly cap say Front End frameworks on market penetration / growth? Is re
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by conductr 1y ago
> are not going to be able to convince the bean counters that it would be worth it to have that storage bill from multiple vendors Because it rarely is. Occasional downtime is just a cost of doing business. It is, or should be, rare enou
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by conductr 1y ago
Similar to hosting your support ticketing system with same infra. "What problem? Nobody's complaining"
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by conductr 1y ago
It just is what it is. I hadn't contemplated SWE salaries at all with that comment. However, now I would love to see your argument for why SWE salaries should continue to be propped up as one of the highest paid professions? In a world
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by conductr 1y ago
I don't think they care, they'll pass the blame to 3rd party app devs. They care more about forcing users and devs to interact with their products how Apple wants them too. They have a long track record of this behavior
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by conductr 1y ago
So maybe it's not BT, that was only an example theory. It also doesn't need to be always running, so could be harder to track. What if it turns out it's just some high pitch inaudible sound using morse code... I could go on b
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by conductr 1y ago
I think you’re probably right but I just wouldn’t say it as confidently as you do. There doesn’t need to be a specific protocol if the manufacturers are in cahoots (and there’s plenty of reason for them to be) they make their own and obfusc
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by conductr 1y ago
> then again, it didn't stop us from glomming onto GPTs after seeing what we did with socials. I usually phrase similar in context of energy usage and how any improvement we can make in our personal lives (renewables, EV>ICE, eff
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by conductr 1y ago
Who’s to say Apple didn’t test it and pushed it out anyway to force the Electron devs hands. It’s their garden and they can move the walls
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by conductr 1y ago
Are you suggesting the “does it drive” test after an update isn’t a reasonable test that should be a fairly common sense one to add in? In all scenarios, tricky bugs will happen. Something inconceivable will go untested. But that’s not what
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by conductr 1y ago
It should be costly. You want to encourage companies to make better/safer products that have been well tested. The whole “Move quick and break things” is from the perspective of a completely nonessential social media service. They have
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by conductr 1y ago
I find with these types of customers it’s always easier to just ask them to save files locally and grant me privileges to read the data. Sometimes they’ll be on Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, etc and I also run a SFTP for this in case they wan
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by conductr 1y ago
I’m using an Apple TV that is connected. My prior setup, with a newish but unconnected Sony Bravo, the remote just passed mic audio data to the Apple TV as if I was using the Apple TV remote Also, pretty sure it’s undocumented, but I’ve bee
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by conductr 1y ago
Samsung
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by conductr 1y ago
Yeah - day -1 in new house, get internet. ATT modem, tech has me scan a QR code to login to this WiFi via my iPhone. (I have a mesh network but hadn’t moved belongings, this was just making sure service was working.) Couple days later, we h
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by conductr 1y ago
I wouldn’t argue it’s reasonable, but these kinds of decisions get made without much thought all the time whether we like it or not. It’s possible they just didn’t give it much thought. Or, it was just a directive from Legal and so nobody a
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by conductr 1y ago
But is it malicious or innocuous? I could see just the assumption being made that if it hasn’t phoned home it must be malfunctioning and ask risk mitigation then force it to brick. It’s not super unreasonable considering very few people wil
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by conductr 1y ago
I’ve been doing this a long while, but I’m finding it harder as more devices share my WiFi credentials with each other without my permission/consent/or even knowledge. I recently moved into a new home and decided to take the oppor
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by conductr 1y ago
But you’d catch cases like this where the hardware is immediately bricked during driving. If you didn’t, your tests aren’t up to snuff. Let’s not let perfection obstruct progress.
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by conductr 1y ago
As American, I assume most the thread above was assuming US locale and it Seems like a solid case of the all too common “impossible by US status quo standards” when in fact the solution can be quite simple we just lack the imagination or wi

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