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by dcrazy 1y ago
“Harmony” is a line of programmable remote controls from Logitech.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
As a millennial, I never understood CA’s business model. While I was too young to have exposure to the B2B software sales market, they also had a tiny presence in retail software, so I was always confused about what kind of software they ac
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Counterpoint: I came home with a 1L bottle of Sipsmith gin for like $20 thanks to the combination of duty free and post-Brexit GBP crash.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
If these are Rolex-owned boutiques, might they still require you to have a spending history with your local Tourneau/Bucherer?
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Or a fighter jet. But definitely not a passenger plane; those things settle into a phugoid cycle.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
The pilot’s self-preservation instincts aren’t the most important reason to have them onboard. It’s that any loss of communication between the ground and the airplane at any point during either procedure would turn it into an uncontrolled c
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by dcrazy 1y ago
That “just” is doing some heavy lifting! The car still has to deal with all the normal hazards of the road while pulling over, plus the hazards it is itself creating by acting abnormally.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Takeoff at a commercial airport is a very challenging and potentially dangerous situation. There’s way more margin to abort a landing than a takeoff.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
On the happy path, yes. Though I don’t think takeoff is automated yet. Currently we rely very much on the problem solving abilities of human pilots to deal with troublesome situations. Autopilot will disengage in many scenarios.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
That is absolutely not the API on macOS, which is a certified UNIX.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I can’t find any mention online of the `SystemTokenInformation` enum member outside of this article, even in this otherwise very comprehensive collection of documented and undocumented values: https://www.geoffchappell.com/s
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by dcrazy 1y ago
> The battery cells are from US-based Factorial Energy, which is also partnering with Hyundai, Stellantis, and other major OEMs to bring solid-state batteries to market.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
That last bit is great for application authors but awful for API designers. :)
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by dcrazy 1y ago
The new feature here is typed throws, which I referred to as statically typed errors. You’ve always been able to throw a subtype of Error and then dynamically downcast it at runtime, but function signatures were limited to “throws any sub
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Some people might be surprised that statically typed errors have arrived so late in Swift’s life. This is because typed errors are a bad default. Without deep consideration, it is easy to design an error type that encodes too much impleme
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I believe UBB (Ultimate Bulletin Board) worked this way too.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
FWIW, there is only one weight of the Wide variant. That’s really isn’t enough for a UI typeface. Erik Spiekermann has a very healthy ego, and he doesn’t even bother hiding how clearly it was bruised when Nokia decided to commission a new f
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Let’s look at an analogous situation: a middle-class Brit who buys a home in Spain to retire in. This Briton might speak the language fluently and spend the remaining 15-20 years of their life in Spain, paying taxes and contributing to the
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I was referring to the time when Bookmarks.html was Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox’s actual on-disk storage format, not just its import/export format. Editing that file would change the contents of your Bookmarks menu.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I’d love to know how the intern figured out the chip was counterfeit!
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Thank you for encouraging me to go on this educational adventure. I have now heard of Landauer’s principle, which says each bit of information releases 2.9e-21 joules when destroyed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Why not just use actual bookmarks in Safari?
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I was wondering if someone else would remember this.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can enter and leave an open system. When I lift a 10kg box 1 meter in the air, I don’t raise its temperature at all, and I only raise mine a tiny bit, yet I have still done work on the box and t
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I don’t understand this argument. If the CPU dissipated an equal number of watts of heat energy as it consumed from the wall, there wouldn’t be any energy left to do actual useful work. Isn’t the extra 100W accounted for by things like chan
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by dcrazy 1y ago
It’s best security practice to host user-generated content on a separate domain to opt into browsers’ cross-domain security policies. Hence ghcr.io, githubusercontent.com, fbimg.com, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev
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by dcrazy 1y ago
What price point did you buy at? I paid a premium for my home height-adjustable desk because the frame and top are made in America, the veneer is much thicker than competitors, the motors and worm gears are reliable, and the same company ma
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Is it “soft fraud” when a manager at an investment bank regularly demands unreasonable productivity from their junior analysts, causing them to work late and effectively reduce their compensation rate? Only if the word “abuse” isn’t ambiguo
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Stability and reliability.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
The Unicode spec itself is designed around UTF-16: the block of code points that surrogate pairs would map to are reserved for that purpose and explicitly given “no interpretation” by the spec. [1] An implementation has to choose how to beh

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