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by dessimus 2y ago
Someone actually did a blind study comparing flat vs conical grinders with over 150 coffee professionals [0] to find they could not discern a difference in how the coffee was ground before being brewed while controlling for other variables.
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by dessimus 2y ago
Necessary life skill with Ballmer on the Executive team.
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by dessimus 2y ago
>Fire everyone at NASA involved in "project management" that allowed this to happen Do you think this is unique to NASA? The military itself has many such expenditures. If anything, this is a result of Senators and Reps putting
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by dessimus 2y ago
Has any open source project taken down the majority of single OS install base as quickly as CrowdStrike? Seems like they would have the "dedicated resources and a financial stake" to prevent such as situation.
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by dessimus 2y ago
Yeah, but how far away the person one gets it from may still vary.
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by dessimus 2y ago
"It would be real disappointing if someone used the guest wifi at Sony HQ to do something illicit."
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by dessimus 2y ago
Because we don't request specific bits from Storage, we address by block, which returns 4k of bits (or whatever the formatted block size is), and then process the data within that block.
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by dessimus 2y ago
One might even say: He fought the law, and the law won.
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by dessimus 2y ago
But in neither case was it due to a code failure that put the shuttle into an unrecoverable state, but rather one the falls into materials and/or mechanical engineering.
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by dessimus 2y ago
Just wait until the health and life insurance providers take hold of the data and they start making decisions based on those simulations.
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by dessimus 2y ago
It's a disgrace that the party that was able to turn Obama from an unknown junior Senior speaking at the 2004 DNC to winning the Presidency 4 years later, now has done zero to promote more candidates over the last 4 years when Biden ra
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by dessimus 2y ago
> Kind of like, nobody gets fired for hiring IBM, or using SAP. They are just so big, every manager can say, "look how many people are using them, how was I supposed to know they are crap". I wouldn't necessarily say IBM o
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by dessimus 2y ago
There's no way the NASA flight director wants to deal with the paperwork for elevated vital data of those whose laps were occupied: "Sir, the whole craft was vibrating, not to mention these flight suits are ...restricting..."
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by dessimus 2y ago
> I would prefer that an article about XYZ Co. is edited by the former CEO of XYZ Co. Even a former CEO would keep secrets. The next corporation's board is not going to hire a CEO that will knowingly be frank on Wikipedia about a fo
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by dessimus 2y ago
To me, the headline is implies it's a Boeing issue by saying, "Southwest flight..." rather than, "Southwest pilot..." when it's fairly common knowledge that Southwest only flies Boeing 737s.
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by dessimus 2y ago
> However, keeping GNU in the name might be problematic. Problematic?! I would imagine even an L1 could prove that the Justified version is still Not Unix.
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by dessimus 2y ago
> On the other hand, often a "quick and dirty" solution unexpectedly becomes the foundation of a lot of other stuff This is how Access "databases" and Excel spreadsheets often become mission-critical in SMBs. "We
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by dessimus 2y ago
> A lower quality mainstream computer manufacturer does not exist. Just wait until you heard what ASUS Support does for their customers...
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by dessimus 2y ago
>Or just contract one of the companies that already do it with a public-private partnership. The IRS tried that already and the 3rd parties just used dark patterns that tricked customers into paying for unnecessary services.
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by dessimus 2y ago
The video is 13 minutes, but its a time lapse so it could have been hours or days of work.
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by dessimus 2y ago
Then, the manager of that team has their startup: plsfixmyfixer.com
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by dessimus 2y ago
Just be sure HTTP Compression is off though, or you're still half-wasting the pipe. Better to just dump randomized uncompressible data into html comments.
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by dessimus 2y ago
From the article: "The board cannot impose fines or direct punishments against Apple for its violations." So there is literally no consequence to Apple, or any other company from doing these actions, meaning there is no law to be
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by dessimus 2y ago
> Now, everyone is free to say they dont like the price, which is fair. However, the price is high because rich American customers dont care about the price. IF they did, they could always buy the cheap old thing. I'm sure Americans
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by dessimus 2y ago
>If correct, these satanists might argue those were of good intention. You really need to bone up on the acts of Christians, if you think only satanists would irreparably harm others, including children.
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by dessimus 3y ago
Agreed. From NTSB's website[0]: "In cases of suspected criminal activity, other agencies may participate in the investigation. We do not investigate criminal activity. Our focus is solely on transportation safety and determining p
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by dessimus 3y ago
Meh, we got Congress to do that already.
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by dessimus 3y ago
SawStop was never against licensing the technology, and from what I'm reading about FRAND, it doesn't force the patent holder to open their patents, only to negotiate in a good faith manner that does not discriminate between licen
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by dessimus 3y ago
How about SawStop open their patent up first? They've already sued to prevent other tool manufacturers from making their own solutions to the problem, because they want theirs to be licensed. So even though they claim they will open
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by dessimus 3y ago
> Steve Cook I thought his name was Tim Apple!?

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