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by dlgeek 4y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34435338 currently has >200 comments while this post has 2.
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by dlgeek 4y ago
Not OP, but TI manufactures in both the US and Asia and they also outsource some of their manufacturing. I assume the other companies are the same. I recognize about half of those manufacturers, and I'm not even into hardware. "Mi
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by dlgeek 4y ago
Admitedly it wasn't on the front page, but how about "Kroger-Albertsons Antitrust Review Likely to Focus on Local Store Overlap" ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/kroger-albertsons-antitrust-rev... )
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by dlgeek 4y ago
Do you have prime? The logged-in version is fulfilled by Amazon and shows a guaranteed prime delivery date for me that's several days in front of the cheaper one (which I can see if I hit the "New & Used" offers button wh
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by dlgeek 4y ago
>There are not three different AC plug standards. There actually are a lot more, esp in the 240v world in the US: https://www.bsaelectronics.com/pages/nema-plug-and-outlet-ch...
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by dlgeek 4y ago
The air around you is (usually) colder than your body. That means your body is transferring energy to the air. When the wind blows, convection causes you to transfer more energy to the air than you do when the wind doesn't blow. That i
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by dlgeek 4y ago
I looked into this a couple of times for an urban-ish lot with an overgrown backyard. (I don't have a green thumb!). There were several services in my area, including the awesomely-named Rent-a-ruminant. Unfortunately, for smaller lots
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by dlgeek 4y ago
This is really interesting research. But I'm a little surprised a research group was able to tap the entirety of a large university campus's internet traffic. Is that common?
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by dlgeek 4y ago
The low cost airlines do, even long-haul international. I know it was definitely for-fee on Condor when I flew them from Germany-West Coast USA a few weeks ago (~10h flight).
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Alaska Airlines to roll out electronic bag tags(geekwire.com)
1 points by dlgeek 4y ago|0 comments
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by dlgeek 4y ago
Wouldn't help if the chips on the PCB could be replaced.
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by dlgeek 4y ago
Think backpacking, where you're surviving on just what's in your backpack for multiple days at a time. The focus on "packing" there is on weight/volume minimization - for example backpackers have been known to shave
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by dlgeek 4y ago
And enforcement actions like these are why the 10Ks are full of stuff like that.
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X.520: What’s in a Name?(medium.com)
1 points by dlgeek 5y ago|0 comments
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by dlgeek 5y ago
Can you port it out and back in?
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by dlgeek 5y ago
While Musk deserves a huge amount of criticism, what part of "We are tracking things manually for now and will issue pay manually, if they are unable to get back online." sounds like an excuse to avoid the job of paying them?
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by dlgeek 5y ago
Under specs: > Function Keys reside in new “Fn” Layer > 10-Key resides in the traditional “Keypad” Layer
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by dlgeek 5y ago
Polarized plugs have one of the prongs bigger than the other and will only fit one way into an outlet. This ensures that you actually know which wire is hot and which wire is neutral and can ensure the switch controls hot (the power source)
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by dlgeek 5y ago
Parent poster isn't demonstrating that? Selling of buttons on remotes absolutely does not involve 'tracking and then selling viewing habits'. The homescreen ads may or may not involve any tracking - I suspect they likely do n
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by dlgeek 5y ago
So's Amazon. It was "high-growth large-cap tech stocks" at a specific point (where MSFT was flat) - it was a Wall Street thing, not a tech thing.
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Amazon settles with the activists it fired(theverge.com)
3 points by dlgeek 5y ago|0 comments
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by dlgeek 5y ago
They explicitly say they're not asking that. At the very top: >This is aimed at distributions breaking apps by default, not tinkerers playing with their own setup. And further down: >If you like to tinker with your own system, th
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Amazon isn’t denying its CEO saved an exec from being fired for discrimination(theverge.com)
2 points by dlgeek 5y ago|1 comments
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by dlgeek 5y ago
Re: M-3: Let the tab-vs-spaces war flare up again.
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by dlgeek 5y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28241884 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28241826
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Apple forced an employee to handover “pics of my boobs”(twitter.com)
72 points by dlgeek 5y ago|32 comments
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by dlgeek 5y ago
So if you want to stalk someone, just make sure they run Android?
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by dlgeek 5y ago
We kind of do, which is really the point. There are all sorts of regulations about making and selling bread to ensure safety and fitness for purpose as well as all sorts of programs such as SNAP, WIC, school lunches, many state programs, et
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by dlgeek 5y ago
Wait, so they're taking a part time pay for a year in which someone didn't work full time and dividing it by full time hours, even though those aren't worked to calculate an hourly salary below the minimum hourly salary that&
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by dlgeek 5y ago
Ouch: > Over the years, ShotSpotter’s claims about its accuracy have increased, from 80 percent accurate to 90 percent accurate to 97 percent accurate. According to Greene, those numbers aren’t actually calculated by engineers, though. &

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