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by evgen 4y ago
Its the sort of low-effort comment you should come to expect in the first few hours of articles about Apple. Eventually it will get buried, but it is a sort of toll we all must pay it seems. An idiot who has no idea what they are talking ab
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by evgen 4y ago
I keep phones longer than most to test apps on old hardware. Am looking at an iPhone 6S, and original iPhone SE, and an iPhone 12 right now. All three are plugged in via lightning at least three times a week to a dev box. I know several oth
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by evgen 4y ago
A problem I and everyone else I know with a lightning-connector iPhone (or iPad) have never encountered. Ever. This mythical problem has been repeatedly brought up and I am now beginning to think that it is simply a theoretical problem and
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by evgen 4y ago
IMHO the lie is to pretend that hydro is safe or has a low impact when it comes to greenhouse gasses. Dam failures have killed many more people than nuclear even if you throw in the intentional nuclear events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hydr
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by evgen 4y ago
Actually cyber security is one area where a lot of certs are a strong negative signal. They basically broadcast course-taking and cert-chasing over real world experience. If you have an OSCP cert I will treat that as a potentially good sign
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by evgen 4y ago
The Wall Street Journal _used_ to be a good financial reporting paper. The editorial page has always been hard-right (varying between mercantilism to straight-up fascism depending on the era) but the general reporting was solid and you coul
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by evgen 4y ago
Sure, and I will say the ugly truth: She might have been better off in hospice (end of life care can be rather grim and there is a reason many older Americans are terrified of the process and results) and society in general would have been
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by evgen 4y ago
If you read the article, the change in question is redirecting the subsidy away from EV purchase and towards expanding the charging network.
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by evgen 4y ago
More than 25% of the UK population lives in the five largest metropolitan areas, with the London urban zone being almost 15% of the UK population. Subsidising e-bikes and electrified public transit for those areas would be the most efficien
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by evgen 4y ago
Actually, there is a _ton_ of London that is underground, it just happens to not be for pedestrians or the general public. You should take a look at some of the planning and tight clearances that are required for things like adding additio
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by evgen 4y ago
In this case it is likely that the local repair shop will have some ability to source/replace a lot of parts that are common across the F series, which should cover a lot of repair jobs. For complicated electrical/drivetrain issue
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by evgen 4y ago
Much easier to store water for long duration than to store hydrogen. It even serves a useful purpose as radiation shielding for some solar events.
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by evgen 4y ago
Back in the day, when protocols were more trusting we would play games by storing data archives in other people's SMTP queues. Open the connection and send a message to yourself by bouncing it through a remote server, but wait to accep
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by evgen 4y ago
> Which women? More women identify as "conservative" than "liberal" Not even close to reality. More women identify as liberal than as conservative, more are registered Democrats than Republicans, and even within the R
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by evgen 4y ago
> The overall problem -- and this is not specific to Google -- is that managers at all levels are incentivized to grow head counts. No one is incentivised to grow head count. They are incentivised to do more, produce more revenue, and ex
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by evgen 4y ago
Those young people have absolutely no problem getting online and building enough presence to accomplish objectives. Maybe the questions you need to start asking are what makes you different from them or what are you doing that makes you see
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by evgen 4y ago
If you want to know why you are facing these problems please answer this simple question: How is anyone at these major service providers supposed to distinguish between your claimed legitimate use and a fly by night spammer churning through
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by evgen 4y ago
A great write-up, but for me the cherry on top is footnote #7 that describes exactly what "SCE to AUX" actually did and how it managed to reset the telemetry when Apollo 12 was struck by lightning. Very cool to finally understand
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by evgen 4y ago
Johnny Mnemonic from the Burning Chrome short story collection by Gibson. A staple of the cyberpunk bookshelf from the late 80s, and yes a very cheesy Keanu film...
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by evgen 4y ago
>> EDIT: yes, I downvoted, and here's my share of a comment. > > Was my post low effort or malicious? No. It was just wrong. Better to have erroneous opinions buried at the bottom of the comments than to waste time debating
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by evgen 4y ago
It isn't inevitable, but some people promoting Julia like to pretend that there is some sort of competition for mindshare happening. There are three basic markets for numerical computing: hobbyist, academic, and commercial. The hobbyis
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by evgen 4y ago
The thing to remember here is that this is not 1 person out of 10k, it is someone this company/team has specifically selected to perform the role of both interviewing you and trying to maintain your interest in the company and role. If
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by evgen 4y ago
As someone in a similar situation I have mostly internalised the unexpected u, but the ones that still end up getting me (and which I had to go back and edit in this very sentence) are the s/z swaps in the ise/ize trigraph.
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by evgen 4y ago
Sell user data that you smuggle out as 'telemetry' or justify as 'learning what our users want/need.'
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by evgen 4y ago
The failed coup attempt was in 1981. Franco died in '75. Is history really this hard for some people?
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by evgen 4y ago
And all three of them are no longer 'successful' at effectively delivering messages because users of those systems are drowning in spam. It completely blows my mind to return to the US and see how bad phone and SMS spam have becom
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by evgen 4y ago
Do you have any idea what the T in TSMC stands for? None of the important fabs (or at least none getting the latest tech) are in China and you are not going to see another TSMC fab built in China. Ever.
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by evgen 5y ago
Or learn from a better version of that same idea that was embodied in the Newton. Able to be coded using prototypes from top to bottom so that every app (including ones from Apple that were embedded in the system) was hookable and modifiabl
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by evgen 5y ago
Build quality and longevity. After five years of daily use you will be able to resell your Brompton for 80% of its initial price, while I would guess you would be lucky to get more than $100 for your old Decathlon.
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by evgen 5y ago
Do you have a similar phobia when you are a passenger in an automobile? You have the same lack of control and a much higher risk profile...

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