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by exabrial 1y ago
I'm not investing in any smart home products unless: * I can fully control them without the cloud on a non-internet connected network * I can either pay for updates, or they have free updates for at least 12 years, ideally 15 If a hurr
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by exabrial 1y ago
This is likely laziness more than malice, but... why are busses connected to the internet?
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by exabrial 1y ago
too late to edit now :)
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by exabrial 1y ago
> Simple home-made driver for the SX1276 and SX1262 LoRa chip Beware of what nailed the Meshtastic people: These chips don't have temperature dependent crystal oscillators. Transmitting more than a few milliseconds causing a tempera
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by exabrial 1y ago
Once again: Do not use Google for anything important. "An ant has no quarrel with a boot."
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by exabrial 1y ago
Why does everyone thing that the "one thing" Obamacare did was pre-existing conditions? That is a footnote in the grand scheme of paperwork in unloaded on health insurers. It's one tiny straw in a hayfield of regulations.
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by exabrial 1y ago
As other commenters have said, pre-existing conditions could and should have been handled separately in a single issue bill, separate from existing insurance. Instead, the truckload of regulations that was brought in around Obamacare has bu
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by exabrial 1y ago
Correct, instead it made them unaffordable and disappeared them out of existence. Previously to ACA, I paid $280/month for a direct (non-employer sponsored) plan that had a $5k deductible. The plan was discontinued as the base fell out
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by exabrial 1y ago
Repeal Obamacare, go back to HSAs. Nobody should be taxed on health expenses, which was the whole point of HSAs in the first place. We literally had a budding system that was working and affordable, and it was "fixed".
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by exabrial 1y ago
>For context, I consider 1 MB of Javascript to be on the heavy side for a web page/app. I feel like > 2kb of Javascript is heavy. Literally not needed.
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by exabrial 1y ago
I'm good with this for a few reasons: First, it's an abuse of "voting" because the class that is being regulated is not represented equally in the vote. Second, In the USA, our federal government would have a 0-star rati
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by exabrial 1y ago
I hate to say it, but... duh. It's literally going in your mouth. And rinsing it with tap water isn't going to fix that. There's bacteria everywhere. I rinse mine in grocery-store-strength peroxide every few days to cut down
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by exabrial 1y ago
I saw a MongoDb implementation on Github awhile ago that was a wrapper around /dev/null. The thesis was if you're using MongoDb, you probably didn't weren't planning on querying anything later anyway.
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by exabrial 1y ago
Where they actual X-Rays? Exposing people to ionizing radiation? Or was is this used in a figurative sense
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by exabrial 1y ago
My personal conspiracy theory is I think Bitcoin itself is a state-actor creation, for no other reason than mysterious behavior like this. Honestly have no idea what my passwords were 14 years ago.
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by exabrial 1y ago
Crikey this will be the last GMC Truck I own. Zero chance I use any car manufacturers infotainment system
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by exabrial 1y ago
Say it ain’t so. Another Microsoft security problem? Inconceivable!
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by exabrial 1y ago
XLR is a perfect: it'd literally designed for differential signal transmission, they're in plentiful supply on the jobsite, and 48v isn't a concern if you understand how differential and phantom feeds work anywwy. Fortunately
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by exabrial 1y ago
> well tolerated, with no serious or cardiac side effects reported. Thats what I was looking for! some of drugs are just not worth the risk
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by exabrial 1y ago
Yes. I wasn't implying live views are not this, I was trying to say react, vue, angular, svelte, next.js, solid, preact, alpine.js, ember, backbone, lit, mithril, stimulus, knockout, aurelia, polymer, riot, inferno, marko, dojo have a
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by exabrial 1y ago
The Elixir live view model to me look like one of the only sane programming models for modern web development right now... Otherwise your best choice still remains to be server side rendering.
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by exabrial 1y ago
I think from the get go the should have planned their enterprise vs open source a bit better and it would have worked out
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by exabrial 1y ago
Apple's software division has lost their way. They've done nothing but add flashy features and move buttons around, deprecating things and breaking backwards compatibility (yeah, 32bit has been awhile now, but alas), meanwhile ret
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by exabrial 1y ago
> A nearly 30 percent increase in unified memory bandwidth to 153GB/s I'll believe the benchmarks, not marketing claims, but an observation and a question. 1. AMD EPYC 4585PX has ~89GB/s, with pretty good latency, as long
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by exabrial 1y ago
All UBI programs funded by the theft of wages are corrupt and bankrupt from the start, as demonstrated. I expect a lot of “No true Scotsman” [ironic] arguments inbound.
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by exabrial 1y ago
Where can I place a prop bet that Pixel Fold 10 will soon be banned on airplanes?
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by exabrial 1y ago
With heart disease, we've narrowed it down to pretty much: * get exercise (literally any amount is great) * don't eat more than you should (avoid being overweight) I wish we could do the same with Cancer. California proceeded to e
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by exabrial 1y ago
They should resist fishing expeditions. I don't think thats that hard.
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by exabrial 1y ago
I make no claim either way nor do I have insider knowledge of what they could and could not do.
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by exabrial 1y ago
With my current knowledge of the case, I'd say Apple was clearly in the moral wrong and it's a pretty dark mark in their past. My understanding is the suspect was detained and law enforcement was not asking for a dragnet (at least

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