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by fbdab103 3y ago
That is mostly because of childhood mortality. A large number of babies were unlikely to make it to the age of five. Which significantly drags down the average life expectancy.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I suppose there could be some elaborate set of exploits which nullifies the protected pathway, but it seems a stretch that it would be used in a generic fashion to grab randoms at the airport. Personally, I never use public usb ports becaus
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I guess Netflix prices are going up again. This feels like a silly use of money that will eventually get shuttered. Physical stores with rent, employees, merchandise, etc have thin profit potentials vs doubling down on their existing platfo
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I know nothing of the space, could you go into the opex a bit? I naively assume that once the wire is in the ground, all of the maintenance is in powering routers + staff + recovery when a backhoe inadvertently cuts a line. How do coax and
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by fbdab103 3y ago
According to random search result[0], there are ~800 annual suicides by train per year in Germany. For the number of lines in the country, that does not seem like a sufficient number to explain away train delays. [0] https://www.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
You could not just re-enable it through the same mechanism in which it was disabled? Or a confirmation if moving at highway speeds + navigation active? Anytime a potentially privacy disrespecting setting is hidden by barriers, I withhold th
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by fbdab103 3y ago
That's really the only angle that makes sense to me here. For cars that start at $200k, who else has the available cash and cannot be bothered to use traditional payment mechanisms?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Don't forget the settings Apple hides because they do not want you to disable them. Bluetooth is my particular grievance. Another cute one is that you can ask Siri to turn GPS on, but she will not turn it off (will just display the GPS
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I am reminded of the, "I'm not a cat" lawyer[0]. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56010156
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by fbdab103 3y ago
That is really the kicker. Forced return to office, but also, make the work environment worse with open-office layouts and maximum distractions. I am not happy about it, but I will come into work when you make me. Just do not pretend it is
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I understand an observational study is the best you can get, but self-selection on mushroom consumption seems an impossible to correct variable. My stereotypes would expect elevated-mushroom eaters to consume more raw food, salads, etc.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
So the mistake was in outsourcing the crime. Had they kept a tighter circle of perpetrators, probably could have kept the scam going for significantly longer.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Perfect! I keep iCloud off, so this is one "improvement" I can continue to sidestep for a while.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
A password I can write down. A phone can be lost/stolen/black screen.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
>A California federal judge has thrown out a $32.5 million verdict for wireless-audio company Sonos (SONO.O) against rival Google (GOOGL.O) after finding that the Sonos patents at the heart of the case were unenforceable. I am used to se
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I am more shocked this behavior did not inadvertently change sometime in the intervening years. That is some impressive bug backwards compatibility.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Unreal has yet to state that they have the authority to alter the terms of the deal at their whim. Who would ever choose to do business with someone who believes they can unilaterally change the business agreement?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Not just the toolchain, I want to see a vetted library collection. Make it annual releases, "Rusty MetaLib 2023" which packages a majority of the standard players (regex, clap, num_cpus, SQLite, serde, time, etc). I have minimal R
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Genuine question: how often am I memory bandwidth constrained? Or to put it another way, if I had infinite memory bandwidth, how much faster would browsing/gaming/compiling become?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
The number of people who will insist that Git needs to be this way because of its power. If only you would bother to study the internals, you would see how beautiful it is on the inside. Why don't you just learn your craft? Like, fine,
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by fbdab103 3y ago
The Trump administration wanted to disband the Energy Star program[0] (Energy Star is a certification that a device meets certain efficiency standards). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Star
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Barring a technological leap, I would disagree with that. EVs still have limitations vs ICE: less range, longer "fill up", cold-weather issues, and more expensive sticker price. The last one is likely going to the the thorniest pr
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I think there is something to be said for having sufficient staff to handle peak capacity. If you run a lean ship, you are likely to run into situations where existing resources cannot handle the demand and/or headcount attrition leave
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Surely the BOM on the fobs is at most tens of dollars. Hard to see a $700 cost justifiable as anything but greed against a captive audience.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Similarly, but then I realized I had never heard anyone warn me, "Stay off of Canal street. By 1pm the stench of the hundreds of bird carcasses really starts to hit you. Dead bird retrieval does not happen till 7pm."
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by fbdab103 3y ago
>Since we added Solid Cache to Basecamp, the 95 percentile request duration fell from 375ms to 225ms. There’s no magic here, just the effect of a bigger cache! A few more numbers to understand the load characteristics would be helpful, b
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Plus the amount of onboard storage. Can it only hold 30 minutes high quality, but 48 hours at AM radio level? Can it automatically trim dead air?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I could imagine a few professional uses which are less creepy. Students/teachers, comedians, legal/medical dictation. I think the real power would be if it is wired up to an appropriately accurate text to speech engine and dumped
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by fbdab103 3y ago
>Our private beds have 40% more room than typical bunk beds, and come with individual lights, privacy curtains, temperature-controlled fans, and other essentials It does not even come with a door? Or a lock? So it is just communal living
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by fbdab103 3y ago
At 27W that is a strong pass vs a NUC. If I go with a low power x86 NUC, I can run all software on it, and probably insert a SSD + additional RAM, for probably ~15W.

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