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by flutas 4y ago
> The role of UPS is to prevent data loss when power fails. If something is powered by USB-C it almost always already have its own battery preventing from that. That's a very narrow minded approach to both UPSs and items using USB a
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by flutas 4y ago
> uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W in their second-gen system (assuming it's a standard version and you haven't already) Couldn't you just grab the SD card out of it and inspect the file system, then try to get the password thro
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by flutas 4y ago
Thanks for digging that up! I knew they made a post about it. Didn't notice before that they tried to say they "made (everyone) whole". Maybe they think that not sending me to collections after I stopped the payment at the ba
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by flutas 4y ago
Honestly no clue, different vendor than the card was setup for. This was during a big wave of unauthorized activity being attempted on their cards as well, a lot of friends reported blocked charges for random amounts at like a retirement&#x
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by flutas 4y ago
> Making it harder, rather than easier, to chargeback fraudulent uses is not what I'm looking for. Honestly I'm still confused by the whole thing. I told them that it was a fraudulent transaction that I didn't approve, the
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by flutas 4y ago
>It allows you to easily have a card per merchant, and lock it to the merchant so that when its number is stolen, it can't be used anywhere else. In my experience even that can fail. I had a card number stolen from them, charged to
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by flutas 4y ago
Luckily I worked for the company that made the analytics tools and consumed them! Bosses actually came to us because our analytics team was trying to figure out who was causing it, because it had been caught by the team doing checks against
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by flutas 4y ago
> I once captured the Linux boot screen of a United Boeing 737 infotainment system. I used to work adjacent to these exact systems...they're so bad. Like, 10+ minute boot at times, or assigning multiple devices to the same IP, or th
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by flutas 4y ago
> I just winced in pain thinking of the ways that can bite you. Something similar caused my favorite bug so far to track down. We were seeing odd spikes in our video playback analytics of some devices watching multiple years worth of vid
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by flutas 4y ago
> but not if purchased from Apple That's actually wrong. Apple has what's called a Flex Activation policy. Some networks can lock your device based on just the sim card installed, even if it was paid for outright. I'm actu
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by flutas 4y ago
> If the second option was the only option, I'd be more sympathetic to government regulatory involvement here. Like at Verizon? Who systematically locks all phones bought from them whatsoever, even at third party stores, if purchase
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by flutas 4y ago
>OK that doesn't have to do with blocking Google AdSense ads nor does it have to do with proxying so I'm kind of confused. When a website wants to load an ad, it uses javascript[0]. The website can call a function in the includ
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by flutas 4y ago
That's an awesome one. I recently had wondered why the only one I knew of was spaghetti detective. Just a heads up. Trying to preorder gives a stripe error (below) from the orders endpoint. Copy also says 50% off then shows a $199.99 o
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by flutas 4y ago
That's what I assumed as well, but it's still... off somehow. The same product is carried at the other stores, each has it at a price of $20 exact...then this one bounces between $30 and $50 all day. I mean, maybe they are getting
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by flutas 4y ago
I'm hopeful that I can turn it into a public facing dashboard that others can see. It covers the entire state I live in, monitoring 32 stores and about 8k products right now. Already seeing some weird stuff in the data, like a product
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by flutas 4y ago
Working on (actually just got my v1 up last night) a price monitoring tool for a bunch of local stores. Trying to prove they are price fixing.
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by flutas 4y ago
ProRAW doesn't disable image processing, in fact it even says as much in the link you provided. > Apple ProRAW combines the information of a standard RAW format along with iPhone image processing to offer additional creative con
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by flutas 4y ago
"California and Nevada have high incidences of child marriage as well."
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by flutas 4y ago
>How do you think WiFi 6E works? iPhone 14 doesn't have WiFi 6E on any model. https://www.apple.com/iphone-14-pro/specs/ https://www.apple.com/iphone-14/specs/
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by flutas 4y ago
> it also looks like it would be a fingerprint magnet for the front camera (though i don't really do selfies, so not a big deal for me) I'm wondering how much it impacts Face ID.
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by flutas 4y ago
> (Raising Cane's does this as well, and their chicken is better.) Hard disagree. I've never had chicken that is rubbery/contains a tendon from CFA, it's basically guaranteed to happen every time I try Cane's, to
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by flutas 4y ago
To me it sounds like GP was implying someone not on his team was trying to purchase the under-specced laptops for his team.
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by flutas 4y ago
He is being sued by them for $425,000 in damages. Last update on the court case was a request for an extension due to them trying to finalize a settlement, I suspect this was part of that settlement.
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by flutas 4y ago
Realistically, didn't most of this start when MS paid massive amounts for time exclusive DLC in the 360 era for some of the biggest games like Skyrim[0] or COD (5 years in a row)[1], or flat out exclusive content in GTA IV[2]? To me
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by flutas 4y ago
> This is 100% on Amazon, due to marketing things as (...) "Sold and Fulfilled by Amazon". That... isn't how it's labeled? They clearly state "Sold by XYZ Company, Fulfilled by Amazon" on 3P sellers. The onl
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by flutas 4y ago
> I truly do not understand what the poster is mourning? I'm on iPhone 13 Pro Max using the latest iOS and this all seems to work as I expect... Your iPhone 13 has Haptic Touch, not 3D Touch. Haptic Touch and 3D Touch are different
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by flutas 4y ago
> I don’t understand this post, the force touch is still there at least in the pro version of the latest iPhone, don’t know about the other models. Haptic Touch and 3D Touch are different things[0] and the feature was removed after the i
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by flutas 4y ago
The fact that Google has shut down so many services I used in the past, combined with the concept of game ownership being tied to the service is what kept me from ever even exploring it.
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by flutas 4y ago
Do you interview one single person at a time for the job? That's what has killed my desire for interviews with certain companies at times when they bring up long interviews as the next steps. If I have a company say "the next roun
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by flutas 4y ago
> Classic scam where they charge you then ship something to your zip code More commonly, they just somehow have access to a list of packages shipped recently and provide a tracking number that shows as shipped to your zip code. I had one

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