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by flutas 2y ago
Yep, my company would lose a significant amount of our users if we updated from Android 5.0. A lot of the early Fire TV devices are still out there running Android 5.0, and they are actively used.
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by flutas 2y ago
I work on Android apps for a food company turned media network. We, to this day...with no talks of changing it any time soon, support all the way back to Android 5.0 (released in November on 2014).
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by flutas 2y ago
If you hover over the timestamp it points back to May 2nd as well. This is probably from the Second Chance pool. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...
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by flutas 2y ago
Very interesting. Yeah my husbands college (I'm a SW eng, he wants to be one) teaches C++ as the base...and this is a "just" a state school in a Arkansas. Also gotta correct myself, after asking him it looks like I was wrong.
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by flutas 2y ago
> Kids these days don’t know basic assembly I have to disagree on that one. Most CS programs will have an assembly class as a mandatory one. Is it used daily? No. Would they be incredibly rusty and probably require a refresher? Probably,
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by flutas 2y ago
> World doesn't end at SF borders, nor does it revolve around it. Funnily enough his "they just work" mentality does end at SF borders though...as recent as 2 weeks ago. https://techcrunch.com/2024/0
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by flutas 2y ago
> Ok. So what are the consequences for this human operator and/or Waymo? If you're Waymo apparently you can tell the car to run a red light, cause a moped to crash and not even need to report it to the state. https:/&#x2F
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by flutas 2y ago
From the actual document (the article "mysteriously" leaves out the word "unapproved") it sounds like it was an issue due to an unapproved change in assembly. Article > This defect is due to a lubricant that was used
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by flutas 3y ago
Sim swapping is typically "put their phone number on this sim card I control" the point being to bypass any SMS based 2 factor auth / alerts.
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by flutas 3y ago
They can still send you to a debt collector if you don't "properly" cancel by sending them a smoke signal at 3:42pm on a sunny day with easterly winds. They did it to me, luckily I was able to get it removed.
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by flutas 3y ago
> All the alternatives I can think of are extremely time-intensive - you'd have to go back to everyone who already scanned in and check their id against their boarding pass. That would add significant delays in taking off, which cou
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by flutas 3y ago
I'm assuming those are homepage requests for the subdomains.
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by flutas 3y ago
> Except the fiist thing openai does is read robots.txt. Then they should see the "Disallow: /" line, which means they shouldn't crawl any links on the page (because even the homepage is disallowed). Which means they
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by flutas 3y ago
He says 3 million, and 1.8 million are for robots.txt So 1.2 million non robots.txt requests, when his robots.txt file is configured as follows # buzz off User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / Theoretically if they were actua
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by flutas 3y ago
It's probably about risk more than anything. Trampoline installed well (i.e. staked down) with proper netting = who cares Trampoline unsecured, no net = wind risk, personal injury risk, death risk
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by flutas 3y ago
> IMHO computer science in college is a joke at most places. I hate to agree, but yeah. I'm watching my husband go through a CS degree course right now, and the stuff he talks about I'm just like "why are they focusing on
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by flutas 3y ago
I actually thought of a good example of this exact thing happening, with the exact same good (land). Disney and Florida. Disney bought much of the land in secret, but when it got out land shot up in price. Nobody got sued over it. > Walt
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by flutas 3y ago
I'm not even sure, but can private individuals engage in price fixing? The owners are under no obligation to even sell at all, let alone at a "market price" that a hedge fund determined is their sweet spot.
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by flutas 3y ago
> Applying the law in that way just seems to be a way to enable bullying of the little guy by rich corporations. Agreed. The owners are under zero obligation to sell as is, what is that line again that companies love to use? "We hav
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by flutas 3y ago
They also smell like someone took a rotting fish, dunked it in sewage and decided to roast it in the sun for a few days. They're everywhere where I live, and it's so bad.
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by flutas 3y ago
I could see people wanting to add on color detection for the bricks, but even that could still be solved by camera + servos/steppers and a chute that goes to different bins. No need for an arm. Doesn't stop me from wanting one tho
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by flutas 3y ago
Uneducated in hardware, mostly a software guy for perspective, so I could be way off. Would using something like a stepper motor geared way down with a cycloidal gear box work for a situation like this? (in my mind) It would give you a very
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by flutas 3y ago
> But now I'm hearing stories that companies are not even looking at self-taught Software Engineers. Same boat for me down to self taught and entry 10 years ago, I just avoided the management path. I've had companies flat out r
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by flutas 3y ago
> The current job searching experience, at least in tech, feels broken in many different ways Yup, after being told I had a (Sr. level) job x3 times at just as many companies only for it to "fall through due to budget" I gave u
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by flutas 3y ago
My first thought on that: How many of those missing 7m were split custody cases where both were claiming them. Then with the new law it's "Oh hey, [parent allowed to claim tax for the child] can I have their social for taxes? What
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by flutas 3y ago
> Secondly, when funds of this scale are stolen, inevitably people wind up dying early from things like stress, and suicides. Yep, it was mentioned in sentencing today by one of the victims. At least 3 have already committed suicide afte
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by flutas 3y ago
I’ve long wondered if Apple (or anyone targeted by sites like a 9to5[brand], or other niche blogs) use them as an unofficial mouthpiece. Get someone from management on their good side with planted leaks, then drop something like “wow, manag
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by flutas 3y ago
> and iCloud storage. Which is itself another area where Apple forces consumers to use it. You can't back up your iPhone to Google Drive or Dropbox. So here's your 5GB of space for any and all Apple devices you own, make it las
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by flutas 3y ago
I'm (legitimately) curious could the fact that (almost) all of that is now open in the EU due to their laws but not the US. Would that hurt their argument since they blocked off the change from the US. Or would that all be solved by a
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by flutas 3y ago
Wait, I knew about the comment stuff. They edited the /r/place DB as well? > I'm still there because...the fediverse sucks, and I can still use my hacked up Reddit is Fun client and old.reddit.com, but if that set of circu

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