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by fmajid 2y ago
In this application, I would also be concerned about resilience in the event of an EMP strike. Not sure a battery-powered quartz timepiece would survive such, even if it would survive a failure of the ship's electrical systems (not sur
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by fmajid 2y ago
Will it remain the safest place if there are no people left on-site to staff the fire-protection mechanisms because of a mandatory evacuation order?
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by fmajid 2y ago
So does that mean USN ships are issued with a precision mechanical chronometer for longitude, like John Harrison's original marine chronometer that won the Royal Navy's Longitude Prize?
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by fmajid 2y ago
You can be unbiased in hiring and still end up with an unrepresentative mix, because underprepresented minorities don't even apply, and outreach is a good way to get to improve that without lowering your standards. That's the theo
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by fmajid 2y ago
The obvious counter is to make it not be a lottery but rather an auction, the highest-paying employers wins the slot. This would get rid of the bottom-feeding body-shops that rent out H1-Bs by the hour. It would also cut off non-tech busine
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by fmajid 2y ago
Updating the software is certainly a pain. I switched to Linux than went back to Android. Can't say I noticed any hardware defects other than the usual delicateness of mobile devices, but I am generally careful with my devices (the onl
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by fmajid 2y ago
So you are brazenly violating the UBO license in addition to the trademark? Way to go building trust with the community.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Firefox/Gecko is sadly no better now (see their despicable stance on Private Click Measurement). The only alternatives on the horizon are Ladybird and Servo, and they are both at least 2 years from prime time.
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by fmajid 2y ago
At some point Google is going to remove Manifest V2 code from Chromium, and few browser packagers will be able to maintain a fork preserving MV2 availability. Will the Linux Foundation work to address this? The announcement is light on deta
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by fmajid 2y ago
I don't know any more than that, vague recollections of people complaining about them on Reddit, and thought I would be remiss not to mention them.
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by fmajid 2y ago
I have a Planet Computers Gemini, which is a reinterpretation of the Psion Series 5, running Android but you can also install Linux. They have new models since, but I've heard reports the company is not honoring orders, so caveat empt
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by fmajid 2y ago
The blue one has neither
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by fmajid 2y ago
I saw Costco has shopping bags made from recycled ocean plastic. That's one way to address the problem, even if it is much more expensive than using virgin plastic.
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by fmajid 2y ago
The EU banned BPA in receipt paper 5 years ago. French firm Exacompta makes good options in blue and standard white: https://www.exacompta.com/en/recherche?search=Thermal
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by fmajid 2y ago
French company Exacompta makes a line of BPA-free and sustainable thermal receipt paper: https://www.exacompta.com/en/recherche?search=Thermal The EU banned BPA in receipt paper since 2020, so any European supplier sho
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by fmajid 2y ago
Nice! I got an Epson TM-m30II PoS printer on a whim, and haven’t really found a use for it yet, I’ll definitely try your script.
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by fmajid 2y ago
It doesn’t make sense to grow it with US labor, on the other hand, in desperately poor countries like Afghanistan it provides a living for women like this project: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activi
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by fmajid 2y ago
Irish DPA: hold my Guinness
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by fmajid 2y ago
What does it do, mark all blocks as discarded then run a TRIM?
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by fmajid 2y ago
Girls are better at masking, though, at least those on the autism spectrum.
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by fmajid 2y ago
It's 2024, and you have: nvme format -s1 /dev/nvme0n1 to use secure erase on your NVMe drives, with similar commands available under hdparm for SATA drives: https://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articlei
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by fmajid 2y ago
Like Julius Caesar, who used to write about himself in the third person laudative demonstrative ("ille")?
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by fmajid 2y ago
Shouldn't all these control-plane operations be moved to ioctl instead, like TIOCSWINSZ? Of course, getting all terminal emulators and TUI programs to use them would be a formidable migration undertaking.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Apparently, if you take a photo of the Taj Mahal, it will find photos other people took of the Taj Mahal so you can feel inadequate.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Traffic analysis by the government totally happens: https://lifehacker.com/how-cia-director-david-petraeuss-emai... Now they probably don't care about you personally, but you'd be surprised how many people are con
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by fmajid 2y ago
Probably the most secure mobile OS available to the public right now.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Sports teams and orgs like FIFA are ruthlessly effective at extracting every last cent of value from sports broadcasting rights, to the point it's not profitable for broadcasters/streamers other than ESPN (and even the latter&#x27
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by fmajid 2y ago
It’s called the Greater Fool Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
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by fmajid 2y ago
Those are very basic math. If you want serious graduate level math, look at Flajolet’s use of the Mellon transform in HyperLogLog proofs.
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by fmajid 2y ago
You will get longer support with alternative firmware like GrapheneOS or LineageOS, which both support some phones abandoned by their manufacturers.

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