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by gherkin0 11y ago
They're exploiting the weaknesses of the American military, as they must, since the alternative is suicide and assured defeat. It's unreasonable to expect your enemy to present himself so that your advantage is maximized. If the
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by gherkin0 11y ago
If it has, they're not to the point of making Windows 7 "old and insecure" in comparison to it. But if it has, I'd like to know what they are. About all I've heard about Windows 10 are its privacy invasions and its
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The US military is vastly more powerful than any gun owner. Do people really think they can compete? Various insurgencies have given the US military a run for their money, even with all the advanced weaponry at its disposal. I think t
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> On the one hand, a bunch of old insecure machines will get fixed. That makes little sense. If a machine is automatically installing Windows 10, it was already automatically installing security updates. Windows 10 won't make it a
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I don't think there's usually a plan to "retrogress" on product quality, though. It just sort of works out that way.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> It's cool, but maybe too expensive and underpowered? I feel like that would come with the territory of a niche, small-batch device. They wouldn't be large enough to benefit from economies of scale, and they're not bring
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Is there a name for the scenario where market forces push new products to be objectively inferior to older ones?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Doesn't "trained" in the context of voice recognition mean something more like "better able to understand your voice" and not "able to exclude other voices."
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I'm totally speculating, but it could be that such clauses make the breach of contract case easier and cheaper to win. It could also be that such clear terms are useful in other jurisdictions where shenanigans like that wouldn't b
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Russian tech has always outperformed western expectations. The MIG-25 didn't, IIRC. The US over-estimated its capabilities, and thus built a far more capable aircraft in response (the F-15).
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> But fighters do use GPS. Daily. They use it for accurate navigation. But they do not absolutely depend on it. But... >>> Just make the plane use GPS. ...implies you would make them absolutely depend on it. Military aircraft u
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by gherkin0 11y ago
At one time, it was "expected" that you'd have to reboot your PC multiple times per day.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I doubt they can just toss an atomic clock on the plane :) They totally could. Some atomic clocks are quite small. The one pictured on the below wiki page doesn't look that much bigger than a 3.5" hard drive. https:/&
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by gherkin0 11y ago
It also looks like they later mitigated it as technology improved: > Lockheed later installed an electronic control to detect unstart conditions and perform this reset action without pilot intervention. Beginning in 1980, the analog inle
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> On the other hand, if some guy found a major security flaw and posted it all over the internet I bet the car would be remotely driven into a brick wall at 100mph+ with the driver inside. That's a bit much. They'd probably ju
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by gherkin0 11y ago
What do you mean by "first world country?" The terms first/second/third world were originally names used to distinguish countries aligned either with the capitalist west, communist east, or neither (which typically were
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by gherkin0 11y ago
That looks neat. Is there anything similar (and good) for Android?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
That sort of sounds analogous to saying that you don't need to understand your technology (even the basics) to make technical decisions. I...question that.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Yeah, this tool seems like a pretty blunt instrument at this point. From the OP: > It is very difficult to target a specific region of the brain, especially with simple home set-ups that use wet sponges as the contact points. My layman&
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Also, the "forced" flavor of agile tends to be one that is disconnected from the trade offs that make agile work. I was in a shop that had a forced agile adoption. The development teams were all enthusiastic about it, went to tra
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> That's why I don't like this sentence. Every time the topic of ads come up here or on reddit, people always say "I'd pay for high quality content". And it gets upvoted, dozens of children comments of people agr
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I wonder if a for profit corporation with zero shareholders can be made possible. I wonder what would happen if AT&T and Verizon can be run in a similar way (with better executives of course). A mutual company is probably the close
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Some of my credit card accounts have started to do that automatically and for free. Discover card even includes a nice little graph of my FICO score over the last year with each statement.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
This guy has already explored pretty much every avenue to get more of these connectors: http://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/03/20/finding-a-db-19-ange... http://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/0
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by gherkin0 11y ago
We live in a liberal society, and neither a particular group nor "the rest of us" should be expected to "shut the hell up."
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> satisfying than wondering whether university power structures could be rethought in order to be more democratic University power structures shouldn't be entirely democratic. The students need to be clearly subordinate to their te
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Someone needs to put some mature, level-headed adults in charge of these schools. There needs to be someone to remind students when they're being unreasonable and foolish, and then put a stop to it if needed.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> One of the biggest turn offs though was the ridiculously convoluted website for IBM's cloud services. Has IBM ever made a website that wasn't confusing and terrible?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
That's pretty terrible. No software performs flawlessly, so good error messages are a key part of usability.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Human personal assistants were connected to the outside world... There's a difference between the "always on" communication these devices have and communication the user specifically requests. When I want to make an airl

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