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by giobox 4y ago
You don't need to read a ton of books or know any math at all really - the basic answers they are typically looking for are patterns you can spot with no knowledge of logarithms what so ever. Spend a few days and you will just recognis
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by giobox 4y ago
I mean that's kinda on you if you want to contract for cellular service + handset in this way, but even in the UK the cellular market has offered iPhones at 0% over two years with option to find cheapest rolling 30 day contract you can
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by giobox 4y ago
> One answer I was expected to answer the complexity of my code to which the answer was something involving logarithms which I genuinely don't have a clue. Being asked the logarithmic time complexity of some code you just wrote is l
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by giobox 4y ago
At typically more than 2x the cost. I've played Alyx on both, the Index is absolutely not a 2x better experience. I'm no fan of their corporate parent either, but the value proposition on Quest 2 for general purpose PC VR gaming (
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by giobox 4y ago
Many years ago I worked for a major cellphone service provider in Europe - cellphones with duplicate IMEI numbers were an issue (the IMEI number was meant to be unique per cellular device much like a MAC address). This occasionally prevente
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by giobox 4y ago
Completely agree on this point. The first two Discworld novels, while still hilarious, take being a high fantasy story much more seriously than the later stories do. I'd go as far as to argue Pratchett still hadn't found the &quot
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by giobox 4y ago
The death of otherOS was entirely to do with the fact it facilitated a lot of the reverse engineering efforts on the PS3, nothing else. As others correctly note, this was largely in response to George Hotz's hacking which required othe
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by giobox 4y ago
Slightly better knife crime breakdown for London: Year beginning April 2020 to March 2021: – Fatal Injury – 223 – Injury with intent to cause serious harm – 21,421 – Threat to kill – 4,984 – Attempted murder – 465 Yes stop and s
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by giobox 4y ago
Just looking at "murder", "homicide" or "manslaughter" crimes with guns and knives doesn't tell you the whole picture; many knife crime victims will not suffer life ending injury, just really really nasty
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by giobox 4y ago
I have literally never seen this, in my experience the agency is usually not much more than a body shop - every agency I've worked with charges a significant hourly rate which is not reflective of what the agency employee will receive.
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by giobox 4y ago
To preface this complaint, I'm generally bullish on self driving and think it will be solved to a reasonable standard in not too many years. With that said, even if this solution drove flawlessly I'm not so sure I like idea of car
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by giobox 4y ago
What meaningful limits does the US government put on size/weights of cars? A rivian R1T has a gross kerb weight of like 9000lbs, the new electric hummer over 10000. With the move to electric cars, especially large commercial ones, they
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by giobox 4y ago
Then we should seek to change the law? I completely agree with your sentiments for the most part, but the legal footing of the IA has always been shaky in places. I know I've taken advantage of getting software from the IA that is stil
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by giobox 4y ago
While its true Megrahi and co were tried under Scottish law, it wasn't in a court room in Scotland. There are a number of features of how the Megrahi case was tried by Scottish judges in an area of the Netherlands on a US airforce bas
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by giobox 4y ago
Access to trial transcripts in many jurisdictions is often behind complex paywalls/distribution agreements or some really archaic time consuming process to get official copies. It's not unheard of for an interest group to reshare
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by giobox 4y ago
This was my first thought as well, I got some exposure to Windows Server Nano edition (basically an officially supported headless Windows version if unfamiliar) when I was unfortunate enough to work on a project with native Windows containe
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by giobox 4y ago
With backblaze its as simple as typing your own private key in a box on the app preferences page, assuming you trust backblaze etc- that's all thats required to encrypt your backups such that backblaze cant decrypt them server side. Th
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by giobox 4y ago
3 copies is great, but is one of them offsite? Without an offsite location I can't consider my personal data safe, and offsite is generally harder if you are buying your own disks/using local storage. If all three copies are in yo
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by giobox 4y ago
Subaru really sold a car without a remote locking key/fob in 2018?? Almost every Subaru ever in the past 10 years has a key with remote lock/unlock functionality just like the one in the Rolling-PWN example linked above. In North
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by giobox 4y ago
While it won't be true for all and can often be configured, many keyless entry systems nowadays lock the doors once key leaves vicinity of the car whether you remember to lock the doors or not.
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by giobox 4y ago
Mr Nissan's hand is rather strengthened when he can show the UDRP panel he won a similar case in a US court of law, which might take the wind out the sails on the Nissan Motors side. For what its worth, the WIPO databases show plenty o
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by giobox 4y ago
Example of litigating over something that can't typically be trademarked - "Nissan" is a family name. There are plenty of articles online discussing the nissan.com case from the UDRP perspective, which is the typical remedy,
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by giobox 4y ago
The UDRP ("Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy" - the arbitration process all domain name disputes go through - you have little choice as mandated by ICANN for all domain name registrars) has been hopelessly broken in fa
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by giobox 4y ago
Right, but some of these passion projects in turn become breakout hits that breach the 100k barrier then presumably generate revenue for Unity - think of indie games that break out into mainstream built on Unity like Among Us or Valheim
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by giobox 4y ago
If you drill into published specs for wings, it's generally true they only really start to work at silly speeds on most road legal cars. The far more important effect is upon the emotional response of the owner when they look at it...
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by giobox 4y ago
Our definition of "exceptional scenarios" is clearly not the same... The list of scenarios in article 6 are common business operations covering a huge range of legitimate activities where processing might need to occur; there is l
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by giobox 4y ago
Neat idea, but lack of HDCP support could be deal breaker for a lot of applications - I'd even consider listing this limitation nearer the top, it's currently at the end of a long README. HDCP is used in a huge number of HDMI devi
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by giobox 4y ago
This may vary in the IDEs they support, but theres an "Activate Copilot" toggle button right in the status bar in VSCode to toggle on and off instantly that appears on every editor window if the extension is installed.
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by giobox 4y ago
While I like Visual Studio, comparing to Eclipse is a little unfair. Exactly like DotNet today, you can use any IDE you like, InteliJ will compare extremely favorably to Visual Studio if we want to pick a good Java IDE to compare.
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by giobox 4y ago
The problem isn't even the computer most times, its more often the display. Many modern flat panel displays have far more latency than even a crappy analog CRT, and yes the difference is definitely often noticeable if you have any expe

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