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by gubby 7y ago
The Schwab mobile app has recently been updated (unsure exactly how recently), and it has got substantially better since I first tried it a couple years ago.
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by gubby 7y ago
What’s the bit error rate on a card like this? Does anyone know how long 1TB of data would actually last, with zero bit flips, in a drawer? Presumably the primary market is JPG/MPG capture, where a few flipped bits don’t matter.
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by gubby 8y ago
When you say you powered it off, was that a safe shutdown or did you just pull the power? Most file system drivers delay writes, I suspect some variant of your test (if it was unsafe shutdown) could be reproduced on almost any system.
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by gubby 8y ago
“Make all fields in a message required. This makes messages product types.” This article was clearly written by amateurs.
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by gubby 9y ago
A deprecation is, normally, a notification (not the same thing as actually turning something off).
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by gubby 9y ago
Ha, 248 days is the point at which a 32bit signed int wraps round if counting in milliseconds.
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by gubby 9y ago
This article seems to be sponsored by Escape the Room, whatever that is, with its own ad-style paragraph. "A less philanthropic but still debauchery-free experience can be had at Escape the Room, an interactive game site where as many
38.
by gubby 9y ago
They can't, these solar panels are probably not much more than 20% efficient, so even an extra factor of five doesn't make a dent.
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by gubby 9y ago
Consider celiac, it covers basically everything you've described.
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by gubby 9y ago
"We send you a email to let you know that we are having difficulty charging your credit card. The email will also let you know that you have one week to resolve the issue [...]. If for some reason we are unable to charge your credit
41.
by gubby 9y ago
Google and Yahoo!, on the other hand, are very serious, business-like names.
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by gubby 9y ago
The UI doesn't seem to have been tested, and isn't usable. On my iPhone in safari, when I tap on the search box it JavaScript-scrolls out of view, revealing a picture of a football field that plays a video if clicked accidentally.
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by gubby 9y ago
Yes they are, you can assert rights on a collection of facts that you have collected. A database containing the location of every tree in the UK would be a piece of protectable intellectual property.
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by gubby 9y ago
Apart from the fact that the founders clearly didn't intend to fold the company (removing the malice part of a scam), as a consumer, spending $700 on something that stops functioning nearly immediately is pretty indistinguishable from
45.
by gubby 9y ago
14 days for a replacement is an atrocious amount of time.
46.
by gubby 9y ago
Actually, the UK has credit scores and credit cards, a large proportion of people use credit cards for daily spending.
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by gubby 10y ago
Says in the article, either.
48.
by gubby 10y ago
Not sure this makes sense, when you PWM something like an LED, there is no 'leftover DC power'; the energy unused by the LED each cycle is not wasted.
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by gubby 10y ago
For those Googling this to find out whether it's "too much" or "too little", here's a couple of quotes from the article: "A buildup of sodium in the brain detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may b
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by gubby 10y ago
I find it exceptionally unlikely that the statements in this article are correct. I suspect a phone with the screen lit uses somewhere in the range 0.5-2W continuous. The amount of energy you'd get from a light touch on the screen is,
51.
by gubby 10y ago
I doubt strongly that this would have any effect either, for the same reason. My legal knowledge is a little old fashioned and sporadic, but the classic authority on this used to be 'Olley v Marlborough Court Hotel'. Worth a read,
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by gubby 10y ago
The first part is not true. When you look at flights on BA.com, in their journey planner, that price is the final price, to the penny.
53.
by gubby 10y ago
At least in the UK, such a term would have to be brought to your attention before the sale, very clearly, for it to be part of the contract. Writing that in the manual would have no effect.
54.
by gubby 10y ago
The hiring committee meets after all the interviews are conducted, so isn't really relevant here.
55.
by gubby 10y ago
Nobody intentionally screws with the timing like was speculated. It's possible individual meetings might be a few minutes late I guess, can't comment on that.
56.
by gubby 10y ago
This is not the case (I work for Goog).
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by gubby 10y ago
I am not sure what being American has to do with anything. I am not American either. I didn't suggest that the OP uses lawyers to resolve everyday trivial disputes. I suggested that given the sums involved, reaching out to low-SLA supp
58.
by gubby 10y ago
I am not a lawyer. I think a mistake many people make in ongoing situations like these is contacting (and thereby deferring to) a companies 'support' channel. By asking them to reconsider, you almost subject yourself to their aut
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by gubby 10y ago
"I haven't done any calculations but this is pure BS". The article does contain calculations, which seem quite believable, e.g the 34 hour period of the oscillations.
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by gubby 10y ago
Ironically, this is posted on medium.com, which loads 2MB+ of static resources to display a few paragraphs of simple text.

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