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by gvb 5y ago
0 = 1 - 1 so they have everything already!
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by gvb 5y ago
FWIW, you can use the gmail filter feature to whitelist addresses Setting (gear) > "See all settings" (top button) > "Filters and Blocked Addresses" Click "Create a new filter" (centered in the middle of
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by gvb 5y ago
"Elon Musk says he will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year" (2021). Does that change things? Ref: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/20/elon-musk-says-he-will-pay-o...
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by gvb 5y ago
No, it would have been very intentional. By not renewing the licensing, Apple is escalating the risks and costs for Ericsson as leverage in their renegotiation of the licensing fees with them.
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by gvb 5y ago
I'm running a decommissioned rack computer in my basement. It works good with some caveats and recommendations: * Buy a 2U server, not a 1U server. The 1U server fans are VERY LOUD and very annoying. The 2U server fans are still pretty
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No, 73% of US Covid-19 cases aren’t Omicron yet: how the press got it wrong(theprepared.com)
12 points by gvb 5y ago|1 comments
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by gvb 5y ago
Are your maps using the same datum as your GPS (WGS 84)? That is likely the source of the discrepancy. If they are using the same datum, I suspect your maps are off, not your GPS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geo
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by gvb 5y ago
> So... do the ubiquity things work again without being tied to their 'cloud'? Ubiquity works without their "cloud" if you install their management software on your computer (I use a VM on my server). In my experienc
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by gvb 5y ago
Yes - Lagrange point L2 which is a waaaay different orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
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by gvb 5y ago
Randall Munroe needs to update that one for Python3 $ python3 Python 3.8.10 (default, Sep 28 2021, 16:10:42) [GCC 9.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for mor
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by gvb 5y ago
I don't see that. The article doesn't mention regulation at all. The conclusion of the article (literally as well as figuratively) is that Facebook needs to provide "...independent access for researchers to check the math...&
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by gvb 5y ago
Questions: 1. How high did it go? 2. How fast was it going when it exited the launcher? 3. How much did the launched object ("lawn dart") weigh? Q1 is most interesting. Q2 is right behind Q1.
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by gvb 5y ago
> I find that most photos from an iPhone can be scaled down to ~400KB in an image editor and be indistinguishable from the original. What do you mean by "scaled down?" Scaled down implies reduced size. Are you reducing the size
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by gvb 5y ago
Mastodon's licence: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/LICENSE GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 19 November 2007
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by gvb 5y ago
Fascinating frankenplane: https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/frankenplane-1... "With no DC-3 wings to be found, maintenance crews repaired the damaged aircraft with a DC-2 wing, five feet shorter than t
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by gvb 5y ago
66 were reborn as Basler BT-67s (re-engined with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67R turboprops). Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basler_BT-67
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by gvb 5y ago
The idea is to use "Git magic" to make it all work; there is no cherry picking of patches. Instead a "hack on Git merges" is used, which preserves the SHA1 values as they are in the existing stable branches. While that
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by gvb 5y ago
Apparently not just Microsoft. Quoting from TFA < https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm... > skyline75489 commented on Jun 8 Here’s something interesting. I tried to port the ben
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by gvb 5y ago
I don't have a lot of experience with SSDs, but my impression is that their failure mode tends to be abrupt complete failure. The "soft" failure mode is based on the assumption that the flash chip wear-out is the failure mo
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by gvb 5y ago
Amazon tried to make their own phone and failed. And they already had an "app store" ecosystem with their Kindle Fire tablets. If Amazon can't make it work with all it's advantages, I don't see Epic succeeding start
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by gvb 5y ago
AI writes code like a bad intern: pasting in "likely" blocks of code with no understanding of the intent. The difference is the AI pastes in "likely" blocks from github examples where bad interns paste from SO.
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Lessons Learned from Customer Usage(spin.atomicobject.com)
1 points by gvb 5y ago|0 comments
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Lessons Learned from Customer Usage(spin.atomicobject.com)
2 points by gvb 5y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 5y ago
At one time, and probably still today, Google pays for a "firehose" direct feed from twitter. https://searchengineland.com/everything-need-know-google-twi...
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by gvb 5y ago
OK, not good for you. :-/ Managers look with great love and respect to people who give them solutions to problems. They dislike it when people identify problems. They undoubtedly are already aware of the problems but have not been able
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by gvb 5y ago
You are being taken advantage of by a deeply dysfunctional company. Four people (at least) have figured this out ahead of you. Standard advice applies: use the time you have left at this dysfunctional company to quietly find a new company t
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by gvb 5y ago
"Test teams are applying mechanical, electrical and thermal techniques to prompt the valves to open" Wait, what? They are heating and banging on them to "fix" them?!
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Starliner still hoping for August launch despite technical troubles(space.com)
2 points by gvb 5y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 5y ago
(2013)
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by gvb 5y ago
He has better credentials than most people on the internet. Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, is a hematologist-oncologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco

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