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by jacurtis 2y ago
I don't think it is historical data required to make a decision, it is required to store the action for historical purposes in the future. This is ultimately to bill you and to track that a doctor isn't stealing medication, improp
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by jacurtis 2y ago
That is how all of these tools are. I have always told people that third-party virus scanners are just viruses that we are ok with having. They slow down our computers, reduce our security, many of them have keyloggers in them (to detect ot
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by jacurtis 2y ago
And that's why $ARM is a good buy. Selling swords and steel to all these armies as they go to war.
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by jacurtis 2y ago
I tend to agree. Most people have no idea that every commercial or film, ends up dumping or destroying almost all the stuff in the video. I remember there was a Scene in one of the more recent mission impossible movies where the director wa
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by jacurtis 2y ago
I have an M3 for my personal laptop and an M2 for my work laptop. I get ~8 hours if I'm lucky on my work laptop, but I have attributed most of that battery loss to all the "protection" software they put on my work laptop that
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by jacurtis 2y ago
That's what you hypothesize. Research like this affirms your hypothesis with fact. There are historically lots of things that "seemed obvious" but couldn't hold up under research, which is why we do research. It confirms
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by jacurtis 2y ago
I'm going to offer an alternative perspective. My mom needed a new computer a few years ago. I just went and bought her a base M2 Macbook Air. It had the 8Gb of RAM and 256Gb SSD that everyone complains about, and guess what happened.
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by jacurtis 2y ago
Yep. I have written for several large publications. We submit the article, usually are required to submit 3-10 possible titles (depending on the publication), and the editors rarely use any of the 10 titles anyway. Fun fact, many publicatio
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> They cause higher prices for everyone (even for the rewards recipients). Honestly no. Price is relative. The sticker price might change, but the effective price depends on the customer. Largely generalized: Low-credit customers essenti
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> What you pay Stripe is for the combination of interchange fees + Stripe's own service fees. Yeah, Stripe is a bad example. Because Stripe is a payment service provider. They take all the various fees involved with managing payment
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Seems like a pretty good use case for an automated robot like this. It's nice to see a practical use-case for these advanced autonomous robots that doesn't involve war. So as I see it, this is like a fancy all-terrain Roomba. They
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by jacurtis 3y ago
AWS has been pushing MemoryDB, which is redis compatible storage, works with the redis clis and supports Redis features. I suspect in the long run, Amazon will eventually "pay" the licensing fee for customers that demand "Red
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yes, this seems likely since there is almost no way that an announcement from Microsoft would happen so quickly. There were months of back and forth of licensing meetings prior to this with Redis Labs and Microsoft. Microsoft would never ju
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> before something happens and my social security number winds up on a sticky note on some hacker's monitor in Belarus Isn't the point of the article that they can't leak something they don't have? So if I never get y
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by jacurtis 3y ago
This happened to me yesterday: I had to complete a resiliency test on our infrastructure and submit it to auditors for compliance reasons. I ran the tests, got the results, and I have to put it into a report. The report is like 30 pages lon
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by jacurtis 3y ago
In my experience, burnout is EXTREMELY high for developers. My group of friends and colleagues that I started with in my early twenties have mostly left development and tech for the most part. By the time most of us were turning 30, about h
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by jacurtis 3y ago
They do precise weighing of bags as a quality control measure. The tiny 1x1 type pieces are more likely to get missed by the weighing so they often add an extra of those pieces to offset a potential loss that might not get noticed when weig
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I've also always questioned this. I have purchased about 60 sets in the past 4 years. I have a friend who has purchased well over 100 (he runs a Lego YouTube channel - he spends > $6,000 a year on Lego by his estimation). I have nev
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I'm sure CloudFlare is just reeling from this "loss" of 12.3 Million unpaid customers. I hope the CEO doesn't drink too much tequila tonight during the celebrations
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by jacurtis 3y ago
This was my thought while reading this. Overall I think this is a net-win for CloudFlare. I suspect that exactly 0.00% of the 12.6 million domains they just "lost" were paying customers. Considering the people didn't want to
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Thanks, I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking this. Airline food used to be AWFUL. Like you would honestly not even bother unless you were on a very long flight and needed it. My experience is that the last 10 years or so, most
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by jacurtis 3y ago
First class is always full. If you have status with the airlines you can get free upgrades to first class now. So they start releasing upgrades like 3 days ahead of time for the best statusholders. Then 2 days before they release upgrades f
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by jacurtis 3y ago
That's an interesting anecdote. I fly first class a fair bit (10-12 flights per year), and children in first class is pretty rare. When I've seen it, they've never been rowdy. In fact, my experience is that its usually really
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by jacurtis 3y ago
If I understand this correctly, the glove was engineered so that it would slow him down when he put his hand out the window (the webbing in the glove would add drag to his vehicle). I need an ELI5 on this. How does using equipment that is d
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yes it is very important. Shotspotter is like a DVR. It's always "recording", but it is running on a very very short recording loop. The detection of gunshots is based on an algorithm. When triggered, it saves a few seconds b
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by jacurtis 3y ago
84 metro areas in the US are covered by Shotspotter. It is very real.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
It's true. They only have an 8% success rate on closing homocide cases. It is the lowest in the country by several points.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yes there are false positives. This is an alert system and doesn't have to be perfect. This is the difference between a sensor in a self-driving car and a sensor for something like Shotspotter. If a self-driving car sensor has a 1% fai
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by jacurtis 3y ago
They can't. There are a lot of false positives. That has always been one of the biggest criticisms of Shotspotter.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
This used to be a really good thing. I feel like meetups have not recovered since Covid. I would love to see the meetup scene come back.

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