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jaywalk
4y ago
It was the Storm. I had one... for like a week before I returned it. What a stinking pile of crap that thing was.
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4y ago
Opening the hamburger menu results in 61 network requests!!!!!
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4y ago
The reason you can't just buy a "VCR-like" device is because everything is digital now, and it's much simpler/cheaper to capture and record the digital signal than do analog/digital conversion.
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4y ago
> A CEO would not need to lay off people if their long term plans worked accordingly, which means that they suck at their job. So any CEO who is not a psychic will most likely end up sucking at their job.
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jaywalk
4y ago
Nobody is forced to work on anything. If you choose to work for a public platform, that should not automatically grant you authority to dictate what goes on it based on your own sensibilities.
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4y ago
That's basically what ChatGPT already does.
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4y ago
Why is your email address my password? Wtf?
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4y ago
> Also, how will this magic Amazon "Tape Gateway" back up petabytes over slow links? Easy: it won't. If you have more data than bandwidth, you won't use this service. Not sure why you seem to think otherwise.
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4y ago
Here's an easy one I just picked from their list: Trump: "We just got seventy five million votes. And that's a record in the history of in the history of sitting presidents." WaPo: "When the counting was finished, T
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4y ago
Also, conservatives tend to be older, and older people tend to be the ones who watch cable news. Cable news ratings are meaningless in trying to reflect media bias.
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4y ago
"So if everyone has the right to privacy, how are the police supposed to do their job?" Somehow the police managed to catch bad guys before mass surveillance existed. Maybe they should look at that?
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4y ago
From a technical perspective, probably. In reality, absolutely not.
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4y ago
Without knowing how far you're zoomed in on the map or the altitude of the two planes, I can assure you that they're nowhere near each other.
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4y ago
> Some of the turns are way too tight to be done by the autopilot. Not sure what you're looking at, but this is absolutely incorrect. > I would suspect some custom control system was used. Not a chance in hell.
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4y ago
By the time the plane is delivered, it has already been fully flight tested.
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4y ago
Fuel economy is one piece of the puzzle. Another major piece is that passengers prefer the flexibility offered by smaller, more frequent flights instead of larger, less frequent flights.
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4y ago
The glove didn't fit, so the jury had no choice but to acquit.
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4y ago
I wish I could get this point across to my team. They will happily write: db.insert(record); // save the record to the database But when they write some crazy off-the-wall code (that's usually because they didn't underst
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4y ago
> For the traditional satellite service, they're broadcast only so they have no idea what any subscriber is listening to at any point, and some people like that. Newer cars collect data on what you're listening to and report ba
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4y ago
Brownouts can be very useful in finding impacted systems that may have been overlooked as well. Last month, I had to do some updates because a customer's API had moved to a new URL on a new server. My team and I identified (what we tho
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4y ago
Somewhere in the thread the author mentions that they were explicitly not allowed to inform users.
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4y ago
At least it was a small amount of money.
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4y ago
Well some other people have decided that that's not allowed.
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4y ago
> Yes on the whole most people do go out and travel again, but on average much less frequently than they used to You need to provide some data to back this up, because all of the data I've seen (and all of the full flights I've
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4y ago
I don't see how popping an eFuse would really prevent anything. Even if logging in triggered some sort of key generation for remote bricking that was tied to the phone's password, at the end of the day Apple still controls everyth
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4y ago
So only poor people suffer from depression?
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4y ago
Thank you for bringing gender and race into the conversation. That's exactly what was missing here.
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It's not going to be accidentally hit. And even if somehow it does get hit accidentally, there's a CABIN ALTITUDE warning that would go off before it becomes a problem.
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> The fact is that you don't enjoy these things. I definitely enjoyed my Xbox 360 and didn't give a single damn about not being able to use a non-Microsoft hard drive. I doubt I ever really thought about the fact that I couldn&
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No profit margin? What? They were making a massive profit off the hard drives, and this security was meant to preserve those profits.
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