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by jerlam 11mo ago
Other pro hockey teams are not as magnanimous: ‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2025/08/0...
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by jerlam 11mo ago
Compare to the Aranet4: - measures CO2, temperature, humidity, pressure - $150 on sale, which it goes on regularly (like now) - four year battery life on 2 AA batteries
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by jerlam 11mo ago
I didn't necessarily say they were good CI/CD practices.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
Your CI/CD might be setup to upgrade all your dependencies on every build.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
I definitely wouldn't call the use of social media to be social interactions in the traditional sense. Social media's main ability seems to be to connect you to like-minded people, not exposure to different ideas.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
China bans non-certified power banks on their domestic flights, even if they're not in use. And the certification authority is China-specific, they don't care about UL or any others. https://www.travelofchina.com/c
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by jerlam 11mo ago
Predicted in a late night skit 11 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SfSx9ts46A
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by jerlam 11mo ago
Google seems to have a worrying amount of emergency call problems with their Pixel line, so it doesn't seem to be limited to Samsung.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
It's even funnier when the desktop app is just the web app with a wrapper, but the desktop app is worse.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
The fix is just a software update for that phone, it's not on the replacement list.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
Emergency calls often aren't just normal phone calls. At least in the US, they're required to transmit their location to the operator, and this is the case in many other countries as well. I doubt the technologies are standardized
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by jerlam 11mo ago
"People in tech" has grown so large that the term has become a bit meaningless. For every person in tech that knows who Stallman is and what he stands for, there's a person in tech that believes that NFTs and AI will bring ab
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by jerlam 11mo ago
Other states don't have California's direct democracy proposition process that allows any bill to get a vote, provided you have enough signatures. There are some terrible laws that get on the ballot in California, and some get pas
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by jerlam 11mo ago
No, this doesn't make any sense because the "liberals" have not been recently voted into power in order to achieve their political platforms. The opposite has occurred - they are the powerless ones.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
I am not sure if "not caring" is the right perspective. The census takers have a very limited ability to compel you to answer and are not going to show up on your doorstep with law enforcement or threaten fines for not answering.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
> The DECAF Randomized Clinical Trial > The DECAF (Does Eliminating Coffee Avoid Fibrillation?) trial... Fantastic naming.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
The personal automobile is the cause for most of these problems. The US gutted many of its cities by widening streets and removing public transport, and newer cities are simply not built to any comparable density because they are built with
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by jerlam 11mo ago
If Tesla is using this to boost car sales, it will be limited to new models only. There are a lot of cheap used Teslas out there; if Carplay is added to them, Tesla both doesn't make any sales money and they won't make any service
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Russia Creates New Military Branch Dedicated to Drone Warfare(twz.com)
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by jerlam 11mo ago
San Francisco just put up a nude woman statue this year: https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/30/embaracadero-naked-lady-st... But temporary and not publicly funded.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
It wasn't Garmin. Fitbit bought Pebble, then Fitbit failed and was bought by Google. Google then open sourced the Pebble source code. https://9to5google.com/2025/01/27/pebble-smartwatch-2025-goo...
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by jerlam 11mo ago
> Even if I did try to contact a hotel in the event of travel disruption, I’d expect to be funneled into a labyrinth of computerized customer-service menus or AI doomchats before anyone could even try to help me out of my predicament. Th
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by jerlam 11mo ago
I'd buy a new iPhone mini: a spec bump every three or four years, without a major redesign. Just like the current market for the iPad Mini.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
One of the first high-profile Tesla fatalities was on a highway, where the vehicle misunderstood a left exit and crashed into a concrete barrier. https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?g...
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by jerlam 11mo ago
There might be differences between the Shanghai and California factories that muddy the comparison: - California factory was made in previous Toyota/GM factory, not sure how much of it is completely optimized compared to Shanghai facto
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by jerlam 11mo ago
SF Standard has an updated map of the SF coverage area: https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/12/waymo-will-now-drive-bay-a...
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by jerlam 11mo ago
Getting cash is usually the issue, I don't get paid in cash and I have to make a special trip to get it.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
People will pay more money specifically to _not_ interact with AI, just as they do now when they avoid phone or offshore support. It is already the hallmark of luxury to have a large staff of actual people willing to help you.
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by jerlam 11mo ago
My credit cards, both the physical ones and the ones on my phone, work without an internet connection. Cash "just works" until you run out, or have too large denominations that people refuse. And there are more stores now that don
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by jerlam 11mo ago
While annoying, the boarding pass scanning process usually isn't the bottleneck. After I scanned my boarding pass, I then waited in line in the jet bridge, because people in the plane were busy putting their luggage in the overhead com

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