jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Is the millionaire's kid successful if he does literally nothing in his whole life, lives off his mommy or daddy's money, and still lives better than the plumber's kid?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> > immigrants continue to come to the US looking for economic opportunities, which often take the form of small businesses, and then their kids become doctors and lawyers > Especially if they come here with the capital to start a
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
When a user's phone attempts to get a location fix, it will use the beacons which are publicly transmitted by Wifi networks around it (I assume it's the BSSID/MAC address, specifically) to reference against (or update) a Goog
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Okay, now how do users set their devices to transfer this non-standard information in the beacon?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I'm not sure how "associating a publicly broadcast BSSID with coordinates" is tracking a person.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I highly doubt that they're salaried, so the incentive would actually be to take longer to make more money. A more likely incentive for them to work fast is that they'll be fired if they don't.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The immigrants who come to the US are, by and large, already relatively wealthy. Especially if they come here with the capital to start a small business, or to send their children to medical school.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Why does the millionaire's kid deserve a better shot at success than the plumber's kid?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> You have very, very, good odds of doing better than your parents if you manage to get to age 25 without incurring a felony record, addiction to something that will likely kill you or too many child support payments. Sure, maybe if your
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Thinkpad T15g: $2099, 10th gen Intel i7 2.6GHz 6-core, 16GB DDR4, 512GB PCIe, RTX 2070 MBP: $2399, 9th gen Intel i7 2.6GHz 6-core, 16GB, 512GB PCIe, Radeon Pro 5300M (which is not remotely better than the RTX 2070). But hey you get a touc
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Why on earth do you think you can't send a packet to the device? How do you think the cloud service communicates with it?!
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Curious how y'all find the group chats you want in the bajillions that Googlers must have by now created, given that there are exactly 0 controls on who can create groups and no ability to delete or hide them...
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Settings > Inbox > Reading pane
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Except Democrats have been consistently beating Republicans in presidential elections. Click the links. Go back further if you want to. The Republican candidate has won the popular vote exactly once (in 2004) since 1990.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I'm not sure why you think that having a proxy in the middle will protect you.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Sure, Apple Mail uses about half a GB, too (same mailbox as I just loaded in Gmail, even). But that's the whole program Okay... Gmail is also the whole program? > That with what amounts to two of gmail's pages open (an ema
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
People lie. I'm not sure why you expect the media to sell to people's lies instead of selling to people's actions. PS Americans also overwhelmingly vote either Democrat or Republican in non-presidential elections, even down t
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The percentage of the American population which is either Democrat or Republican is consistently[1] well[2] above[3] 90%[4], so I'm not sure where you're getting 54%. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Uni
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Oh boy, it sure is impossible to exploit something through a proxy in a training diaper!
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
"Sure, they don't support PWAs, but they support pieces of PWAs, so really they support PWAs"
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Good luck loading your email into... what, Outlook? Thunderbird, god forbid? And having it use less... (In fairness, I suppose Mutt's resource usage is probably lower.)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Curious what browser you use that doesn't have lockin and is audited?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
It is by no means failing; at least from what I see, their adoption is higher than it's ever been. They are making a lot of pointless changes while ignoring all the real problems they have, though. Like the fact that group Chats are st
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
"Use Rooms in Google Chat as a central place to connect, create and collaborate with others. Over the summer, we’ll evolve Rooms to become Spaces and introduce a streamlined and flexible user interface that helps you stay on top of eve
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
That depends to an extreme degree on your environment, your language, your compiler... etc. What you need to consider is that tradeoffs have two sides.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> all IoT devices can be kept offline and limited to your LAN > Hone Hub (Apple TV or iPad or HomePod) —> WAN
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> No, it can be commanded from the Internet - big difference. Big difference from what? You do realize that the vast majority of remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities are in software which can be commanded from the Internet , ri
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Firefox doesn't support PWA and has no plans to. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682593#c8
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> The gateway also does not connect to the internet, it is local network only and can be hooked up to the Apple/Google/Amazon systems for internet access. In other words, it does connect to the internet, it also sits on the L
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Implementing wifi/RF with "some relays and transistors" doesn't sound fun.

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