jk_i_am_a_robot

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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
"Never mind that most Ideas sets get a significant design overhaul before reaching production anyway." You've answered your own question -- selection criteria extend beyond physical design.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
I cynically fear that once "they" successfully ban Glyphosate from store shelves something worse will come along and take its place. And by "worse" I mean less studied, perhaps more harmful in the long run.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
"I literally just spent most of today messing with my 2018 Samsung TV trying to get rid of the bloatware they pre-installed removed." Can you elaborate?
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
C# designers have always made good choices about syntactic additions. Contrast this to modern C++ designers who jam in every new addition with the goal of total inscrutability.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
But also from Wikipedia: In Carpenter v. United States (2018), the Supreme Court ruled warrants are needed for gathering cell phone tracking information.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
Everybody discovers too late that protocol buffers doesn't have any typing and then hacks on a header solution of their own. Tale as old as time.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
"Can we even go back to Usenet without Google Groups?" No. Any group that doesn't have some kind of pre-post vetting idiom is going to have spam and abuse problems. This wasn't always the case and I can't pinpoint
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
I've had four cats, two love tuna and two hated it. We ran of cat food and tried to feed them tuna and they wouldn't eat it.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
Expand-a-band-band... patent stash!
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
Building a user community of Reddit's size is not something the CEO could reproduce or even repair if severely damaged which is something I think they've lost sight of.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
"Opium" poppies are still grown at George Washington's estate, Mt. Vernon ( https://www.mountvernon.org/the-estate-gardens/gardens-lands... ). Since it's also in Virginia I assume it's governed
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
It wasn't required. It was a moonshot that worked.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
English has had a long trip to the language it is today. It doesn't help that at the latter stages of its development writers disagreed on or disregarded the rules of spelling.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 3y ago
> “I challenge any one of you to outwork me, but you won’t,” Maybe he has to work so much because he's incredibly inefficient.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 4y ago
If I could answer it would be a solid "maybe". If you're willing to consider the Translation Lookaside Buffer as part of the contents of RAM then, if the claims are to be believed, SPECTRE and Meltdown could read the content
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 4y ago
I share this frustration; sometimes communities move so fast that you cannot participate.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 4y ago
Why not just use off-the-shelf equipment with modified external antennas? Use OpenWRT on cheap equipment that will accept an external antenna.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 4y ago
You could turn it on by sending the correct Hayes command before connecting. It's really annoying! And it can't be turned back off again until you disconnect.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 4y ago
Sounds like these developers aren't very good -- they have one out of four traits of good developers. I suspect the "smart" attribute is held to such high esteem by your corporate culture that people who appear "smart&q
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 4y ago
I was shocked at how many keypresses it takes to make it slightly warmer in a Tesla.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 4y ago
I assumed it was invented when a developer cut down an edge connector breadboard and shoved it directly into the USB port then et voilà it's a development board.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 4y ago
That's a solved problem whose solution is called ipv4 over ipv6 tunneling.
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by jk_i_am_a_robot 4y ago
Trademarks are only supposed to be infringing if they're creating confusion in the marketplace. The boundaries of a trademark are supposed to be within a single "industry". "American Airlines" might be able to sue