jojobas

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by jojobas 1y ago
This transition would not help much if Apple was just one of dozens of macos laptops. Microsoft can't afford to discontinue support for x86 even over 10 years. They have enough trouble keeping Windows compatible with legacy software th
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by jojobas 1y ago
Electrical injuries claim some 1000 lives per year in the states, and 20% of all electrical injuries are sustained by children (lethal and non-lethal). I don't think every electrocuted child makes even local headlines.
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by jojobas 1y ago
There's a fair bit of survivorship bias in this. That said, modern power supplies use "bleeder resistors" to discharge the capacitors once powered off.
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by jojobas 1y ago
C grade high school physics understanding makes the risk exactly zero. Selling defective stuff without declaring is bad mojo, with declaring it just delegates the pain in the bum to someone else..
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by jojobas 1y ago
There was a very good reasons for it, indigenous designs were obsolete by the time they left the drawing boards and countless design bureaus cost stupid amounts of money while producing dozens of incompatible computers. By the time they dec
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by jojobas 1y ago
Even Olympic trap shooters miss their targets sometimes, and they fly ballistic trajectories after they call "pull". Expecting a soldier with 2 months training (best case) to hit an unpredictably flying drone that appeared out of
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by jojobas 1y ago
Viking probes got there in about 11 months. You might be thrown off by an AI artifact.
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by jojobas 1y ago
We don't quite have the technology. It was spotted a month ago, will cross inside Martian orbit in another 2 months, for another 3 months. The fastest we can get to around Martian orbit is 7 months.
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by jojobas 1y ago
That's academic freedom for you.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Wouldn't that be a uboot issue? Perhaps you could piggy-back on this effort. https://www.reddit.com/r/OrangePI/comments/1buzts4/uboot_v20...
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by jojobas 1y ago
RPi dropped the ball relative to the competition. Orange Pi boards outperform them for a fraction of the price. There are very few use-cases where Raspberry is preferable.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Oil futures swing by 15% in a day easily. Not knowing which country only adds to the uncertainty.
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by jojobas 1y ago
If they were 10% as bad as their opposition Gaza would have been Arab-free for decades now.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Are you suggesting that the 91% that can solve some tasks in the street are descendants of Jews or priests/nobles/landlords?
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by jojobas 1y ago
Laws get challenged and overturned all the time. I doubt it will happen this time, can't have wrongthink.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Clamping down on freedoms is not conservative policy. Crap like Communications Act 2003 and Ofcom has been Labour policy for decades.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Perhaps they have more of them per sq.km/dwelling, or build houses and make wiring to less crappy standards. The choice of bigger, heavier trucks is not because of shortage of smaller chassis or excess money, they fit more stuff.
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by jojobas 1y ago
At the very least they'd compete on cost against the other 2/3 of the market and conquer more of that.
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by jojobas 1y ago
The article makes this assertion without much proof. The buyout may or may not have caused the price hike. If anything, unified R&D would have allowed to save on costs.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Or rather, European cities have to settle with inferior small fire engines because of their legacy infrastructure.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Such that doesn't see you infertile and dead by 30.
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by jojobas 1y ago
It's already affecting students knowledge. Why bother with understanding something if you can ask chatgpt to do the work?
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by jojobas 1y ago
If you didn't see their sunset notification emails you wouldn't have seen your cert expiration email either.
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by jojobas 1y ago
You're complicit with Windows living on, being long overdue in the landfill of computing history.
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by jojobas 1y ago
I was jabbing at the "algorithmic smoke detectors", not the concept of filtering sensor output.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Looks like you're complaining about too much job security. Also it's you choice to accept that task and make the world a slightly worse place again.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Every time someone ships successful code that's hard to port to Windows the world becomes a better place.
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by jojobas 1y ago
>some sort of high pass filter Quite some algorithm you got there!
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by jojobas 1y ago
Then you have an open world game where you can do all sorts of insane stuff, but everyone loses their shit specifically over feeding suffragettes to alligators.
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by jojobas 1y ago
The government delegates authentication to banks of all things? I guess shop for another country?

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