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by jon-wood 3y ago
You can even charge a MacBook from another MacBook if you happen to find yourself in a situation where you forgot the power adapter but not a USB-C cable.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I get questioning why someone would expect this given the world we live in, but why would we hope for it? How about because the world would just be a nicer place to live if every transaction around the place people live weren’t undertaken o
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by jon-wood 3y ago
It’s a similar deal in the UK, where not to long ago parliament voted down an attempt to require rented accommodation be fit for human habitation. Apparently that’s too high a demand from landlords.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Strong agree on that. One person doing so was possibly amusing, everyone else jumping on the wagon is just irritating noise, and I’m not even responsible for trying to sift through that for legitimate feedback.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Way back when my Dad worked from home, and had what I think was a Macintosh Classic II provided by his employer. I’d occasionally be allowed to play the games on it, mostly the pair matching one, which on one occasion crashed. Back then the
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by jon-wood 4y ago
While the addition of being in orbit, and so truly inaccessible if you lose comms, adds a slight wrinkle these are in most other ways just another piece of infrastructure connected to the internet, and so securing them is probably done in m
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I searched for a Kindle book I wanted to read the other night. The results that came up were the book in question, and a book titled “The Book’s Title: eBook”, with exactly the same cover, for 10% of the price. It’s also got a different aut
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Very much agreed on this. One of the key things in me being where I am now is spending a few years working for an ISP staffed by technology nerds in my early 20s, where I'd spend all day surrounded by people who knew what they were doi
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I see LinusTechTips recommended so often and I just don't get it. Everything I've seen from him has been clickbait, or surface level looks at technology, it never has any more depth than a technology enthusiast magazine. I guess t
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Also “not bigger than the largest iPhone available” isn’t exactly small.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Gamers being gamers though they’re not going to say “well, we on reflection I’ve not had to wait so long”, they’re going to slam you with one star reviews for the fact there’s an hour long loading screen on first start.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
It can if you have actually isolated busses feeding into what I will, for lack of knowledge of a better term, a CAN router. Maybe it exists, but I'm imagining a device with multiple CAN inputs that makes decisions on what messages to p
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by jon-wood 4y ago
It feels like this should be manageable without completely removing CAN interfaces from peripheral systems by having multiple busses that are interconnected to each other. Things like lights and wing mirrors can sit on a low security periph
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by jon-wood 4y ago
They are indeed reasonably good for things where it doesn't really matter if it falls down, but I'd be laughed out of the room if I suggested we built a business on top of second-hand thin clients, doubly so when I turned up to a
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Yes, I have a sample of one on my desk, but it was provided along with a disclaimer that lead times to get them in bulk are 12+ months.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
We've been developing an industrial IoT gateway at work on top of the APU2 series, and there really is nothing quite like it. I'd add to that list support for mPCIe LTE modems. My only real complaint with the APU2 was that the sto
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by jon-wood 4y ago
What if we reframe this from the extreme of a rapist, where I agree in many cases retribution needs to be an element of the sentence. How about someone who’s been sentenced for stealing, which they did in order to feed their kids? They drop
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Yes. That is a thing that can be done, here’s Stripe’s documentation on how to set up a Direct Debit mandate: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-methods/bacs-debit?... The thing that’s being missed here
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I’d love to see an RTS that broke out of those constraints, mostly because I find the whole APM heavy approach to them kind of boring. It’s not strategy, it’s clicking fast, and while I recognise the skill involved it bears little relation
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by jon-wood 4y ago
There was a similar incident a while back where someone asked it whether you could make queries via Telegram, and it just handed out a random person's phone number saying they were ChatGPT.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
This has been driving me mad. It seems certain actions have had all audible feedback disabled, but there's no real sense to which ones. When I say across a room to set a reminder or add something to my shopping list my Homepods will ju
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I had no idea about that. Quite tickled by it stopping and asking if I'm sure when I asked to speak at 100 percent.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
At least with Alexa devices disabling alarm systems and unlocking doors requires a PIN, mostly to defend against the much more low tech attack of shouting through the victim's letter box.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
It may be a bit of a chicken & egg thing. All the people I've seen regularly using Windows laptops carry around a wireless mouse with them that gets used anytime they're using it for an extended period, presumably because the
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by jon-wood 4y ago
They almost all show up as a standard USB sound card to the OS, sometimes two on particularly fancy ones allowing you to separately balance chat and game, so you should be fine.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I think the thing you're missing here is that Picard isn't about the optimistic Starfleet of the past, it's a lot darker and insular than the old one. A key plot line throughout the first season was Picard's failure to a
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by jon-wood 4y ago
This was also my first reaction, but it got me questioning whether I’m just becoming the same as the guys who were saying “using an interpreted language for that is a waste of resources”. Maybe LLMs are the equivalent, sure they use more CP
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I was also really excited for this, coming from the angle of someone who's never really got into classical music. It seemed like a nice opportunity to dig into it a bit with some (hopefully) good curation. The lack of a macOS app is ba
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Do you have a source on them intentionally stoking genocide? I’m not fan of Facebook, but if there’s reliable evidence on that I’d expect summons to The Hague in short order, which I’ve yet to see.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Consultancies like Accenture have a vast army of contract lawyers who'll be on the look out for clauses like that, ensuring that they don't end up out of pocket because a project overran or didn't meet expectations. That init

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