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I already have that, but neither help when they do an ETD swab on your bags and gets a false positive from the machine as I was describing in my reply.
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XNA has the worst TSA though historically. I’ve flown out of there over a dozen times and only during Covid times did they not practically want to do a body cavity search. It’s a combination of carrying too much electronics when I fly, with
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Based on the story title (but not the story itself exactly), I’m one of those Americans. Six months ago I packed up the essentials from my apartment and loaded them in an RV. I built out a great office space in the front (better than the av
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5y ago
You forgot the factory that builds the factory that builds the factory to call get on. I’m sure you’ll need a StringBuilder or two too! ;)
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> I mean installing an app I meant exactly that and didn’t mean Jailbreaking. Apple officially supports allowing you to sign apps for your own device with a free developer account, it’s just the signing expires after 7 days (unlike the
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> Are there any services like that? Yes, lots of them. JLPCB even has a promo right now where they do SMT assembly for free. https://support.jlcpcb.com/article/146-2-for-1-4-layer-pcbs
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Larger tech companies generally offer this perk to new hires, sometimes after a probationary period. It’s not Ivy League tuition level, but enough to get by at a local school generally.
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> My problem is not having a way to bypass the App Store The ability to bypass the App Store for yourself exists and has for a long time. The process might not be to your liking, but let’s stop pretending that you have no choice if you w
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I run two 5K LG displays (in addition to the laptop screen) on the 16” and don’t have the issue.
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Many of the commonly used Ruby HTTP gems use libcurl under the hood.
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> Apple has had privacy and security as a core part of their marketing since forever. They also had a whole set of ads and comments in keynotes about how secure and privacy focused OSX was I went back and skimmed through the past decade
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> The attacks that rely on intercepting SMS messages are cumbersome and are really feasible only for high value targets. Depends on your definition of cumbersome, but it can be done fairly trivially[1] if you know what you’re doing. [1]
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> What are the factors that you think would cause prices to reduce? 1) reductions in cost of launches 2) reductions in cost of satellites 3) bandwidth capacity improvements per satellite I could keep going, but it’s obvious you’ve convin
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> Apple was not marketing privacy as heavily back then as they do now. Notice I didn’t say they weren’t pushing privacy at all, I said not as heavily .
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You could do it with a pen and paper in less than 5.
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> Apple knew about a huge compromise of their users devices. Despite all of their marketing material talking about how much they value customer security and privacy, they made a business decision to not notify the affected users. Importa
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I had an HP48GX in the early 90s and loved it. Still probably my favorite[1] calculator I’ve owned and I wrote so much code on it back then. [1] although my TI-92 was a close second after it came out a few years later as it could do symboli
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> The starlink antenna is a $499, and the subscription is $99 a month. So your whole argument on pricing is based on a beta product with limited availability currently. Because prices have never dropped significantly once the product
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> Do you actually have any evidence in which to compare and contrast how a government behaves when trying to cover up a manmade virus vs how a government behaves when trying to cover up a natural virus that has hopped species? I’m not GP
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> However a sufficiently determined evil crate Nothing really can stop a truly determined bad actor completely, but I don’t think that was GP’s point, rather that it’s good to easily know the potential risk you are exposing yourself to w
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Shapeways announces public offering via SPAC
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> Why do you think remote work is only feasible during a pandemic? Remote work was feasible in part during a pandemic because it had to be. When everyone is 100% remote, things aren’t bad. If companies don’t do anything to preserve that
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I’ll look into this API, thanks! Everything I’ve tried previously I ran into limitations that blocked me from building the project I was working on.
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> How does pure oxygen kill you? What’s the mechanism? Oxygen is highly toxic to the cells in the human body, but not generally under standard atmospheric pressure. Breath pure oxygen while >33ft below water and you’ll quickly experie
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I’d really like to know this too, but been unable to get a price either. I also really want an API (ideally with historical data available) with fare pricing data too, but not been able to get a quote on that either.
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You won’t find a Displaylink adapter that supports Thunderbolt monitors. It just won’t work from a technical aspect.
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Twitter has always, to my knowledge, called them DMs. I’ve always hated FB messaging, despite using it out of necessity occasionally, so I can’t speak to if/when the naming scheme changed there. That said, a bunch of smaller messaging
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Did you consider potentially not using solenoids at all? Underneath each of the GH buttons is a momentary switch, so theoretically you can remove all mechanical forms of potential failure by eliminating the switches and solenoids.
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> Why would I show an ad to someone who literally just bought my thing? The majority of targeted advertising I see is for items I just bought. There’s also a reasonable explanation for this... Not every merchant shares purchase data, so
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I’m using standard office sized standing desks (40”x60”). On my “work” desk I have two 27” LG5K displays side by side with the laptop off to the side. My second “personal” desk has two 27” Apple Thunderbolt monitors stacked vertically with
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