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by jsjohnst 3y ago
Well, considering the total cap for all players on both teams playing in the Super Bowl is less than the amount you think should be paid to a single person, there’s a start. ;)
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
In the fan fiction land of make believe you’ve laid out here already, can’t we make the suspension of disbelief go just a tad further? Maybe every fan gets paid $1M per game they attend?
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> You will need billions of dollars to pay Patrick Mahomes $500M a year to switch sides. You are off on his salary by an order of magnitude. ;) He’s also the number one paid NFL player, so extending his salary to the entire roster is jus
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Yep, R1 chip.
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> In a way, that's where the IWM and SWIM came in so long ago I’m going to assume based on minimal context you are meaning the 40 year old floppy controllers? Since these acronyms are fairly obtuse / not well known… IWM - integ
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Took me a really long pause to think up what DE meant, so to save others from similar waste “desktop environment”
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> Is there a type of software that already does this? Several email clients including Gmail have the ability to have a short delay from clicking “Send” till it actually does the send to allow you the ability to undo.
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Windows CE or Nokia N95 or Nokia 9500.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
To be clear, not disagreeing with your core point, but as a reference comparison, the Meta Quest 2 sold more units in its first 2-2.5 years than Apple sold iPhones (and iPhone 3G) in the equivalent time period.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> This iPhone trope has gotta die It’s not a trope if it’s true. Most hard core nerds didn’t get it until they had tried it hands on (including myself, I panned the device hard until I tried it). Then it was the exorbitant price point ($
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
It was a 90s era book I was originally remembering, so very possibly could’ve been that book. The one I linked above was definitely not the book, but also had a reference to the term. It also might’ve been Gates: How Microsoft’s Mogul Rei
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The “savings” is entirely due to weight. More weight requires more fuel. The single biggest cost by a large margin in the life of a commercial airline jet is fuel. Increase fuel efficiency by even 1% and you save the airline industry billio
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> Cowlings are now composite (ie plastic) instead of aluminum. Um, no. Absolutely not “ie plastic”. Composite material in the case of aircraft means it’s made of two or more materials. In the case of modern aircraft, it often is carbon f
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> The promised user interface, Presentation Manager, was introduced with OS/2 1.1 in October 1988.[15] It had a similar user interface to Windows 2.1, which was released in May of that year. (The interface was replaced in versions 1
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Microsoft and IBM were very close in those days. In fact, Microsoft wrote (some? most? all?) of the first version of OS/2 under contract for IBM. It was in fact a disagreement between IBM and Microsoft over Windows 3.x that ultimately
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> Boeing said late on Monday "while we are confident that the proposed time-limited exemption for that system follows established FAA processes to ensure safe operation, we will instead incorporate an engineering solution that will
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> I don't know what the fuss is about. The post I was replying to is specifically about MacOS. I specifically reference MacOS. You then link to Linux docs. ;)
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I agree that alternative is good, but if you want to try ollama without the user experience drawbacks, install via homebrew.
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Respectfully, I disagree. Not OP, but this “installer” isn’t a standard macOS installer. With a standard installer I can pick the “show files” menu option and see what’s being installed and where. This is home rolled and does what arguably
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> and the battery doesn't even last through a whole movie For the low low price of only $199, Apple will sell an extra battery so you can finish that movie. :P
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> Lobster isn't exactly a staple food anyways. It used to be prison food.
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Here’s the company behind this and a description of the experience: http://www.diagnosticdriving.com/how-readyassess-works
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> Isn't coordination between APs something that … All non-consumer grade (and some consumer grade) AP systems do. Ubiquiti isn’t first, unique, or best in this category. Re: sibling comment, and no, WiFi Alliance isn’t what resulted
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
You do realize “copyright law” and “DMCA” are distinct concepts, right? Related for sure, but also very distinct.
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> Apple controls the JS sandbox in Safari, whereas they don’t control the ScummVM scripting sandbox. AppStore apps themselves are sandboxed too. You can’t execute all arbitrary code just because it’s an app.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> nobody takes time out of their day to defend Apple and PRISM on the Internet I’m definitely not defending Apple to be clear. I just believe facts matter, especially when it involves security topics. Parroting around misleading and&#x2F
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CoreSight is not Apple proprietary, it’s part of ARM’s offering. This vulnerability appears to be part of CoreSight. > but I believe the ARM one is basically from-scratch You are wrongly believing then. There’s still a bunch of ARM IP in
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No, I won’t agree to context free blanket statements which are specifically worded to imply something which is simply not provably true, especially given evidence to the opposite. If you knew anything about PRISM at all, even the technical
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I said nothing about anything you stated, that’s all clearly possible, I specifically refuted the unsupported claim that Apple “ eagerly cooperate with spy agencies”, where there’s ample evidence to support an opposite claim.
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Ahem, you mean you have a single example, from a decade ago, one where Apple was hardly a key player (hence why Apple didn’t sign onto PRISM until half a decade after Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, et all), as conclusive evidence of “eagerness t

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