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2041.
by kbenson 6y ago
The article mentions rotorcraft, but I would imagine the technology works for propellers just as well, wouldn't it? And many drones in the army are exactly as pictured, propeller driven fixed wing aircraft. I agree it does seem to be
2042.
by kbenson 6y ago
> A picture of a propeller craft while talking about rotors, check. Propellers are rotors. Rotor is the generic term for something that rotates, while a propeller implies movement along the axis it is providing thrust. In other words, a
2043.
by kbenson 6y ago
> It certainly makes sense to me that if you have to smuggle it, you're not going to be smuggling beer cause the risk/reward is so much better smuggling liquor. That does track with how cocktails were supposed to have gotten mu
2044.
by kbenson 6y ago
Oh. I assumed consecutive numbers, but not necessarily consecutive on each pull. That is, 1,2,3,4,5 is no different than 2,3,4,5,1 in my calculations, which makes the possible ways got get consecutive numbers at the end quite a bit higher
2045.
by kbenson 6y ago
Does someone mind posting the math on this? I'm getting something like 775% chance it would happen yearly, but that seems too likely, and I think I screwed mine up somewhere, and wouldn't mind seeing where I made some wrong ass
2046.
by kbenson 6y ago
Also, hopefully the people in charge are thinking closely about what time engaged means , for that product. I imagine breaking user actions down to intent, if possible, would help quite a bit with that. For a product that is supposed to b
2047.
by kbenson 6y ago
Out of the companies I would be worri d would come after me for software, or even accidentally come after me for something like this busy just follow through because they have whole procedures and teams for this, Abode would be one of those
2048.
by kbenson 6y ago
> Why do you think bigotry is bad? Depending no the definition you use, either because it's part of the definition in that it's talking about negative effects , or because it's based on intolerance and unwillingness to
2049.
by kbenson 6y ago
Again, this is taking actions of a group, and some within it, and applying it to all the individuals. That your excuse for doing so is that "they are police" or "they are in charge" isn't all that convincing. Last
2050.
by kbenson 6y ago
The implication of the original comment is that the negative influence of this small group of police officers really doesn't matter to the reputation of the police because they are "the people that have been beating, gassing, and
2051.
by kbenson 6y ago
Yes, being a cop is a choice. But not everyone becomes one for the same reason. Assuming negatives about everyone in that group is unfair and unhelpful to the people that are within it trying to actually enact change. In what way is dispa
2052.
by kbenson 6y ago
In what way is equating the actions of some police officers with all police officers different than equating the actions of some specific ethnic or religious group with all the people of that group? If it isn't okay to stereotype based
2053.
by kbenson 6y ago
Water's cost is much less than the cost of energy because supply is high. If water was more scarce (or if water rights weren't screwy in many places), it would be much more expensive, and it definitely would be more of a limiter.
2054.
by kbenson 6y ago
Yes, now you ask the company you are trying to use the services of to allow your application to be a valid authentication agent of. Since when doesn't it make sense to ask to tie in your app when it's to be used with a different
2055.
by kbenson 6y ago
> Epiphany uses Webkit-GTK. In a certain sense of the word, this is indeed an off-the-shelf library, but only in the same sense that Google Chrome uses off-the-shelf Blink. And yet nobody would accuse Google of this. The reason why is a
2056.
by kbenson 6y ago
> Okay. So using a browser library for building a browser is a shortcut, and that disqualifies it from being a "full" browser. Using an off-the-shelf library to provide core browser functionality disqualifies it from being on a
2057.
by kbenson 6y ago
Probably to a dev on the team that implemented this, which might be harder to find, but is also likely to be a more fruitful conversation than some front-line support rep, as technical cases and reasons can be explained dev-to-dev.
2058.
by kbenson 6y ago
If it's a webview based browser, I think it shouldn't be added. Sorry, that's just the price they pay for using a webview as a shortcut to providing a full browser. > It seems to me that allowing even a single webview-b
2059.
by kbenson 6y ago
I mean app in the traditional sense, application . It's apps (almost) all the way down. ;) And any new browser competition has been kneecapped in that way by recaptcha for a long time already. You either deal with the web being less
2060.
by kbenson 6y ago
Or unless there's a petition process to get another browser added. I think the criteria is "not a webview, not embedded", so if your browser isn't usable for that, or at least not without it being obvious, then maybe th
2061.
by kbenson 6y ago
Yes, they'll require this for authentication , not use. There are already ways to log into Google accounts using a trusted platform like a browser when the environment can't be confirmed. Google Cloud Shell has a mechanism like
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by kbenson 6y ago
> Preventing legitimate users that use different browsers is not good behaviour. One company shouldn't be able to control the web this way. They're talking about their own services that they require accounts for here, not &quot
2063.
by kbenson 6y ago
I think Valve and Microsoft are better served (for different reasons) by there being only one browser engine, the one they use. It's users that really gain from the competition. Companies may gain in the long run because of better pe
2064.
by kbenson 6y ago
Like many of these things, disentangling exactly what is what can be hard. If the media had ignored Y2K, I have no doubt that it would have been much worse as many companies, probably on the smaller end, weren't aware random bits of s
2065.
by kbenson 6y ago
There are laws in some states about parties consenting to be recorded, I'm not sure how that interacts with the police and their recording, but my guess is that it's mostly untested until it hits a court or if specific exemptions
2066.
by kbenson 6y ago
Yeah, a state department side-steps a lot of those problems (but also possibly lets states ignore it). A federal law requiring police interactions to be recorded and submitted to a state entity and requiring it be stored for a certain peri
2067.
by kbenson 6y ago
> a victim who has asked not to be recorded That's an interesting point, but I'm not sure this specific case matters? Are there things a person speaking to a police officer has any expectation that the officer may not relay as
2068.
by kbenson 6y ago
I'm pretty sure trying to pass something like that would very quickly devolve into an argument about states rights. Probably rightly so, as even though oversight would be good, a Federal agency to do so might be problematic for many r
2069.
by kbenson 6y ago
> Their "bang for the buck" is low, their potential for abuse is high, and adding them to an established language is even less appealing, as it creates a clear old/new code divide. I'm not a Java programmer, but I agr
2070.
by kbenson 6y ago
Yeah, the app is broken in that respect (at least in FF, which is all I checked in), but it does eventually work. I guess whether that breaks the back button or not is somewhat dependent on your view of what it does and how it should wor

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