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by kgermino 7y ago
Good point. Completely forgot about that one.
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by kgermino 7y ago
It’s worth noting that even though the 717 was first released in the late 90’s it isn’t a case of Boeing innovating since it’s just a rebadged MD-95 which was developed by McDonnell-Douglas
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by kgermino 7y ago
I like it - I have it show the function keys in the few apps I know the keyboard shortcuts for, and the app specific buttons in other apps. I makes it nicer to adjust system settings (brightness, etc) and has helped me with new shortcuts in
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by kgermino 7y ago
Yep. It’s tied to U.S. housing subsidies. Basically the Federal Government wants people to own their own home so they subsidize home loans. But to help prevent people from using the subsidies for 2 houses or rental properties they require y
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by kgermino 7y ago
Most loans are based on owner occupancy so the bank (really the Federal Government) will require that you are going to live the in house “immediately” to qualify for a better rate.
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by kgermino 7y ago
One tip, when you up vote or down vote a link is added to the comments header. It will either be “unvote” or “undown” depending on whether you up or downvoted the comment.
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by kgermino 7y ago
I have no inside knowledge but I’m a contract developer on the Salesforce platform so I was on a lot of the public calls today. Every org on an instance that had an org that used Pardot (huge percentage) had a service outage today. The secu
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by kgermino 8y ago
How do you figure that it's not a country? I upvoted when I thought it was a genuine question, but now I wonder what point you're trying to make. FWIW, wikipedia says "The United Kingdom (UK),[15] officially the United Kingdo
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by kgermino 8y ago
(It's a recursion joke)
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by kgermino 8y ago
I think it's similar to Macs. iPad mini (2019), just like 15" MacBook Pro (Late 2018).
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by kgermino 8y ago
But that’s still 25% of the original security... I get that it’s meaningless - 4x effectively 0 is still effectively 0 - but denying the math doesn’t really help anything.
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by kgermino 8y ago
>Isn't catholic social doctrine dictated by the pope? Yes, but it's more akin to how US Foreign Policy is dictated by the President. Ignoring the religious aspect for a bit. The Pope has the power to dictate Catholic social do
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by kgermino 8y ago
This is probably a stupid question, but how is "ground speed" measured? Is it how quickly the airplane moves past a fixed point at it's altitude, or along the earth's surface? I.e. the plane is effectively moving along t
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by kgermino 8y ago
>For 10k passwords and 100ms per hash it is 90 hours of single threaded execution time. That's 90 hours per account , multiply that by 326 million accounts and it's over a billion CPU days . You can reduce it a lot (no need t
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by kgermino 8y ago
Yep, my recollection (from stories on-line) is that there was a debate within the team between launching with 3rd party apps or limiting most third parties to web apps. That debate was settled when they realized that they wouldn't be
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by kgermino 8y ago
> Here's an example for iPhone where they're using some complex mounting frame to connect a 35mm prime lens to the front of an iPhone. The phone becomes more like a smart camera back. That’s... not an iPhone, though the video m
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by kgermino 8y ago
Little of both. The SSD is a very fast 1TB model running on Apple’s custom controller (so you can’t just compare to a random one on Amazon). It’s also an obscenely high priced upgrade. Probably more column B (expensive) than A (good)
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by kgermino 8y ago
[1] badly misrepresents what happened. Throttling peak performance when the battery can’t deliver enough power for it helps people use the phone longer. It’s almost the opposite of planned obsolescence. The alternative is people’s phone shu
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by kgermino 8y ago
>This effectively excludes every bus line, because there is no reason for bus lines to run the same route all day long. This is one of the major advantages of buses. I can't think of a single bus line in my city that actually chang
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by kgermino 8y ago
That's fair. My intuition is that a scooter would be ok, but I'm definitely not familiar with the kind of heat they get down there. I'm in Milwaukee WI, 95 and humid is our normal "hot summer day"
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by kgermino 8y ago
Where in the US are bikes not suitable for 1/2 the year? Are you thinking areas like Florida and Texas? I can see biking being tough in the hot/humid summer but wouldn't something like an electric scooter (where you're j
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by kgermino 8y ago
I really don’t like that plan. It may not be bad, depending on what the noise is, but unless it’s done well it will be a new, annoying sound that I have to hear all the time. I don’t see the safety benefits either. Cars going less than 20 m
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by kgermino 8y ago
But it’s usually not GPU intensive. The implication is that taxing BOTH the CPU and the GPU will cause performance issues. Something like compiling, which is usually just CPU intensive bursts, should see a performance improvement.
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by kgermino 8y ago
>JCPenny's discovered that the consumer demands this behavior. Which really disappointed me. I was thrilled when they announced the no sales model and switched all my clothes buying to them - it’s so much less stressful. Several peo
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by kgermino 8y ago
That doesn’t seem like the best example. I’m not sure what the context was for that video, hit it doesn’t look like Steve said that tablets would fail. He said that a tablet made in that era would only be useful to rich people who want an
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by kgermino 8y ago
> [comcast] do subsidize the cities with higher fees in the country That may be true, but cities also cost less to serve than rural areas. Less density means that equipment serves fewer customers, each customer requires more cable to ser
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by kgermino 9y ago
How much cheaper are Chromebooks? Education iPads are $300, to my naive self it doesn’t seem like there is a lot of room for a decent laptop to be much cheaper.
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by kgermino 9y ago
Can you give example of those violations? (And possibly what resulted of them) Honestly asking, my memory of new events from that era is somewhat hazy.
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by kgermino 9y ago
No, you could see those ratios with net income or profit but revenue is simply numUnitsSold*avgSellingPrice. It doesn’t take unit costs into account.
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by kgermino 9y ago
But revenue is not profit. If units are up 10% and revenue is up 25% then there must have been an increase in average selling price. That alone doesn’t tell us anything about whether profit went up or down.

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