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by krisoft 2y ago
> It's okay but I don't take it with me. Sounds like that is the problem? I have mine on my keyring. (and have a backup in a safe.) > would never tie my MFA to a hardware dongle that is likely not to be on my person when I n
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by krisoft 2y ago
But did people buy the jackless phones? That is voting with their wallets. It is not like anyone is forced at gunpoint to buy apple phones.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Voting with your wallet probably isn't going to work, because you probably represent a drop in the bucket of sales. I mean... it worked. People voted with their valets and the side who likes tangled cables to listen to music from
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Are we unconscious when we sleep I don't think that is the right question to ask. Sleeping person is unconscious almost by definition. They don't respond to stimuli and they don't do much of anything besides breathing an
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by krisoft 2y ago
> We "old folks" know exactly what to do when it comes to defragging a drive. Has nothing to do with age. Clearly the game has a host of limitations which has nothing to do with actual disk defragging. (Can only process the blo
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Maybe that came out wrong. No worries! What matters is that we can discuss it and figure things out eventually. What i can totaly agree with you is that correct design is critical, and blaming individuals for their failings is not the
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I often argue such things should be put in portfolios to show off skills, Sure. > This kind of academic or portfolio work is also clearly not what we're discussing because of course it has inherent value in just the creation. Y
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Not 100% sure how I feel about random companies being able to definitively identify me. But that is not what we are talking about. It is not that you are browsing the web randomly and some random company identifies you as d1sxeyes. It
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by krisoft 2y ago
> software that does nothing differently or better than the existing (well-known) solutions is just, well, not interesting to anybody else than the person who wrote it. There can be many reasons. The practical availability or licensing o
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by krisoft 2y ago
Also important to mention that engineers don't like jargon for jargon sake. If you use the right words wrong people will sniff you out. We had a vendor who was trying to sell us some cryptography solution. They were loosely talking abo
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by krisoft 2y ago
> But by the way you're attacking people over small oversights in a comment I can't assume good faith from you. The problem is not with any small oversights. The problem is with the attitude of your comment. You proposed that d
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by krisoft 2y ago
> There was a failure There are failures which only cost the company money and there are failures which risks lives. By all indications this is the first kind. It would be entirely different situation if the rocket thumbled out of contro
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by krisoft 2y ago
> you want it to follow a certain flight path It followed the promised flight path all the way to the drone ship and then tipped over. I would understand the consternation if it left the keep out zone and landed in an entirely different
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by krisoft 2y ago
> They ruled out--according to this source--a hypothesis based on where the light was. That is your reading of the sentence. "choose to assume" does not mean that they ruled out other options. It especially does not mean that t
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Searching for keys under the light is reasonable. Concluding the keys must be under the light is not. Yes. And there is nothing to indicate that they concluded that the keys must be under the lights. In fact there is every reason to as
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by krisoft 2y ago
Exactly. Now if we decide that on some type of aircraft we will display both kind of information to the pilots then it is a user interface task how to present these two similar but different information in such a way that it is clear which
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Sometimes I think UX design should be mandatory for software developers and engineers. Human Factors is very much part of every airplane's design. From the ground up, and it involves all roles and every subsystems. > Even only
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by krisoft 2y ago
> WAT. What what? Do you want to pay for the search? How much do you want to pay for it? Every human endeavour is constrained by resources. The art of doing anything is figuring out how to best employ the available resources to achieve g
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I don't know why I thought a controlled landing of a plane on water was generally possible. Because it is possible and foldr is incorrect in stating that it is not possible. On the video he linked panicked hijackers were fighting
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Most people can’t breathe at high altitudes due to insufficient air pressure. Not most people. Nobody can breath if the altitude is high enough. There are some individual variability in how high is too high. That is of interest if you
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by krisoft 2y ago
> NASA has to constantly wrestle with this 'force' in order to keep it an oligopoly. Maybe instead of pumping money into the husk of Boeing they could try to give some to DreamChaser?
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by krisoft 2y ago
I did read the article and still have the same question. To show that I read it I can even quote the line where they talk about the architect’s motivations: “Venturi wanted the foyer to have the feel of a mighty crypt, leading upstairs to t
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Once quit a job when they tried to install ai powered driver facing dash cams That avenue is open for police officers too. If they don’t like the scrutiny they can and should absolutely leave the profession. > Everyone would be aga
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by krisoft 2y ago
> while in railroad engineering and aviation (where human lives are at stake) you'd get your licenses and certificates revoked Is that true? The safest train is the one which is stationary. Cut off the wheels, and drop the rail cars
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Replace Boeing with Facebook/Google, and it still sounds strange to feel bad for the workers at those companies when the executives make bad decisions like chasing profits over all. I mean, why? Because there are people working at
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by krisoft 2y ago
> we all need to wake up. And what do we need to do after we have woken up? And what are your plans regarding the nukes which will fly towards our homes if we push Russia too far?
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by krisoft 2y ago
Similar thing happened with my airpods too. To compensate for the obviously diminished volume I was cranking the volume up. And even with that podcasts were barely audible when in anything but absolute silence. To add insult to injury the o
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Now what you do? When the ambulance arrives wave your hands and say "over here!". So they can do the "last several meters" of navigation by homing on your visual presence.
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by krisoft 2y ago
I don't understand the problem. You take the equipment, the manual, the guy who used to read the manual and maintain the equipment and the guy who wrote the manual and designed the equipment.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> So we both embark on a completely needless adventure of changing random parts of the code and scratching our heads as to why nothing makes the error go away. I end up wasting hours because of a typo. Wow. That's just straight up

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