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by lph 8y ago
A long-term disaster that needs massive short-term action to avert is really kind of a perfect storm for killing humanity. You are absolutely right that the discussion needs to be far heavier on what the concrete consequences will be, not i
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by lph 8y ago
My hands are bleeding just thinking about the logistics of opening and closing 2000+ DVD cases, and loading/unloading that many DVDs, over the span of three days. Ouch.
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by lph 8y ago
It depends on how you define primary function. Speaking as the parent of two young children, the ability to call 911 in an emergency is the most critical functionality my phone has, even though I've never had to use it.
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by lph 8y ago
The Pixel 1 was the first time I'd ever sprung for a flagship phone, and it fell to the audio chip defect in under two years. It was effectively totaled (market value=$180, repair=$150+hours). Google Support was a complete waste of tim
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by lph 8y ago
It's a price of 4x higher for just long enough to create the table, not for the duration of the test.
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by lph 8y ago
> you're welcome to help us debug this error 500 on population Create the table with 4x the provisioned capacity and then dial down to your nominal levels after it's been created.
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by lph 8y ago
KDE Connect is really fantastic. I recently switched to an iPhone and I miss KDE Connect so much :( Now I have to go through all kinds of ridiculous antics just to copy a file over to my phone, when it used to be so easy.
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by lph 8y ago
I'd always had the same kind of buggy KDE experience whenever I experimented with it, so I used Gnome for years. And then I tried KDE Plasma... it works fantastically, at least for me, on the latest stable Ubuntu. So it's sad to
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by lph 8y ago
This.
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by lph 8y ago
For someone to be at T7 after only 10 years, they would have to be truly exceptional. It does happen, but it's rare.
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by lph 8y ago
What ever happened to those things? Seems like they were everywhere in the 80's and then they all disappeared.
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by lph 8y ago
20 minutes in: the dawning horror that, yes, I'm watching a video about Excel for fun
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by lph 8y ago
The Seattle Times did a nice job here of presenting viewpoints from women Computer Scientists at different points in their careers.
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by lph 8y ago
All the anecdotes we hear about high compensation come with a heavy dose of survivor bias---we only hear about the high salaries. There are lots of good devs making more modest figures at less glamorous startups or small shops. Glassdoor re
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by lph 8y ago
The idea that this appeasement will make Google a contender in China is blazingly ignorant of Chinese politics. No foreign company will ever be allowed to gain significant market share; it would be seen as a national security threat. The on
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by lph 8y ago
So we should only have to follow the intersection of all state regulations? That sounds like a great race to the bottom.
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by lph 8y ago
Being erroneously deregistered makes it harder to vote. When something gets harder, some percentage of people don't do it. Purges are being applied in a way that disproportionately impacts demographics likely to vote for Democrats, by
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by lph 8y ago
My wife used to run a small volume eBay shop, maybe 50 listings at a time. About once a month she would have to deal with outright fraud, and eBay almost always sided with the buyers. I'm talking about things like brand new items of cl
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by lph 8y ago
> even if there is an off the shelf version done by dedicated professionals Hahaha. Ahem. Hahahahaha Source: am dedicated professional
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by lph 8y ago
It's a low bar for surveilling individuals, but it doesn't scale. I think that's really important. The more obstacles in the way of mass surveillance, the better.
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by lph 8y ago
Amazon's customer service is legendary. It's why this whole thing is such a mystery. If Comcast were doing something so bad for customers, nobody would be surprised.
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by lph 8y ago
I really, really want to hear the other side to this. That there is a serious counterfeiting problem is obvious to anyone who buys certain categories of products on Amazon. It is certainly obvious to Amazon itself. BUT Amazon is also a very
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by lph 8y ago
On the flipside, think of the joy of realizing you've finally been connected to a smart, competent person who is empowered to solve your problem. It is like finding a call center unicorn.
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by lph 8y ago
So who has standing to sue? How can I prove I /didn't/ see a job posting because I'm too old, and what damages could I claim as a result of it?
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by lph 8y ago
How does Tesla fail so badly at basic collision avoidance?? Surely the LIDAR is able to detect an imminent collision, but at least in the recent fire truck and lane-split barrier incidents, the cars didn't even slow down?! That seems r
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by lph 8y ago
The (large) company I work for also has this policy. If a potential employer contacts the company, they will confirm dates of employment, but that's all. It's a liability thing.
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by lph 8y ago
I think this comment may give us a lot of insight into why there aren't more women in tech...
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by lph 9y ago
What purpose does cryptocurrency serve in this scenario that ordinary payment methods could not?
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by lph 9y ago
It remains to be seen how much impact this will ultimately have on Facebook, but it's not ridiculous to think it could be significant. Trust is important; for a cautionary tale we need look no further than Uber, whose pervasive bad fai
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by lph 9y ago
Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle were astounding to me as a kid. Sounds like they had a great team.

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