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by mastercheif 3y ago
Recent statements and speculation from FAA / EASA / Pilots suggests that the plane would've likely passed certification without MCAS: https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/mcas-may-not-... That
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by mastercheif 3y ago
> This forward-positioning of the engine causes the nose to pitch up when accelerating quickly (and this can cause stall) and they fixed this defect using software to push the nose down. MCAS was not intended to be an anti-stall system.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
Sony uses Samsung QD-OLED panels in their top of the line OLED models. They then use LG W-OLED to fill out the rest of their lineup.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
Highly recommend reading the various interviews and papers by Bruno Putzeyes. He’s been pushing the state of the art in PDM / PWM / Class-D amplification for the last 20 years or so. Here’s a white paper of his specifically about
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by mastercheif 3y ago
AdGuard is good. Not as good as uBO, but 98% of the time it gets the job done.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
I would’ve considered switching to Firefox if they hadn’t shipped their Pocket “redesign” earlier this year. It’s one of the worst most user hostile updates I’ve seen from any app or website in my 20 years on the web. It’s completely broken
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by mastercheif 3y ago
Major kudos to Dan Goodin at Ars Technica for this write up. The article reads in a “progressive disclosure” manner, and I was able to follow along to the end even though I am not a programmer.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
This is driving me insane. There are literally 5 desktop monitor models in the market today that provide a natively scaled experience for macOS users. All over $1000. The only monitors that would provide the equivalent screen real estate of
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by mastercheif 3y ago
Your mistake is thinking that the car manufactures are optimizing for UX. What they're actually optimizing for is looking impressive/high-tech to help sell cars and reducing build costs.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
NJ Transit’s data operation is sub-par. The developers of the “Transit” app have been sparring with them to get live bus data restored https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/transportation/2023/1...
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by mastercheif 3y ago
Dell, HP, and Compaq were also affected by the issue. The issue was with the die packaging, nearly impossible to catch post-production. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/10/nvidia-settle...
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by mastercheif 3y ago
In college I tried a medication called Topamax (Topiramate) for migraine prevention. Topamax has a low-occurrence side effect of “language impairment” which I was particularly sensitive to. It was a terrifying experience, but it was also a
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by mastercheif 3y ago
> Just like the low-spec M3 14" has one fewer Thunderbolt port, it also doesn't officially support Thunderbolt 4 (like M1/M2 before it) I believe this is due to the TB4 spec requiring support for two external displays on a
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by mastercheif 3y ago
Appreciate the response and insight. Rooting for you guys, I’ll be sure to submit feedback in the future.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
1. Try the Disco Biscuits. Pioneers of the "Jamtronica" scene. https://youtu.be/4fJPISiFCW0?si=wWYY4bvqEqyKOkDq&t=129 2. If you want to try stuff that's slightly more "pure" electronic music, th
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by mastercheif 3y ago
I’ve also seen Kagi’s result quality start to decline in the last few months, and I now automatically bang to Google for anything local. My unsourced theory is that they’ve optimized getting their search costs down, at the expense of some e
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by mastercheif 3y ago
If you long press on a link and choose open in Safari it will remember your preference and not open the app going forward. Terrible UX, but it works.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
The problem is that it’s essentially illegal to build new hotels in NYC. This is because NYC’s hotel labor unions successfully lobbied to enact a law requiring city council approval to build new hotels in the city. Effectively damning any n
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by mastercheif 3y ago
I’ve been thinking the same thing. You could even treat extensions as tokens and whitelist numbers only if they call the right extension.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
That’s because iPhones (and all other smartphones) use 2x2 mimo WiFi arrays. The only way you’ll get > 1 GBPS on WiFi is on a device with 3x3 or 4x4 mimo WiFi. 2x2 is used because it’s less power intensive and takes up less physical spac
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by mastercheif 3y ago
They haven’t done it because it would trigger the equivalent of an economic nuclear war. Mutually assured economic destruction. It would also cause every tech company in the western (and western aligned) world to leave China for good.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
Apple didn’t abandon Qi… all wirelessly chargeable iPhones are Qi compatible.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
https://roon.app/en/ Roon is the only other music player that understands the difference between compositions and performances like Apple Music Classical does. What’s cool about Roon is that it applies this approach to
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by mastercheif 3y ago
I remapped the left spacebar to cmd for my Mac. Makes keybaord shortcuts much easier on the hands.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
It’s interesting seeing people in this thread complaining that AHK keeps them tied to windows, I feel the same about Keyboard Maestro on my Macs. I switched to a 90% Windows environment at my new job. Gave Windows + AHK a shot to potential
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by mastercheif 3y ago
My blood pressure just drove up reading this.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
> Don’t buy anything but physical hdd from WD. Don't buy anything from WD. I RMA'd a failed SSD to to them under their "advanced replacement program". They put a hold for the value of a new SSD on your card and ship i
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by mastercheif 3y ago
Just started Master of the Senate. Caro's books have reignited my love of reading. Cannot recommend his books enough for anyone interested in how power in organizations or government is culled and cultivated. His books read like thrill
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by mastercheif 3y ago
In my experience, cloud is faster. On-premise was designed for LANs. It does not traverse the internet well.
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by mastercheif 3y ago
Agreed. Poor intra-city transit and lack of mixed use density in our city cores is what makes HSR unfeasible. I recently traveled to Germany on business, traveled from Berlin to Munich via the ICE inter-city train. Arrived in downtown Munic

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