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by mdavidn 6y ago
I would also add Stellaris to this list.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
That's incredible. Meanwhile, my Honda has received free repairs after multiple recalls for far less serious defects identified after far fewer incidents.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
Most of life's history on this planet was single-celled. That's especially astounding when you consider the short generation time of single-celled life. The building blocks for these complex molecular machines existed before multi
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by mdavidn 6y ago
I use my AirPods with multiple devices, and that process is also fraught with problems. Switching to another device takes an absurdly long time. About once per month, switching will make bluetoothaudiod peg a core and ultimately hard crash
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by mdavidn 6y ago
Not only that, but crows can remember human faces and train other crows to treat that face as friend or foe. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.201...
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by mdavidn 6y ago
How do you know crows and dolphins lack language? Because they don’t use a syntax like ours?
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by mdavidn 6y ago
Blizzard did not charge for WoW Classic. It merely requires an active subscription to the regular game. There's no additional purchase or subscription. The company invested significant development into Classic. The project started as a
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by mdavidn 6y ago
Driving too fast is not analogous to mismanaging a 115 kV conductor.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
No, the problem is that PG&E was relying on a century-old part of unknown metallurgy to suspend a 115 kV conductor.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
See section 6 of the iPhone EULA.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
I think a bug that could impact everyone relying on the iOS alarm (including me) is newsworthy and useful.
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I own and use multiple consoles. I only carry one phone.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
YouTube's recommendations may be more a reflection of your watch history than a shift in content or a change in the algorithm. I have not seen any van life, off-grid, or tiny home videos on YouTube.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
But some open source software is marketing, is it not? The big open source frameworks released by tech companies come to mind. These projects shape the industry and advance the company's recruitment goals. Bootstrap. React. TensorFlow.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
I cope with this confusion by avoiding third-party login whenever possible. Why volunteer additional information about myself to Google or Facebook?
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O- donors have the opposite option: The machine is configured to remove red cells and return plasma diluted with saline.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
I start with DDG and fallback on Google only when I can't find something. But I find that DDG is good enough for about 95% of my searches.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
It's also easy to configure a Fastmail account to fetch messages from a Gmail inbox and even send messages via Gmail, for a seamless transition while updating accounts.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
I've used Fastmail for over a decade, and they have yet to give me a reason to regret that move. Though it irks me that Google can still rummage through so many of my conversations because my contacts still use Gmail.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
If you can manage the upfront capital costs, physical servers are an order of magnitude cheaper than virtual servers for services that run continuously.
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by mdavidn 6y ago
We calculate both. Case fatality rate (CFR) is based on patients who test positive, whereas infection fatality rate (IFR) is based on all infections. We don't yet have adequate random sampling to have confidence in IFR estimates.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
No. "End-to-end encryption" does not protect metadata necessary to route the data over a network, just the contents of the communication. The clients could negotiate keys to protect the contents of a meeting end-to-end. In other w
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by mdavidn 7y ago
The US expects at least 100,000 deaths. Extrapolated to the world population at the same rate, that's 2.4 million deaths.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
A large number of unknown people from the general public have been in contact with the dine-in table. Only a handful of kitchen staff are in contact with surfaces involved in preparing takeout. Eating at home is still a better idea for the
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by mdavidn 7y ago
One other consideration: The population of the United States is six times larger than South Korea's. Keep this in mind when comparing the total number of cases in each country.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Everyone should test their SAML deployments for XML signature wrapping vulnerabilities. XML-DSig is ridiculously complex. The basic idea is simple: Take a valid SAML assertion and embed it, signature and all, inside a forged SAML assertion.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
It's more an isolation strategy than an actual shortage. If there is news of an outbreak in my immediate area, there will be a run on the grocery store, and they will sell out of items immediately in stock. I'd rather not stand in
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Any database should work just fine for this application. 1678 precincts. 11 candidates. 2 rounds. That's 37 thousand records to fully represent everything.
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Prop 13 does keep you in that home, true, but a more stable home value would also keep taxes low. One way to keep home values low is to build high-density housing in the area. Such projects are opposed by local home owners in California.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Each time you interact with anyone employed in your area, you should ask about their commute. There's a good chance that the staff who care for your children, the staff who stocks your groceries, the staff that cleans your workplace, a

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