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by mikestew 1y ago
Skylo: https://www.skylo.tech/newsroom/skylo-expands-collaboration-...
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by mikestew 1y ago
Apple already competes with satellite comms on the latest phones (well, anything after the 13?). It’s not as hands-off as InReach, but the job gets done. Rumors say the new AW Ultra will have satellite comms. On top of that, T-Mobile has sa
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by mikestew 1y ago
I had a 945LTE, and if I was out in the mountains where it couldn’t find a cell tower, it would burn the battery trying (the actual repro is a bit more complicated). Hopefully they manage the radio better in the Fenix version, or say hello
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by mikestew 1y ago
Yes, illegal to have a comms device that India can’t shut off (in essence): https://www.irunfar.com/trail-and-ultrarunners-warned-not-to...
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by mikestew 1y ago
That’s because after Apple Watch Edition sold like dog poop sandwiches, even Apple isn’t going to try and charge $2K for a watch. When I bought the original Apple Watch Ultra at $800, I thought that was pricey. And then Garmin these past fe
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by mikestew 1y ago
Note that LiveScribe uses special paper with a patterned watermark. That differs from “any paper”, as requested. That said, special paper isn’t a huge ask, and it increases accuracy immensely. I worked for a company that used this tech year
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by mikestew 1y ago
The 35% reduction refers to the number of managers who oversee fewer than three people, according to a person familiar with the matter. If you oversee 0-2 people, in most cases that’s probably not an efficient ratio. How did Google get so
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by mikestew 1y ago
https://archive.ph/3aLDp
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by mikestew 1y ago
Catfish is disgusting to eat Meanwhile, in Indiana where I grew up there are restaurants that advertise their catfish, if not an outright catfish restaurant. Those are probably not fish that they just caught out of a river, though. …whic
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by mikestew 1y ago
Even TFA points out that this is nothing new, as I was thinking "we bought a new car 20 years ago, and 84 month loans were an option". It was an option that few took, but it was there. Now, apparently, 21% of new car loans are 84
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by mikestew 1y ago
Wrong question, it was by inaction and not doing their jobs.
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by mikestew 1y ago
It also means I'm unreachable for anything actually important that isn't in my contact list. That's an annoying price. Calling me is now the equivalent to wanting to send me a telegram. The phone system is broken, we all kn
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by mikestew 1y ago
Cynically, I feel as if politicians are unwilling to get tough on these, because they (or their proxies) use them. Of course they do, and they voted themselves an exception. Same reason some small business in Redmond, WA isn't allowe
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by mikestew 1y ago
Turns out it’s exactly where anyone with a newer vehicle would think: directly in front of and near the vehicle.
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by mikestew 1y ago
Conversely, as a life-long resident of the U. S, I've never seen a tennis court that required payment to play, and I've seen plenty of tennis courts. I know paid tennis clubs exist , I've just never stepped foot in one. Now
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by mikestew 1y ago
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by mikestew 1y ago
They weren't wrong. Evidence suggests that maybe they were. "Focusing" obviously didn't work. But at the end of the day, it was private equity and the hubris of a CEO who wasn't nearly as clever as he'd like
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by mikestew 1y ago
We need a browser warning: "This site is using your computer heavily in a background task. Do you want to stop that?" Doesn't Safari sort of already do that? "This tab is using significant power", or summat? I kno
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by mikestew 1y ago
https://archive.ph/RQ9av
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Microsoft Workers Protesting Israel Ties Say They Have Occupied HQ(bloomberg.com)
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by mikestew 1y ago
That’s because 60/70/75kWh cars all had the same battery pack, with lower end models software-locked, not because of any “cheating” that you alledge.
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by mikestew 1y ago
They have 5G radios in them, IIRC. Of course there's crackpot theories about the RF. (In fact, I'm pretty sure the reason I know that smart meters use 5G is because of the crackpot theories about "smart meters use 5G, and we
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by mikestew 1y ago
...with many carriers if you are on wifi you can send/receive text messages... How would you propose that those messages get routed if there is no connection to either the internet nor a cell provider?
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by mikestew 1y ago
I feel like there's very little engineering reasons why we can't... It's not an engineering problem. One could cut new holes in the front bumper of an old car, add forward-facing radar, tack on a display and a computer to d
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by mikestew 1y ago
Thanks much! However...first one works, but I get "access denied" for [1] and [2] (and I have no idea if you control that or not).
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by mikestew 1y ago
He rolled his Defender off a cliff. Maybe he was trying to adjust the volume on the radio with the "luxury" touchscreen on his luxury car? (If I could find an easily-linked photo of that dashboard, I'd include it.)
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by mikestew 1y ago
Your point stands, but collapsible steering columns and seat belts have been mandated in the U. S. since the late '60s. At the same time, "luxury"? Even our 20 year old Scion has ABS and air bags. Okay, no lane keeping or col
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by mikestew 1y ago
So it would appear. The original article was published on an HR-related content farm, and is not original with Fortune magazine.
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by mikestew 1y ago
This article is bordering on flaggable. For reference, the HN title above differs from original: "Anxiety about the economy is forcing two-thirds of U.S. employers to yank budgets for raises" (emphasis mine). It opens with this:
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by mikestew 1y ago
Microsoft famously got rid of their test teams something like ten years ago.

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