mrkstu

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by mrkstu 5y ago
I think he was complaining that Apple was the one that had lost the plot and had started separating the two, not that they should be.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Moving two items out of the main enclosures in this instance also makes the device significantly more repairable.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
The Pro line was very popular and didn't ship as quickly as the regular iPhone. That had to defer at least a portion of that demand to the next quarter.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Nope, hence winning the suit. No one had complained, it was a proactive, hey maybe someone might take offense. Most likely a cover for actual religious malice, which wasn't necessary to prove to win the legal point.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
I, as a Mormon, faced more social pushback in Georgia ~15 years ago, than my Wiccan friends, but neither of us faced any work pushback or worried about our jobs based on our religious beliefs. Though I did have a co-member there get fired f
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by mrkstu 6y ago
In the case of a managed service provider I worked for, using non-announced gov/mil space allowed us to inject routes for monitoring purposes into the MPLS vrfs of our customers so we could poll the routers without using our own public
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Without censorship... so you want communist pinkos? Cause that's how you get communist pinkos.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
It helps when you see that this article is actually an excerpt from a book, without that knowledge the sentence doesn’t really parse.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
As I first saw noted on an Ars comment, it is unbelievable because their testing regimen has no reflection with real world testing, and I'm sure significantly different than Apple's, which I believe doesn't include 'stan
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by mrkstu 6y ago
China could use the exact same verbiage and justify all the restrictions on speech that currently occur there.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Its been weirdly variable- my Apple Watch and the HomePod mini seem much more accurate than my iPhone.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Cavemen certainly had the second issue. Large mammals have been going extinct at the hand of man for a loooooong time.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Let's take the 'on a computer' portion out of it. If I specify that my company takes orders that only have certain header columns and must have specific format in certain fields on the bill of goods, is that /specificati
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Yep. This case was an existential threat to multitudes of industries and the assumptions they were built on. The weird thing is it would of hurt Oracle as much as anyone. I have no clue how anyone w/any technical merit didn't unde
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Like it, but how about the South not just seceded, but counter-attacked and drove what was left of the Union government to Puerto Rico from whence both 'countries' claimed sovereignty over the whole. Eventually the Puerto Rican&#x
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by mrkstu 6y ago
It’d be interesting to see how much of this speculative engineering ended up matching how NASA implemented Project Mercury.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Note that I didn’t state an opinion on the correctness or otherwise of the company’s or employee’s stances, just reminding people that a corporation, at it’s heart, is a mechanism for making money.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
And here, ladies and gents, is why companies like Microsoft, will eternally resist getting aligned with internal employee groups Resisting selling to government entities, whether ICE or the Army. There is way too much money to be lost.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
As long as you realize it is irrational. I’ve lived in the west and south all my 50 plus years, with a couple years spent overseas, and I’ve never seen a gun drawn or shot in anger. I spend zero time worrying about gun violence because ther
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by mrkstu 6y ago
They cannot truly boot externally- even when you do boot external there is an initial dependency on the SSD, so if it fails you have an expensive brick.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
An example of such an economy IRL?
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Identifying the issues is much less difficult than articulating effective solutions.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
New to Mac, new audience. People are used to iPhones being parsimonious with RAM, it’s new on Mac.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Actually my experience is that while those are many, they are usually considered sociopaths or narcissists.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Shade won’t help much when the sun is a red giant star…
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Viruses have evolved to hijack DNA- I'd find it highly unlikely a truly alien biology would be susceptible to earth viruses. Maybe some truly primitive precursor virus may have been able to, but I'd think any of those would be lon
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Yep. I had a neighbor growing up that got all the coaching, was a great player and did well as a doubles player- but he had exactly one good run in a major tournament at singles- quarterfinals at Wimbledon. He didn't have that next lev
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by mrkstu 6y ago
An article about it working in mice: https://newatlas.com/nanoparticle-near-infrared-vision/58686... Assume that they are now doing human trials.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
They're not even getting arbitration now- a professional arbitrator would likely find in their favor, at least as far as monies owed.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Vertically.

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