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by nocoiner 3y ago
If, as another commenter said, this is only for use on freeways, I’m not sure how than is any different from the system in my 2021 BMW. Is MB’s assumption of liability the only thing pushing it up to L3? Otherwise the capabilities sound ide
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Maybe I’m just a naive idiot, but I thought her point was not the danger of sudo’ing random shell scripts per se but any sort of “solution” to restore the prior capabilities of a consumer product that required that level of technical acumen
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by nocoiner 3y ago
“Flawed and expensive but still fun” is perhaps the best capsule summary of DCS I’ve ever seen.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Ah man. Probably should have considered that before slapping a “Nuke the Whales” sticker on the back of my screen.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Sounds great, I’m jealous. From what I understand, the privately funded project to build high-speed rail in Texas recently melted down and the prospects look increasingly pessimistic (despite some key court wins that would have let them exe
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by nocoiner 3y ago
He’s clearly wrong about one thing: > Moving to Mars is a pipedream for 99.9999% of the population. It’s actually a pipe dream for 100% of the population. Slightly more seriously, I think he’s too pessimistic about the impact of renewabl
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by nocoiner 3y ago
SiriusXM periodically demands that I assent to their new terms and conditions (despite the fact that I’m frequently on a trial or pre-paid subscription). I think I can ignore/dismiss it indefinitely without it cutting service to the ra
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by nocoiner 3y ago
This song is transcendent in so many ways.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Is 1blocker trustworthy? I have a vague recollection that they pulled some sort of bait and switch a while back, and deprecated their paid app in favor of a subscription-based app. I see that they at least offer a lifetime license, which is
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by nocoiner 3y ago
She was still around when I was there! She was indeed very nice. Just looked her up, glad to see it seems like she’s still doing well.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The number of people in Houston who have Enron on their resumes is incredible. Probably every fifty-something in Houston doing anything in finance or finance-adjacent is an Enron alum. Great recap of your experience, btw.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Fair enough. Most of my experience tends to be with chains. But my impression is that the non-chain hotels I book don’t typically appear on aggregators so I’m usually booking with them directly in any event.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
99% of the time, you’ll get the same or better deal by booking online with the hotel directly. (Airfares, I’m less sure - the proliferation of hyper segmented economy and fees make me dubious about what the actual all-in cost of any given f
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Amazing story, thank you for posting. Any chance you happen to remember which building your class was in? Was it one of the buildings along the south mall?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Great post. It sometimes is a little bit awesome and terrifying to consider the edifice on which the entire superstructure of IP ownership rests. Think about all that intangible property out there that’s subject to long forgotten contracts,
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’m of an age where the name Newsweek still has some inertial value of quality (and, in fact, I somewhat preferred it to Time). Sad to see what it’s become.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I wasn’t in horrible shape, but my BMI was juuuuuust high enough to get my insurer to cover Ozempic. I’ve dropped 20+ pounds since June, and am now at my ideal weight, or at least quite close to it. Pretty incredible. I hope that everyone s
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by nocoiner 3y ago
God bless them for maintaining transparent, user-friendly pricing. Sounds like a bargain at twice the price.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
In all sincerity: so what? And I have a few reasons for that reaction, only one of which is empty whataboutism (so I’ll get that one out of the way first). 1. Do the citizens of this he democratic west imagine that our adversaries don’t eng
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Why is China still struggling to build reliable, top-tier aircraft engines? Isn’t relatively non-exotic metallurgy fairly rudimentary technology compared to cutting edge semiconductor fabrication?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
If this is true, I find this utterly hilarious. Other than grad school (and a few years as a toddler), I’m a life-long Texan and a former resident of Austin many, many, (urp) many years ago. Even then, Austin was becoming increasingly lame
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Great suggestions! I read those after I read a spectacular book by Quammen about either pandemics, or the pandemic. I think it must have been more general, but I read it during the pandemic, so it blends together. (If you don’t know the boo
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I thought and continue to think early Clancy is excellent — basically everything that became a movie with Harrison Ford or Alec Baldwin, plus “Red Storm Rising” — but even before he brought in the ghost authors, his reactionary politics sta
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Check out the time he bailed out his brother and Solar City at the expense of Tesla shareholders. Definitely some sharp financial engineering type shenanigans going on in that deeply conflicted transaction.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I know having to say it’s sarcasm ruins the joke, but it’s so hard to tell on the internet sometimes. But… this is sarcasm, right?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Very perceptive recommendation - I love Forsyth’s novels. I feel like they’re a little bit of a guilty pleasure, but damn, that guy can write a thriller.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Anyone have any recommendations for other classic spy novels like le Carre’s? I’ve read some Greene and Deighton, which were both mentioned in the article, so I suppose I should revisit those, but would be interested in any other works with
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Jeez, at least but him dinner first.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
This is absolutely the best thing I’ve read all month. I love inconsequential mysteries like this. Kudos to the author for noticing an oddity in plain site, asking the question and doing the research! It both amazes me that we as a species
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by nocoiner 3y ago
> Summer 2024 is going to be bad, worse than anything we’ve ever seen. It will shock the world. I’ll take the other side of this bet. Would you like to discuss terms? Note, of course, that we’ll need to solve for the inherently asymmetry

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