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by orev 5y ago
On principle I agree that GUI consistency is something that should be striven for, however when I look at the success of the web and apps, all of which have extremely non-uniform designs, it seems like the users really just don’t care and s
962.
by orev 5y ago
They have used different colors before in pre-release builds, so it would make sense if that was also the case here. It will probably turn blue again after 11 is released.
963.
by orev 5y ago
And this part is always omitted: “you can’t have causation without correlation”
964.
by orev 5y ago
They have already been pushing this heavily in the Windows 10 installer to either “gauge the reaction”, or more likely, to let everyone know that this is coming and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. The time of “gauging the reaction” i
965.
by orev 5y ago
I can possibly see this as a misunderstanding of the Apple KB from a lay-person who happens to be reading it, but it’s unacceptable from someone who is publishing an article about it, especially on a site seemingly dedicated to electronics.
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by orev 5y ago
The premise of this article is completely wrong. The assertion is that EMI (electromagnetic interference, which is caused by radio waves) is causing problems with pacemakers, when in reality the issue is simply magnetism. Pacemakers are de
967.
by orev 5y ago
This (Direct Memory Access - DMA) is still a feature of Thunderbolt (which is really just an evolution of FireWire), and thunderbolt is coming to USB4.
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by orev 5y ago
The framing of the question in this way will always result and an answer of “you can’t say that this specific event was caused by climate change”, and in many ways asking that exact question is a way to discredit the science. Science is
969.
by orev 5y ago
The pillars keep getting thicker so they can support the weight of the vehicle in a rollover, and also to provide space for the side curtain airbags. This creates bigger blind spots since you can’t have glass there anymore, so these other s
970.
by orev 5y ago
If you read the article you would know that the issue was them including offers for gift cards in the box you received after making a purchase, in exchange for posting a review. This is not the same thing as buying reviews posted to the pro
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by orev 5y ago
The “exception” section pretty much describes why you should use comments. The other examples are just bad comments. A comment like “delay for 5 seconds” is bad and easily goes out of date because you might change the number of seconds in t
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by orev 5y ago
The bigger problem I see is that they’re clearly using production data on test systems (or using the production system for testing), including PII. This is a pretty big no-no and violates many security standards. I don’t blame the tester pe
973.
by orev 5y ago
Your making a leap between “the time when everything was only on floppies” to “the time when everyone was doing multimedia online”, which ignores at least a decade of time starting in the mid 90s, and there absolutely was a huge need for it
974.
by orev 5y ago
Magneto-Optical drives were also available at that time, and were designed for data storage. The problem was they were very expensive, and needed a SCSI interface at the time when personal computers mostly had IDE. There really was no good
975.
by orev 5y ago
My rule of thumb is that at least 50% of a financial headline is true. The up/down part is safe to assume as true (at least at the time of publication), and the “because of” part is almost always complete conjecture.
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by orev 5y ago
It easily could if you’re not careful though. I can easily see people unlocking the phone and opening the Wallet app to bring it up. Also, with FaceID it pretty much unlocks automatically, and most people would look at the phone first befor
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by orev 5y ago
Based on other comments here, it appears this is not as clear as I thought. I can see it being used either way, but definitely understand that in the “pre-virtual-machine” era, it could be used this way.
978.
by orev 5y ago
While I have seen this definition used in some very specific circumstances (like high frequency trading where they can afford to hire people to actually write a fully customized app for the hardware), this definition is so specific as to be
979.
by orev 5y ago
I’m glad you highlighted the materials/manufacturing component, which I think is frequently overlooked by tech people (who mostly focus on the chips and software). Apple’s ability to build millions of devices with such precision and ti
980.
by orev 5y ago
The “failure” of the CentOS community is really related to the nature of the distro. As they aimed to be a fully compatible clone of RHEL, there’s not much you can allow in terms of community contribution to packages, etc,. Those kind of re
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by orev 5y ago
CentOS is used on a huge number of severs. That success became a threat the RedHat/IBM, as they were not getting customers signing up for their paid offerings. Hence, CentOS was killed off.
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by orev 5y ago
Something missing in this type of analysis is the future actions of the person being corrected. One might say something wrong, be corrected, then argue (because being corrected makes you feel bad and angry). But the next time they say som
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by orev 5y ago
30 seconds is the default “time step” (4.2), but in talking about the transmission delay window (5.2), which the RFC recommends “at most 1 time step”, but also says that validation should occur for both the previous and next time step windo
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by orev 5y ago
TOTP systems are supposed to implement a sliding window to account for reasonable clock differences, usually within 5 minutes. Devices further off from that really do have a problem, and should not be trusted. I also find it hard to believe
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by orev 5y ago
The fobs you need to perform those procedures are not third-party — they still need to be “genuine” parts.
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by orev 5y ago
> must be forced to make parts and schematics available to any independent repair shop, just like car makers have to do The only reason this has been possible for car makers until now is because the technology to stop it didn’t exist. Bu
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by orev 5y ago
> the amount of seconds/minutes saved per lookup, productivity/salary costs Let’s not kid ourselves into thinking that decisions like this are made using an objective cost/benefit comparison with all data fully and accurat
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by orev 5y ago
Betteridge’s law of headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
989.
by orev 5y ago
Individuals can definitely buy time. Hire a house cleaning service, landscape company, grocery delivery service, nanny, etc. Those are all ways to buy time that frees up the individual to do other things.
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by orev 5y ago
For many companies, security threats are all theoretical, but they are required to have the positions to meet some compliance requirement. They need to have them, but don’t really want them, which would explain the lack of enthusiasm (as de

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