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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
> A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A,
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Just a guess but you could avoid the step with length input (if the only purpose is to check for errors) if you checked the CRC checksum of the barcode. But that's just an uneducated guess, I have no idea how your app works.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Some of the first Canon DSLRs that did video had a 5 minute limit. On the one hand, I guess they didn't want to cannibalize their video camera offerings but on the other they did actually get very noticeably hot.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Assuming you're talking about an actual barcode scanner device: barcode scanners commonly present as USB keyboards to the OS. The thing about USB keyboards is that events aren't pushed to the computer but are polled at a set rate
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
The fig wasp is tiny, like a millimeter. Actually the absolute majority of all wasps are - we think of a sizeable hornet when we hear "wasp" but those are the mythical giants of that world. Unless you go really looking for it, you
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Very unlikely the same height. They could be kilometers apart. It's a 3D space.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
They said most boring not most plain.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
They have a curated list of rules for builtin system services now, so you don't have to bother with that (if you don't want to). Also, I'd argue, there's still a wide gap in knowledge requirement, as well as ease of use
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Wages or income? Two different things. Steve Jobs had a $1 salary, many notable others did, too [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
ChapGPT: > Hello there, old chap! I'm an AI model, but I'll tell you what, I'm no ordinary one. I may not be human, but I've got a bit of personality, I'll tell you that much. I can process information faster tha
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
A correct use of "gatekeeper" as it always has been. You might be more used to the more informal social media use of the word meaning busybodies that involve themselves unasked to police people's behaviors to their own arbitr
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
> Read the room, this is cryptography; one does not simply add mystery padding and rush off to the printing press. In fact, one actually has done almost exactly that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Sta
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
> Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. > No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes. > 9:18 PM · Oct 28, 2022 > The people have
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
iPhone 8 that is the oldest supported for iOS 16 has an A11 chip; the second gen 4K has A12. The first gen 4K has an A10X chip - maybe it needs the "Neural Engine" that first appeared in A11 but the 2nd gen does have it. In additi
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
> and can be enjoyed on iPhone, iPad, and the new Apple TV 4K But the old Apple TV 4K is not powerful enough for displaying text on a TV, even though any old iPhone is? I get that they want to push device and service adoption but they sh
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
It was fixed more than a year ago in macOS 11.4 https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-resolves-m1...
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
There's not just macarons but also macaroons which are a completely different type of cookie/biscuit.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Nothing particularly unique about that. For example, Latvia has that too, although they did that at least in part because of the Estonian example.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
An electronic pied-à-terre, if you will. This will not get you an actual residence permit, tax residency (for you as a person), a Schengen visa, or any of that pesky physical stuff.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
0.98^3 is 0.94, not 0.84
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
NTSC, PAL and SECAM wasn't a case of intentional geolocking, those were simply different signal standards used in different parts of the world. NTSC had different frequency from PAL/SECAM because the signal was synchronized to the
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
> Most home processing methods like boiling, cooking, and frying potatoes have been shown to have minimal effects on solanine levels. Boiling potatoes reduces the solanine levels by only 1.2%, making it an ineffective way to decrease the
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Potato in itself is poisonous, no need to go looking for any relatives (and there's plenty more poisonous plants in the nightshade family). Yet we still eat it.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
It says it has "silky smooth interfaces" and "polished experience" in the very first page under the very first example image where not only the typeface is butt-ugly, also text layout is all kinds of messed up.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
I believe it would look something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9990wY1DEhk
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
> The buyer is not the user. The buyer (playing golf with a sales rep) doesn't give a damn about the actual productivity of what he is buying I see this trotted out a lot but are all large companies really that oblivious? Do none of
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Reign Over Me was actually good; but it also doesn't use the same formula as others.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Upon reading the submission title, first I tried to notice if I do smell toast right now because I know all of the words there yet it makes no sense taken together. Reading the article helped unpack this particularly egregious title, yet it
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Imagine a traveler from an alternate universe getting fed up by editors constantly rolling back their edit of A to E in Berenstein, and just documenting everything they remember from their prior life.
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Though almonds are technically seeds, not nuts.

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