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by plantain 8y ago
So is the Macbook 12 dead now?
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by plantain 8y ago
Obligatory link to the tireless volunteers who maintain the timezone databases and cope with the last minute, sometimes even retrospective timezone changes. https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-October/02709
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by plantain 8y ago
07. Forwarded to email.
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by plantain 8y ago
Except their text messages only appear to be processed every half hour or so... which makes it useless for 2FA most of the time (the only reason I went with them).
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by plantain 8y ago
The showmanship really feels like it's run out. Even when it was the post-Jobs Ive and Cook it was still captivating, but this is just tiresome.
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by plantain 8y ago
7nm != 7nm - there's a lot of variety between processes. 7nm on a (relatively) small ARM is also a different world to 7nm on a chip the size of the latest Intel's.
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by plantain 8y ago
Not so useful if your airliner flies at night as well
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by plantain 8y ago
L1/L2/L3 Cache doesn't cache whole binaries, just hot pages from it.
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by plantain 8y ago
Improved aerodynamics makes it worse not better. Less of a bow wave to divert them away from the vehicle earlier.
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by plantain 8y ago
That means you're paying it when you pay cash too....
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by plantain 8y ago
Kind of like the current system then.
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by plantain 8y ago
That was literally in response to: "Thus, to make your software suck less, you only take the best developers no matter what race, gender, heritage, etc. these persons have." Meritocracy perpetuates the status quo, which is just a
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by plantain 8y ago
I keep writing paragraphs to respond to topics like these, but every time I find myself just linking to @aphyr instead, who put it so much more eloquently than I can. https://lobste.rs/s/nf3xgg/i_am_leaving_llvm#c_
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by plantain 8y ago
Except this story doesn't add up, because Google's customer service for even small companies on Google Apps is pretty good.
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by plantain 8y ago
Thunder storms very quickly lift particles sometimes as high as 60,000ft, and there's other phenomena such as mountain lee waves that are mixing air in excess of 120,000ft, well into the Ozone layer.
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by plantain 8y ago
It's clearly explained in the article it's frequency stability it's talking about. >When an issue happens or maintenance is required on the power grid in Australia, the Energy Market Operator calls for FCAS (frequency con
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by plantain 8y ago
Fortunately, people have crunched the numbers: https://reneweconomy.com.au/plunging-costs-make-solar-wind-a... The Coalition doesn't want cheap - they've spun coal so hard it's no longer politically tenable t
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by plantain 8y ago
Not true. Ex-googler.
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by plantain 8y ago
Search for "Chromecast" on Amazon. How exactly, is that not anticompetitive?
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by plantain 8y ago
Maybe you don't follow the Australian news? Just from the last few weeks, these are the ones I remembered. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-03/melbourne-police-on-vi... http://www.abc.net.au&#x2F
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by plantain 9y ago
The compensation for being bumped is defined in consumer law in the EU, and it's very punitive - ~300 euros minimum.
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by plantain 9y ago
On the other hand, if you are a casual but regular follower the constant changes can make it more exciting - every other month it felt like "Holy shit! They changed X! This changes everything!", and my day would be full of in dept
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by plantain 9y ago
Most of it is still used while cruising. 100hp+ depending on cruise speed. The excess power for climb is very small, which is why weight/loading is so critical in aviation.
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by plantain 9y ago
Or, adding support for SEPA/EU Bank payments to Stripe Checkout? I know it's in the main Stripe API, but if I'm going to have to roll my own integration, I'm just going to go use PayPal. PayPal has much cleaner API for n
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by plantain 9y ago
I had a piece of legacy, proprietary software that communicated to another machine by wvdial over an SSH TTY (?!). It inexplicably stopped working when migrated to a newer machine, but.... worked just fine while running under strace. It app
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by plantain 9y ago
This is patently untrue - DJI has some of the worst customer service I have ever experienced, especially for a 1000$ device. I spent two months calling every other day trying to resolve a hardware issue and ended up issuing a chargeback bef
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by plantain 9y ago
jwz has an entertaining referrer check on that link...
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by plantain 9y ago
On the lease terms offers (often 2yrs+) the profit is baked in.
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by plantain 9y ago
Because they are booking a guaranteed upfront profit, and passing the risk on to the customer? Don't mine for gold, sell shovels.
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by plantain 9y ago
This is a technical solution to a social problem. Taking video to the police of centimetre close passes (1m is legislated) in Australia just yields "your camera is not calibrated to measure distance so we cannot accept this", and

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