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by rhplus 2y ago
DevOps, monitoring, support costs, ongoing security burden. You can’t just ship a device specific API anymore and call it done. Those services will have at least monthly security updates, plus all the shimming and API back-compact work that
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by rhplus 2y ago
Not surprising, given the awkward position the product was in, targeting customers who don’t already have CarPlay or Android Auto (lower end of the market), but are also willing to pay for Spotify Premium and a good smartphone data plan (hi
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by rhplus 2y ago
If they want to drive revenue with AI click-bait, they should just move all the Outbrain and Taboola teasers above the fold and be done with it.
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by rhplus 2y ago
I think the most astonishing aspect of this is how quickly consumers flipped from paid to free models for communication: we spent most of modern history paying for communication tools - from messenger boys, to stamps, to telegraph, to landl
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by rhplus 2y ago
The UK includes Wales and Northern Ireland, both of which have place names that include diacritics. Whether or not Wales and Northern Ireland choose to follow this particular British Standard, I don’t know. Some examples here: https:/
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by rhplus 2y ago
Don’t forget Westward Ho! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward_Ho%21 Edit: ironically HN formatting couldn’t handle the exclamation mark either.
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by rhplus 2y ago
My point is that for most adults in the world right now (western, industrialized, developing, modern, whatever) there is an obesity epidemic and any amount of focused self-care through exercise and diet will improve health outcomes. Eat les
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by rhplus 2y ago
It really doesn’t matter for most amateurs trying to improve their health whether the metric is accurate or not. The huge benefit of fitness trackers is that a metric is a metric is a metric. Eat less, exercise more, sleep soundly - you can
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by rhplus 2y ago
Appears to be an exe. Any reason why not just a `.reg` file?
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by rhplus 2y ago
Seriously?! That’s insane and would get my work laptop quarantined in minutes.
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by rhplus 2y ago
The other aspect is that the core value of the company might be the intangible goodwill value that the owner-operator himself brought to the table.
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by rhplus 2y ago
Just remember kids, TBL told us all that cool URIs don’t change! https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
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by rhplus 2y ago
Parts of fast casual food really isn’t that different to a TV dinner already. Starbucks will literally just warm your breakfast sandwich in front of you using a combo-microwave. McDonald’s uses microwaves and warming ovens for certain item
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by rhplus 2y ago
Fun fact: McDonalds cooks don’t even flip burgers. The process involves a grill press which cooks both sides at once. It’s less work in half the time! Almost all cooking steps in a McDonalds kitchen involves a timer and some form of automat
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by rhplus 2y ago
The absurdity of the fry robot is that they’re automating around cooking stations designed for humans, rather than modifying the cooking stations for automation. These are consistent processes that can be automated with repetition - conveyo
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by rhplus 2y ago
You’re on the first steps to enlightenment. All material things are impermanent and imperfect. Facebook in 2005 is never coming back. It was always just a digital mandala created by you and your friends. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by rhplus 3y ago
There is this constitutional right in American society that makes this possible. Change two words in your opening sentence and the rest reads like the system is working as intended!
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by rhplus 3y ago
fun to imagine a plant of fungus whose evolutionary niche would be to seduce animals/humans they need it There are numerous ongoing studies into the effects of psilocybin on terminally ill patients, the idea being that the psychedeli
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by rhplus 3y ago
What they were probably pitching 19 years ago would have been ordering via SMS on basic phones, most likely via USSD codes. That’s why he mentioned contracts with cell networks, as they’d need to secure numbers and codes. That model absolut
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by rhplus 3y ago
One unexpected component is a tiny circuit board with a microcontroller... roughly as powerful as the processor inside the original Macintosh That's a great little factoid that I'm going to use at every opportunity.
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by rhplus 3y ago
Fascinating seeing species selecting and then rejecting additional eyes, probably because they can combine functionality into a single organ pair and reduce the overall “cost” to achieve similar results. Additional eyes in spiders typically
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by rhplus 3y ago
Worth remembering that the "Eternal September" [1] was in 1993, which is over 30 years ago . The internet has been "ruined" by bots, noobs and marketers for as long as anyone here can remember. All those AOL CDs you rec
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by rhplus 3y ago
Contact page has a Brazilian phone number. Expect to see this advertised as “Windows 12” on cheap laptops in back alley electronic stores across BRIC countries.
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by rhplus 3y ago
Direct download of an exe with no checksums or signatures from a non-HTTPS phpBB bulletin board? How many more red-flags can we add?
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by rhplus 3y ago
They’re still going strong in the contact lens business. Annoyingly so.
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by rhplus 3y ago
This is because French is/was the defacto choice for foreign language option in secondary schools throughout the UK, at least up until the 2000s. French was after all the language of diplomacy and quite a bit more useful in European bu
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by rhplus 3y ago
FROM ℝ SELECT 1 ? :-)
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by rhplus 3y ago
Crazier still is the cost of employing 22,000 people in one division. Even at a low ball of $100K/year/employee, that’s $2.2 billion in people costs per year. Microsoft needs to be recouping at least $50/year from every sin
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by rhplus 3y ago
So “AI” is the problem and not poor police processes and lack of oversight in crowded jails. Got it.
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by rhplus 3y ago
KeePass considers letter runs and common words to lower entropy. So “pass word pass word” fits the scheme above but demonstrates lower entropy. The examples in their docs show that a run of characters “aaaa…” only has an estimate of 7 bits:

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