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by rkagerer 2y ago
In the airline industry they have checklists. In Japan, train operators point and vocalize. In my volunteer fire department, we've adopted a "two sets of eyes" policy on all technical rope rigging before declaring it ready.
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Funny thing, I bet by then authentic Armstrong poop (which comprises some of that litter) will be more valuable than moonrocks.
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by rkagerer 2y ago
So... like... it's tough, generally works, and doesn't show you ads. Sign me up!
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by rkagerer 2y ago
More like big green algae?
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Of all the terrible, dumb-headed ideas. I would not want my kids scanning their face into who-knows-what third party's service. I already decline this technology when finance companies want to use it for eg. KYC verification ("
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by rkagerer 2y ago
If you split the armies up between them, that would invite civil war. Maybe they figured if things get too bad, officers of good conscience would stem the madness and have some political/legal cover from the other 1-2 branches? Eg. If
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Without the cookie wall: https://archive.ph/xCdmG
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Good. I hope other companies stupid enough to subject their users to unleashed AI for support instead of real humans reap the consequences of their actions. I'll be eating popcorn and mocking them from my little corner of the internet
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Step 5.5) Take a new screenshot of the image.
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Personally I'm frustrated how most companies followed the lead of the likes of Google, and effectively tied security of your account on their website to that of your email. If you control the email address signed up with, you have &quo
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Also interesting - how to make a single, small executable that can run natively on Windows, Linux, Mac, etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648359 https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan https:&#
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Canada's national tax authority website (CRA) has daily downtime from 3am - 6am EST. Which can be a pain for those on the west coast who can't find time to work on taxes until the wee hours.
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by rkagerer 2y ago
You mentioned it "lives on your desktop". How does licensing work, and can you install and use it on a machine without internet access?
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by rkagerer 2y ago
For clarity, I was talking about true central vac systems, which have substantially more capacity than the little bins some of those robot vacuums come with and thus need emptying far less frequently. Didn't know about the plumbed wate
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by rkagerer 2y ago
I noticed the tank in the article's photo looks like carbon fiber wrapped aluminum. Those are noticeably lighter than the pure aluminum or steel tanks common in the 60's. (Source: Have carried each on my back as a volunteer fire
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Has anyone made a Roomba (or clone) yet that plugs into a central vac inlet?
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Not to minimize what's going on down there, but that also sounds like an apt backronym for other SaaS products I've tried.
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Could you elaborate why this is good for Intel? I understand it brings a short term injection of expertise and capital, but it looks to me like they can't operate their own fabs and a chunk of their manufacturing facilities have just b
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by rkagerer 2y ago
I still drive a Dell Precision M6600 from 2011, and liken the build quality, robustness and modularity of that era of the product line to the Thinkpads being discussed here. I'm overdue to upgrade, but know I won't love its replac
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by rkagerer 2y ago
I hope it doesn't contain any water at all! Dry Powder or CO2 is what you need for energized electrical equipment. And considering there's potential lithium involvement, you might want something more specialized (e.g. F-500 Encap
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by rkagerer 2y ago
I hate this as much as you, but don't agree regulation is the only solution. In part because it tends to get things wrong, skew markets, favour incumbents and ultimately retard innovation by startup efforts like mine. When a company t
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by rkagerer 2y ago
...this software is responsible for "the driver's cab display system on high-speed and regional trains [which] shows the driver the most important technical data in real-time." I wish they showed the UI. I'd love to s
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Can you see in the Play store before installing an app exactly which other apps it's allowed to talk to? Can you see it on your phone and override?
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by rkagerer 2y ago
This is the first time I've heard of that [Ubuntu?] distro. Would be curious to hear how it's working out, from anyone using it as their daily driver, and how it compares to Mint etc. on the Linux side of things.
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Some ideas: 1. Have a lawyer send them a letter. A legal firm's letterhead will get taken more seriously than an email or Contact Us, and may force them to respond in some way. 2. Spin up a corporation and have it "acquire"
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Waiting for someone to write a love letter to the infamous Windows INI file format I actually miss that. It was nice when settings were stored right alongside your software, instead of being left behind all over a bloated registry. And
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Ignore the haters, and just keep enjoying how good life is on it.
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Out of curiosity, how long did 'ya spend on that blog post, the YouTube video, and various platforms reading/answering comments related to this experience?
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Are all the inputs (from buoys, weather balloons, stations, etc) from decades of history stored, as well as past daily forecasts of existing weather models, so that this AI algorithm (and any future new ones) can be run across historic data
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by rkagerer 2y ago
Could a 3D printed nozzle of some sort improve its characteristics?

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