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by rlpb 4y ago
> Kinda hard to believe that he simply “lost SA”. It's just a euphemism for incompetent instrument flying. > For an instrument/commercial pilot to lose SA at night on an instrument plan is hard to believe. Accident reports d
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by rlpb 4y ago
> It's not uncommon for a tower controller to allow a plane to takeoff while another is approaching the runway. Only in the US is it permitted for the controller to clear an aircraft to land while another is using the runway. The re
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by rlpb 4y ago
> I found that there were two general classes of great engineers: fast and slow There is a third type: those who can adapt to what is appropriate under the circumstances.
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by rlpb 4y ago
> College graduates only marrying college graduates, repeat that for many generations and it is bound to have an effect. I think there's enough infidelity around to cancel out this effect. You have around a million n*great grandpare
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by rlpb 4y ago
By default something running inside Docker is immutable and doesn't run standard system utilities. You have to make arrangements for logging, data persistence, daemon auto-restart, and so forth. It can all be done, but the necessity to
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by rlpb 4y ago
You can also do that with lxd, which will just give you nested Ubuntu and doesn't require the huge paradigm shift that Docker imposes.
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by rlpb 4y ago
APC sell surge protectors with equipment protection insurance for less than $100. Apparently, it's possible even for products sold at $100.
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by rlpb 4y ago
> If you opt not to pay you are dining and dashing... No. If they refuse to charge your card the agreed amount then they are refusing to take your money and that's no longer your problem. They might well claim otherwise, and you mig
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by rlpb 4y ago
I think it depends on the exact wording. I get the impression from the document they don't consider their wording final yet, so we can only rely on their intent. I'm not sure their intent is bad in the sense that you're conce
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by rlpb 4y ago
The document does also say: "the provisions will not apply to commercially available mobile phones nor the encrypted messaging apps available on them".
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by rlpb 4y ago
I think it's important to note that the linked document does say this: "...the prosecution would need to show that the accused had reasonable grounds to suspect that the article they are making, modifying, supplying, offering to s
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by rlpb 4y ago
I'm puzzled as to how this works with respect to phase and "vsync". How is it that what you saw wasn't scrambled, even if spread out vertically again?
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by rlpb 4y ago
> When did Linux get so complicated? When our needs got so complicated. We have dynamic networking environments now, where a static DNS resolver configuration just doesn't make sense any more. And when one DNS server is unavailable,
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by rlpb 4y ago
> I doubt the hourly price will ever truly be fair to individual car owners. If it's not fair to them, then they won't participate, and the market will adjust.
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by rlpb 4y ago
> [Edit: According to @rlpb's comment, git 2.39.1 is already available on Ubuntu] Note that I said Ubuntu's git package was updated, but didn't say to what version. Ubuntu like most stable distributions cherry-pick securi
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by rlpb 4y ago
Indeed! Ubuntu updated git at 18:44Z, nearly an hour before you posted that comment :-)
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by rlpb 4y ago
Or better, cloud-init. It's same thing that cloud images to use to specialise VM "clones" to their environment, so is more likely to do all the right things. If it has a mechanism to detect that it's been cloned (eg. ins
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by rlpb 4y ago
Keeping the money isn't necessary as unphilanthropic as you seem to imply. Wealth doesn't typically sit under the mattress doing nothing. While the person is alive, they can control how that wealth is invested, and do good that wa
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by rlpb 4y ago
> Surely HVDC links between Scotland and England could be built? The article covers this and explains why it's not enough. Provisioning time for the links exceeds projected generation capacity increases in the Scotland.
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by rlpb 4y ago
That's not my experience. Perhaps this depends on the level of regulation in a given country.
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by rlpb 4y ago
> A gas stove that’s on but not burning will release explosive gas. I’ve never seen one with a credible safety feature to prevent an explosion. I've never seen a gas stove that can be on but not burning. The gas doesn't flow un
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by rlpb 4y ago
> They aren’t the only gaming company to interpret GDPR that way and they are arguably target #1 by EU regulators so they don’t have room to misinterpret Malicious compliance. They deliberately misinterpret and continue to get pulled up
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by rlpb 4y ago
I don't think that extends to "forgetting" that you purchased a game so now you have to buy it again. That would be absurd.
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by rlpb 4y ago
I spent a long time back and forth with Anker customer support on an inability to charge my Pixel 6 Pro with an Anker charger and cable reliably. It turned out that if I used a non-Anker cable or a non-Anker charger, everything works fine
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by rlpb 4y ago
They refused an individual not acting on behalf of their employer though. I'm not sure that notifying their employer is sufficient. If they want to bar an individual acting for themselves, they should have notified the individual.
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by rlpb 4y ago
> ...it's only been on her desk for two business days. Not according to the article: "A spokesperson for the governor's office told VICE's Motherboard on October 31 that "Governor Hochul is reviewing the legislat
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by rlpb 4y ago
> It's not inherently corrupt for a representative to vote in a way that's not a perfect representation of their constituents' opinion polling. That's not what we're discussing. Up-thread, I responded to: "
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by rlpb 4y ago
> This is a bit silly. It's not. The kind of behaviour being discussed is corruption . It wouldn't be dismissing representatives for a vote on any one issue; it would be dismissing representatives for corruption . But the ele
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by rlpb 4y ago
I'd love FIDO for online banking auth. But AIUI, there's some EU regulation that requires 2FA, but that 2FA must also verify some other data (like the recipient of a transfer, amount being transferred and suchlike). I don't r
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by rlpb 4y ago
Based on what others have also said, it sounds like you're describing interoperability in Zigbee in theory, whereas I described interoperability in Z-Wave in practice.

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