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by sgustard 3y ago
Wow, I've had much more positive experiences with Autopilot on multi-hour highway trips. No shutoffs, no phantom braking in the last year or two. Autopilot on the highway is so much better than any other car I've driven with adapt
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by sgustard 3y ago
Also pointless: "your session will expire in X minutes; click Continue to stay logged in" alerts. That just turns a short session into a long session? And provides a handy session.renew() call for the attacker?
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by sgustard 3y ago
You could imagine if, in addition to obeying the altitude change, every plane began to turn rapidly to the right, it could only help the situation? As long as we all agree to turn right in case of a collision warning?
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by sgustard 3y ago
"For example, Mining Engineering has experienced a decline in enrollment, yet this area is critical to the state and the region, and there is unmet occupational demand. Also experiencing similar challenges is the Petroleum and Natural
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Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass(wired.com)
12 points by sgustard 3y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 3y ago
"Two of the central players ... were under lifetime bans against making telemarketing calls" Wait, why isn't every human under such a ban?
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by sgustard 3y ago
Change the file extension to pdf, there's a pdf version, same for doc.
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by sgustard 3y ago
Point is, his dad probably didn't write to the university president (which would be ironic at this point) asking him to admit his deadbeat son as a favor. The student earned his admission the same way anyone does: essays, grades, luck.
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by sgustard 3y ago
I was offered a $10k/year academic scholarship in my state school offer letter, no application required.
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by sgustard 3y ago
Reddit has been mired in controversy since day one. It is also regularly touted on HN as THE ONLY trustworthy place on the web to find, for example, honest product reviews; where Google, Amazon, Yelp, Wirecutter etc are hopelessly corrupted
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by sgustard 3y ago
> common place for employers to record audio and video at the office Curious for a source on that. My BigCorp has disallowed Zoom recordings, since they don't want legal liability of anything embarrassing leaking out. Or the usual r
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by sgustard 3y ago
This seems to ignore the phenomenon of people paying to sit in a parking lot outside a Taylor Swift concert? https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2023/05/15/taylor-swift...
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by sgustard 3y ago
The most relevant argument is: this is an encyclopedia, its very purpose is to be precise. And words like "comprise" are specifically about defining the meaning and composition of terms. If the encyclopedia is sloppy with words wh
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by sgustard 3y ago
I assume the "LoJack Inside" window sticker is the main technology you really want? Suggest the thief go steal a different car?
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by sgustard 4y ago
Well let's flip this on its head. When I pass a car and see something of interest I don't smash the window and grab it. Why not? Sure, it seems wrong, but I also have a fear of being arrested and imprisoned. Is that an irrational
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by sgustard 4y ago
Let's conspire as a country to drive all the homeless, addicts, and mentally ill to a few concentrated urban areas. Keep them well away from our white wealthy enclaves (NIMBY!). Now let's preen about how those urban areas are sudd
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by sgustard 4y ago
If someone posts their architecture diagram on Hacker News, it's fair game for feedback? Anyone is welcome to ignore said feedback. As the adage goes: Suppose you have a problem, and you say I know, I'll use microservices! Now you
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by sgustard 4y ago
Heh, I always assumed Triscuit was named to be one better than a Biscuit. Which itself is one better than the mythical Uniscuit.
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Tim Draper believes Elizabeth Holmes should be freed(mercurynews.com)
1 points by sgustard 4y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 4y ago
Were you objectively more deserving to go to college than a kid with stellar teacher recommendations but lower scores? You might think so, but others would disagree. When I hire, I choose a trusted colleague's referral over the candida
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by sgustard 4y ago
This was true back in Subversion too! > Creating a branch is the same as creating a tag > Tags merely exist to pinpoint a specific repository revision
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by sgustard 4y ago
A complex data structure is just a pointer. A file is just a pointer. My whole identity and personhood is just a pointer.
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by sgustard 4y ago
I wonder what the first non-Indian complaints under this law will look like. Is "blue-collar" a caste that office workers can no longer discriminate against?
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by sgustard 4y ago
Certainly anyone applying for this job should ask "how do I qualify for the $900k salary band?" How is the interviewer going to answer that?
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by sgustard 4y ago
The corollary: if 95% of the people you meet suck, you're one of the toxic 5%.
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by sgustard 4y ago
I'll contrast this with my TV. I want a TV that works and displays pictures & sound. Instead my TV is an Android hub with dozens of random apps installed. What it doesn't do half the time is work. Sure, I have "control&qu
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by sgustard 4y ago
> if this is how management dictates I spend my time, I’ll take an easy couple weeks and paychecks I would rather my employees (and contractors!) work on what's actually valuable, and not just take blind instruction. The people clos
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by sgustard 4y ago
If you walk into a store and say "I need a cat bed," and the store directs you to the most profitable cat bed ... is that a violation of your proposed law? How do you legislate around that? There are a thousand cat beds! They are
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by sgustard 4y ago
There's also something childlike about elders as they experience mental decline. There's a reason we try to protect people from "elder scams." Personally I hope if I'm found in front of the TV absorbing conspiracy t
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by sgustard 4y ago
I started my career 30 years ago at Apple. There was no internet, no option to work from home. We wrote software that would eventually be burned onto disks. Whatever we used for source code control was quite primitive. Seeing your work go &

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