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somerandomqaguy
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Yeah trying to get it to work via config tree is basically begging for pain and suffering. You need to create all the configurations from scratch via the CLI to have a chance for it to work in a semi sane way. I was able to finally get it w
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The older Ubiquiti Edge Routers by default don't support IPv6 very well unless you go in by the CLI; you have to set everything up from scratch. Trying to get it to run from scratch on an OpenWRT x86 image is also a royal PITA, but tha
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Huh? Been a while since I was in the digital signage space but a lot of the equipment runs of the shelf RK3288 plugged into commercial displays. 2GB of RAM was pretty common. IIRC's though LG's WebOS TV's have minimum 2GB of
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somerandomqaguy
2y ago
16% of Canadians in 2022 didn't have a data plan on their phone, according to Statistics Canada. Roughly 6 million Canadians or so. So not everyone. Actually a decent number of people that don't.
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2y ago
They might not have a choice but to do so. UN Regulation 155 and ISO/SAE 21434 are going to require that intra-car communications require some sort of authentication system between computers. It's regulations attempting to get ahe
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2y ago
Overhead which probably includes warranty of the work and materials, and liability in case he damages something doing the work along with the additional regular costs. Not to mention there's the possible, "I don't like you,&q
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I suppose if would depend on whether you believe that inaction leading to more death is more ethical then actively choosing to murder one life to save the other. Let's look at the same problem but swap out the actors. Say you have one
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Children apparently. And common enough apparently that ISO formalized it: > This document specifies requirements to reduce the risk of asphyxiation from caps for writing and marking instruments. It relates to such instruments which in no
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Dunno if it's any better. The competition then switches from spending direct financial resources to the university to spending financial resources to out compete other students vying for the same university. In China there's usual
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Isn't there problems with replacing a single cell causing the battery management system to go whacky? I was under the impression that the cells need to be balanced with each other in some fashion.
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Japan's wary about making their automotive industry critically dependant on Chinese industries. The Chinese already proved twice that they're willing to use supply chain dependency as political means to punish Japan, once with rar
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"You took an oath, if you recall, when you first came to work for me. And I don't mean to the National Security Advisor of the United States, I mean to his boss... and I don't mean the President. You gave your word to his bos
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Low but it wasn't exactly unheard of either. There were full time positions publicly offering only $20,000 a year right on the listing itself. Not sure how publicly offering below minimum wage makes any sense though. Highest offer I&#x
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Kind of depends. I live in Canada, most companies don't pay software related jobs like dev or SDET particularly well. When I left my QA / SDET position at 9 years of experience my salary was $52,000 Canadian a year. To give you an
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Canadian federal government just mandated 3 days in the office for all government employees. Canadian businesses were lobbying as well as pressure from Ontario Premier Ford and Mayor Olivia Chow. The Ontario and Nova Scotia provincial gover
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somerandomqaguy
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Eh, maybe. There's Indian devs from Noida are up to snuff; skilled, fluent in English and hard working, and mesh well with western team members. But they're not cheap from what I've heard, especially with overhead setting up
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To a degree, the dedicated barcode scanners is still a fair bit faster. So anything dealing with high volumes of barcodes like warehousing inventory or store stock management benefits from a dedicated scanner.
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Police, EMS, fire service, and military use them. The laptops are often mounted inside of the vehicles and need to withstand a fair amount of bumping around. A lot of them also specifically include RS232 ports to interface with industrial e
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>Every time I see the advice to wear insect-repellent every time going outdoors, I wonder whether that's actually good advice, and what the health pros&cons are. The insect repellent isn't just for mosquitos. DEET is fairly
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More volatile, actually. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231344 It's a big reason why ordinance has a shelf life and has to be destroyed once it hits that age.
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I don't think it's just that. Imagine the kind of money the more unscrupulous could make selling sugar pills for $100 each saying that it's the cure for whatever is killing you. Desperation can cloud even the most rational of
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>HTTPS is shrouded behind inscrutable crypto, but nearly everyone trusts it with their credit card details. Credit card via HTTPS has a second layer to it though, the accountings/auditing layer. You can't achieve that with secr
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That genuinely doesn't seem to solve anything to me. Sure you can generate all these secret codes but then why wouldn't a briber ask for you to take a picture or video of the screen with all the codes and secret? OCR and computer
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I'm not sure how the solves the issue of a voter that wants to reveal their vote.
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Not really, one of the goals in contradictory to the stated goal of an electronic voting system of voter verifiability. The problem is that when you can verify that your own vote has been counted a certain way, that can be used to influence
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Yes they can conflict. I chose slavery because it did conflict. 13 States left succeeded from the United States to form the Confederacy to protect slavery at the behest of their own citizens. And the remaining Union disagreed. Violently. Th
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>To use your example, the slave owner's right to pursuit of happiness ends where the slaves' rights to liberty and pursuit of happiness begin. A would-be slave owner cannot and should not violate another man's (a would-be
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No GP but I think they such rights cannot be absolute because the same right can conflict with itself. Say it's the 18 century with slavery is common. The slave owners are depriving the slaves of liberty and happiness. But the deprivat
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It's mostly on the car manufacturers. Most of them seem to want the dealership model nowadays. There's no such laws in place requiring independent dealerships in Canada. Aside from the usual direct sales car companies, Genesis dea
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>So do the digital barcodes if you add them to your phones wallet. ??? Last I heard the adding the barcode to the phone's wallet did not work, or at least not reliably. Some older folks I know struggled with it, and I specifically h
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