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by stirlo 5y ago
> Apple does nothing to improve front line technician procedures. I’m not a fan of planned obselence and waste but this is clearly wrong. They’ve spent loads of engineering effort designing a machine for their store that can replace and
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by stirlo 5y ago
Doctorates =/= Medical Professionals
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by stirlo 5y ago
> Like with dish-staff, even the Janitor is a critical role, doing an essential task that no other will do. Easy to hire and train new janitors and dish-staff
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by stirlo 5y ago
I don't support the GPs view that the elderly should live with their families. I do however take issue with you suggesting this would be bad for financial reasons. Realistically assigning some of the wealth older people have built up t
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by stirlo 5y ago
> And, most concerning; many people want mandatory vaccination. No one should want it. The alternative is overflowing hospitals, masks forever and the restrictions on movement. I 100% want those who force this on society to stopped. The
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by stirlo 5y ago
> Israel already has a massive PR issue with other countries, But for these middle eastern countries Israel selling them exploits which allow them to spy on dissidents may actually improve relations by helping out regimes which would oth
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by stirlo 5y ago
Or just loads a in app web view on the payment screen that 99% of users don’t even notice
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by stirlo 5y ago
> but there will be more gatekeepers to deal with. They’re not mandating support for alternative payment providers merely saying Apple and Google cannot prevent you as a developer offering an alternative to your users. Whether you decide
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by stirlo 5y ago
I think we can all agree that transfer pricing and the Double Irish Dutch sandwich were not intended to be used in the way they have been by modern multinationals.
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by stirlo 5y ago
Finally. This is exactly how regulators should respond to the market abuse of these technology monopolies. If they wanted to head this off all they had to do was pay a reasonable amount of tax in the country where the revenue was generated
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by stirlo 5y ago
Last years iPhone 12 changed to a new square sided design. This year the 13 will be an S design (and leaked renders confirm).
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by stirlo 5y ago
iPhone 13? Surely this is the kind of feature that would require a redesign not something to introduce in an S year. Also seems implausible when the 13 is already in volume manufacturing and this is the first we’ve heard of it…
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by stirlo 5y ago
> where you are actively fined for driving an EV. Hyperbolic statements like this are unhelpful; The government has implemented a distance based tax on EVs (road pricing) to offset losses from the existing fuel excise taxes. It's ce
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by stirlo 5y ago
This is one of the most frustrating things about being invested in the Apple ecosystem. I've hit the 200gb limit and I'll be damned if I'll pay 330% more for storage that I don't need. Instead I'm deleting my oldest
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by stirlo 5y ago
Seems pretty clear from this photo[0] it spread to a second pack that was in close proximity. A quote from the media release is "They found a 13-tonne lithium battery inside a shipping container was fully involved" which would exc
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by stirlo 5y ago
They delayed the tunnel another 2 years (minimum) in pursuit of a more costly complicated solution.
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by stirlo 5y ago
Great follow up tweet [0] where he shows built in a trivial to implement license check bypass for people in the scene. From his comments however it seems like it was never uncovered and instead crackers implemented a more complex difficult
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by stirlo 5y ago
The major A303 highway already passes within 150m of Stonehenge. [1] Surely it's a massive improvement to put it in a tunnel regardless. Unfortunately often protests seeking a perfect outcome stand in the way of any progress. [1] http
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by stirlo 5y ago
The media release I linked above actually mentions it spread to a second pack. But yes it’s not spreading to the others.
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by stirlo 5y ago
It's only been ~27 hours since it started. Still burning. https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/incident/ESTA:21...
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by stirlo 5y ago
Live incident status from the Victorian Government Emergency portal: https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/incident/ESTA:21... 24 Hours after the fire started it is still listed as "Not Yet Under C
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by stirlo 5y ago
Interesting. I was using Safari, MacOS11
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by stirlo 5y ago
Doom worked for me in that I could select the menus, start a new game and move the character around. But it seems the “shoot” button is not working. From googling it seems “shoot” is mapped to the ctrl button which then I assume is not pass
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by stirlo 5y ago
I walk to work (when not working from home) and only use my car for long trips to regional areas (visiting family and outdoor activities). I’d love to buy an EV but unfortunately current range limitations make them the perfect commuter car
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by stirlo 5y ago
In the second half of the post he suggests remotely determining an iDevice passcode was possible with his rate limit bypass. Essentially a salted version of the devices passcode is uploaded to the apple server which he could then bypass the
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by stirlo 5y ago
I think you’ll find those parents who don’t don’t have the time to engage with their kids are working far more than 40 hours. The lucky ones are probably working 60-70 for a tech company and making bank, the unlucky ones are working multipl
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by stirlo 5y ago
Very exciting to see this implemented into ESPhome. Will make provisioning IoT devices for end users far simpler
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by stirlo 5y ago
And what's wrong with this? If developers think Apples frictionless payment system is worth their cut then they'd still keep it. Otherwise consumers and developers now have choice. What marginal benefit does apple provide on the p
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by stirlo 5y ago
Yes, it expect it will have a near monopoly in the year desktop Linux goes mainstream…
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by stirlo 5y ago
I disagree. While learning to operate a grill or deep fryer isn't a skill many are likely to need in the future there are dozens of generalist skills learned from your first job. Think teamwork, following managerial directions, follow

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