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by suprgeek 10y ago
Another Parable: I heard this in a presentation that was emphasizing the need to actually speak to the Ops folks before deploying the solutions that dev dreamed up: A toothpaste factory had a problem: Due to the way the production line was
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by suprgeek 10y ago
What is really galling about the whole saga is that this will end up costing lives and pain. 1. Some people might have gotten incorrect blood work results as a consequence of hyped-but-BS techniques like the nano-tainers. Some portion of th
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How much can police find out from a murderer’s Echo?(theverge.com)
1 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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Chilean officials can’t explain strange IR signal seen by its Navy(arstechnica.com)
8 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 10y ago
I have been following the low/no sugar approach for a coupe of years. Some results (some may/may not be directly attributable just to low sugar) 1) Most restaurant foods, even the savory section, have an undercurrent of sweetness
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Why this man injects himself with snake venom(cnn.com)
1 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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‘Jeopardy’ Champion Dies Before She Could See Her Triumph on TV(nytimes.com)
1 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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Peter Thiel now leading the fight for commercial space in Trump’s NASA(arstechnica.com)
2 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 10y ago
I think this "assurance" pretty much confirms for me that Apple has internally begun to shift even more resources away from the Mac and the Macbook. The very weak nature of the response which really does not provide any specifics
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Do We Really Understand the Cosmos?(arxiv.org)
40 points by suprgeek 10y ago|4 comments
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by suprgeek 10y ago
As an oldster - two things that I really wish my younger self would have intimately realized. 1) As a software person your are employed to Solve Business Problems - NOT to write code, NOT to write tests, NOT to hack on platforms, NOT to be
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by suprgeek 10y ago
The young'uns here probably have not lived thru the Microsoft era in the 90s when "Embrace Extend Extinguish" was the operating motto and any Market where MS entered would send competitors quaking in fear. They were late to t
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by suprgeek 10y ago
So the Watchdog RETALIATED against some one who brought wrongdoing to light... Isn't this jokers Job Description pretty much the protection of exactly these whistle blowers ? The cognitive dissonance here is almost too much to bear
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A Ton of Popular Netgear Routers Are Exposed–With No Easy Fix(wired.com)
2 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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American and British Spy Agencies Targeted In-Flight Mobile Phone Use(theintercept.com)
3 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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Strobe lighting provides a flicker of hope in the fight against Alzheimer’s(theguardian.com)
1 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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Trump's new FCC advisers are more bad news for net neutrality(theverge.com)
2 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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Some Chimps Are Putting Grass in Their Ears (2014)(smithsonianmag.com)
61 points by suprgeek 10y ago|26 comments
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Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagacé(montrealgazette.com)
1 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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Have an anonymous TED Talk? We want to hear it(blog.ted.com)
1 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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Why CRISPR Never Could Have Come Out of Silicon Valley(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 10y ago
What they could have done (one or more): 1) Bezel-less display 2) Full Touch screen 3) Detachable Screen - IPad Pro + 4) Stylus input (from Apple Pencil) 5) 15-20 hr battery life 6) NVidia Graphics 7) 64 Gb Ram option 8) Kept the HDMI &
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FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission to Share Your Data(npr.org)
540 points by suprgeek 10y ago|112 comments
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Baltimore Aerial Surveillance Program Retained Data Despite 45-Day Privacy Limit(aclu.org)
3 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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WHO cancer agency asked experts to withhold glyphosate (Roundup) documents(reuters.com)
28 points by suprgeek 10y ago|2 comments
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by suprgeek 10y ago
Multiple puzzling decisions - 1) The Esc and the Space keys are the two I most often use without looking - now I have to f*ing look down to hit esc? 2)What about a hard boot? Is the power key now a soft key as well? Non-removable battery an
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Did 40-year-old Viking experiment discover life on Mars?(phys.org)
3 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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Car in your bag(cocoamotors.com)
1 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 10y ago
Off-Duty or On-Duty Policemen are under the belief that any questioning - "Aggressive Talk" i.e. even non-cursing but impolite language is grounds for immediate "stomping". Unless you immediately comply they will physica
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Feds strike another multi-national “tech support” scam(arstechnica.com)
1 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments

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