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by xnyan 6y ago
In case someone doesn’t know that the sp is joking, geosynchronous satellites are 36k kilometers above us. The speed of light being what it is, you’re looking at 250ms just to bounce the radio wave from earth to the satellite and back. Tha
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by xnyan 6y ago
The monopoly Apple has is the paid mobile software market. The difference between software sales on the Google play store and and the iOS App Store are pretty staggering. I have no expertise in the law so I can’t tell you that’s it a monopo
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by xnyan 6y ago
Apple has a long history of using their leverage and power to extract more value from their business relationships when they can.In what way is it unethical to meet Apple on their own terms?
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by xnyan 6y ago
The term “dark ages” is a periodization popularized in the mid 19h century. It’s not commonly used in academic discourse because it is nonspecific and subjective in its definition.
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by xnyan 6y ago
It is mind boggling how smart and clear thinking people want so badly to dump on Microsoft, to the degree that it blinds them to objective reality. Auto driver update functionally is now in windows update and it works well. This is mentione
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by xnyan 6y ago
They have, and it works well. Also, you don't have to use it so they do it fact give you a choice.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Driving for a living is hard on a person. Truck drivers have bad health and quite high divorce/problematic relationship rates. Taxi driving is relatively dangerous. Driving is the most dangerous activity we commonly perform today and
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by xnyan 6y ago
Here's a prospective from someone who became a software dev in my late 20s after other jobs. Relatively speaking, if you can write working code and show up on time, you have a lot of leverage in getting and keeping employment, more tha
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by xnyan 6y ago
It's not the bluetooth chipset that's the determining factor, but rather apple's proprietary W1 chip. There are a lot of exceptions depending on the device and the BT stack used, but to process both audio input from the mic a
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by xnyan 6y ago
>Huh? Are you saying the restaurant can suck more rent from dinners than the landlord from them? It's hard, but many do it. The biggest advantage sit-down has is "addons", primarily booze. Breaking even on the food and ma
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by xnyan 6y ago
They used lipo cells hidden inside the frame of the battery, the heat output of the batteries lit up on an inferred camera. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/cheating_in_b...
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by xnyan 6y ago
Among my cohort (20s-30s), I'd say it's 99% gmail. Is there something equally hegemonic for West Europe? A lot of my german friends use GMX but I don't see as much from other countries.
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by xnyan 6y ago
>banned any drug with a set of side effects The word you are looking for is pleasure. The only types of drugs that are 100% illegal are drugs that have no purpose besides making you feel pleasurable sensations. Horrible side effects (e.g
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by xnyan 6y ago
Can’t answer for aviation but I worked in the general testing and certification industry (Underwriters Laboratories) with tons of rules and externally audited standards about calibration of measurement and test equipment. Yes, things like r
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by xnyan 6y ago
They are not as competent at sherlocking as Amazon.
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by xnyan 6y ago
You can't say "you should clean for the future of these kids, not money" or similar with as much support from society for cleaning as easily as one can for teaching.
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by xnyan 6y ago
While there certainty are places that pay starting teachers more, unless you work for the upper crust of K-12 the pay is quite bad compared to basically any other other job that requires a four-year degree plus certification and/or (us
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by xnyan 6y ago
Thinking about having a kid. There's no way I would ever have a kid in my current US state. Not saying anyone has done it well vs rest of the world, but there are clearly states (and counties/cities) that have done a much better j
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by xnyan 6y ago
See hospadar's comment, the word you are looking for is "coward".
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by xnyan 6y ago
In my experience, anything written by/for hardware manufacturers is done under the management pressure of "Did it meet the minimum requirements? Ok good, now any extra second you spend looking at the code again is time theft from
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by xnyan 6y ago
I think I may misunderstand what you are saying: >I uploaded a picture to google maps as part of a review You uploaded a photo to a public service, cool: >Google had been rifling through my personal pictures Not sure how that follows.
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by xnyan 6y ago
As an aside, if you want to make a genuinely warm smile but are not feeling it, this trick usually works for me. I think about my partner, or a beloved childhood memory, or something else along those lines. I just close my eyes for a second
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by xnyan 6y ago
I worked for an electronics testing lab for several years and used about, um, maybe 20 pairs of different headphones. Bluetooth sucks and most people’s implementation of it sucks even more. Maybe I have bad luck but almost all Bluetooth dev
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by xnyan 6y ago
Cables. It's fair if they are not a problem for you, but they are for me and getting rid of them is a gamechanger. I move around a lot all day, most days. They were constantly getting caught in things throughout my day and pulling at
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by xnyan 6y ago
No need for either, windows has and OpenSSH client and server as well as pretty good terminal now.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Counterpoint, my partner got very sick and I burned my savings then borrowed money from every source I could, including credit cards. I knew I was accepting awful terms, but they gave me money and that’s what I needed at that moment and it
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by xnyan 6y ago
I can’t imagine a worse job government job than being a TSA agent. Other federal agencies think you are a joke, the public mostly hates you and/or thinks you are a joke, and you make no money, and it’s a boring job were you have to sta
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by xnyan 6y ago
I can't speak for anyone else by myself but for the last several years most of the presenters sounded like they were well dosed with beta blockers before presenting. Not at all natural, or at ease, or relaxing to watch.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Apple does not present the 30% cut as a machiavellian reality of business. They describe it as a fair, reasonable, and mutually beneficial practice. Apple’s practices on the Google play store suggests that they are arguing in bad faith.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Web app is not really an alternative on iOS, not unless Apple stops actively crippling PWAs and I don’t see Apple doing this unless they are forced to do so (anti trust).

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