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by xnyan 9mo ago
This was my thought exactly. The much more boring but accurate title would be "Outdoor point-to-point wifi bridge system affected by weather"
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by xnyan 9mo ago
I don’t think you are correct, but I could be wrong. For example, can you replicate the functionality of TikTok - autoplay unmuted videos as the user scroll down to new videos? It’s the experience that the user expects.
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by xnyan 9mo ago
> I think they're very overused I disagree, native apps on iOS have important abilities that no web application can match. The inability to control cache long-term is alone a dealbreaker if trying to create an experience with minima
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by xnyan 9mo ago
"Pens are not cheaper, look at this Montblanc" is not a good faith response. '84 Motorola DynaTAC - ~$12k AfI (adjusted for inflation) '89 MicroTAC ~$8k AfI '96 StarTAC ~$2k AfI `07 iPhone ~$673 AfI The current ave
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by xnyan 9mo ago
You may be joking, but I have several high achieving peers whose families did this with good results. The choice was: did they want to be in the best high school with the highest level of competition, or did they want to go to an OK school
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by xnyan 9mo ago
It’s not going to work for them. Car companies have already tried this, people will literally get a suction cup and stick their phone over the crappy car UI if needed.
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by xnyan 10mo ago
I think Maduro almost certainly cheated. All history and our current geopolitical relationships indicate that does not matter to the US unless you oppose them. Even pretending to follow international law when you don’t actually do so is, t
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by xnyan 10mo ago
Would you say that the United States had a much larger and more expensive military than Vietnam? How did that work out for the United States?
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by xnyan 10mo ago
I once drove my car a month after it's registration expired. I was pulled over twice in the same day on the same ride home from work, in two separate counties in two separate legal systems. Completely my fault of course. I went to the
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by xnyan 10mo ago
Unless you live in NYC or a handful of other places, an adult in the US who can't drive (or afford to pay someone to drive for them) is in the equivalent of economic-social prison. Almost all personal transportation infrastructure is d
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by xnyan 11mo ago
You may or may not be aware, but all plans rack and stack somewhere in a priority list called QCI (Quality of Service Class Identifier). AT&T, for example will put at QCI 7-9 depending on your plan.
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by xnyan 11mo ago
I think the mock exit door would only be interesting with the corresponding emergency slide. The only problem is that in almost all cases where the emergency slide has been deployed and used, at least some passengers have been injured beyon
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by xnyan 11mo ago
You need specific software that can cost thousands of dollars if obtained legally, but it's not really the bad part. Essentially anything on the CAN bus has to have it's cryptographic signature put on the ECU's whitelist of a
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by xnyan 11mo ago
The situation you describing is the norm for everyone, including you, for most subjects. Expertise gives you greater understanding and allows for more meaningful engagement with the subject, but most people are experts very few things. When
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by xnyan 1y ago
This is how it worked for me. I’ve had it in my left ear for decades, the last time I thought about it was the last time I read an article about tinnitus on hacker news.
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by xnyan 1y ago
There’s a scene about 2/3 through the first video where they show a brief clip of the robot folding and stacking a shirt. The quality and speed was roughly comparable to a 7-10 year old - slow and somewhat sloppy, but recognizably a fo
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by xnyan 1y ago
Whereas in the US, masked government goons have never thrown people in unmarked vans /s.
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by xnyan 1y ago
Your perception about the safety of 1970s cars is off - you are massively less likely to die or be seriously injured in a car built in 2025 than any car in any car built in the 1970s.
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by xnyan 1y ago
> textbooks Textbooks are not that distant from academic publishing in terms of the rent seeking that goes on. Textbook publishers essentially bribe academia for the right to rip off their students by providing courses with testing and a
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by xnyan 1y ago
> Or they could respect the democratic decisions of the countries they do business in? In what way would blocking access from the UK be not respecting the law?
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by xnyan 1y ago
Don’t Apple and Ubuntu also advertise products in their OS also?
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by xnyan 1y ago
> But it would be nice if we can acknowledge that people who actually make an effort to wear their gear and maintain situational awareness generally aren't well represented in the statistics. The data says you are 25 times more lik
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by xnyan 1y ago
> but if it is not combined with training and of course a sound attitude, you may sooner or later find yourself in an undesirable situation. I ride motorcycles, so this is not a argument against it, but even with all the best safety gear
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by xnyan 1y ago
A lot of people are surprised to learn the the average wage for both plumbers and electricians is ~30 bucks an hour, then that’s in exchange for body breaking work. A small subset earn more, but it’s not the norm.
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by xnyan 1y ago
Until 2017, The DHS Inspector General’s office found that 90% – 95% of dangerous items get through screening checkpoints in testing. What changed in 2017? They stopped publishing the results of the testing.
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by xnyan 1y ago
The article talks about behavior like binding a woman to a chair, putting her in an elevator and sending her on trips to random floors. how is that kind of behavior necessary to make a video game?
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by xnyan 1y ago
The American Revolution, wasn’t it illegal?
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by xnyan 1y ago
I’m certain there’s policy that allows for national mint to create non-spendable exemplars of currency in a way that does not count as cash.
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by xnyan 1y ago
Worth using just for 'uv pip' as a replacement for pip on the grounds of being much much faster. I've completely switched to uv and I can't imagine ever going back to pip for this and lots of other outstanding features.
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by xnyan 1y ago
In the mid 90s when Bob Ross died, 95% of American preschoolers had seen Sesame Street, at the time a show not available anywhere besides PBS.

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