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by yardie 3y ago
It's' been a few years since I used an Android phone daily. But one of the nice things about iOS is the granularity of permissions. For Android app permissions are asked once during install and you take it or leave it. iOS is cons
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by yardie 3y ago
Who started his company at 23 which is even more impressive. The founders of Tesla for, example, were well established in consumer electronics before starting the car company. And cars are the most complex consumer electronics on the market
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by yardie 3y ago
Yeah, that's what severance is for. Sign this paper that holds us harmless. We give you money to never see you again. This is a problem that could be solved with money. If Charlie is as bad as described the boss would pay for them to g
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by yardie 3y ago
I bought a home specifically so I don't have to deal with landlords and their own level of bullshit.
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by yardie 3y ago
They could fire Charlie without cause. Sounds like management just doesn't want to pay out UI or severance. So they'll let you suffer to document a cause. So Charlie is such a big problem they need to get rid of them, but not enou
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by yardie 3y ago
A moderately popular ICE car[0] is shitting 5.6t of CO2 every year. You don't see that waste but it's all around you. [0] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=45101
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by yardie 3y ago
I always found it hilarious that sci-fi movies set in the late 21st and later centuries would have late models 90s-2000s era automobiles in them. Scene: The year is 2080, the protagonist pulls up in a 2013 Camry, with "sci-fi bits&quo
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by yardie 3y ago
I’m not sure on the S and X. I have a LHD 3. The cutouts are clearly there under the passenger side dash. But you would need to replace a lot of parts: steering column, pedals, wiring harness, dash. From what I understand the S is quite con
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by yardie 3y ago
On a different story: Our son had his iPhone stolen from him at school. He was in 6th grade and put his bag down to play ball when someone must have walked up and rummaged through his backpack. Once he realized it was stolen he called me fr
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by yardie 3y ago
I lived abroad for a while. So I wasn't the right demographic for Erasmus being American. But I made so many friends who were participants. I ended meeting them at the same bars and cafes. Where students and just graduated, former stud
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by yardie 3y ago
I had one of those but it was built into our TV, a Magnavox. It relied on a small black frame that local broadcasters used to insert their ads. National broadcaster like NBC would stream to their local affiliates. And the stream would have
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by yardie 3y ago
On my way to the miami tech happy hour now. I participated at ‘22 and ‘23 Hack Week. I was really impressed by the winners, Yenta.
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by yardie 3y ago
Sites such as Imgur and Giphy were created to solve this problem. A lot of users simply don't know or don't recall just how barebones the original Twitter app was.
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by yardie 3y ago
> There was a time around 2010 when building a Twitter API client was the standard demo for a new UI framework — the data model was simple enough that a basic client was the next step up from "Hello world" complexity. It's
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by yardie 3y ago
We've bumped into each other. I'm also a Miami dev and part of the 00s brain drain. It's been exciting to see this city change so much. And I've gotten to meet so many amazing developers and engineers.
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by yardie 3y ago
The article that allowed the UK to leave the EU was specifically crafted for the UK at the time they joined. The EU realized that mistake right away and removed it for future members. No such agreement exists in the Constitution because hav
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by yardie 3y ago
The question was resolved n 1865 with a lot of bullets and a lot of dead soldiers. Texas joined the Union in 1845, btw. These are chucklehead GOP politicians who only have a seat through gerrymandering. I suspect if this was to go to refere
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by yardie 3y ago
In 2006/2007 I was paid for a project in e-gold[0]. Another currency backed by gold bullion. I never saw the gold, never touched it, but was assured it was there, really. The whole thing went tits up because it was a scam. Being in Tex
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by yardie 3y ago
It's only illegal to leave LOS. Whether the computer is in control, or the sticks are in control the PIC is still the PIC.
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by yardie 3y ago
That data is available as part of the API. I use other flight control software like Litchi that gives me a lot of control. Even allows me to create and import a flight plan for semi-autonomous flight.
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by yardie 3y ago
Definitely had a choice in putting a round into the chamber. Definitely had a choice in placing the sight between their eye and the victims. Definitely had a choice in sliding a finger through the trigger guard. Definitely had a choice in d
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by yardie 3y ago
> Math education in the US is pitiful. Yeah, no disagreement there. > The last attempt to fix it (common core) mostly emphasized memorizing arithmetic facts. In fact, just the opposite. The old math system was rote memorization. Then
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by yardie 3y ago
There is property in east Texas. No water, no roads, no electricity, no police nor fire department. You are truly on your own. You pay for nothing and you pay for everything. You don’t pay property taxes to own the land. You pay taxes for a
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by yardie 3y ago
The breakout rooms and tutorial sections are for ICs and other interested parties. The big talk rooms are for the check writers, managers, and decision makers. I've been the conferences that will have business tracks and technical trac
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by yardie 3y ago
I washed so many cars as a preteen to afford a $30/mo SLIP connection. PPP must have rolled out really fast or went through a few beta periods. I remember using it as early as ‘93. Our ISP gave you the option of SLIP or PPP when you di
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by yardie 3y ago
Those bright shirts were definitely that era. Which store is this? Incredible Universe, The Wiz, Fry’s?
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by yardie 4y ago
This is not the USDOD GPS. This is Inmarsat's DGPS service that provides ~1-2cm accuracy. Which, if you're driving between rows of produce can be the difference between harvesting or crushing crops. [0] https://en.wikipe
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by yardie 4y ago
It means they will have to take a lease instead of paying by cash or financing with credit. It's a loophole that Kia and Hyundai is trying to steer customers to. Their last quarter was stupendously bad.
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by yardie 4y ago
My bank, Capital One, is a glorified cafe and co-working space. If I try to do any "banking" there they will literally redirect me to use the app. You can definitely do banking completely online. You simply need to have the system
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by yardie 4y ago
The house is still there. You're just no longer part of it.

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