TheJoeMan

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by TheJoeMan 4d ago
My pessimistic take is it’s being optimized for the “numbers” users benchmark with. The 5G repeater towers that display on your phone as full-bars but the tower itself is constrained, to juicing the speedtests. Apple even changed how the RS
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by TheJoeMan 13d ago
https://foaas.io/dalton/foaas/HN
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by TheJoeMan 15d ago
Is there a term for the design style of the plastic panels? I've been seeing it more often, for instance the robot wheeled base looks like an Amazon Delivery Van. Hidden screws, 45degree angles but with soft corner bends.
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by TheJoeMan 22d ago
I took a peek into APFS a bit ago [1] because I (stupidly) yanked a usb SSD before it was unmounted and corrupted it. Reading the documentation, it seems to have many "cool" features which just aren't fully exposed/utili
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by TheJoeMan 26d ago
In the world of 2TB SSD’s, it does seem silly to risk inadvertently deleting an important ~2kb word document.
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by TheJoeMan 1mo ago
Ironically, these are a distillation of the collective intelligence and efforts of a business that has ultimately failed. Would you hire the previous COO of Spirit? Or the CTO? Instead you’ll have an agent that is influenced by the way this
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by TheJoeMan 1mo ago
“You can think of Q collar as a baby version of health scams promoted by wealthy and powerful medical-adjacent celebrities such as Dr. Oz, Andrew Huberman, and RFK Jr.” This sentence seems unnecessary and perhaps inflammatory, I think it de
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by TheJoeMan 1mo ago
The author was involved and knowledgeable in the FOIA processes that existed, and had an understanding of navigating a quagmire of redundant government employees. A cost-reducing restructuring has been going on that seems to funnel all requ
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by TheJoeMan 1mo ago
"The purpose of a cancer hospital is to cure as many patients as possible" seems also like an extreme? They are businesses, after all, and there will be cases that would be unreasonable to pursue?
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by TheJoeMan 1mo ago
Did they build 5,000 airport scanners at once? MOQ is brutal!
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by TheJoeMan 2mo ago
What I mean is that for “honest” software, built-in to the OS or otherwise, the programmer finds a situation where they take some user-supplied input and concatenate that into a path, and call something like OS.read(). If they want to preve
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by TheJoeMan 2mo ago
This may be a naive take, so if anyone has insight please feel free to share, but across Windows, Mac, and Linux OS's I see many cases of path parsing vulnerabilities resulting in sandbox escapes, code execution, or data access issues.
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by TheJoeMan 2mo ago
If you look at these US high-tech consumer products, many companies started out much “simpler”. GoPro was a disposable film camera and a wrist-strap, and iteratively got to where it is today. The iPod came out much before the iPhone. As you
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by TheJoeMan 2mo ago
I never understood if I was supposed to turn it completely off on the ski lifts or leave it in “sleep” for best battery life, and like you say the battery in the cold was just disappointing. Some irony though with another HN commenter havin
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by TheJoeMan 2mo ago
As a counterpoint, why should a “metal finishing technique” be proprietary? Lying to the vendor that Apple said it’s ok is obviously wrong, but an employee taking that knowledge in their head doesn’t seem wrong to me. We have moved past the
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by TheJoeMan 3mo ago
I'm not quite understanding, sorry if what I said was misconstrued. You don't think the engineering team considered reflectivity from a moral perspective? I am saying there needs to be some standards set out so that future enginee
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by TheJoeMan 3mo ago
If I run into someone at the grocery store, I can remember "oh I saw them yesterday" if the Police interview me. If I start writing down/logging every time I saw that person at the grocery store and plotting it out, I would c
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by TheJoeMan 3mo ago
At present, I don't believe there are industry standards / codes mandating minimization of reflectivity. My understanding is that SpaceX has engineered for this from their own internal requirements and "goodness of their hear
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by TheJoeMan 3mo ago
I also am curious about that statement. Seems something got mixed up between the quantity of the full run and the quantity for the probe.
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by TheJoeMan 3mo ago
Cash on the order of a hundred billion dollars. Plenty to weather this storm if they so chose so I agree with your assessment.
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by TheJoeMan 3mo ago
The ridiculous thing about profit margin, is that if RAM increases Apple's cost by $100, they have to increase the selling price by a multiple of that to maintain the same %. Same exact factory line, labor cost, shipping cost, but have
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by TheJoeMan 3mo ago
I'd suggest a "toast" would suffice for the correct answers. Proceed to the next question when correct, with a "next" button when incorrect.
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by TheJoeMan 3mo ago
Respectfully, I believe you have confused "new" with "state of the art". China is likely using batteries because their battery production is subsidized, Australia's trading partner is China so basically equivalent.
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by TheJoeMan 3mo ago
I’m more confused what they’re going to do with all the infra? What could all those GPU’s be doing? Just inference?
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by TheJoeMan 3mo ago
I have something similar from AT&T about my fiber internet, they kept sending me "transactional emails" with the last 3/4 of the message body being marketing copy for their phone service etc. I submitted a complaint at th
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by TheJoeMan 4mo ago
Yes, I know this is an EU article, but I suppose we have similar Temu garbage here in the USA to deal with. I wish for more reasonable restrictions but more severe enforcement, as these "bad" product examples I mentioned seem to m
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by TheJoeMan 4mo ago
That is unfortunate, thank you for sharing.
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by TheJoeMan 4mo ago
I'd be curious to see a breakdown between the "toxic chemicals" and "suffocation hazards" categories, as my intuition says it's mostly the latter and often bunk. The other day I was watching the TV above the Wa
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by TheJoeMan 4mo ago
I think Polyolefin Primer (Permabond POP) is magical in what it can superglue. Beautiful chemistry allowing something like Teflon or steel to be glued. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9yz8OqThJk
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by TheJoeMan 4mo ago
Regarding hardware, it's not entirely true that it doesn't need maintenance/development. See "stepping" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepping_level . There are sometimes ways to tweak the masks

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