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by brorfred 2mo ago
I strongly recommend the Downlink app for this! https://downlinkapp.com It downloads false-color images from GOES and Himawari NRT and sets them as desktop images.
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by brorfred 3mo ago
Just to show how DEI works at NASA, I share a DEI plan we wrote for a proposal just before the change of administration. This plan was rated highly by the agency. Which parts are "appealing discriminatory practices"? Inclusion Pla
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by brorfred 6mo ago
Can you expand on this? SL accepts any credit card for purchasing single tickets and I assume you can buy an SL card using cash in for example Seven Eleven? Also, the issue with bank ID when you are robbed is identical to any bank app anywh
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Region-Beta Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
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by brorfred 11mo ago
I think Trader Joe's is as close as you get to it?
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by brorfred 4y ago
Seem like at least some do: https://www.statista.com/statistics/912207/frozen-pizza-sale... https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/booming-italian-froz... My point is that every country has
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by brorfred 4y ago
And there is absolute crap cured meat in those countries too. The most disgusting pizza I've ever had was a Dr Oetker's frozen pizza with gross salami as topping. Seems like the brand is sold in Italy: https://www.daily
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by brorfred 4y ago
Average can mean either mean or median.
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by brorfred 5y ago
The importance of collecting race data is because of a history of systematic discrimination based on race. It's not for example Black or Hispanic groups that decided that those categories are important, it was the people creating Jim C
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by brorfred 5y ago
And how many people have died in the strip mining of uranium?
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by brorfred 5y ago
Very true but a side loaded app can do so much more. Possibly even act as a key logger. Definitely provide info about all your whereabouts during protests.
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by brorfred 5y ago
Not at all. I read that story as the suggested apps being on the AppStore and having gone through the normal vetting by Apple. If so, then the government doesn’t have access to any more backdoors than already potentially exists in for examp
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by brorfred 5y ago
Sideloading also allows authoritarian regimes to add apps to your phone. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border...
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by brorfred 5y ago
But that's what you a developer want, not necessarily the users. I'm extremely happy that you can't tell me to use another browser and have to fix your code for Safari instead. I think that you have a right to decide which br
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by brorfred 6y ago
It seems like DPP is part of WPA3, which came out in late 2018 and Apple’s version was first introduced in iOS 11, which was released 2017?
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by brorfred 6y ago
Free market idealists also tend to be very against the natural way for workers to consolidate and leverage negotiation power: trade unions.
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by brorfred 7y ago
Isn’t it even 1. Google, 2. Ad buyers, 3. Developers, 4. Users.
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by brorfred 7y ago
An advocate for gay marriage, abortion, trans-gender rights etc would never have a leadership position at Chic-Fil-A and would be fired in a heartbeat if they came out with such opinions. A anti-gun advocate would not be allowed to sweep th
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by brorfred 7y ago
I have this problem when using the src folder tree conventions (poetry new --src new_package).
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by brorfred 7y ago
Any mobile device will ping central servers for notifications, update information, ntp, etc etc. Apple or google or at&t will of course always have your current IP address and be able to provide it to police if served a search warrant.
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by brorfred 7y ago
App convergence over different operating systems seems to bigger trend than platform convergence within an ecosystem, and Marzipan seems be Apple's response to that. I would much rather run a version of Slack's iPhone app than the
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by brorfred 8y ago
There are several tool chains but they are either internal on institutional level or commercial. The main numerical library is NAG. Still comersial but cheap compared to the price of most cluster systems that the code is developed for. Heck
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by brorfred 8y ago
While this estimate is eye opening it has to be compared to the ratio of black men in prison in the US, which is about 7%. One could argue that both high incarceration rates are results of policies to keep certain ethnic groups in control.
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by brorfred 8y ago
But aren't business losses tax deductible?
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by brorfred 8y ago
The most extraordinary part of Bloomberg’s story is that they have so many sources. How can they get 17 people to talk about something of this caliber? Especially if Apple and Amazon are constrained with gag orders to the point where they h
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by brorfred 8y ago
But the Bloomberg story says that they replaced thousands of servers. How would you get permission and funding to do that without saying anything?
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by brorfred 8y ago
I saw figures that Bloomberg had 17 sources for this story. For that to in nay way be realistic, this must be a deliberate leak by the US government. Why would they put such a strong gag order on Apple/Amazon and then leak the informa
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by brorfred 8y ago
But that's when your company has a contract with the government, right? Why would there be anyone on Apple's side with TS/SCI clearance? Didn't Bloomberg say that Apple found the chips? How would you be able to replace +
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by brorfred 8y ago
The part I don't understand is why Apple would take such a huge PR hit from the story. I way I read it is that they found out about the problem, diagnosed it and replaced all servers all within a very short time. A careful writeup abou
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by brorfred 8y ago
Why does then EU countries have much cheaper and faster internet and cell data than the US? The market there has much more regulations with one explicit goal being to increase competition.

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