jedmeyers

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by jedmeyers 1mo ago
> This is my experience with all Microsoft software. The worst thought out, buggy, untested pile of crap. Their PM motto is "quality is a feature", and obviously not everybody needs all the features.
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by jedmeyers 2mo ago
You are in for a surprise if you think latest generation Toyotas or Hondas will be less costly to repair. Just look at the recent debacle with the V35A-FTS.
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by jedmeyers 2mo ago
This does not look to be “military” spending on Ukraine, it’s all spending.
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by jedmeyers 2mo ago
> As of 2026 Q2, the U.S. disbursed over $116 billion in aid to Ukraine and is obligated for a total of $177b. Yes the rest is being disbursed despite Trump's political antics Where are you getting those numbers from?
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by jedmeyers 5mo ago
Same here, it's often neither blue nor green, so this experiment is pointless.
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by jedmeyers 5mo ago
And by having more of those blanks filled humans might be able to come up with much better extrapolations than what we have right now.
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by jedmeyers 5mo ago
> Nobody in the cabinet can speak up and overrule his whimsy? Who will be overruling that "someone in the cabinet", when things start going the wrong way again? There is always someone on top, and in the US it's the sittin
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by jedmeyers 6mo ago
The harbinger?
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by jedmeyers 6mo ago
> It's about on par with the ridiculousness of LOC implying code quality. Most effective engineers on the brownfield projects I've worked on, usually deleted more LOC than they've added, because they were always looking to
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by jedmeyers 6mo ago
> One giant leap? The gravity is weaker so just jump down /s
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by jedmeyers 10mo ago
> I mean, it's literally a link on a web page. You click the link, it takes you to The BEAM Book's page. Now instead of putting the details in the title, you have me reading paragraphs of text and clicking links to figure out w
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by jedmeyers 10mo ago
The curse of knowledge in this thread is mind boggling.
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by jedmeyers 10mo ago
Because of you ask a person who works on Beam about “the Beam book” thats the one they are going to recommend. Who knows that the BEAM book is literally called “the BEAM Book”? There are many books like that, “the SRE book” is actually Site
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by jedmeyers 1y ago
> I still doubt they're gonna face any serious penalties Having to fix all P320 fire control units they've sold so far will put them out of business. You don't even need any additional penalties on top of that. I just hop
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by jedmeyers 1y ago
And it still does not help, because the safety only blocks the trigger but not the striker from firing, thus the Air Force incident that started, this topic, became possible.
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by jedmeyers 2y ago
It feels like you are pressing on a tennis ball, zero real feedback whatsoever. Acura MDX has had the brake-by-wire system fo a while now in the latest generation.
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by jedmeyers 2y ago
It does require a digital to analog converter, though.
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by jedmeyers 2y ago
With a golden parachute nonetheless.
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by jedmeyers 2y ago
> What we need is much better whistleblower programs. Unfortunately, not many organizations will have the aligned incentives. If businesses that conduct potentially dangerous operations, were required to get an insurance, then insurance
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by jedmeyers 2y ago
What AWS/GCP/Azure provide with managed Redis is much much more than just a UI. There are a lot of technical issues that come with running Redis reliably in the cloud. I’d say UI work is probably 5% of that at most.
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by jedmeyers 3y ago
And thus we usually do not have patents for songs, only copyright protections.
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by jedmeyers 3y ago
Are we sure that he actually died in that accident and not chilling somewhere in Florida under a different name? Cause it can be a good cover story do disappear your agent that successfully fulfilled his mission.
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by jedmeyers 3y ago
Alaska temporary switched to the flexible travel policy because of this incident, so you should be able to change your ticket fairly easily.
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by jedmeyers 3y ago
> Azure AD Nobody Gets Fired For Buying _Microsoft, I guess.
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by jedmeyers 3y ago
My friend in Eastern Europe ran a bot farm in WoW. He ran bots on his computers that farmed resources, then sold resources for gold and then sold the gold to Chinese for end-user resale. The only labor involved was hiring some college stude
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by jedmeyers 3y ago
A lot of people in positions of power are currently obsessed with achieving equality of outcomes (aka equity) and dumbing down to the lowest common denominator is an only working way to achieve that goal for large groups of people.
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by jedmeyers 3y ago
> Currently, Universities have no incentives to control costs in any way. Most universities are the supporters of the existing government structure, so it seems to be a mutually beneficial relationship.
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by jedmeyers 3y ago
How are you getting to "herd immunity" without "immunity"? No one said saying about 100% of the population being 100% immune, it's a strawman.
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by jedmeyers 3y ago
Which vaccine specifically provided the "immunity"?
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by jedmeyers 3y ago
> because the original strain was unnatural, later strains would be less problematic as the virus reverted to its true (less problematic) nature Is it possible for someone to speed up this process in a lab somewhere, like South Africa, a

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