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by metric10 4mo ago
Oh wow, $GLAB is down 31.68% YTD and they are announcing a massive restructuring and work force reduction. Is this th en---oh wait, AI!!!
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by metric10 1y ago
Sounds like both a lack of trust and communication between you and the team. > If you have better metrics or management skills than what everyone in the world has figured out, myself and many others would gladly adopt these approaches. O
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by metric10 3y ago
Call your credit card company. They can block a merchant, perform a chargeback, and/or issue a new credit card number. I don’t know the rules for a debit card, but you’ll at least be able to get a new debit card number.
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by metric10 4y ago
FWIW, actually, one thing I learned in practice that’s wasn’t highlighted in my Algorithms course: overhead (constant C) matters. You can feel good about yourself for choosing an algorithm that scales in O(lg n) time, but if your you ignore
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by metric10 4y ago
I've removed one and never heard anything. I doubt they even check if it's functioning unless they are attempting to repossess the car. As I recall, some modules have the ability to unlock and start the car as well (I think; it
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by metric10 4y ago
We leased a new Jeep Cherokee from a Miami dealership some time ago. It was a company car and was financed. Some months later we noticed the odometer was blinking constantly so we took it in for service to a different dealer. The tech pu
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by metric10 4y ago
In Colorado a law was recently passed to deal with this. According to [0]: "During its initial committee hearing, sponsoring state Rep. Mary Young, D-Greeley, said allegations of neglect or lack of supervision have been on the rise in
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by metric10 5y ago
Presumably the City of Los Angles isn't confronting the problem due to an unwillingness to spend funds. If she is successful, the cost of doing nothing will increase. So her goal isn't to throw them out, it's to force the c
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by metric10 5y ago
Yes. Back of envelope, took physics in college many years ago[1] analysis: E=mc^2, or energy = mass * (speed of light)^2. According to Wikipedia a candle can produce 77 watts of energy "combined." I guess that means 77 joules (
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by metric10 5y ago
While both RB and AVL trees grow at O(lg N) height, the constant for AVL trees is smaller. This means that for a large AVL tree it might be 1 or 2 layers shorter than the equivalent RB tree. This comes at the expense of a higher constant
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by metric10 6y ago
I would be surprised if they did this for Workspace accounts. Deleting data from a organization would be a disaster for Google. I.e. an account may be at a center of a lawsuit or subject to data retention laws. Indeed, this says no: http
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by metric10 6y ago
From a security stand point you should at least have uBlock Origin installed for Chrome and Firefox. It can block JavaScript easily. I would trust NoScript as well which provides fine grain control over scripts. I get not wanting any ext
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by metric10 6y ago
Yeah, but in this instance we’re talking about Facebook. I could care less about what Apple charges them. I do feel for indie developers and don’t support the 30% fee, but in the case of $FB (or zoom) allow me to introduce you to the worl
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by metric10 6y ago
I wish insurers weren't so heavy handed with this technology. If it's possible to tell if someone is a "good" or "bad" driver via this technology, why not at least just tell the driver without the big brother
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by metric10 6y ago
There have been no reports of either Google or Apple selling personal data to a third party. It is against there privacy policies and stated intentions. Google certainly collects and uses your data for it's own ends, but unless Googl
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by metric10 6y ago
It’s so strange to me that after all this time they’re sticking with the high fee. The App Store is a major feature of the iOS platform and Apple benefits greatly from a healthy app ecosystem and user lock in. I would argue the 30% fee ma
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by metric10 6y ago
Google is not operating at a loss, however. They are not paying people exorbitant salaries to keep them from working at smaller companies. They are paying them six figure salaries and making _billions_ doing it. Google seems to very much
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by metric10 6y ago
I don't think Google is operating at a total loss when they pay a developers these salaries? Software is making Google (and many other tech companies) hundreds of billions per year in profit and people are complaining about a 6 figu
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by metric10 6y ago
Tell your credit card company that it’s an unauthorized charge and request a new credit card. Some will even ship it expedited for free if you request it.
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by metric10 6y ago
But they do this already. In Colorado many insurers raised rates when we had a large hail storm that caused widespread damage. Allstate roughly doubled my premium because of it (or so they said), even though I parked my car in a garage bot
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by metric10 6y ago
Well, let's see. They're soliciting for _donations_ to a business that hasn't asked for it and possibly doesn't need it. I doubt JWZ needs it. If you want to throw money at something, how about a legitimate charity.
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by metric10 7y ago
Are you giving your opinion as a legitimate “subject expert” or should we take it as a “non-expert” opinion?
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by metric10 7y ago
It irks me too, but I can't really argue with the decision. X11's model of remote rendering is flawed; try starting up Firefox over a tunneled SSH connection sometime. In order to justify network rendering at the windowing system
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by metric10 7y ago
I suspect the Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima Daiichi incidents also had a part to play in public perception.
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by metric10 7y ago
Good advice! Things like mobile boarding passes and the "Mobile Passport" app encourage and train people to hand their devices over to TSA and CBP personnel. In that later case, unlocked and with an app CBP/DHS controls alre
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by metric10 7y ago
Wasn't part of the point of C#'s syntax was that it was easy for C++ and Java programmers to learn? Would any real C# advocate really tell me it would take months of manager supervised learning to pickup? I've been writing c
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by metric10 8y ago
The idea (I'm sure) is to avoid waste as much as conserve energy use. In fact I from an energy perspective it's probably awful. But they have to establish themselves; they have to get an inventory of products and a customer base
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by metric10 8y ago
It's worth noting that Black Hat was spun off from Def Con to get corporations to allow employees to expense it. Often speakers at Black Hat also present at Def Con. Def Con as a matter of policy does not collect any information abou
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by metric10 9y ago
Check out “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer J. Adler. It seems like a pithy title, but he’s quite serious and has interesting things to say on the subject.
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by metric10 9y ago
Star Citizen is “Wing Commander but we couldn’t/wouldn’t get the naming rights from EA, so Star Citizen wink-wink.” It’s the modern day continuation of Wing Commander. Edit: Maybe minus the space tigers...

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