objclxt

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by objclxt 25d ago
> The Directors Cut is the unbutchered version. The Director's Cut (released in 1992) drops the narration and adds the dream sequence, but despite the name is not entirely approved by Ridley Scott. The Final Cut (released in 2007) i
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by objclxt 3mo ago
> All of my kids spent hours pouring over a book we had called 'The Way Things Work' with a delightfully funny Mammoth and a good description of how things actually work I grew up with this book - I have vivid memories still of
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by objclxt 3mo ago
> Usually, companies like Apple are largely to blame Just as a point of fact, Micron and its peers have in the past operated an illegal cartel that engaged in a price fixing conspiracy to manipulate the cost of RAM. > mega-buyers like
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by objclxt 3mo ago
> Many such IDs are designed for local physical verification, like proof that the mobile phone owner is above certain age or has a valid driving license, they are not designed for remote verification. This is incorrect, the Digital Crede
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by objclxt 3mo ago
> Google and Apple both need a culling similar to what Elon did with Twitter after taking over. You could cut Google's size by 40% and they'd still have more corporate employees than Apple. (Google has ~190k employees, Apple ha
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by objclxt 3mo ago
> note that any entity in a sufficiently-powerful substrate, such as LEGO or the Greater Boston Area, could also present such attributes. See also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain
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by objclxt 3mo ago
> They scaled up the team briefly, which meant that lots of weird stuff was tried, but the roadmap was diluted. Boz never cared for Portal, it wasn't his product. I was one of the original engineers on Portal. The VP running the res
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by objclxt 4mo ago
> It's common here in France for credit card operators to have fees in the 5-10% range (or 0.30€ per operation + 2% of the amount) Interchange in the EU is capped at 0.4% for credit cards. Typical costs for processing are much lower
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by objclxt 4mo ago
> That sounds like bullshit to me. Have you taken a US domestic flight? Everyone wants to bring their massive roll-ons into the cabin, nobody wants to check if they can avoid it.
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by objclxt 4mo ago
> SpaceX already produces solar panels for the 10,000+ satellites it has in space No they don't, they procure them from Taiwan Solar Energy Corp. They do not produce or manufacture their own cells, they're using off the shelf c
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by objclxt 4mo ago
> Beneath the Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street in Boston, tucked away in the basement, sits a library This is underselling it: it's in a side street off Newbury, where nobody would have any reason to go, with a tiny little door abo
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by objclxt 5mo ago
> Meanwhile in Germany: Let's stick to combustion engines for at least 10 more years with 500km range and a multiple of energy and maintenance costs... BMW is heavily invested in Neue Klasse[1], the iX3 has a long waiting list and a
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by objclxt 5mo ago
> Actually, it can barely fix the literal busiest station in the country Liverpool Street isn't managed by TfL, it's managed by Network Rail.
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by objclxt 5mo ago
> Majority of California based companies employee English only or English and Spanish speakers possibly with some Indian language as well [...] Never mind rarer languages like Czech or Greek. That may be generally true, in this case Appl
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by objclxt 7mo ago
> Your post feels like the last generation lamenting the new generation [...] There's so much plumbing and refactoring bullshit in writing code [...] I've had my excitement I don't read the OP as saying that: to me they&#x
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by objclxt 8mo ago
> in any other threat model, security is an advantage of closed source I think there's a lot of historical evidence that doesn't support this position. For instance, Internet Explorer was generally agreed by all to be a much we
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by objclxt 9mo ago
> What kind of control would Chrome have over the web? Adding APIs doesn't force the billions of websites to adopt them. You are assuming adding APIs is a net positive, and the debacle that was Chrome’s privacy sandbox initiative su
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by objclxt 10mo ago
> Building physical buildings is a much simpler, much less complex process with many fewer degrees of freedom than building software. I don't...think this is true? Google has no problems shipping complex software projects, their Lon
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by objclxt 10mo ago
> quite puzzling is how the Air India disaster still does not have a root cause analysis done Not that puzzling: the most likely explanation is pilot suicide and the Indian government does not want to acknowledge that.
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by objclxt 11mo ago
"Need blind" here just means that your ability to pay the fees doesn't factor into the admissions decision, not that the admissions office doesn't know how wealthy you are (...since as you note, this is often easily infe
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by objclxt 11mo ago
> Can I now build my app in Xcode with an Android target and use that binary in the Play Store? No. The vision document[1] lays out the direction of travel. Currently the focus is on shared business logic and libraries, rather than full
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by objclxt 1y ago
> These tasks aren’t business priorities and had no impact on customers and other teams ...the author has reached the wrong conclusion from this. The problem is they weren't able to articulate why the modernization tasks were busi
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by objclxt 1y ago
> I wonder what the technical details will look like It’s already a thing, the EMVCo standard predates ubiquitous internet connectivity. Mass transit systems typically use it, airlines used to for in-flight purchases before the advent of
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by objclxt 1y ago
> This is textbook strategy [...] attempt to build a moat around something that ideally is open and interoperable It's so textbook that Google two weeks ago came out with their own competing "open" standard for doing the
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by objclxt 1y ago
> I've seen a lot of harsh, misguided takes over the past few days, like that the Windsurf founders screwed over their employees [...] In this case, this seems like a happy ending for all parties involved There is no evidence at all
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by objclxt 1y ago
> How the hell did this pass code review? Are booleans strings on Android? You are misreading the documentation, it's a key/value API. `DISALLOW_FUN` is the string key you pass to `setUserRestriction`, which takes a boolean val
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by objclxt 1y ago
> MasterCard and Visa have no business unilaterally, secretly, and unaccountably policing their idiosyncratic idea of moral righteousness. They need to move money and shut up. Mastercard and Visa don't block companies from processin
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by objclxt 1y ago
> the OP is in the EU and UK, where none of the above is true. You can absolutely be dismissed without cause in the UK, protections against this only kick in after two years of employment.
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by objclxt 2y ago
> Gemini and Chat GPT with search are both perfectly capable of producing decent essays with accurate citations OK, but this quote from your essay: > The National Cancer Institute (NCI) reports that "cigarette smoking and exposur
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by objclxt 2y ago
> Some people prefer to handle their devices with care and expect to get longevity in return I guarantee you however carefully you are handling your device it is a world apart from a datacenter.

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