ooterness

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by ooterness 5d ago
Is it perhaps time to ackowledge that cabinets where everyone is buddies can't actually do their jobs, yet they get given obscene amounts of power?
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by ooterness 29d ago
Amazon has turned the search ranking into a contest for who can give Jeff Bezos the most money. How is that an improvement on anything?
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by ooterness 1mo ago
Megawatt-hours (MWh) are one billion times larger than milliwatt-hours (mWh).
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by ooterness 1mo ago
This argument makes no sense, because the CPU and disk resources required to serve up a modern ad (and the megabytes of JavaScript that come with it) are 100-1000x more expensive than just serving up the content.
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by ooterness 1mo ago
CISA was one of the first agencies gutted by the DOGE purge. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cybersecurity-agencys-top-recru...
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by ooterness 1mo ago
Agent Smith was right when he was explaining The Matrix. Human civilization peaked in the 90's.
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by ooterness 2mo ago
I always liked the archaic form, "You are hereby requested and required to [insert naval orders here]." It's asking very politely, for now, but also making it clear that declining will result in jail or worse. I don't kn
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by ooterness 2mo ago
Buy a separate tablet and a roll of duct tape. If you're careful, you can completely cover whatever obsolete nonsense is built into the car.
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by ooterness 2mo ago
All these different names and version numbers are too confusing. Just name every single model "Copilot". /s
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by ooterness 2mo ago
Previous discussion: "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717469
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by ooterness 2mo ago
You might enjoy this song by Lonely Island: https://youtu.be/M94ii6MVilw?si=VUEIm_VVEHQIn9Y3
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by ooterness 2mo ago
Energy and velocity are science terms because they have very specific meanings. If you use them in a completely different way, that's not science, that's just science-themed marketing vibes.
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by ooterness 3mo ago
If the disc is an abstract license, surely the seller will replace the disc if it's scratched. I already bought the license, so what is the real purpose of the physical token? Somehow the concept of ownership has been twisted to so tha
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by ooterness 3mo ago
I was in a similar situation this year. Miapplied a rule, overpaid slightly, IRS owed a refund on the difference. It took a while, but they did eventually send me a physical check.
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by ooterness 4mo ago
Systems built into the landing gear do exist, but they're not very common. There are also ground-based systems (i.e., scale-on-a-cart for each wheel). https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16307/how-doe
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by ooterness 4mo ago
Valuable, sure. Most valuable on Earth? Ridiculous.
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by ooterness 4mo ago
Everybody gets the same constitutional rights, and for good reason. If the cops can violate those rights at will, lie through their teeth to cover it up, and get away with it, then nobody has any rights.
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by ooterness 4mo ago
Two-way time transfer measures the round-trip propagation time. As a result, it's not directly relevant to the accuracy.
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by ooterness 5mo ago
Functionally, biometrics are closer to a username than a password. Fingerprints, DNA, iris scans, gait patterns, etc. are all something you can't change (much like a permanent account ID) and are constantly being presented to the world
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by ooterness 5mo ago
Is it simpler to build a better space toilet, or to build a ship with centrifugal gravity and use a regular toilet?
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by ooterness 6mo ago
Too little, too late. I switched to Linux and I'm never looking back. Good riddance, Microsoft.
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by ooterness 7mo ago
So you gave up everyone's privacy for no benefit at all?
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by ooterness 8mo ago
It took me a minute to realize that "Trekkers" in this headline is not referring to fans of Star Trek.
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by ooterness 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy 1. Do you know anybody from "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"? 2. Have you ever been to "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"? 3. Do you know anybo
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by ooterness 9mo ago
Sounds like a great plugin.
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by ooterness 10mo ago
No, it really hasn't. Sweeping the problem under the rug has already resulted in at least 150 deaths, which could have been prevented by allowing pilots to seek mental health care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger
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by ooterness 10mo ago
Actually, ProtonDB indicates Crysis runs just fine on Linux. https://www.protondb.com/app/17300
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by ooterness 11mo ago
It depends on the cat. Some will self-regulate, others will not.
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by ooterness 11mo ago
> passed some level of authorised audit in order to be able to store government ID cards. In a perfect world, maybe. Not in this one.
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by ooterness 1y ago
It's so the billions of disgruntled former workers can't storm the castle.

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