ratsmack

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by ratsmack 2y ago
All devices should have circuitry to limit current to an acceptable charge rate, and be fused to catch surges.
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by ratsmack 2y ago
A common problem during summer months.
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by ratsmack 2y ago
> It’s not clear that Musk was involved in the account’s suspension, but Rocketto and Nellis aren’t all that crazy to think that the X CEO might be behind it. Good question... what's the real story?
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by ratsmack 2y ago
> ... roughly as intelligent as a 7 year old kid. Maybe a 7 month old, but surely not a 7 year old.
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by ratsmack 2y ago
Great article and explains very well the reason that AI should be renamed PSI... Poorly Simulated Intelligence.
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by ratsmack 2y ago
There's a reason for everything.
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by ratsmack 2y ago
If two executives talk across a table during lunch, is it required to record it? What if they sit across the table from each other and send text messages over Signal instead of talking... is that somehow different where it would be required
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by ratsmack 2y ago
Greed is not a requirement of Capitalism though.
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by ratsmack 2y ago
The problem is that complex systems have not made us more knowledgeable and capable, but instead they have become a crutch. https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont...
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by ratsmack 2y ago
Interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
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by ratsmack 2y ago
I think that's pretty normal for companies to spend money in an attempt to protect themselves from government overreach. I have never used TikTok and probably never will, but I take exception with the attempt to ban them, because the w
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by ratsmack 2y ago
So Tesla is just following the local laws. What is news worthy here, I'm just not seeing it.
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by ratsmack 2y ago
There is an appropriate time and place for protests, but apparently these protesters weren't able to figure that out.
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by ratsmack 2y ago
SanDisk is still SanDisk and I don't consider them to be Western Digital. Their products have always been dodgy and I still have heartburn over some of their thumb drives where it was impossible to remove the shovel-ware installed on t
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by ratsmack 2y ago
There is no love lost between me and Google, but then I have zero regard for "news" organizations that are attempting to strong-arm funds from Google for their failing business model.
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by ratsmack 2y ago
Thank you :-)
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by ratsmack 2y ago
There are many other EV's on the road, but you only ever hear about Tesla's and quite often it's something with a disparaging tone. It makes me wonder if it's Tesla's competition using guerrilla tactics.
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by ratsmack 3y ago
Is there a way you prevent them from identifying your scraper?
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by ratsmack 3y ago
I agree mostly, but there will always be the fringe lunatics that will need mod intervention. And then there's the spam issue.
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by ratsmack 3y ago
It seems that it would be fairly easy to support both clientele.
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by ratsmack 3y ago
I'm pretty sure Google has multiple levels of redundancy and still failed.
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by ratsmack 3y ago
Redundancy can fail.
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by ratsmack 3y ago
I might also note that Comcast is a legal monopoly.
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by ratsmack 3y ago
It seems to me that excursions into various websites has increased this past year. Every day or so someone else reveals that they have been compromised, and these are usually only higher profile sites. One has to wonder what might be the to
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by ratsmack 3y ago
>States and the charger industry blame the delays mostly on the labyrinth of new contracting and performance requirements they have to navigate to receive federal funds. So, in other words, it's wrapped in a blanket of bureaucracy.
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by ratsmack 3y ago
>“We believe that the threat actor may have then, in violation of our terms of service, accessed 23andme.com accounts without authorization and obtained information from those accounts.” It's funny that they had to note "with
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by ratsmack 3y ago
Tipping in the US has become an obligation or entitlement and is rarely associated with the actual service anymore.
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by ratsmack 3y ago
Just like so many organizations within government, universities have no accountability... status quo rules.
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by ratsmack 3y ago
This views it somewhat as a system of dependency.
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by ratsmack 3y ago
I don't know why both MS and Linux don't have a tool like IBM's AIX SMIT GUI that generates a CLI/shell command from a menu based dialogue. This was a great tool for those seldom used admin things you needed to do.

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