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by roxgib 3y ago
Can't speak to pesticides, but lead would have been detected in blood tests
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by roxgib 3y ago
This will be interesting to watch. If I bought an autonomous car and the autonomous mode was disabled for a few days or even weeks while a bug was fixed I can always fall back to driving it myself. If that's not possible (maybe because
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by roxgib 3y ago
These cars can and do slow down or even stop and wait for human assistance in response to unexpected situations. I'm actually quite surprised this didn't trigger here, although we don't really know much about the specifics of
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by roxgib 3y ago
But autonomous vehicles tend to perform best on freeways, that's where they are most likely to be allowed
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by roxgib 3y ago
I'm a bit disappointed in myself that it didn't occur to me to submit my CV in A3.
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by roxgib 3y ago
I was surprised that the underlying format doesn't implement compression (though I assume objects can be compressed). Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised since I often get text only PDFs with unreasonably large sizes.
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by roxgib 3y ago
It will do that if it doesn't already know what direction you're travelling, which is usually because you've just activated navigation and you aren't moving yet. Unless I happen to know which direction north is or which
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by roxgib 3y ago
I bought my iPhone XS at launch and it just reached 80%, although on the latest version of iOS 80% doesn't get you as far as it once did. I'm not a super heavy smartphone user though.
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by roxgib 3y ago
Five years is much too short, although it's nice to see that it's measured from the date of sale stop rather than start.
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by roxgib 3y ago
I'll be interested to know if it applies to things like AirPods, those would be more challenging to redesign with replaceable batteries (though obviously not impossible).
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by roxgib 3y ago
What about AirPods and the like? I'm all for it with phones and everything else, but some devices are small enough that non-replaceable batteries might well be justified.
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by roxgib 3y ago
Shouldn't that be "in vivo diagnostic medical devices"?
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by roxgib 3y ago
What's stopping you learning about philosophy now? Do you not have time, not know where to start, or just don't have the motivation any more?
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by roxgib 3y ago
I definitely agree, but I do think for a lot of subjects schools can provide benefits that are hard or impossible to find on your own, such as access to equipment and facilities, dialogue with peers and teachers, group activities, objective
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by roxgib 3y ago
This is all undoubtably true, but are any of these worth four years and a ton of debt? Perhaps for some individuals, but across the board?
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by roxgib 3y ago
Credentialism and signalling are well established. At a broader level it's the old 'correlation vs causation' chestnut. Policymakers notice that people with education earn more, and decide that people should do more education
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by roxgib 3y ago
The merchants are lucky no one got hurt. Imagine being a guard, thinking what you were guarding was worth x amount, and it was actually worth 10x that and you get killed or injured because the employer reasonably assumed there wasn't a
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by roxgib 3y ago
I don't think that makes a difference, because the shipping company has accepted liability for the stolen goods. The company looked at the value of the goods, and decided on these particular security measures, knowing they'd be on
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by roxgib 3y ago
I should really start reading the HN comments before opening the article, it would save a lot of time
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by roxgib 3y ago
Requiring them to make their beds doesn't strike me as unreasonably petty, and to the extent that they do make soldier follow petty rules it's often done with a purpose, usually to install obedience. Not that there aren't lot
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by roxgib 3y ago
"Plain" text can contain hidden characters such as zero width spaces which won't be visible to someone reading it but could be used for identification purposes.
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by roxgib 3y ago
But it's not like they're dismantling the 4G infrastructure yet right? For a while at least I would have assumed people moving to 5G would steadily free up capacity on 4G bands.
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by roxgib 3y ago
Previously a lot of carrier would lock down the ability to share a phone's internet connection. This was the main reason cellular hotspot devices existed. Nowadays people just use their phone are we're all better off. Would be gre
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by roxgib 3y ago
On the whole I like the idea that someone sending bogus legal demands has to bear some costs, as doubtful as it is that they'd actually pursue him for costs.
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by roxgib 3y ago
I suppose it depends on the field. A retired athlete probably still has a lot of useful things to say about their sport, whereas other fields really require you to stay up to date to be useful.
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by roxgib 3y ago
It seems like platforms could solve this by making it possible for users to see the content of accounts run by government officials even when blocked, but merely prevent them from otherwise interacting with them.
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by roxgib 3y ago
Please share the link so I can fork it and snag some of these sweet donations
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by roxgib 3y ago
I've received power only cables with a few devices, usually power banks. It annoyed me at the time but now I think I should hang on to them!
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by roxgib 3y ago
The Leitner system is designed with the assumption that you have lots of physical cards you need to organise without going insane, but you can do much better if you're using a program like Anki. Anki's algorithm is based on an old
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by roxgib 3y ago
I've used Anki to great effect on a number of different fields. Using it well it definitely skill you need to learn, but there's nothing quite like it. Strongly recommend.

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