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by rpy 2y ago
Heaps of BYD EVs on the road here in Australia, and Tesla sales are plummeting here now too.
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by rpy 2y ago
[Eric patting a big box of H100s] this bad boy is going to generate so much slop
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by rpy 2y ago
There isn’t a definitive list, only vague guidelines: https://consumer.gov.au/sites/consumer/files/inline-files/ac... The price you paid relative to comparable products factors into it - more expensive g
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by rpy 2y ago
Are you suggesting the emoji squeeze toy conveniently rolled perfectly to the edge of the hydraulic press at exactly the right moment and then its eyes uniformly popped out? A perfectly uniform explosion of dust actually burst out the press
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by rpy 2y ago
If a bunch of CGI objects being crushed is disturbing to people wait til they see this movie of a train coming directly at you.
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by rpy 2y ago
The state is very much in on the whole enterprise. The Star casino pay 35% tax on their takings, and pokie machine taxes can be as high as 51% in NSW.
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by rpy 3y ago
It was a deliberately tightly restricted market to ensure taxi drivers could make a liveable wage. Now the industry is filled with people forced to work two or three jobs to survive and a tech company is capturing profits off the top. That
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by rpy 3y ago
Does anyone understand why the arm64 instance types are showing roughly half the performance versus the comparable x64 instances in this? Other benchmarks I've seen put them within 20% of each other. Is this just a hyperthreading vs fu
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by rpy 3y ago
If you were genuinely remotely hacking a smartwatch, you’d be executing background processes to exfiltrate data entirely invisible to the user, not doing some bizarre remote desktop thing randomly tapping around on apps. The claim doesn’t p
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by rpy 3y ago
Took about 5 months of endless back and forth to get them to replace a defective SSD in Australia too, despite very clear consumer law guarantees here obligating them to help. Absolutely hopeless company to deal with.
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by rpy 3y ago
Oh. Well he always truthfully and accurately represents the situation so I guess that’s the end of that.
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by rpy 3y ago
Reminds me of this bit from Monkey Dust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTos3CsvnLQ
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by rpy 3y ago
Something to think about during the next us-east-1 outage
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by rpy 3y ago
This thread is about Microsoft, it’s pointing out their hypocrisy feigning concern about the environmental footprint of their cloud infrastructure.
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by rpy 3y ago
The current management waived all rights to due diligence in the deal. They can’t complain now to learn facts they refused to engage with earlier.
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by rpy 3y ago
The employees made decisions about their employment based on promises made by the company, in the form of statements by their managers. It’s not their fault the company was then sold to a colossal prick with a penchant for not paying people
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by rpy 3y ago
No, he did not make amends. He never even apologised for it.
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by rpy 3y ago
RIP to a real one. Nothing since has been as good
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by rpy 3y ago
They've confirmed it: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-13/optus-identifies-caus...
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by rpy 3y ago
The government have said the Optus outage was not suspicious. Seems to have been a BGP config change gone wrong.
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by rpy 3y ago
I appreciate that Apple are spending their ML efforts building things that are actually useful for their users, like improving the iOS keyboard and photo processing pipeline, rather than frantically jumping on the latest fad bandwagon with
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by rpy 3y ago
Linear is awesome
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by rpy 5y ago
You’re thinking of iOS. On macOS third party browsers can and do implement their own browser engines. Firefox is not running on WebKit.
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by rpy 6y ago
Sounds like your friend should have read the App Store Review Guidelines, the rules are all clearly stated and have been for so many years now that it should come as a surprise to nobody doing business on iOS.