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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
The fact that Apple went to the trouble to develop a Windows driver for the Pro Display XDR but lock it down so it only works on Macs running Boot Camp - there is no justification for that other than malice.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
You literally want to place the blame solely on a third world country for the deaths and disease of all these child laborers when it's our first world addiction to their resources driving the injustice in the first place? Who is in a b
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
But arguably Webassembly is also dumb and has no reason to exist, so there's that on top of it being a great way to obfuscate malicious code.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
I think the shields analogy is misplaced. Also, a manager blaming themself for the choices of their employees shouldn't be a hard rule. As a manager I do my best to create a good environment for my employees, but I'm also not omni
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
If Tinder forced people to do background checks, propublica would do a similar write-up about how invasive that is and how it disproportionately affects [affected group]. The only way to win this game is to not play.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
The far-right is already seizing on this story as proof that San Francisco is just like Venezuela.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
Don't use a work computer for any personal or side projects. Otherwise the employer may be able to claim copyright ownership over the work.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
They paid the hacker $20,000. That's a nice way of shooting the messenger!
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
Still doesn't answer why some Apple services have granular control and others don't. The implication in offering the controls is that you could control how the phone uses location data. Excluding some services from the controls ne
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
> “It is expected behavior that the Location Services icon appears in the status bar when Location Services is enabled. The icon appears for system services that do not have a switch in Settings.” My question then is WHY? If they allow g
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
The law also says there can be no gender wage gap. I've worked at several big tech companies and they all abused H1B's. The immigrant workers were paid a lot less than citizens. It pissed me off because the immigrant workers were
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
Don't you mean 14++++++? They still can barely get 10nm working in laptops, much less desktop or servers. By the time they do, AMD will be far ahead of them process-wise.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
I'm running a Threadripper 2950X in my primary workstation, Ubuntu 19.10. I have not encountered a single CPU-related issue with compilation in the 6 months I've been using this setup. In fact I've had less trouble overall th
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
What would you do with your career if you could do anything you wanted? It's hard to give advice without a sense of what you'd rather be doing. For whatever it's worth, I'm going through a similar dilemma. My compensatio
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
Well it's not a rumor anymore, AMD announced it.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
They use a heatspreader (solid metal surface, the "top" of the chip) soldered to the actual cores. Then you slap a heatsink or water block on and tighten it down on the heatspreader with the help of a thermal interface material (m
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
I don't really see how the pricing is ridiculous though. They're still way cheaper than what Intel charged for the same cores a year ago, and they have more cores than Intel can even offer on their best workstation chips. If you c
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
I loved Comic Chat because I was 12 years old. I couldn't figure out what "lol" meant and it was really funny seeing the characters saying it with just a blank facial expression lol
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
Amazon sells so many counterfeit Nike products that I've been using Nike and Adidas' online stores for quite awhile. Amazon is so bad when it comes to counterfeits that there are only two conditions that will lead me to purchase a
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
To say an argument has been "debunked" implies that the argument holds no credibility, or the rhetorical equivalent of "I'm right, you're wrong." It is an attempt to shut down a discussion and provide fodder fo
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
Anthropogenic? People keep throwing out terms like "clear" and "settled" and when asked to elaborate give responses like "it's in the science." So what specific conclusion in the science is now beyond ques
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
Yes and in the meantime it's burning steadily hotter.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
There's nothing "settled" about question #2. The extent to which humans are responsible for climate change, comparative to external factors (such as the sun heading towards the end of its hydrogen-burning life), is very much
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
The documents are not "explosive." The title should be updated to remove linkbait.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
If you borrow money knowing you can't or won't pay it back then yes, it's fraud. But it's more complicated in this case, because the dude could argue he expected major gains and believed there was no way he could lose.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
I didn't advocate shooting down drones. It should not be done under normal circumstances due to the falling debris hazard. But of all the ways to shoot down a drone (assuming it were necessary to protect public safety), using a shotgun
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
It's relatively easy to shoot down a drone, you can do it with birdshot. The problem would be falling debris and the safety hazard that represents. Might be a moot point in cases of fire, but in general that would be a pretty specializ
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
Yes, both cameras that watched the cell and hallway outside it had "technical difficulties" and there was no recoverable footage around the time of Epstein's death.
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
Yes
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by rubbingalcohol 7y ago
If a service provides a useful value that people are willing to pay for at $50 then why shouldn't the service provider charge $50?

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