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by taylortbb 2mo ago
The transcoding isn't just about bandwidth, it's about compatibility. I store most media in H.265 because that's the most space efficient, and most things can play it, but a decent number of devices still need H.264. I also h
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by taylortbb 3mo ago
> Honestly, at this point, having natural disasters with destruction and death is probably the only way to make people care We already have them. People just claim they're chance effects with no connection to climate change. The pro
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by taylortbb 4mo ago
At least for Waymo, the remote control is not nearly that direct. The human operators suggest a route through a confusing scene, but the self driving remains in control for executing that suggested route, and may reject it. A remote operato
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by taylortbb 1y ago
Doesn't MTP require plugging in a USB cable? KDE Connect works wirelessly as long as your phone and computer are on the same network.
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by taylortbb 1y ago
But then you risk tariff policy changing, and suddenly you're undercut by foreign factories again, and you lose all your investment in the American factory. It still needs certainty that the tariffs are staying. The uncertainty only wo
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by taylortbb 2y ago
> I guess I was assuming almost $20k a year back then would have been livable back then, like it was for much of the US excluding a handful of cities like NYC or SF at the time. You're excluding the reasonable comparables. London is
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by taylortbb 2y ago
They're a pharmacy, they get directly reimbursed by customer's drug insurance plans and only charge customers for the uninsured amount. They need to submit prescriptions to insurance, and find out how much insurance is covering, b
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by taylortbb 2y ago
> it won't (logistically can't) work when you have literally run out. While I believe you're correct for the iPhone, that it won't work, it's actually not as impossible as you suggest. The NFC-capable BlackBerrys
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by taylortbb 3y ago
> Why are you including only US airlines for comparing a plane model's safety? That seems very convenient 737 MAXs are not identical worldwide. There's a number of optional add-ons, which even discount US airlines will pay for,
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by taylortbb 3y ago
> Chrome/Chromium was developed for quite a while using Webkit. Chromium was created in 2008 and only after Google had already captured a third of the browser market share (according to Statista) did they fork it (April 2013). I thi
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by taylortbb 3y ago
The point is that they're not really comparable. Mint/Ubuntu/etc all ship the same Linux kernel, that's why they're called distros. They're different distributions (distros) of the same software (Linux kernel,
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by taylortbb 3y ago
The post says the phone was in airplane mode, and was found by chance as someone walked past it.
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by taylortbb 3y ago
SpaceX has a median turnaround time between landing and re-launch of about 8 weeks, with some as low as 3 weeks. That includes time for returning the landing platform to port, unloading, payload integration of the new payload, etc, so refur
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by taylortbb 3y ago
I'd start with https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page . There's a whole community of people writing little OSs, and many OS 101 articles as a result. VMs would be the most common target, but the Raspberry Pi is
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by taylortbb 3y ago
Meta and Google both have Canadian offices full of Canadian employees, so it's not like they have a purely virtual presence in Canada.
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by taylortbb 4y ago
> Tesla has dealerships too right? Tesla has corporate owned stores, which are different from dealerships which are independent businesses. The staff there will help you order a car, but ultimately they're just clicking through th
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by taylortbb 5y ago
There's space between "stops the spread" and "doesn't affect the spread" . Current vaccination levels are inadequate to stop the spread, but they do significantly reduce it.
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by taylortbb 5y ago
Due to the current chip shortage they've moved to a vision-only system, as they had difficulty getting radar units in the quantity required. Until recently however, all Teslas had radar since ~2014. The high profile crashes are mostly&
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by taylortbb 5y ago
> There are numerous bodies of data supporting waning immunity at this point. Why that happens is less clear though. Is it a fault of mRNA tech itself? Or the dosing schedule? 21 days is very close together for a 2 dose vaccine, most a
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by taylortbb 5y ago
United frequent flyer status doesn't start til 25k/year, and top tier is over 100k/year. I don't think it's a typo for 20k. I hit 50k/year just going back and forth between SFO and YYZ once a month. I'm ju
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by taylortbb 5y ago
I think if one is going to always use their phone, then they probably bought a Chromecast at 1/4 the price. Unless they have a really strong attachment to the Apple ecosystem.
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by taylortbb 5y ago
That's less of a "FH can't be human-rated" and more of a "there's not point in human-rating FH right now". FH is heavily derived from the human-rated F9, but what capsule would fly on FH? Crew Dragon flies
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by taylortbb 6y ago
That's why we run trials. Over 20,000 people got this vaccine months ago, and have been carefully followed since. If it was going to wipe out 20% of people one month after injection we'd know already.
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by taylortbb 6y ago
The proprietary RF systems other manufacturers use aren't likely to be any more secure. They're just less analyzed. Keyless ignition is popular enough with consumers it's likely here to stay.
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by taylortbb 6y ago
90% of the time, I agree with you. Expensing nice restaurants I want to try is one of the best perks of business travel. The other 10% of the time, my flight got delayed and I arrived at my hotel at midnight. I want nothing more than to eat
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by taylortbb 7y ago
Google's announcement was 1000 Montreal, 1000 Toronto, 3000 Kitchener-Waterloo. Montreal and KW being the engineering locations. Both Montreal and KW have much more reasonable housing, and are far cheaper than Toronto/Vancouver.
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by taylortbb 7y ago
For more objective data, https://www.livabl.com/2019/03/torontos-condo-more-cranes-th... . Toronto does far outpace NYC in the current amount of high rise construction.
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by taylortbb 7y ago
In Toronto if you're looking at WeWork look at Workhaus as well. My employer just rented with them and I'm pretty impressed. Definitely not boring suburban spaces.
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by taylortbb 8y ago
Yes, in fact they're already in use. They're called pumped storage systems, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...