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If they're ok with the resulting technical shortfalls, cool. Another company degrades back into the mire of mediocrity.

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I really dig this

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A fact encountered daily on my motorcycle 😎

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I really can't imagine this going well for Qualcomm, if the article is true.

It smells like there's a lot of smoke around their implementation of the benchmarks, and consumers will immediately discover the fire when the time arrives and devices are in-hand.

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Yeah, it sounds like Qualcomm is driving straight at a cliff's edge in terms of their reputation..

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Spot on. What a terrible thing our company incentives have devolved into.

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I'm enjoying the hell out of just my commute here in Seattle, on a motorcycle in the rain.

Mt Rainier is unbelievable, the way it looms.

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I'm very much not a desert person, but the scale of the inland valley, the quiet beauty of Joshua tree, etc... Moved from socal, but there was a lot of beauty that doesn't call you to it loudly, you just suddenly notice and enjoy it.

Joshua tree looks like a bunch of rocky hills... Till you notice they're all rounded and stacked perfectly. You notice how arid it is, and then notice green leaves in spite of that.

If you're observant, there's beauty everywhere natural.

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Not knocking your choices, just to be clear. I do in fact like keeping up with entertainment and arts, can't really get concerts, symphonies and plays out in the hills. For me and many others, cities are great. There are places that are still nestled in the hills with small town vibes in soCal, check out Silverado canyon as an example.

I camp when I want to reconnect to nature, and ride my bicycle all over the place. Cities can be very beautiful in their own right, though I admittedly have an engineer's bias when viewing.

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No music, I'm fucking forcing as much gasoline and/or electrons into the motor as the pedal will permit, while planning how to park a little bit away and sneak onto the property quietly.

Let's see who's got the better strategy, because questions will be answered.

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Fuck you, shitass cats. Stop killing all the birds!

Keep your cats indoors, please.

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What a great, well-developed sense of humor! Everyone loves talking with you! You must have no trouble dating, or making friends who actually contribute to society!

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... Are you logically sound? None of what I said is mutually exclusive of lawns and habitat destruction.

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I hope not...

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Same here, even my newly issued work PC always gets the Firefox treatment. Annoyingly, some sites that I need for work (almost, but not quite, zero) just do not work with Firefox, but do with chrome.

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They sort of tried at my last job.. There's portable, non admin installs of Firefox available. The tricky part was ssl inspection certificates, but even that is easier than it used to be.

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Same. Been watching a lot of film noir actually. The third man, double indemnity, strangers on a train. What happened to story telling?

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I still remember going to this park as a kid, I'm talking young, just before it closed. There were these electrically powered counter-rotating foam cylinders, large diameter, rotating into each other. You were supposed to bop your friends with foam covered nunchuks while maintaining balance.

As a little kid, I was able to easily identify the danger of falling into the middle and getting pressed down into the very shallow ballpit below. Anyone more than 4ft tall would probably get hurt.

And this little monstrosity, like 10ft in length plus a little ball pit around it, was just chilling in the middle of the path, like there was nothing out of the ordinary. Sun beaming down on it and all. Just wow.

Looking for Cloud Storage Replacement, but I don't like NextCloud

I'm looking for something to replace cloud storage for myself and family. I've tried to use/like NextCloud but honestly I despise it. The UI/UX really bothers me, and administering it is a pain. It also just does way more that I want or need....

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I support an engineering org server, they access their files via nextcloud with a mariadb server and redis, plus some caching stuff for php-fpm, and an nginx front-end.

No complaints, checks (from what I see) all your boxes and has been very dependable going on 6 yrs now for all their simulation data both large and small off a little 1gbps dell r710.

Don't install a lot of plugins. The setup documentation seems to be just right, getting you to the ideal destination of reliable and fast. Do take the option to run tasks in crontab, instead of internally.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

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I think I've seen you around here before, shilling these lower quality, closed source devices from China.

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Get replacement parts, get access to bootloaders, get control of your data. You can't? Lower quality, and you admit it proudly.

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I need the ROMs to play with hardware in ways manufacturers and Google don't intend. I don't ask the manufacturer for permission, nor do I need to as source code and bootloaders are available.

I'm not willing to be a data point for profit, I don't give a fuck whether it's the shithead ccp or fuckbox google, my data stays on my phone unless I decide otherwise.

Can't do that? Again, proud of your weakest element. How strange. Enjoy your inferior phone.

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Fuck yeah

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You're welcome, low-capability product.

It’s No Surprise That “Skills-Based” Hiring Has Not Worked (www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org)

This article outlines an opinion that organizations either tried skills based hiring and reverted to degree required hiring because it was warranted, or they didn't adapt their process in spite of executive vision....

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Lmao, perseverant yes. The rest of that sentence sounds like sadness & jealousy masquerading as projection. Or is my challenging you too docile?

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Why?

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You're using arguments my own grandfather heard, merely replacing paper with computers. We ride together on this tandem bicycle called society: some do, some plan, and some like me do both.

Don't generalize, it's foolish at best.

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Oh shit, same! I had to upgrade some oscilloscopes, and thought I'd get these. Dead, instead of a year, all 5x.

A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology (www.businessinsider.com)

A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.

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Differential pricing.

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Yes.

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There's usually a high friction between the jar lid's deformable seal, and the lip of the glass jar itself.

A gentle knock of the lid on the edge of the counter will reduce the friction effect, making it far easier to open a 'stuck' lid.

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This is what its like working in childcare. Kids do stuff like this all the time.

@196

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*who the general public thinks is a good guy like Superman, but the other superheroes quietly know is in fact a murderous, traitorous piece of shit

RubberElectrons ,
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My understanding is that this is related to whether it's American grown in fields previously used for cotton and other non-food crops due to pesticides.. foreign rice should be ok?

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Not a good thing either haha.. as an American, I don't think our farmers are purposely poisoning the rice, but may not understand the pesticides in the soil from decades ago can still fuck people up now.

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PiKVM?

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PiKVM for open source networked KVMs: https://pikvm.org/

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Maybe some enjoy the open-stack in terms of network security... I'd personally use this in front of a port multiplier, so you can have 8x machines going to a switch, the front of the switch toggled by one of the Pi's GPIO pins.

Part of it is that the prices for the Pi's themselves have dramatically increased lately.

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Roll your own 😎 lots of folks have a pi 2 that's not doing much

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If you're comfortable with it, an analog (non-networked) kvm switch can have its button connected to a single input Pikvm via the GPIO. You visit the PiKVM's webpage, hit a button and you're now connected to a different machine.

If you have a raspberry pi 1 or 2, this isn't very expensive, but nets you an open source IP KVM.

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Not the cheapest, there's 17-4 and 18-8 before 304.

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I've set family up with a lorex system, setup was pretty straightforward and it works well. No monthly subscription fees rock.

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Hey! I'm in my aunt's living room!

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Yes. That's already being worked on, in forms other than just the tokamak as well.

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First point is not relevant, fusion has been chronically underfunded for far too long. The money being spent on fusion r&d is far less than the money going to renewables deployment, and you advocate cannabilizing even that???

I won't go down the list of how many technical contributions are coming out of fusion, just know that there are a lot, that help make both renewables and non-renewable more efficient. How do you switch tremendous amounts of current at extreme voltages, very quickly? The answer directly impacts overall efficiency of everything from EVs to micro & macro-grids. Usually it's a pick-two-of-the-three, but switch systems are being used to solve these exact issues, successfully.

As for why I'm hostile? Read the previous two paragraphs again, maybe something will jump out at you.

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Naps, or just passion for what I'm looking at. Women in tight rubber clothing makes me crazy.

RubberElectrons ,
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You're entitled to your incorrect opinion. I like mass transit for reasons like removing my need to pay attention for every second of a trip, for much reduced cost per mile, and for meeting/looking at interesting people.

Most people seem to agree. You can't move a coffee table on it (though I have, my apologies from a now-wisened teenager), but that's what stuff like car share services can step in on.

Who's denying you service, and why? The driver is way at the front of the train, what are you on about?

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Alright grumpy, calm down. I'll repeat the question: what happened? That's as much energy as I'm willing to give the weak crying.

Literally 1.7 billion rides on the NYC subway system in 2019, it seems to work great for us. I dress in weird shiny rubber clothes sometimes while going to a party or whatever, I get looks of curiosity or derision from other passengers sometimes, and I don't give a shit. Are you just that sensitive?

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Bro I'm upvoting this because of how hilariously sad this is 😂

Anyway, no biggie. Can't answer what happened, a simple question.

Don't come to big cities, we're gonna charge you to drive your lifted dangling nutz grocery getter below 59th st, and laugh our asses off at your limp open carry chicken pistol. Real men and women live here, with and for each other.

Stay in Idaho or whatever, enjoy your "I'm scaewed" life 😂

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