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It's not lazy framing, this is what "journalism" is now. Push your agenda as far as you can, misrepresenting as many facts as you like. At the very end of your story -- which >85% …

You're comparing water taken from the Floridian aquifer (lots of minerals like sulphur, which isn't known for tasting great) with Seattle (water from the mountains), SF (hetch hetc…

> wonder if the sync feature will be open source According to [1] they don't plan to open source it due to "business considerations." I'm not against people making a buck, but as f…

Usually beyond the range you normally cook at, but definitely achievable if you leave a pan unattended for a minute, or use it with insufficient coverage. Pet birds are extremely v…

There's such a thing as overregulation, but when industry fails to act in an upstanding manner they are playing chicken with regulators. Here's the result. The way to avoid this is…

Phantom braking includes self-driving/cruise and ADAS, e.g. "What is phantom braking" > Phantom braking is a term used to describe when an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) …

> What behavior are you referring to? Automatic Emergency Braking. You cannot turn off AEB persistently. > I'm not aware of any feature that requires me to accelerate or brake to p…

You cannot turn this behavior off persistently -- you need to open car settings and disable it every time you leave Park. My guess is that some jurisdictions mandate this behavior.…

There can be other causes besides noise exposure, like TMJ/teeth grinding which can affect the nerves.

> IIRC only triggering the "audible ring" leaves a trace on the phone (a notification + the obvious sound), to check if someone used FMP for tracking one has to dive deep into the …

> If there was a serious security vulnerability in one version of the software, would users be stuck waiting six months (or possibly forever) to get a patch? They'd probably have t…

> This is not a good thing, in my opinion. This is extremely common, and not at all unique to Ruby. For example, providing defaults for parameters is perhaps the most common and si…

Except 240 in base 10 in 1040 in base 6. (When moving to a lower base the number will always 'look' higher.)

> one dies within 24 hours Is it really correct to interpret that as "dies in exactly 24 hours"? Edit: My solution, which assumes that after tasting wine it could take any time bet…

Especially since they're using the primes to encode N = 26 independent variables within a single number. On any modern CPU, you already have 32 (or more) independent variables in e…

> you see ads on top of and around television using Google TV No you don't.

We currently have large excesses of power at nighttime, (production cannot be scaled down and back up in a 24hr period) so the effect could be mitigated by that.

More like "If you shout loudly in your apartment, expect others to hear you."

Also, there are really good free alternatives: googletest/gmock supports Windows, linux, and (I think) Mac. The interesting feature appears to be 'Test "untestable" code such as st…

> Imagine if your car had a safety mode that could watch out for potential accidents and prevent them even with a human driver. Well, if my car would do that I'd certainly drive to…

I think it's more likely that someone high enough up though it was "cool", decided how "cool" they thought it was (1M? 10M? 50M?) and then approved the project.

> The software needs to be tied to the hardware because the carriers are completely incompetent at software AFAIK, the real reason is that there is no standardized design for phone…

"Sony is expected to launch a line of Google TV-powered Bravia HDTVs sometime this month" Sounds like you won't need an extra box if you have a new tv. As far as the remote -- I'm …

I thought this thing was her attempt to do so.