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caymanjim

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About caymanjim

Surly greybeard.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49238859

    I can relate, but the problem here is that you shouldn't live in an apartment. I never will again, for all the reasons you outlined. It's unreasonable to expect quiet in apartments…

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    Comment #49204712

    The sun will destroy the earth long before it stops providing energy.

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    Comment #49119776

    They're not going to grow it if they can't sell it, nor are they going to grow it if the water stops being free. We shouldn't be growing alfalfa, for export, in the desert, with fr…

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    Comment #48925793

    It's not a typo. Although it's really more of a routine malapropism than an eggcorn, since it's nonsensical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

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    Comment #48915874

    It's an eggcorn for "layman's".

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    Comment #48637091

    Tons of sites do that, because everyone who designs websites is a moron.

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    Comment #48621253

    > to disambiguate the surprisingly rare case of two customers with the exact same name I see you have an uncommon name. My first+last are shared by about 20,000 people in the US. F…

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    Comment #48606676

    Agreed. Hardware is almost always cheaper than engineering time, until it isn't, and that's when you should spend the time on targeted optimizations.

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    Comment #48437225

    This starts from a false premise. Ideas aren't cheap. Good ideas are expensive. They're expensive because you have to weed through all the bad ones to identify them, find a market,…

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    Comment #48407758

    It's not like their staff can quit in this job market.

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    Comment #48393749

    Well, for one, it wants me to scan a QR code as a captcha.

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    Comment #48384604

    Yeah, I know they can. I just can't believe it's normalized and that people simply accept it. Good on the EU for pushing back.

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    Comment #48384407

    > In the US, there's the expectation that when you use an employer-provided device that any and all activity on it can be fully monitored/recorded I don't expect this. I know that …

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    Comment #48323946

    Short-term home rentals were basically non-existent before Airbnb. A tiny, tiny market for them in some vacation hotspots.

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    Comment #48304431

    Do you honestly think there's a plan?

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    Comment #48301351

    Yes, top and bottom at the same time, from the back or front. I have giant hands and that's a comfortable grip for me. Anything else feels like it's going to slip and drop one-hand…

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    Comment #48300986

    I've never touched an Xbox controller—or really any console controller since the early Nintendo days. What I find to require contortion is maintaining a grip on the Deck while oper…

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    Comment #48300952

    I hit it accidentally all the time. Any time I have to temporarily one-hand it with my right hand. The sides are rounded and smooth and there are buttons on the back and top of the…

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    Comment #48299154

    Really tempted to sell mine. I have a 1TB OLED that I think I paid $649 for last year. It's a dumpsterfire* of a device and I hate it and never use it. Could easily sell it for mor…

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    Comment #48229139

    This article appears to lack any reason for "needing" this beast, or any real comparison with alternatives, both of which are required to answer the question posed in the title. It…

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    Comment #48208333

    KSA is never used in US media. No one here would know what it meant.

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    Comment #48150789

    I did address it: AI in the hands of the right people. Random contributions to bug bounty programs or random PRs for new features come from all corners: expert engineers producing …

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    Comment #48150597

    AI in the hands of the right people is incredibly powerful. A good team of engineers with AI doing their own bug-hunting on their own code is already far better than any outsider—h…