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Disagree here - I recently took delivery of a BYD Shark 6 and was especially impressed with the build quality and interior quality. I'd say on par with the BMW X5 we had, and sligh…

And of course the Sydney Ice Berg https://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_sydney_iceberg

I'm not sure I understand. I have had an Instinct, Tactix Delta, and Tactix 7 Pro and have always been able to see the data without a phone or any network present. I love these wat…

It appears to have that mode they call "Body Anchor" - limits the device to 72Hz with "minimal latency". https://www.xreal.com/air2/

Generally when they cross the international date line - for example when traveling from Sydney to San Francisco, I can take off at midday and land at ~7am on the same day local tim…

Many years ago, I was writing Clojure for a job and took to finally learning emacs beyond just saving a file and closing the editor. It took about a week to finally get used to par…

Yeah I see your point where it just doesn’t matter, especially back the the original point where it may not be at scale now, but you don’t want to go through the budget / approval …

I think it completely matters - yes these orgs are a lot more wasteful, but there is still an opportunity to save money here, especially is this economy, if not for the internal po…

Scaling _if_ needed has been the death knell of many companies. Every engineer wants to assume that they will need to scale to millions of QPS, most of the time this is incorrect, …

I completely agree. I love the tech and have spent a lot of time in it - but come on people, let’s use the right tool for the right job!

…yes - processing 3.2G of data will be quicker on a single machine. This is not the scale of Hadoop or any other distributed compute platform. The reason we use these is for when w…

> Java from Oracle Oracle acquired Java with Sun Microsystems, it was originally designed for embedded systems and the dream of “write once, run everywhere”. The idea of a “hardwar…

I don't think you can do better than a binary search here, so log2(1000000) questions, which happens to come out to 20 with rounding. I tried thinking a bit outside the box for oth…

This was winding down about 12 months ago, unsure of the current status of it. It's the same model they use for operating in China. From an operational perspective this makes thing…

Oh completely agree regarding the survival bias - I think the over-arching plan was to make it more accessible to more than just dev teams, and it seems to have worked. "Like MS Wo…

It wasn't a point upgrade - Confluence 4.0 got rid of markdown in favour of an "XHTML" storage format, then a layer on the editor to autocomplete markdown into the rich-text as you…

Congrats on the completion! I graduated from this program in May of 2021 after about a 15 year gap from my undergrad, coupled with two young kids, a job change, moving across the w…

I remember there being a browser beta version, but I thought this was pulled. Has it come back? Because that would be wonderful!

All / most PDF forms used by the Australian Defence Force are like this - I suspect it’s because it’s all tied into the identity / ability to digitally sign the forms. It’s very fr…

There was when I was there. How does BeyondCorp work with ff?

I've happily used Firefox on Windows and Linux to access all of my Google services, without issue, for years. Can you expand on which services don't work with ff? At Google there i…

This is how you append query params to a url - nothing to do with the shell.

I joined MSFT as a manager 18 months ago, and honestly think their remote policy is one of the better ones out there. Up to 50% remote time with no approval, up to 100% with manage…

He may not need a visa, if he is getting citizenship through investment [1]. [1] https://www.newzealand-migration.co.nz/dual-citizenship-serv...

I would love a feature in Teams that was "never, ever, ever, open a link in teams - use the default browser". Like you, I can't fucking stand it, and I make the same mistake at lea…