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jedmeyers

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    Comment #49175699

    > This is my experience with all Microsoft software. The worst thought out, buggy, untested pile of crap. Their PM motto is "quality is a feature", and obviously not everybody need…

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    Comment #48898576

    You are in for a surprise if you think latest generation Toyotas or Hondas will be less costly to repair. Just look at the recent debacle with the V35A-FTS.

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    Comment #48813282

    This does not look to be “military” spending on Ukraine, it’s all spending.

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    Comment #48812490

    > As of 2026 Q2, the U.S. disbursed over $116 billion in aid to Ukraine and is obligated for a total of $177b. Yes the rest is being disbursed despite Trump's political antics Wher…

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    Comment #47927647

    Same here, it's often neither blue nor green, so this experiment is pointless.

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    Comment #47907496

    And by having more of those blanks filled humans might be able to come up with much better extrapolations than what we have right now.

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    Comment #47881512

    > Nobody in the cabinet can speak up and overrule his whimsy? Who will be overruling that "someone in the cabinet", when things start going the wrong way again? There is always som…

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    Comment #47523397

    The harbinger?

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    Comment #47495430

    > It's about on par with the ridiculousness of LOC implying code quality. Most effective engineers on the brownfield projects I've worked on, usually deleted more LOC than they've …

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    Comment #47446328

    > One giant leap? The gravity is weaker so just jump down /s

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    Comment #45884663

    > I mean, it's literally a link on a web page. You click the link, it takes you to The BEAM Book's page. Now instead of putting the details in the title, you have me reading paragr…

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    Comment #45883001

    The curse of knowledge in this thread is mind boggling.

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    Comment #45882975

    Because of you ask a person who works on Beam about “the Beam book” thats the one they are going to recommend. Who knows that the BEAM book is literally called “the BEAM Book”? The…

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    Comment #45068116

    > I still doubt they're gonna face any serious penalties Having to fix all P320 fire control units they've sold so far will put them out of business. You don't even need any additi…

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    Comment #44685964

    And it still does not help, because the safety only blocks the trigger but not the striker from firing, thus the Air Force incident that started, this topic, became possible.

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    Comment #43075717

    It feels like you are pressing on a tennis ball, zero real feedback whatsoever. Acura MDX has had the brake-by-wire system fo a while now in the latest generation.

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    Comment #42704382

    It does require a digital to analog converter, though.

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    Comment #41317047

    With a golden parachute nonetheless.

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    Comment #40418362

    > What we need is much better whistleblower programs. Unfortunately, not many organizations will have the aligned incentives. If businesses that conduct potentially dangerous opera…

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    Comment #40055411

    What AWS/GCP/Azure provide with managed Redis is much much more than just a UI. There are a lot of technical issues that come with running Redis reliably in the cloud. I’d say UI w…

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    Comment #39374829

    And thus we usually do not have patents for songs, only copyright protections.

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    Comment #38960863

    Are we sure that he actually died in that accident and not chilling somewhere in Florida under a different name? Cause it can be a good cover story do disappear your agent that suc…

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    Comment #38931604

    Alaska temporary switched to the flexible travel policy because of this incident, so you should be able to change your ticket fairly easily.