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markn951

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About markn951

Software Engineer in Boston, MA

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    Comment #48960993

    Except it’s supposed to launch in 2029 at the earliest?

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    Comment #47538732

    > Opinions are my own obvs. Whose else would they be?

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    Comment #47481889

    Speaking as a SWE manager who explicitly “mandates” (not actually mandatory but I strongly encourage following your passions and interests in an academic kind of way!) we do exist,…

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    Comment #47249580

    No Magsafe on the M1. The USB ports are actually Thunderbolt 3 but the target customer does not care about that or even knows what Thunderbolt is. I think the main upgrade is the A…

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    Comment #47249470

    The body, size, weight, shape of the Neo is almost exactly the same as the current Macbook Air. What are you talking about?

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    Comment #46794423

    Jesus dude, put the AI down

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    Comment #46029878

    Pretty sure this is AI written or at least assisted. “It’s not just X, it’s Y. And the foo? It bazzed.” Honestly hard to disagree with what the message is but I can’t really take h…

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    Comment #41332354

    I feel like most use cases are more latency-bound than bandwidth-bound today. I could be wrong, maybe I'm not thinking big enough :)

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    Comment #39264625

    “Sometimes”?

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    Comment #30765768

    Everyone responding to you earnestly without understanding the joke... lol

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    Comment #29121125

    Well... they're not really "making" an astrology product. They're an engineer "making" an application backend. It's almost kind of irrelevant what it's being used for in this conte…

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    Comment #27984669

    They're not automatically turning on if you're "turning them off" from Control Center. Those buttons just temporarily disable them (and state that clearly when you do so). The only…

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    Comment #27621657

    Except in the case of deciding to exclude EDNS Client Subnet, which in my experience completely borks CDNs. Which is why I switched to Quad9 in the first place.

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    Comment #27424251

    Welp, that is terrifying. This solidifies my conviction that the strategy when it comes to cloud services is to diversify. As much as is tolerable.

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    Comment #27005556

    Religious zealotry is not realistic nor is it useful.

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    Comment #26044338

    Only a matter of time before every state in the union follows suit, like gay marriage last decade. Then we get to work freeing everyone jailed for this.

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    Comment #25496314

    Kodak made scientific and technical optics and imaging equipment too, for years. Not to mention film for just about everything. They've made X-ray machines and other medical imagin…

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    Comment #25053746

    Here in Boston our officers were in uniform all day but they told us they drop off all the ballots out of uniform in their own personal vehicles, he surmised to be less obvious a t…

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    Comment #24930716

    Check the flags in multiple parts of the system, or duplicate some logic and have two completely self-contained components, one with the new pieces and one untouched.

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    Comment #24121695

    Funny enough the headline now reads "Dwarf planet Ceres ..."

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    Comment #24063789

    ????????? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027 Or like, any similar app. There's hundreds of them.

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    Comment #23581577

    Duh. Why would you expect otherwise.