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ratsmack

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About ratsmack

Just an old guy.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #41478067

    All devices should have circuitry to limit current to an acceptable charge rate, and be fused to catch surges.

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    Comment #41428232

    A common problem during summer months.

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    Comment #41155479

    > It’s not clear that Musk was involved in the account’s suspension, but Rocketto and Nellis aren’t all that crazy to think that the X CEO might be behind it. Good question... what…

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    Comment #41073913

    > ... roughly as intelligent as a 7 year old kid. Maybe a 7 month old, but surely not a 7 year old.

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    Comment #40690497

    Great article and explains very well the reason that AI should be renamed PSI... Poorly Simulated Intelligence.

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    Comment #40626005

    There's a reason for everything.

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    Comment #40408792

    [flagged]

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    Comment #40408747

    If two executives talk across a table during lunch, is it required to record it? What if they sit across the table from each other and send text messages over Signal instead of tal…

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    Comment #40266135

    Greed is not a requirement of Capitalism though.

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    Comment #40265469

    The problem is that complex systems have not made us more knowledgeable and capable, but instead they have become a crutch. https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-…

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    Comment #40181330

    Interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

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    Comment #40139426

    I think that's pretty normal for companies to spend money in an attempt to protect themselves from government overreach. I have never used TikTok and probably never will, but I tak…

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    Comment #40090507

    So Tesla is just following the local laws. What is news worthy here, I'm just not seeing it.

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    Comment #40072682

    There is an appropriate time and place for protests, but apparently these protesters weren't able to figure that out.

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    Comment #40042680

    SanDisk is still SanDisk and I don't consider them to be Western Digital. Their products have always been dodgy and I still have heartburn over some of their thumb drives where it …

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    Comment #40015244

    There is no love lost between me and Google, but then I have zero regard for "news" organizations that are attempting to strong-arm funds from Google for their failing business mod…

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    Comment #40009473

    Thank you :-)

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    Comment #39997904

    There are many other EV's on the road, but you only ever hear about Tesla's and quite often it's something with a disparaging tone. It makes me wonder if it's Tesla's competition u…

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    Comment #38982735

    Is there a way you prevent them from identifying your scraper?

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    Comment #38586379

    I agree mostly, but there will always be the fringe lunatics that will need mod intervention. And then there's the spam issue.

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    Comment #38579277

    It seems that it would be fairly easy to support both clientele.

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    Comment #38564510

    I'm pretty sure Google has multiple levels of redundancy and still failed.

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    Comment #38564212

    Redundancy can fail.

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    Comment #38564174

    I might also note that Comcast is a legal monopoly.

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    Comment #38538102

    It seems to me that excursions into various websites has increased this past year. Every day or so someone else reveals that they have been compromised, and these are usually only …