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  • Exxon Mobile: we must pay people to spread misinformation, Michael Crichton:

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  • The book about sentient apes spreads misinformation for Exxon?

    I read the book a few decades ago, and I don’t remember that part.

  • Exxon Mobile: we must pay people to spread misinformation, Michael Crichton:

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  • Is this in reference to State of Fear?

  • Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity

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  • residential streets don’t go that high.

    Not with that attitude.

  • Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity

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  • You probably need map data to know if you’re on a highway (when lane keeping is allowed) or on surface streets.

    It will probably cache relevant maps when heading into a low service area.

    Just a guess. I don’t drive a Rivian.

  • Jucika at the campsite

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  • But then it won't be women's underwear. It'll be my underwear.

  • Which computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?

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  • I had this bad when I first got into embedded design. I built a Nixie tube clock with a Parallax SX chip in raw assembly.

    Running at 4MHz, I had to give it a nop loop where it spun for 4 million iterations just to increment the clock for a second. It lived a whole life between seconds and it would do this thanklessly tedious work forever.

    Or how about airbag sensors or seatbelt pretensioners that check sensors thousands of times a second for years in the off chance that they detect a crash and save the life of a person who they will never comprehend for the 100ms duration of a crash just to get scrapped with the rest of the vehicle.

    At one point I wanted to write a short story based on this concept. A story of unrequited love between a person and a machine that they don’t even know about.

  • Which computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?

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  • Or in spec when the spec is very broad.

    See also “silicon lottery” in the world of overclocking.

  • Which computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?

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  • What’s frustrating is the occasional device that literally needs 30 seconds to drain its caps and you go back and forth with tech support claiming that you turned it off for a minute when it was really only eight seconds.

  • Which computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?

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  • Or in spec when the spec is very broad.

    See also “silicon lottery” in the world of overclocking.

  • Which computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?

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  • What’s frustrating is the occasional device that literally needs 30 seconds to drain its caps and you go back and forth with tech support claiming that you turned it off for a minute when it was really only eight seconds.

  • Which computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?

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  • My first gaming PC I built in 2004 is still the fastest computer that has ever been.

  • Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past

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  • I had an idea for a sci-fi setting where criminals are held in stasis like Demolition Man or Minority Report except the point isn’t to keep them away from society or rehabilitate them. It’s to rob them of their time in the present assuming that things are only going to bet worse.

  • Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor’ to win $34,000 bet

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  • Obviously not.

  • Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor’ to win $34,000 bet

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  • Reminds me of this.

    Insider trading doesn’t make the market more accurate if people are forcing themselves inside.

  • A safe paradox

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  • Buy it now and lease it to the store owner.

  • The only thing you want to see on the website

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  • This was 2010 on their actual personally hosted website.

  • At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours

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  • The only thing you want to see on the website

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  • Pizza place nearby in college had a wrong number listed on their website. Fortunately the site’s header was a photo of the restaurant which included a neon sign of the correct phone number.

  • What is a small thing you did that changed your life in a big way?

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  • Left school in Boston. Got a job in Rhode Island. Nine months in and I got bored. Started looking at jobs on Craigslist. Didn't find anything local. Started scrolling down the cities in the right column. Made it alphabetically down to Seattle. Never been.

    Got the job, moved.

    Lived here for 15 years. Bought a house, met my wife. Found a place where I feel like I always belonged.