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  • A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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  • Just because you can make phones with an army of cheap Chinese labour doesn't mean that's the only or best way. With suitable "design for manufacture", pick and place robots like those used in PCB design could relatively easily be adopted to screw screws in where needed. Use plugs instead of those flat cable things, then the whole lot could be easily automated. Remove any aspect of the design that needs fingers and the whole process can be automated.

  • What's your superpower?

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  • Two. The first is that I can make traffic lights turn green within 5 seconds of putting the car in Park.

    Secondly and perhaps more usefully, there's a computer Problem Exclusion Zone around me. I can just stand next to a misbehaving computer, not looking at the screen and with my hands in my pockets, and it'll start working properly.

  • What are your last-minute purchases before tariff hell begins?

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  • None, because I don't live in a country with an orange moron at the helm.

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  • Breakfast cereal

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  • Funny I was just wondering the other day if companies that practice vibe programming also practice vibe management.

  • Shrimp, anyone?

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  • Is that a really big fork or a really small cat?

    (Questions I never thought I'd ask #327.)

  • China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech

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  • These are the lyrics Lennon rejected.

  • A Curious Fact

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  • Not knowing the ASL prompt casts some doubt on your claim to remember the internet back then. Knowing someone's age, sex and location was some useful context even if dating wasn't the aim.

  • Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff relief

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  • It's up to the American standards, for what that's worth. The chlorine washing makes the meat safe, because the process results in unsafe meat, causing danger to workers (and [speculation]possibly undue suffering for the birds). The EU processes result in meat that doesn't need to be chlorine washed because the process ensures it is safe.

    So the problem with chlorine washing is not in the end product but in the process that creates it. It's the EU concern for worker safety that makes chlorine washed chicken problematic.

    I'm not defending the USA here and I oppose imports of chlorinated chicken. Just want to ensure the ire is projected in the appropriate direction. If God forbid that idiot Farage gets some power and we end up with chlorinated chicken then it should be clearly labelled as such so that the British consumer can make an informed FUCK OFF.

    The UK can't allow the import of chlorinated chicken because then that would shut down our chicken trading, at least, and probably a lot more, with the EU, which is a bigger market than the American one, by about 30%. Fart's team obviously knows this.

  • Why do you want to work with us?

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  • It is a fucking stupid question. I'm supposed to invent some horse shit about why this is an awesome company that I specifically chose, and simply being truthful "you're recruiting and I need a job" isn't acceptable.

  • Can you spot them all?

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  • One's the apex king of the jungle, the other is the king of the apex jumble.

  • Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered

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  • Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?

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  • I'm old enough to remember when that was the fancy new thing the kids were doing.

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  • Any company that does that needs to be sent on a mandatory awareness training for failing an obvious fake phishing exercise. It's far too easy to whitelist that and send it to an "ignore" folder.

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  • Depends where you're going. Anywhere first world with a robust democracy that invites opposition and criticism will be safe. Heck in the UK we've even got people who openly hate our way of life and want to destroy it.

    But if you're going to one of the less tolerant places where opposing the incumbent can get you in serious trouble, like Russia, North Korea, Iran, or the USA, probably best take a burner phone with some basic stuff on it that can't possibly be interpreted as any kind of negativity towards the delicate leader and leave your main one switched off somewhere safe at home. In fact unless you enjoy risk it's probably best to avoid places like that until they get some proper freedoms in place.

  • How to Forget C++

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  • I find the easiest way to forget C++ is to try watching CppCon on YouTube.

    I've been doing C++ professionally since 1991.

    But when I watch CppCon, what the hell are they gabbling on about? It's all complete gobbledegook! They may as well be speaking in an ancient Goa'uld dialect for all the sense it makes. These people are so far down a rabbithole I start to wonder if they've ever seen the surface.

    I am therefore forced to the conclusion that despite 34 years of experience in C++ I don't know C++.

  • She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.

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  • That's Young Sheldon's neighbour on the right isn't it? And why is Mum holding that kid's crotch?

  • Yes, But...

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  • When I used to work at Oracle every so often a customer would call and complain some function was throwing error "ORA-00000 normal successful completion" and they wanted it filing as a bug and for us to fix it.

    I was never quite sure how we were supposed to fix stupid.

  • Git, invented in 2005. Programmers on 2004:

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  • Most cli stuff is a lot easier than programming. If you can't use cli then by definition you're a shit programmer.

    Of course if you simply don't want to use cli that's a different matter.

  • Git, invented in 2005. Programmers on 2004:

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