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biggc··on New iPad mini
Watching older TV shows I notice a lot more close ups of actors faces. I’m convinced it’s because the shows were produced with small screens in mind.
biggc··on America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
I believe that many "professionals" have personal liability and carry insurance.

Lawyers, doctors, and engineers to name a few.

biggc··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
> Additionally, Apple learned about Liu’s use of the schematic because he used it on a Mac mini which later synced via iCloud to the MacBook he took from Apple. Apple now also wants access to that Mac mini.

I'm very curious about the privacy implications of this. I know that anything I do and store on my company's laptop can be tracked, but I hadn't considered that if I forgot to sign out of my personal Gmail on it that they could legally search that information.

The files syncing to the company laptop's disk is a layer of nuance that makes this situation tricky to evaluate.

biggc··on First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
Turning off what labels?
biggc··on Epidurals are a miracle technology
Suffering is not a virtue
biggc··on Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT
I had a hell of a time getting WiFi roaming to work in my house between Omada APs in a low-interference suburban neighborhood.

Any combination of 802.11r and k/v seemed to just cause my phone's connection to drop for minutes at a time when moving around the house.

I wish I could remember my exact solution for you, I believe I just turned off 802.11r and k/v, set channel selection to automatic, and undid any manual or automatic power tuning.

biggc··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
What generated this comment?
biggc··on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
Thin sounds a lot like making a change yourself.
biggc··on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
2021, not 2020
biggc··on The Private Equity Wager: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
> this company is basically a roundabout-welldressed shylock

Are we really still casually using the term “Shylock” today?

biggc··on A 'Trump Card Visa' Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms
Why would anyone buy this over participating in an EB-5 investor visa project?
biggc··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
You’re stretching here.

Companies hire private physical security all the time. Why is digital security different?

biggc··on US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report
You can say “murder” here. This isn’t TikTok
biggc··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Naive question: what prevents Apple from pushing a malicious software update that automatically disables ADP to UK users?
biggc··on Unit tests as documentation
Table tests can enable useful test naming without a bunch of clunky named test functions. I use them most often in Go but I’m sure other languages have support

https://go.dev/wiki/TableDrivenTests

biggc··on Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills
Does a single university with a good reputation graduate 5,000 new CS majors per year? Or is that number just for the sake of example?
biggc··on Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
How big can these capacitors be? Does replacing it require any safety precautions besides turning off the power?
biggc··on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
What? Has anyone published an RCA that confirms this? Is this how the data was ex filtrated from Snowflake? Or did ATT’s Snowflake credentials leak?
biggc··on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
ATT could be using Snowflake for internal analytics
biggc··on I tried to finish a dead man's novel
The article’s author’s domain seems to have been hijacked and redirects to a malicious site.
biggc··on "FB internal Thrift over HTTP" removed my phone – how is this possible? (2022)
Does Facebook use Apache Thrift internally? That’s the only thing I can think of
biggc··on U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe
On paper this seems similar to how Kaiser operates. AFAIK Kaiser is generally well-liked by its members, why is UHC so terrible?

I guess UHC doesn't own the hospitals?

biggc··on A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
Did you read the article? It says that none of the ships targeted so far had anything to do with Israel
biggc··on Oppenheimer 4K Blu-Rays Sold Out in a Week. Why Aren't Retailers Retailing Them?
Do you really own media on a Blu-ray Disc though? As I understand it, the media is encrypted with advanced DRM and can only be decrypted with a “secure” player+tv chain.
biggc··on Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
Where does the author say that this VP is his direct manager?
biggc··on Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
It's pretty unusual to publically throw someone under the bus by name like this in a professional name.

Given it's an unusual situation, people are reflecting on what makes this allegedly incompetent VP different from other incompetent VPs who aren't called out like this?

biggc··on Lost "Doctor Who" episodes found but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC
Are there any examples of a country with a non-adversarial Justice model?
biggc··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Recently, the K1 fiancé visa has been taking longer to process than an I-130 spouse sponsorship. I don’t have any hard numbers though.
biggc··on MGM expects $100M hit from hack that led to data breach
Casinos charge for parking now???
biggc··on They say I make $45K/month just by pure luck and just by posting my MRR on X
The twitterb poster lll linked to is Vietnamese though
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