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bmicraft··on AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs
This is such a bad excuse, if they've released the update on a single phone then the timer would have already started - why delay AOSP after that?
bmicraft··on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
That's not a rumour, there are countless recorded examples.
bmicraft··on SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
Efficient at generating the most value for shareholders? Probably. Efficient at price/performance of product sold? No.
bmicraft··on SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
Ah yes, because capitalism in it's purest form would never have companies form monopolies and lobby governments for favorable legislation.
bmicraft··on Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
That's not the message
bmicraft··on Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
Every single on of those answers I've seen _says_ they did decode it, but each and every one of them only found the decoy message without even realizing it.
bmicraft··on CarPlay Is Additive
But it does make sense. You probably looked up where you're going before entering the car on your phone. You probably want to hear the same music or podcasts as on you phone. Do you really want the car to have separate internet connection, and login for every app?

Also you need to connect the phone anyway if you want hands free calling.

bmicraft··on US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers
The point they're making is that it's hard to find purely European alternatives. Part of the problem is that companies don't advertise when they somehow still depend on American infra.
bmicraft··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Believe it or not, the eu is not one single entity with one undivided goal. As is perfectly well demonstrated by chatcontrol being proposed by one side and continually struck down by the other.
bmicraft··on OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
Wrong. If you just take out the fat you've necessarily got more of everything else per kcal. I didn't say per volume, I said per kcal.
bmicraft··on OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
My dumb answer would be that less fat means more sugar per kcal, so less satiety per kcal. No idea if that's correct.
bmicraft··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
Nuclear is too expensive and takes to long. We can't afford to waste the resources that could go into a fully green grid in a couple of years taking decades building a fraction of that capacity as nuclear.
bmicraft··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Many people do, although I too don't get why
bmicraft··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
240W max is very little when it comes to hearing up water, and most powerbanks don't even do more than 100W output. That's more in the range of those swappable tool batteries.
bmicraft··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Charging a 5Ah phone empty to full every day of the year adds up to all of about 7kWh. Nobody cares if you shave off a couple cents per year if the experience is worse.
bmicraft··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
If you didn't specifically test without it, I'd attribute that to cgnat
bmicraft··on Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'
> if you have that little respect for leadership, why are you working at that company?

What an astoundingly dumb question. Most people work somewhere to get paid, and If you think its unusual to hate the boss, oh boy, do I have news for you!

bmicraft··on Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'
Several things severely wrong with this example. The employee didn't talk to an outsider, they didn't talk to someone the CEO would be likely to have known personally, and they're so far removed from the CEO nobody thinks they'd know them on a personal level.

You just can't talk about a CEO as if they're a person interacting and hiring people individually because they just don't.

bmicraft··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
I never said loud. Comfortable podcast listening volume in both cases.
bmicraft··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
You can turn up your car stereo and mow over pedestrians undisturbed in your two ton death machine yet I'm not allowed to cycle on a bicycle-only path with with a podcast and transparency mode enabled? For my own safety? Safety from car drivers that fell asleep driving with their stereo on?
bmicraft··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
> The "plausible sounding-text generator" generated plausible sounding text. More news at 11

Yeah, that's what LLMs do. Now is it true? Who knows!

bmicraft··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
My XM4's always do that at the beeps from the cash register, although I always attributed that to their volume rather than frequency. My theory was that they refuse to produce sound loud enough to cancel the beeps for safety reasons.
bmicraft··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
There is no handshake, all that's needed are two 5.1 kΩ pulldown resistors. By omitting them the manufacturer saved all of about 0.1c and made their device incompatible with compliant usb-c chargers.

More info: https://hackaday.com/2023/02/07/all-about-usb-c-manufacturer...

bmicraft··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
The author may feel like this is true, but she probably probably doesn't care for the Kafkaesque nature of the system and doesn't stand to profit from their misery either.
bmicraft··on FreeCAD v1.1
Or don't and adjust it in the sketcher? If you name your constrains you can just reference them directly elsewhere.

I think that's much easier as you don't have to go back and forth with a spreadsheet.

bmicraft··on BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers
The main problem with PHEV is, that's it's comparably small battery will age very poorly because it will both: a) do more charge/discharge cycles per distance driven, and b) get charged and discharged closer to 0 & 100% making the battery age even faster.
bmicraft··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
I've had some very bad ram (lots of errors found when tested) and consistently the only thing that actually crashed because of it was Firefox.
bmicraft··on What does " 2>&1 " mean?
That's what named pipes do.
bmicraft··on EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)
The Galaxy S5 was only 8.1mm including camera bump, removable battery and IP67 rating.
bmicraft··on Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish?
Is it? I can see the broiler glowing, so at least a decent chunk is close to visible light.
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