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I haven't ever got a surprise legal bill, and I have a fancy famous lawyer that you've heard of. I don't think there's any comparison.

The services are too expensive, yes, but that's not what I'm getting at. I'm saying that even the inflated sticker price won't prevent tons of random other bills from flying out of nowhere. Once I got an anesthesia bill -- for almost ten thousand dollars -- after an event that didn't involve anesthesia, at which the anesthesiologist was not even present. There was just some stored procedure in their database that fired off bills.

This idea is based on healthcare not being a scam. You can ask for a price and then will tell you a price but even if you pay that price, up front, in cash, you will later get bills for more "services", received or perceived. In any other industry people would go to prison.

Sorry I was just joking about your use of the abbreviation of feet instead of inches.

Seems to gloss over the details. Who is grooming the replication in case a volume replica disappears? What happens when a client is writing a replicated file and crashes in the middle?

Do you have to check it on airplanes?

I used to use (and still own) one of those PowerBook G3 laptops where you could swap the media bay for a CD-RW, a floppy, or a Zip drive, or just more batteries. With modern Li-ion battery technology in both the main battery and the media bay, that thing ran for 20+ hours. It was amazing.

Where "some" includes everyone who has ever had to use them.

Those are the codes for building a new building. The codes change but the buildings don't have to. You can occupy a 100-year-old building in San Antonio if you feel like doing it. No regulatory bureaucracy will be concerned.

Actually no, owner-occupied residential buildings do not have to meet codes, under the liberal belief that it's OK for a person to subject themselves knowingly to certain hazards. However it is not OK for that owner to subject others to those hazards, which is why hotels and rental properties have to meet those codes even as the codes change. Therefore it is a regulatory advantage of AirBNB that unregulated residences are offered up as hotels without meeting the codes.

That's ridiculous. The nazis eradicated a peaceful civilian population. The USA nuked cities where literally everyone was somehow engaged in a war against them, and who had started it in the first place.

Microsoft did exactly that with their Bing toolbar.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hiybbprqag

2-stroke engines are lubricated by their own fuel mix. There's no reason you can't mix oil and gas in a 4-cycle fuel mix. This is what the Stihl 4-cycle chainsaw does.

Honda also makes small 4-stroke engines that work in any position, because Japan is awesome.

Here is why I don't like mobile data peripherals on laptops: it causes the software to firm incorrect beliefs about the link state. With a mobile modem the OS will decide the link has gone down, and sever all connections. With wifi tethering the laptop has no idea what the link state on the phone might be, so it rides out brief loss of signal events.

Small but important difference in my opinion.

Why do you find that better than tethering to a phone? The last thing I want is a separate mobile account for my laptop.

Contamination in Oakland is primarily from its history of elevated freeways. Responsibility for that contamination is diffused. How are you going to pin it on any one party in particular?

The AOPA is the NRA, essentially. They don't care about the public health problems they cause. They just want to fly around in their little WW2-technology toys.

Automation is the biggest opportunity in car safety. The mechanical engineering on cars has entered the terminal stage. Software is all that's left to do, really.

Amazing that these never supported Linux. I remember people tried to reverse engineer them but the project ran out of steam. I guess xircom felt their business was so strong they needn't cater to a bunch of hippies.

Red-black trees are pretty much terrible for performance as well. I spend most of my work days trying to eradicate std::map and std::set for performance reasons.

Academics are always concerned about bounds, but practitioners are always concerned about cache misses.

Long haul truck fleets will be much more suited for swaps than recharges.

Also screws have poor toughness compared to nails, and should never be used for framing.

Just because it looks strong doesn't mean it is strong.

How tall do you think it is, exactly?

Food shock =~ meat shock. 95% of our agriculture is dedicated to raising meat. Cutting meat production immediately relieves any and all water problems.

_More_ fossil water may not be the solution we seek.

If you just use a laptop for ssh the battery life will be really epic.

Indeed, the leak in question seems to be this transcript of internal company-wide forum: http://www.recode.net/2016/4/13/11586092/tony-fadell-nest-go...

Which does not appear to be any kind of public service.

Yes exactly. The "You said what?" training is mostly concerned with how to escalate to legal department when you see something wrong.

You are being obtuse. The point is that an engineer can't authoritatively conclude that the company is breaking the law, so they shouldn't write it down.

This complaint seems pretty silly. Just taking a single point, paragraph 45:

“Don’t send an e-mail that says ‘I think we broke the law’ or ‘I think we violated this contract.’”

That seems like pretty reasonable training. You shouldn't put that on the record because you're not an attorney. You are just some Dork, or Senior Dork, or Staff Dork, or whatever grade of Dork you happen to be who is still not an attorney.

Maybe the attorneys also have to take training that advises them not to say "I think this dereference might be undefined behavior" in emails. Who knows.