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Take for example my front license plate, the flat head screws enabled a random while I was at work to remove the plate from the car, without any specialized screwdriver.
So in some instances flat heads may prove to be useful. Philips however has often led to the screws I need out getting stripped. Torx all the way.
I've now used JIS bits for JIS screws and had no issues further than the initial.
While the GBP value has changed over the course of 600 years, (of course it would, peoples and governments change in that same timeframe) hasn't a BTC as well?
If I sell an item worth $60,000 USD for 1 BTC, the next day the 1 BTC could be worth $40 or $50,0000 USD. Surely such volatility cannot be useful for a common currency.
"Stable coins exist" - and yes, they do - but if a stable coin is pegged to a currency, why do you not just use said currency?
Consumer devices don't have this level of control over a person's life anywhere near as often, in the sense that the device has your life at stake and makes decisions for you.
"no one is at fault" is entirely counter intuitive to engineering principles. When a rare accident happens, the engineer is often responsible.
We don't 'build' AI in anywhere remotely the same way as buildings or legacy software products, there isn't a 'designer' for said AI system other than the training model - which can certainly not account for every possible edge case.
Self-driving cars can't 'only be \better\ than humans'. Because only humans can currently drive. Self-driving cars need to be nearly 100% safe when you entirely remove the human driver.
I'm sorry, but this is the first time I've heard such a statement, and would like to know more.
If the car is self-driving, and truly self driving - no steering wheel, when it causes an accident, who is at fault?
Humans make mistakes, but humans also can change their response easily to a given input. Is Tesla at fault? Do we just issue them a fine for a person's life? Should the car do its best to preserve the life inside the vehicle, or the lives outside the vehicle? Automobiles do significant damage to pedestrians in regards to their dangerous design.
Surely corporations should be held to a higher standard than people, as they're not bound by the same restrictions a single person is.
The internet and ads have existed long before YouTube, and all three can exist without tracking your life.
"Contributes nothing to civilization" - yet we fetishize Roman, Greek, and 'typical "good" artwork'.
It feels like this is a good way to market the device for potential future plans where Valve could build other niche hardware that would improve the viability of Linux for gaming devices on other hardware.
Funny, because physics explains that all objects of mass have inertia. Heavy objects traveling at speed have inertia. Faster speeds? More Inertia. Heavier objects? More inertia, and we can calculate inertia : I = mr2.
I doubt that this author has any credibility for anything related to physics.
The missile-defense system work by using SAMs (Surface-to-Air Missiles). Having a nuke counter an ICBM will lead to far worse fallout. While you're correct, the planes don't want to be in that crossfire, the missile targeting system would more than easily account for civilian aircraft and avoid them.
To do so, you have to go into your default apps, set the default messaging app to Signal (factory default is Messages for Pixel devices, likely whatever Samsung uses for Samsung devices). I just checked to see if there were any extra settings you have to enable in the Signal app, but it doesn't appear to be so. If a user uses both SMS or encrypted chat, you can long press the send button and decide between which it will use.
Do note, that any previous messages sent via SMS from other apps won't show up in Signal for message history. Likewise the same if/when you switch to another SMS app.
If the computer had used Torx screws in place, I'd never have had the issue since the force required wouldn't have stripped the head while a PH head had cammed the driver requiring the excess use of a drill.
I've made the switch to Signal, my girlfriend uses it on her iPhone to replace iMessage since I made the switch to Android last month. She can also use it on her Windows laptop unlike iMessage. My family members who are tech-y enough use Signal with me, and when they're not, I can still send standard SMS through the app. Signal even implements responses similar to iMessage 'likes' and 'hearts'. I don't think I could praise Signal enough for the great implementation they've built. Their crypto-enterprise this past year did make me feel a bit slighted, but as I don't use that feature, I can't comment on it.
Ads are the way the internet can be funded. For most free sites, they need to either be subsidized by another income (see say a personal website that you host yourself - you pay for the domain and hosting if it's not local). Or by either selling a product (see many software companies), or lastly by using ads (see YouTube, Vimeo, and numerous other video sharing sites)
I understand targeted ads being a nuisance and vehemently despise the datamining that supports said systems. But ads in general aren't an evil until they obfuscate the core material of a site. When you block ads, especially on YouTube for creators who use the platform to attract ads and sell their content then you prevent people who've worked to supply their income. If your issue is the ethics that are at odds with Alphabet and the privacy concerns, your fight is with your government to restrict them, Alphabet's own trackers (which you can work towards disabling).