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kingcharles commented on Outcomes after surgery performed by associate clinicians vs doctors (2021)   jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/barry-cotter
doubled112 · 3 years ago
And if you're a Russian in Antarctica, you might need to do it yourself.
kingcharles · 3 years ago
Boss mode activated.
kingcharles commented on What scares master of suspense Dean Koontz? Plenty   washingtonpost.com/books/... · Posted by u/samclemens
jebarker · 3 years ago
When I had my family trust notarized the lawyer recommended keeping a copy in the freezer as it's the most likely place in the house to survive a house fire.
kingcharles · 3 years ago
As someone that just lost everything I own to fire I think this is a bad idea. The fire is a problem, certainly, but a secondary problem that killed all my paperwork was the fire service putting out the fire. That high pressure water is getting into literally everything, even things that seem like they are totally and fully water resistant.
kingcharles commented on Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month   cnn.com/2023/04/27/busine... · Posted by u/ezconnect
krono · 3 years ago
They already posses the capability to perform to the implied specifications with or without that $60/mo.
kingcharles · 3 years ago
I understand the technical part: they are unlocking the extra power electronically.

What I don't understand is what is different between the headline saying that you can pay $60 for your car to go faster (true) and parent poster saying "pay an extra $60 monthly your already-expensive vehicle will not give the full outstanding performance that your particular hardware was engineered to do"?

Those two statements seem to say the same thing? What am I missing?

kingcharles commented on Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month   cnn.com/2023/04/27/busine... · Posted by u/ezconnect
fuzzfactor · 3 years ago
>You can make your Mercedes EV go faster for $60 a month

Umm, no.

Allow me to correct this misprint.

Unless you pay an extra $60 monthly your already-expensive vehicle will not give the full outstanding performance that your particular hardware was engineered to do.

kingcharles · 3 years ago
I'm confused as to how those two statements are different?
kingcharles commented on Anonymous Tor Phone   0ut3r.space/2023/05/02/an... · Posted by u/h0ek
kornhole · 3 years ago
As long as you keep device in your possession with a quick option to wipe it, I believe that mitigates the unlocked bootloader. Graphene locks the bootloader as a more secure option.

I tried Invizible Pro and do not see option for split tunnelling. I suppose Orbot may be a better choice if authentication to one of those services is needed.

kingcharles · 3 years ago
You might never get a chance to wipe it. I had a cop whip out a loaded gun and point it at my head to take my phone out of my hand. I didn't even have a lock code as there was nothing to hide, but if I had been a criminal I would not have had time or opportunity to do anything without my brains leaving my skull.
kingcharles commented on Heathkit   shop.heathkit.com/shop... · Posted by u/hypertexthero
rwl4 · 3 years ago
They seem to be down. In the meantime:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230501123146/https://shop.heat...

As a kid, I remember seeing their Hero 2000 on Mr Wizard. It ignited my imagination and I ordered a catalog. Then I saw the price. I went on to get a number of other robots, mostly from Tomy, but they paled in comparison to Hero 2000. When I got a little older, I even started reading about neural networks. Shame I never went further with that!

kingcharles · 3 years ago
Ah, I too had to settle for Tomy after drooling over the Hero range as a child.
kingcharles commented on Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely   covertactionmagazine.com/... · Posted by u/onewheeltom
lost_tourist · 3 years ago
If it's local, report it to the state, if it's the state report it to the feds, if it's the feds your only real option is to do it and run to another country, or keep your mouth shut and just find a new job. This process has repeated itself many times in the news if you research it.
kingcharles · 3 years ago
In theory that is how it should work. I promise in practice that you will get absolutely nowhere. Most prosecutors seem local, either municipal or county, but in actuality are State workers, and the State is generally completely disinterested in investigating its own staff.

The feds are even less interested in investigating matters that should be handled by the State.

I say this from practical experience of trying to move the State Attorney General's office and the FBI to investigate and getting absolutely nowhere at all.

My next plan is to simply take a local friendly reporter with a video camera and perform a sit-in at the prosecutors office until they promise to do something or they have me arrested for trespass.

kingcharles commented on A morale crisis after multiple Meta layoffs   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/gardenfelder
tsimionescu · 3 years ago
Is there any kind of indication VR (or its cousin, AR) is important to any extent? Everything I know suggests it's a niche technology that has little chance of becoming anything but a niche technology. It's not made any significant headway in gaming, in entertainment of other kinds, nor in general business settings.

There are some specialist domains where 3D visualization is worth the cost and inconvenience, but it seems to me very unlikely that it will ever escape those. Meta's gigantic investment with little to show for it seems to me to support this observation.

kingcharles · 3 years ago
It will eventually become one of the most significant technologies in history, alongside AI, in my opinion.

People are confusing bulky headsets with the general concept of VR. If I showed you a working holodeck today you would think it significant.

Mark made the right choice to go balls deep on VR when he did. I don't think he should dial back. When going through hell, keep going.

kingcharles commented on Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news   ishadeed.com/article/rebu... · Posted by u/shadeed
shadeed · 3 years ago
Hello there! The author of the article is here.

The main goal of this is to explore the potential of modern CSS in building such a layout. I agree that some of the features aren't supported yet, but that will become better over time. The article shed light on things like container queries, fluid sizing.. etc.

kingcharles · 3 years ago
Just want to say thank you. Great article and really enjoyed your other about flexbox vs. grid.
kingcharles commented on Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news   ishadeed.com/article/rebu... · Posted by u/shadeed
cubefox · 3 years ago
CSS must be fun to use nowadays, with tons of flexibility and great browser support. I remember the days when you couldn't even rely on CSS2 because IE6 didn't support it, apart from having serious rendering bugs.
kingcharles · 3 years ago
I've been a web designer since 1993. It was nice in 1993 because you didn't even have a background color. The color of your page was the default color of the window on your OS. Usually grey.

Then we went through 25 years of dark ages where there were plenty of really great ideas for layout which were completely lost to horrible and competing and half-assed executions.

We are now finally in the golden age of layout where I can make something that looks great on all displays if I have the time and talent to do it. Sadly that is in short supply.

I think we have Chrome to thank for modern web design. Once the browser competition was completely and utterly crushed and everyone was forced to sign on to The One True Layout Engine the benevolent dictators at Google set things on the right path.

There are still edges cases (which JPEG replacement will win?!), but they are now blessedly few and far between.

u/kingcharles

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