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Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 40

For seasonal flus you're better off taking a preventative approach than trying to treat it after the fact. By the time the symptoms are showing up there's not much that can be done, at least not in terms of hastening the recovery, beyond getting additional rest and letting your body fight the infection. I just supplement extra vitamin C and zinc during cold season and try to make sure that I don't get generally rundown from lack of sleep or stress and that's been enough to keep me from getting really sick. In the last 10 years I've only had one really bad cold during flu season. The worst cold I had was when I was doing a lot of international travel and sitting in a flying Petri dish for long stretches and having my sleep scheduled ruined on a weekly basis for a little less than a month. By the end of that I think I was so run down that it took almost a month to completely get over that cold.

Comment Re:AI (Score 1) 47

What's wrong with that? When Apple bought Intel's modem team some years ago the designs they had weren't up to snuff so the iPhone kept using Qualcomm modems instead of being forced to use the inferior in-house solution. They only recently started selling some products with their own modems now that they're close to what competitors offer.

It's no different from you buying something for personal use but deciding to sell it to someone else who would offer you more money than what you paid for it instead of using it yourself. Similarly you may be intent on buying something from some particular company, but change to another that's offering something better for the same price or the same goods for a lower price.

Comment Re:This will cost you money (Score 1) 235

We (mostly) do not process our own oil supply in the US. Our refineries are built to work with imported crude. We export our crude oil, and import a different grade of crude oil. We would have to refit our refineries to use domestic supply.

If we want to be self-sufficient, and really fuck with the global economy, we should invest in refitting our refineries to process American crude. That would be a ballsy power-move for Trump to back.

Comment Re:Good for Airbus (Score 1) 50

HAHAHAHA, you are such a fuckface. I have already linked documentation that tells you exactly how these work. Youre a fucking dumb ass feigning anger and outrage just to seem like your fuck-tard quality comments are legit. No one said "hey put T-Mobile Magenta" connection in the aircraft. Thats not how these work. Neither do they work by having an engineer walk onto a plane with terabytes of data in his hand. All this to say nothing of licensing. These systems work Gate-to-craft. Fucktard. Just get off slashdot and never work in IT, for the good of us all. Dumbfuck.

Comment Re: Unleashed animal runs into street? (Score 1) 164

I've been side swiped and rear-ended a few times but those weren't my fault.

Imagine if every one of these was a headline. Sure, you are safer than the average, but statistically, you will have more accidents than these robots. Drive for 12,000,000 miles then come back with statistically relevant data. Their miles per impact are higher than typical human lifetime driving.

Comment Third issue (Score 1) 54

The third issue and the biggest one is how the grid is funded. We use a fascist model. Private money puts up the funds and daily management of the grid but the government controls how much is charged and when capital investments can be made. It made sense 100 years ago when the risks where high and governments ability to raise large amounts of money limitied. Today it leads to miss management, short sighted descisions and cronic underfunding of the most logical long term required capital expenditures.

I've worked with electric utility operators in North America and the UK. The mind blowing stupidity in California, Texas and Fukoshima are the norm. However the UK has an added level of cronyism and contempt for anyone not in their in group.

Comment Re: Cutting Costs Now and Forever (Score 1) 93

Yup. We use it. But we don't sync everything to it, just patched code that is in stable states, and never our internal data we are testing with. ZFS backs up the state of the development environment entirely, which is under our control, and requires user action for periodic version control. Saves us so well its just another tool now.

Comment Re:Hugs my 2000s car... (Score 2) 114

I have one of those cheap Chinese Android head units in my older ICE vehicle. I received it free as a review sample and TBH, it's just okay. CarPlay is a little laggy compared against how it works in my Chevy Bolt, and the built-in amplifier is rather anemic.

I really wouldn't consider it an upgrade from modern(ish) infotainment systems. For an older vehicle with a factory tape deck or CD player head unit, or something like the Slate truck (which for some crazy reason won't include a radio), sure, why not.

Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 47

Sure, your 8 year family conversation with your family needs to be searchable for a keyword ON THE FUCKING SPOT. Oh, and if the keyword happens to live in an PDF you send your dad 4 years ago, it better show up when searching. There is a reason resource consumption is high, and bloated code is like #9 on the list.

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