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Hope it doesn't break automatically since dealers are expensive.

The category is NTN: Non-Terrestrial Networks.

406 PLB's - monitored by satellite - Garmin InReach Explorer+ looks alright and doesn't need a special factory battery replacement.

121.5 ELTs - requiring sar aircraft proximity - are obsolete.

No, it was just corporate MDM managed to prevent it. :)

and Dick Tracy.

We haven't arrived at full tricorder yet though.

Regan didn't understand social services or mental healthcare, and so eliminated them.

Millennial... zzz...

That's how my apt door smart lock works. There's no keyway to pick or bump. It's a momentary clutch operated electrically that grabs the bolt mechanism. If you want to force your way in, better bring a big ass drill.

The August is a waste.

Why when they can use denial, cognitive dissonance, and red herrings?

Haha. That's a low bar. I want "frustrating and tormenting crooks to no end."

$10 for 1 L of Smart Water. Is it wise?

It's not magic. Most reputable locksmiths possess roughly these skills to nondestructively open locks for customers. Heck, with the $15k programmer setup, I can make you an infinite number of Mercedes key fob copies too.

That's a chicken-little argument of false equivocation. There is often to always a level of security sufficient to make forced entry too costly.

37/80 + 14KS. It's a tight fit, heavy, and expensive but they work.

A friend of mine got his $5k bike stolen in the middle of downtown Mountain View in plain sight.

If you don't use something like an ABUS 37/80 + 14KS, your shit is going to get jacked in Oakland because of zillions of thieves with portable angle grinders in backpacks and teams riding around in vans looking for easy marks.

Don't leave anything valuable outside in Oakland unless you want it to disappear because people on drugs are always looking for property to convert into their next fix.

Good luck, naïve foreigner: I don't think you realize or appreciate how violent and unsafe most of Oakland is. You're likely to be robbed at gun- or knife-point by multiple assailants. At least in some other states you're allowed to defend your own life, but not in California.

#12 https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-most-dangerous-cities-i...

I have a 4kW standing scooter that I use in another city that goes 50 mph easily. The concept of a power limit is nanny state government control: to hell with that. Scooters have no power restrictions and no limits. I wouldn't take one out on a highway, but anything short of that is fine.

Statistically, helmet wearing in the US encourages drivers to pass wearers at an unsafe distance (too close). They also provide a false sense of security and look stupid. If they were useful, the Dutch would be all over them. Experienced riders with coordination in good urban planning areas don't need them.

Obsession with news (gossip) is usually a sign of procrastination.

Where immutable infrastructure isn't possible, asynchronous configuration management with file and package watching, auto-sharding changes, and auto-retrying binary downloading devoid of excessive runs doing nothing useful except spiking CPU and "broken" runs for dumb reasons like Wi-Fi network changes. Breakage should be limited to a single tree of resources while the rest keeps going. Stupid conf mgmt like Chef explodes at a certain point and usually gives up.

Those who can't tend to hurl negativity and sabotage at those who do.

Or people who are too dumb or lazy to try language X or approach Y (minus fads) tend to reiterate how wonderful their stale way and obsolescence are.

There are people at my work (MAANG) who say Rust is too "esoteric" and "impractical" despite the whole company and industry moving that way, but they're comfortable in just now finding Go and being religious about it, maybe 8 years late to the party that's now over because it's "worse is better" shit in the long term. I'm looking around because I think my team is doomed since it lacks coherent leadership (the lead was playing with VR and skipped their own conference), it's full of "senior" people who lack professional career development goals and are uninterested in leveling, they're fine with ignoring software craftsmanship and tech debt, and they don't interact with me with any regularity. I can't get anything done or propose any ideas because the lead looks at me like Tucker Carlson before I can finish a sentence. They don't include me on anything, so I don't know why I'm there.

When consultants suggest a "new" fad, they're all about charging money to help businesses adopt that fad to avoid FOMO. Predictably, there will be a new fad next year and the year after that. Waterfall: elevator control systems, agile: expense reports UI, and apply a blend to things in between.

sed, grep, and find are radically different on macOS (4.4BSD + early FreeBSD + many hacks since).

Where does asdf hide bats? I don't see the source of it. Austin maybe?

We've know about P-waves for at least 60+ years. The "early warning" ability is dependent on the speed of light exceeding the propagation delay of physical motion. In case anyone were unclear, there is no magic rock whispering AI that can predict an earthquake. Corralitos "anomaly" and characteristic foreshocks are wishful thinking. There are only alarms for when they are happening.

There was a USGS project floated around 2012 to use 1k-100k smartphones and their accelerometers to identifying precursor events and gather higher-resolution when analyzed together, but individually less accurate by "station", seismic data.

If one wanted a fast GC, they could begin with code generation or implementing a VM to work with something like ORCA. It has more powerful sharing and exclusivity semantics than Rust. Pony being the example language implementation. In benchmarks, it stomps Azul C4 and BEAM/HiPE.

Without VRML97, we wouldn't have PNG. Ah the bad old days. Netsplit!

Darn! Other than magical beliefs in lottery winnings, how else would one acquire the lion's share of the world's liquid capital? I can only think of the brutal triumphalism of differential equation-like scenarios enabling a power-law, winner-takes-almost-all distribution of wealth. I'm sure these honest parties would absolutely never gamify or encourage government corruption to reduce taxes and regulations on themselves to accelerate their dominance. [Bezos likeness here counting money with a cigar and looking like he's having far too good of a time.]

Well, LISP too. Define, compose, and apply. Barely above a common language of math and mirroring many languages' parsed AST of equivalent constructs.

People enjoy using simple things in a "worse is better"/paradox of choice way. Unfortunately, simple doesn't do threading, exceptions, side-effects, or C library linkage. Simple doesn't scale when you need a deploy button, a backup and restore button, firewall rules API, monitoring logic, or a scale-to-5000-stateless-nodes-behind-a-proxy supervisory service.

Lack of activity means lack of activity. Code doesn't evaporate if the API hasn't broken promises like a javascript library does every other week.

Perhaps I missed it, but I was hoping for currying and application.