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Re:The new iPad mini on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:40AM (#50255068)
Watching older TV shows I notice a lot more close ups of actors faces. I’m convinced it’s because the shows were produced with small screens in mind.
I believe that many "professionals" have personal liability and carry insurance.

Lawyers, doctors, and engineers to name a few.

> Additionally, Apple learned about Liu’s use of the schematic because he used it on a Mac mini which later synced via iCloud to the MacBook he took from Apple. Apple now also wants access to that Mac mini.

I'm very curious about the privacy implications of this. I know that anything I do and store on my company's laptop can be tracked, but I hadn't considered that if I forgot to sign out of my personal Gmail on it that they could legally search that information.

The files syncing to the company laptop's disk is a layer of nuance that makes this situation tricky to evaluate.

Turning off what labels?
Re:Epidurals Are a Miracle Technology on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:07PM (#48648016)
Suffering is not a virtue
Re:Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:50PM (#48312730)
I had a hell of a time getting WiFi roaming to work in my house between Omada APs in a low-interference suburban neighborhood.

Any combination of 802.11r and k/v seemed to just cause my phone's connection to drop for minutes at a time when moving around the house.

I wish I could remember my exact solution for you, I believe I just turned off 802.11r and k/v, set channel selection to automatic, and undid any manual or automatic power tuning.

Re:Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @08:33PM (#46381297)
What generated this comment?
Re:First attempt will be 95% garbage: 6 weeks with Claude Code on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @11:36PM (#45112029)
Thin sounds a lot like making a change yourself.
2021, not 2020
> this company is basically a roundabout-welldressed shylock

Are we really still casually using the term “Shylock” today?

Why would anyone buy this over participating in an EB-5 investor visa project?
Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @12:48PM (#43401594)
You’re stretching here.

Companies hire private physical security all the time. Why is digital security different?

You can say “murder” here. This isn’t TikTok
Re:Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK on Saturday February 22, 2025 @07:09PM (#43144710)
Naive question: what prevents Apple from pushing a malicious software update that automatically disables ADP to UK users?
Re:Unit Tests as Documentation on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:55AM (#41876463)
Table tests can enable useful test naming without a bunch of clunky named test functions. I use them most often in Go but I’m sure other languages have support

https://go.dev/wiki/TableDrivenTests

Does a single university with a good reputation graduate 5,000 new CS majors per year? Or is that number just for the sake of example?
Re:Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @11:14PM (#41386910)
How big can these capacitors be? Does replacing it require any safety precautions besides turning off the power?
What? Has anyone published an RCA that confirms this? Is this how the data was ex filtrated from Snowflake? Or did ATT’s Snowflake credentials leak?
ATT could be using Snowflake for internal analytics
Re:I tried to finish a dead man's novel on Friday June 28, 2024 @01:45PM (#40823023)
The article’s author’s domain seems to have been hijacked and redirects to a malicious site.
Does Facebook use Apache Thrift internally? That’s the only thing I can think of
Re:U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:23PM (#39532215)
On paper this seems similar to how Kaiser operates. AFAIK Kaiser is generally well-liked by its members, why is UHC so terrible?

I guess UHC doesn't own the hospitals?

Re:A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy on Sunday December 17, 2023 @11:44AM (#38674066)
Did you read the article? It says that none of the ships targeted so far had anything to do with Israel
Do you really own media on a Blu-ray Disc though? As I understand it, the media is encrypted with advanced DRM and can only be decrypted with a “secure” player+tv chain.
Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @09:30PM (#38388491)
Where does the author say that this VP is his direct manager?
Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @09:25PM (#38388452)
It's pretty unusual to publically throw someone under the bus by name like this in a professional name.

Given it's an unusual situation, people are reflecting on what makes this allegedly incompetent VP different from other incompetent VPs who aren't called out like this?

Are there any examples of a country with a non-adversarial Justice model?
Recently, the K1 fiancé visa has been taking longer to process than an I-130 spouse sponsorship. I don’t have any hard numbers though.
Re:MGM expects $100M hit from hack that led to data breach on Friday October 06, 2023 @10:53AM (#37791592)
Casinos charge for parking now???

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