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Re:iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication on Sunday August 29, 2021 @12:18PM (#28347974)
Starlink + Apple collab?
U-2s don't fly fast.
What is burning is probably leftover oil.
When AOC and Ted Cruz are agreeing that something smells fishy... it's probably fishy

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1354833603943931905

I am not experiencing this.
The mRNA vaccines can’t be produced quickly enough.
Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:29AM (#25465047)
Apple posts the same information for their apps on the App Store.
Yeah, the Dreamliner looks beautiful during takeoff. You see the wingtips slowly, but steadily rise above the plane.
MCAS is only useful in very extreme situations rarely seen in normal flight. Most pilots will never be in a situation where MCAS is useful.
Re:Programming Inside a Container on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:46PM (#23276101)
I have done this from time to time when debugging applications that run inside Docker. I'd bash into the container as root and then download and install my development tools and check out the repo where the code lives. Once the code is functionally correct, then I can worry about performance optimizations given Docker...
There are multiple studies going on in parallel. Some of them use a 10-day placebo, others compare 5-day and 10-day treatments. https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-relea... https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-t... https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Re:New iPhone SE on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:03PM (#22880930)
Better camera than the iPhone 8, supposedly same as the XR [0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/15/21222104/iphone-se-2-came...

Re:New iPhone SE on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:54PM (#22880816)
Compared to iPhone 8: + New processor + WiFi 6 + Dual SIM + possibly upgraded RAM
According to csrankings.org's FAQ, they only include professors who can advise a CS-only student. The conflict is that the website includes areas (like "Embedded & real-time systems", "Robotics", and "Computer Architecture") that are traditionally done in EE and ECE departments. One significant example is UT Austin's prolific ECE department.
Re:Tell HN: Zoom truncates passwords to 32 chars on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:23PM (#22750440)
Last time I changed my username and password for my AmEx login, their rules were very restrictive with the username (I couldn't use numbers at the beginning of it) and password (I could't use characters like commas or periods)...
Re:U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:16PM (#22552936)
Trade should not be affected. According to the BBC: The US president said his travel ban did not include Americans who had undergone appropriate screenings - or "the tremendous amount of trade and cargo".
Or a sign-in with Apple-like system so tracking is limited to each site.

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