frandroid

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react, node, rails, zine hound, social justice slacktivist.

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frandroid··on Why did Intel kill off their modem program?

> so each phone shipped with about $100K of slush funds wrapped around it. I have the phone, I would have preferred a house.

> Update April 18, 2019 @ 8:18am: My math is off, it is closer to $10K/phone, $8750 to be exact. I will still take the cash option.

yikes!!

frandroid··on Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1

> whether you want to or not

Accidents happen. Regularly. :D

frandroid··on Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials

I thought that AWS nowadays is also feeding at the firehose and auto-disabling any of its keys it could find in a commit?

frandroid··on In African Villages, Phones Can Become Ultrasound Scanners

Goodbye to India's hopes to control ultrasound scanning of pregnant women to prevent gender selection. :(

frandroid··on Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

eyeroll

Investor: "Oh I wonder what other IP we can steal from them under the guise of due diligence"

frandroid··on Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers

Brilliant :)

frandroid··on 5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk

> the content really doesn't ntake up that much space/speed

video streaming

frandroid··on US plans to strip H1B immigrants' spouses of work permits

Born outside the U.S. ⊇ H1B migrant workers. The majority of those born outside the U.S. are immigrants.

frandroid··on COI – Chat Over IMAP

> [Gopher] is still going

Hum, yeah, most of the world is connecting through Gopher...

frandroid··on Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)

Not to mention that good air ventilation close to the pool's surface has the side effect of accelerating evaporation and thus cooling the water, requiring more energy to keep the temperature up...

frandroid··on Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb

There needs to be more talk about biochar...

frandroid··on What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

Eating when they're hungry/thirsty/anxious/bored/depressed?

frandroid··on When Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist [video]

For those downvoting this, replace "balloons" with "bubbles" in the parent comment to understand this great joke.

frandroid··on Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%

I can confirm this. Source: working at my country's largest newspaper.

frandroid··on Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds

Google definitely personalizes based on geoIP location, that's not exactly a secret.

frandroid··on How to drive in India (2015)

I don't know the numbers, but anecdotally from the people I know, everyone seems to know multiple people who have died in traffic accidents. Plus you get the odd bus falling off a cliff every few months or so...

frandroid··on The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong (2014)

> Pascal’s Wager for animal welfare, if you will.

Damn, I love how you've put that.

frandroid··on What the Boston School Bus Schedule Can Teach Us about AI

What's secret about this?

frandroid··on Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a Brutal Soviet Era

zzzzzing!!

frandroid··on Apple inks $600M deal to acquire assets and talent from Dialog Semiconductor

If the client is not short-sighted they'll realize that asking to cut corners in the short term results in higher costs in the long term. But if they were this smart they might be doing the development inhouse in the first place. :)

frandroid··on Ajit Pai calls California’s net neutrality rules “illegal”

> After all, broadband is an interstate service; Internet traffic doesn't recognize state lines.

Hum, it either recognizes both state and nation-state lines, or neither. Since the FCC can regulate ISPs, then it clearly recognizes nation-state lines, and thus state lines.

frandroid··on Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking

I use a bare chrome for dev, and Firefox for my other browsing needs. Does the work...

frandroid··on Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple (2016)

Eh? It had a peak in 2008 but stayed at $25 the whole time.

frandroid··on Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Questions

A brain teaser usually has nothing to do with the work... What would asking about the shape of manhole covers have to do with OOP?

frandroid··on Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major

We're all in the cloud trades now.

frandroid··on Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates

Wow, talk about an obscure warning that tells nothing to the domain owner.

frandroid··on How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV

>> You were at MTV early. Early-ish.

> I sold my company to MTV in March 2000

2000 is not "early" or even "earlish" at MTV, youngun.

frandroid··on Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost

To heat, you just run the electricity through resistance. To cool down, you need to run a compressor, it's pretty energy-intensive. Anyway, each place has a different cold/warmth quota so you can't issue a universal rule.

frandroid··on The Turkish city that lives for breakfast

Some of us enjoy the angry debates... :)

frandroid··on The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand

Because crime is directly caused by the lack of police officers there to "prevent" it. &eyeroll&

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