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obtino··on Tesla Recalls 2M Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws
Tesla shouldn't call their driver assist system "Autopilot" either, but here we are.
obtino··on A startup is deploying armed bodyguards to NYC
This is just a disgusting way to promote any product!
obtino··on VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration
It wasn't originally their product. It came with the Sun Microsystems acquisition. Sun themselves acquired Virtualbox close to selling to Oracle. Sun never monetized their products well, hence their demise.
obtino··on VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration
I was happy to pay the USD30 they charged back then, but they wanted a minimum order of 100 units!
obtino··on Apple Mac Studio review
They’re talking about the previous model there.

The Verge does a lot of 4K edits for their content, not just photoshopping.

obtino··on Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?
Half the reason it's bad is because it uses SharePoint as the back-end. Another awful product that Microsoft tries to sustain.
obtino··on Drug ring hid $1B worth of coke on a single ship
From what I've heard, it's 4x the price per gram in Australia. So valuations like the ones in the linked article must be taken with some context.
obtino··on Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password
There was a Show HN project last year that did something similar. I'd be keen to try that out before this one. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the link.
obtino··on Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill
It was chosen because of the name given to the clothes by the locals.
obtino··on New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials
> Elsewhere in the world, Truvada might cost $40. In Australia, Truvada costs $8 for a 30 day supply[1].

AUD 6.60 in Australia is the cost for those eligible for the concession PBS rate (those that are on welfare, pension etc.). It's AUD 41.30 for everyone else.

This is all thanks to our government negotiating a good rate with the manufacturer and then subsidizing the costs. This is not what all governments do, unfortunately.

obtino··on A Saudi Prince's Attempt to Silence Critics on Twitter (2020)
Is this the same guy who's now on the FBI's wanted list?
obtino··on Germany, once a model, is swamped like everyone else by pandemic's second wave
UK is an island as well. It's not a special case then?
obtino··on The Fake Cisco
No, it's not. If you don't, you will face an extremely high 'tax bill'. Tesla had to negotiate hard to decrease this bill.
obtino··on Dyson has scrapped its electric car project
> Any recommendations for a good vacuum are welcome!

Any German-built Miele vacuum would beat a Dyson any day.

obtino··on Telecom Lobbyists Successfully Remove Canada from Wireless Pricing Report
Pricing in Canada for mobile plans are downright awful! I can buy a plan from Australia and use it there in Canada for cheaper with international roaming.

I remember only 10 years ago that Canadian telcos still considered moving between state lines as ‘roaming’. I don’t know if it’s still the case.

obtino··on $8k to Give Birth
That's about how much it costs (after insurance) to give birth in a private hospital in Australia as well. This is in a country that has universal healthcare. The largest costs are the often the hospital fees.
obtino··on Tesla Model 3 accounted for over 12% of Norwegian auto market in Jan-July
With the price of fuel in Norway, it's not surprising to see people turning towards EV.
obtino··on The Fed is getting into the Real-Time payments business
> If you regularly need to move 250k sums electronically inside the Australian economy.

Paying sub-contractors, settling property transactions, the list goes on.

When buying a house, I remember having to withdraw $60k in cash from my savings bank account and walking over and depositing it in another because it would take the other bank 3 working days to clear a bank-cheque. Some banks do offer an over-night inter-bank mechanism, but surprisingly CommBank does not.

obtino··on The Fed is getting into the Real-Time payments business
> NPP is a joke. There's a limit of $1,000 for transfers. It doesn't always work if you don't use a PayID.

ANZ have a $5000 limit. It's down to the bank to enforce this.

obtino··on Regex for Noobs – An Illustrated Guide
The trouble with regular expressions is not their use, but the different "standards" (or lack thereof) and figuring out what the interpreter supports.
obtino··on Google pays $11M to job-seekers who alleged age discrimination
Repeat these words to yourself when you're in the same situation one day. This is a prime example of ageism!
obtino··on 1Password 7 Is a Paid Upgrade
Just checked the App and it looks like you can't sign-up using the free option anymore.
obtino··on RSA is a fragile cryptosystem
Kind of off-topic, but why doesn't their site https://trailofbits.com/ have their certificate configured correctly? I know that their main site is https://www.trailofbits.com but I didn't expect their other record to be configured incorrectly.
obtino··on Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad
The P1 is a great light-weight desktop replacement.
obtino··on Apple explores moving 15-30% of production capacity from China
When they started building the current Mac Pro in the USA, they couldn't find the correct screws for a particular component. When they eventually found a supplier who could deliver something that was close to spec, the owner of the factory hand-delivered it to them over 22 trips in his Lexus:

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/28/apple-mac-pro-screwed/

You won't be facing these kinds of delays in China.

obtino··on VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
From what I can see, it's only for setting up a VPN provider, nothing else like Tor etc. (that may attract unwanted attention). It supports IKEv2 which isn't blocked by a lot of firewalls and supports far more VPS providers than Streisand.
obtino··on VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
The easiest way to roll your own, securely: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
obtino··on 737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer
Airbus have scrapped it.
obtino··on Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
Back when I did my CS degree, we were taught the "B-method": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Method

The course dropped in popularity with students and the university eventually dropped it.

Looking back on it, it really should've been a mandatory course for all software engineering students.

obtino··on Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don't call back
Wasn’t this type of stuff around well before the hype of the blockchain? E.g distributed hash tables?
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