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    Slow loading? (POA)

    Anyone else getting occasional stuttering on mobile (iOS specifically)? Haven’t seen it on any other website but POA, but it’s almost the entire OS/safari level that is stuttering, not just the POA content.
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    DJI removing geofencing feature

    I’m no expert but if I am reading the CFR correctly, I think by regulation yes https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-89#
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    DJI removing geofencing feature

    Well get those mark III eyeballs serviced. https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/14/24343928/dji-no-more-geofencing-no-fly-zone
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    [NA] Heat pump frost

    Any heat pump should have some form of defrost logic to run a defrost cycle which puts the outdoor unit in cooling mode but doesn’t run the OU fan (pumps heat from the house directly into the fins). Some are just every X minutes when the temperature is less than Y degrees and some are more...
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    Ice Question

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_spike
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    Site Software Upgraded

    FYI the site is now throwing up a banner every so often asking if you want to view in the browser or in taptalk when loading on mobile. Please disable if possible!
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    [NA] New Mac Mini

    Having the command button for standard keyboard shortcuts is so nice if you work in the terminal frequently. That way CTRL can be used in the way Unix expects. It irritates me to no end that windows does not have a command button and hijacks CTRL for its shortcuts, makes any terminal work so...
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    [NA] New Mac Mini

    What do you mean by this?
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    [NA] New Mac Mini

    That’s the understatement of the century. Their storage and RAM prices are on the order of 6x market rate for equivalent SSDs. Absolutely nuts. We are an all Apple house but their upgrade pricing drives me up a wall. Can’t wait to get onto ARM though, both my personal and work MBPs are still...
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    [NA]Siri etc, eavesdropping

    Okay fine, then the latter still applies.
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    [NA]Siri etc, eavesdropping

    All your examples are equally explainable with basic social links. Your in-laws bought a play set, Facebook knows about (via Facebook pixels), knows you’re friends with your in-laws etc. Furthermore all these examples likely have the Baader-Meinhof phenomena associated with them. To actually...
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    [NA]Siri etc, eavesdropping

    Exactly this. It’s so much easier to get sufficiently targeted advertising via basic social graphing than trying to do voice to speech and NLP on continuous audio. Those techniques can produce the same exact results but the idea of “they’re always listening” plays into the fears of people much...
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    AA "technical issues"

    Where did I ever say he did? IT is always low hanging fruit for cuts because they are invisible when they are doing their job correctly. People don’t understand how important it is until they get cut to the bone and the sh*t hits the fan. This is a story as old as time.
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    AA "technical issues"

    $10 says the CEO found some “savings” in the operations and IT organization in the past few years and got rewarded handsomely for it.
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    Whatever happened to Civility

    Not to mention it teaches the notion that violence is the solution to what fundamentally is a non-violent problem. A kid being a clown or being a smartass is not violence. Teaching kids to respond to non-violent situations with violence just perpetuates a cycle of violence and abuse.
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    Whatever happened to Civility

    Well we’ve entered the “F*** your feelings” era, what do you expect?
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    More economical airliners?

    And yet SST couldn’t even work in the corporate aviation world not to mention the commercial one (see the failure of Aerion, HyperMach, the Sukhoi-Gulfstream S21) where the value proposition is the savings on massively overinflated C-suite compensation rates and winning member size measuring...
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    Skew-T diagrams removed because blind people can’t see them

    Smells like a troll to me
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    Skew-T diagrams removed because blind people can’t see them

    Did you even bother to read the thread before going off on your emotional rant?
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    DOGE and the FAA

    That’s like saying a house fire is an efficient way to redecorate.
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