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  • Try "lspci -vv" first to see the devices on the bus and to figure out which device is causing this.

    Secondly, check all your BIOS' "performance" settings, such as memory timings, bus speeds, and etc, and set them to default.

    See how things go after that.

  • Off the top of my head I'd say:

    • Juggling crew rest / staffing requirements.
    • Holding half-full planes until passengers with "impossible transit times" arrive from another flight of theirs.
  • Not carrying the flag I think is a big crime basically everywhere

    Hence why flying the pirate flag is a big deal. You're indicating "no laws here".

  • You're being sarcastic but for the average person it's simply: "Garage small, atmosphere big".

    They look down their street and can see a dozen cars in their field of view and then they see the all-encompassing sky with an endless amount of fresh air available. Conclusion: not a problem.

  • And holy shit does their algorithm latch onto any minor interest in their content.

    Accidentally tapped on a floor tiling video the other day, three days of tiling and handyman videos jammed into my feed and me pressing the "not interested" button on every single one.

    Facebook, I am there for the rare post from my 150 or so friends and family. That's it. Nothing else.

    The reason we don't use it anymore is because actual posts from real humans we know are buried under a torrent of shit. Sometimes their posts take days to surface leading to all sorts of chain-mail posts on how to "get your feed back". None of which work because the whole business model is about jamming sponsored shit down your throat.

  • The ATO would know, and while they are slow, once it is raised with them if there are any legitimate issues they get there in the end. About 5 years after I left a job I got a letter out of the blue from the ATO saying that they'd chased down a quarter's worth of super payments that the business didn't pay when I left.

    Perhaps not 15 years later though, but it's worth a shot.

  • In certain countries they fall under quasi-bank regulations eg. "PayPal Australia Pty Ltd (PayPal) is a limited Authorised Deposit-Taking Institution (ADI) with authority to provide purchased payment facilities (PPFs)."

    That gives some measure of protection on how they handle your funds, but holy shit I would not keep any money in a PayPal account for any longer than absolutely necessary. I use it as a convenient intermediary between my actual card and sellers, no more than that.

  • In my opinion, software engineering has about another 50 years before it matures to the point where it is a "proper" engineering profession.

  • I search for complicated things on google, because that's when I need to search for stuff.

    I take about three seconds to look at the LLM-generated summaries/answers, disregard them as tedious monotonic bullshit, and then scroll down to links where real people are discussing the real problems and the real solutions they have.

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  • , couldn't the brokers just filter the period when i started clickning everything?

    They don't care about the quality of an individual profile, it's the quality of the aggregate data that's important to them. If anything, your profile might be identified as an outlier compared to the average and simply discarded. They're not going to look any further than that and try and "rescue" your data, they've got a million other profiles to sell to advertisers.

  • The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don't have jobs and no income, not able to survive...

    Most solutions to this issue usually involve some variant of a universal basic income. However, that gets politically boiled down to "MOAR TAXES GOVERNMENT IS STIFLING THIS COUNTRY!1!1", so in countries like the US that want to keep the freedom of being able to be homeless and starving, it's not going to be possible.

  • "I have no mouth and I must scream" could end up being a plausible way to spend eternity.

  • Never understood why smartphones are so super bright by default.

    Because they have to compete with 50k lux outside and then scale to 600 lux indoors, then down to just to a few lux in a darkened room.

    Perhaps the brightness slider needs to be more logarithmic so you can slide from 0.001 percent to 100 percent more easily.

  • Dammit now I have to reduce the block size of my discord-based cold storage filesystem.

  • They need to learn how to use their tools better. Winscp does all that transparently for you if you press F4 on a file on a remote system. Or maybe they did and you just didn't see it.....

    It's quite a handy function when you're diving through endless layers of directories on a remote box looking for one config file amongst many.

  • how the IT team tries to justify being locked into Microsoft, and then telling me I could potentially become a point of vulnerability

    Because they can manage and control all the windows PCs , pushing updates automatically, restricting what users can do locally and on the network, they have monitoring tools and whatever antivirus and antimalware tools they have, and are able to easily manage and deploy/remove software and associated group licensing and so on and so forth.

    Meanwhile you're a single user of unknown (to them) capabilities that they now have to trust with the rest of their system, basically.

    The first rule of corporate IT is, "control what's on your network". Your PC is their concern still, but they have no effective control over it. That's why they're being a bit of a pain in the ass about it.

  • I hate the camera bumps. Just make the entire phone the same thickness and - hey! This is crazy, but maybe then you could then add a bit more structural integrity and put a bigger battery and a SD card slot and a headphone jack in there as well.

  • in which case I will go one level down, to the calculateExtraCommissions() method.

    In which case you will discover that the calculateExtraCommissions() function also has the same nested functions and you eventually find six subfunctions that each calculate some fraction of the extra commission, all of which could have been condensed into three lines of code in the parent function.

    Following the author's idea of clean code to the letter results in a thick and incomprehensible function soup.

  • I shall begrudgingly consider it then, with much begrudgement.