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chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

Some of us do the opposite :P

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: I2C in a Nutshell

Not all i2c devices can be read that way. There are several devices that require an address (on top of the device address) to be written before data can be read, but without a second stop bit after writing the address. You end up with like double start condition. These require either using the smbus stuff or I2C_RDWR ioctl.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: “Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers

So far Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex is still my favourite cyberpunk TV series. I really want something to dethrone it. If HBO gives Snowcrash the Westworld treatment then I am hopeful but I'm still uncertain.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

Middleware to accept signed posts, eh? I smell BLOCKCHAIN!

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance

Aren't Broadcom network switching SOC the industry standard?

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%

So I should ask for a raise AND find someone to marry me who makes $250K a year.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Why Enterprise Software Sucks

This post seems to blame the administrators for picking a product based on checklist. The problem is if the administrator is concerned about his end user, he would consult his end users who will end up giving him a checklist of features which would still be a problem. This missing piece is discussions on user experience, which for enterprise software, would need to be done on a case by case basis.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Fingerprints could be stolen from V sign selfies (2017)

It's going to be difficult to keep the sensor completely clean for the next person to use.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Google Fi Unlimited Plan

I switched my mom's flip phone to a smartphone and just call home with whatsapp. I was worried about the transition but she was the one asking for it since all my aunts and uncles are on whatsapp as well. All the international calling with calling cards and whatnot have all gone.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

Saskatchewan has a government run telco called Saskatel, that's why you're inlaws have decent service. Every where else in Canada has worse service than Comcast.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: WeWork CEO gives back $5.9M from 'We' trademark after criticism

I didn't think you could short immediately after IPO.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Who Is Rey?

How old is this post? I thought it was established in the Last Jedi (spoiler ahead) that she was just a random person who was abandoned by parents who were nobody special.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera

So I'm trying to look into IWG (which the article claims is WeWork's primary rival) since it looks like they'll have less competition in a year or two. It looks like they're traded in the London Stock Exchange. Google seems to claim that they're owned by Berkshire Hathaway Energy but I can't find any evidence for that.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: House Homeland Security Committee Subpoenas 8chan Owner

Yup. Everyone remembers what happened with the whole IRS/Teaparty thing.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Cloudflare S-1

The purpose of an IPO is to raise money to do something. It doesn't make any sense to sell part of your company to a random set of people, just to pay them back over time. That's like me getting a mortgage for my house and after 30 years I pay back the mortgage and the bank still gets to own my house.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn

I think I tend to agree with you. I think a lot of stock traders are generally men, which I think explains why the IPO was undervalued compared to the other stocks.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US

Once the technology is proven out they could sell the equipment to law enforcement.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China

Isn't that the kind of policy that creates places like North Korea?

And we're already heavily tied to china's economy why would forcing just one company to not cooperate help deligitimize their government?

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Iran Will Begin Enriching Uranium at Higher Level in Days

Wait, what? Do you have any evidence of that? I would have thought any increase in global instability would hurt most markets.

chocolatebunny | 6 years ago | on: Amazon’s Ring Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in Its Advertisements

Probably not going to generate any lawsuits but kind of shows how complicit the general public is about constructing a surveillance state. We bitch when the government spies on us. But with this we're effectively making it so that the we spy on each other for the government.