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New comment by chocolatebunny in "Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business"

chocolatebunny — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:59:42 +0000

Some of us do the opposite :P

New comment by chocolatebunny in "I2C in a Nutshell"

chocolatebunny — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:26:43 +0000

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.

New comment by chocolatebunny in "“Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers"

chocolatebunny — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:43:00 +0000

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.

New comment by chocolatebunny in " Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival"

chocolatebunny — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:11:07 +0000

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

New comment by chocolatebunny in "AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance"

chocolatebunny — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 21:38:26 +0000

Aren't Broadcom network switching SOC the industry standard?

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%"

chocolatebunny — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:44:09 +0000

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

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Why Enterprise Software Sucks"

chocolatebunny — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 01:16:31 +0000

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.

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Fingerprints could be stolen from V sign selfies (2017)"

chocolatebunny — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 17:08:59 +0000

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

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Google Fi Unlimited Plan"

chocolatebunny — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 22:31:28 +0000

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.

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast"

chocolatebunny — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:10:52 +0000

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.

New comment by chocolatebunny in "WeWork CEO gives back $5.9M from 'We' trademark after criticism"

chocolatebunny — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 18:24:25 +0000

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

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Who Is Rey?"

chocolatebunny — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:12:29 +0000

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.

New comment by chocolatebunny in "WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera"

chocolatebunny — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:46:33 +0000

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.

New comment by chocolatebunny in "House Homeland Security Committee Subpoenas 8chan Owner"

chocolatebunny — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:59:01 +0000

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

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Cloudflare S-1"

chocolatebunny — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:53:02 +0000

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.

New comment by chocolatebunny in "WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn"

chocolatebunny — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:25:28 +0000

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.

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US"

chocolatebunny — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 23:37:42 +0000

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

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China"

chocolatebunny — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:45:38 +0000

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?

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Iran Will Begin Enriching Uranium at Higher Level in Days"

chocolatebunny — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 18:24:23 +0000

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

New comment by chocolatebunny in "Amazon’s Ring Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in Its Advertisements"

chocolatebunny — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 19:34:38 +0000

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.