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> EVs are definitely going to remain a first-world item for my lifetime at least. In India there are some relatively cheap EVs on sale, and they're all picking up stream. By cheap, this is what I mean: the price of Tata Nexon EV is
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> Windows 8 came out in 2008. Typo; you meant to say 2012.
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I was just thinking. Somebody born in the 1870s and who went on to live for a 100 years would have seen: - people going around on horses and donkeys with carriages and everything getting replaced by motor cars - invention of aircraft, jetpl
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> And look what's being reported "rust-written", it's not the case with any other languages It's a phase. "Written in Rust" "I use Arch btw" "Googler. Opinions are my own." And I&#x2
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I personally know a few at Mozilla who used to be regular contributors to Firefox. And I know a somebody else who used to contribute to the Linux kernel before they eventually ended up at RedHat. I don't know if it's because of
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Oh okay. I thought load-bearing walls[1] were a thing. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-bearing_wall
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Walls that slant — isn't that horrible from an engineering perspective? If it's just a normal vertical wall it's naturally "balanced", but slanting walls would have a tendency to, I don't know, fall down? How d
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I'm not from this universe. What does HA stand for? Thank you.
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Fun fact: Fossil uses sqlite. And sqlite uses fossil. Think about that. SQLite is what I consider a well-engineered product. And Richard Hipp is an excellent engineer. Listen to his podcast episodes on the changelog. It's fun. His ment
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Where I'm at, we hear a lot more about the British monarchs than any other monarchs. For instance, I just found out that Norway, for instance, also has a monarch. So does Sweden (?), and several other countries. But they — the Nordic m
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My understanding is that the source is open for anybody to see and do whatever, but closed to contributions. Also, they have some big names who have paid them a lot of money to keep the project alive for the next few decades. Airbus the pla
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> 80 gsm (grams per square metre) paper at A0 size weighs precisely 80g. A4 paper at that density therefore weighs 5g since it’s been halved 4 times So when they mark the gsm number onto a ream of A4 sheets, is 80 the gsm of A0 or A4? Ex
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The Idea Factory , by Pepper White. First read when I was an undergrad. Then multiple times during grad school. Hit a raw nerve somewhere. (There's another book with the same title, so note the author).
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> Your average citizen in India, China or many other places is only going to see egg on Uncle Sam's face here. That's a prejudiced view. As somebody from one of those countries, I'm curious to know why you felt that way.
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What was special about 2007?
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Something you want to keep in mind is that stellar coders from India (I don't know if they're a huge majority or minority or whatever, but they do exist) already have stellar jobs and won't be up for hire. The random people w
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In what way is it more "secure"? How is India's system any less secure? I think the thing is, because the system in the US was developed much earlier, it might have become more difficult to switch over to newer technology. Le
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ThinkPad.
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Yes, where I'm at — large country in Asia — we count floors starting from 0 (aka G for Ground). Confused me when I visited USA.
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In my country manual used to be the default until as recently as 5 years ago; now automakers as well as customers are shifting towards automatics in a big way. They're just super convenient in crowded cities. Whether I want a manual or
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Also, one can potentially do more with a given amount of dollars in India than in the US, because things tend to be cheaper in India. But, with the amount of money involved in this particular case I don't think any of that matters.
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> The only reason the standard of living in the US is higher than anywhere else in the world That's not true. Places like Sweden, Luxembourg, Switzerland etc have higher standards of living. US isn't by no means bad when it com
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Because people hire the cheapest people they can get. The highly skilled people likely wouldn't even be on the market for hire because they already have well-paying jobs.
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100% agree. Both companies are interesting in their own way, but they aren't exactly comparable in my opinion. Trivia: Christian von Koenigsegg's daily driver is a Tesla Model S :) [1] [1] https://www.wheels.ca/new
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> FAANG or should I say MAMAA companies have an enormous amount of cash compared to everyone else on earth I wouldn't be so sure. There's plenty of conglomerates around the world with huge piles of cash.
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With AWS the problems I heard was your bill getting really really high unexpectedly.
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Anecdotal: I'm not a power-user, but I never really had bluetooth problems (latency, connectivity etc) between my phone and bluetooth devices. I do however have the rare bluetooth connectivity problems with laptops, even the newer on
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I went from "they had it in the 30s?" to "omg 1950 was 70 years ago!"
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Not OP. • 68% of the total landmass is in the northern hemisphere • 87% of the total population is in the northern hemisphere Not surprisingly, the really chaotic wars and such things seem to be happening in the north. So objectively speaki
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I don't know if this counts, but how about a Rubik's cube? Or just, read books.

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