Alupis

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by Alupis 2y ago
> Kind of odd to be sufficiently motivated to battle someone's first-hand report Someone's first-hand report that reads like marketing ad-copy? Go ahead and read what was written... a lot of hand-wavy stuff that the rest of thi
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Mozilla Mozilla Foundation Welcomes Nabiha Syed as Executive Director(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by Alupis 2y ago|0 comments
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by Alupis 2y ago
Sorry, but this reads like marketing fluff or someone desperately trying to justify their purchase. It's VR... and OP will be watching a movie. OP isn't going to be "spatially computing" anything on an airplane. This thr
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by Alupis 2y ago
Besides marketing, I fail to see how the Vision Pro "is a completely different animal." OP will be watching a movie... perhaps the most basic VR experience imaginable. It's not a novelty only the Vision Pro delivers...
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by Alupis 2y ago
> but it’s the best portable movie theater ever made for sure So are the $500 VR headsets, by the way...
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by Alupis 2y ago
> I have a couple flights soon and I was thinking about picking one up to ease the cross-country trips. And there's the rub... a $3,500 novelty for rare trips. Why not consider one of the other portable VR headsets - they'll do
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by Alupis 2y ago
> If you're nearby any moderately busy road it's not the engine what makes noise but the tires and then air going around the car. You cannot even hear modern ICE cars running unless you are really close to them. My neighbor&#x2
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by Alupis 2y ago
Red Robin isn't exactly the type of restaurant I would think of when I want a quiet table - it is half a sport's bar after all. If you go to a nicer restaurant, you will get a quiet table. It's the type of restaurant that mat
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by Alupis 2y ago
Nobody has more unfinished projects than me. Nobody. I'm the literal King of Unfinished Projects... The Emperor of Halfway, The Sultan of Lost Interest. And... that's entirely OK. Not a single one of these unfinished projects was
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by Alupis 2y ago
> If you're a trumpet player, seeing a trumpet being crushed is going to be a bit distressing Really? I play the trumpet and felt nothing watching this ad. My trumpet wasn't being crushed, so who cares? It wasn't a rare St
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by Alupis 2y ago
And how do we get a 51,333 lb bulldozer to Mars? Not to mention this bulldozer still burns hydrocarbons . It uses electric drive for it's tracks - and the electricity is generated by hydrocarbons!
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by Alupis 2y ago
All of the other issues still exist. How do you setup a solar farm on a remote planet without any humans being involved (the OP was discussing tunneling before any humans arrived). Who plugs it all in? Who dusts it off after a storm? How lo
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by Alupis 2y ago
This isn't a helpful metric though - even if we had a vast grid of solar on Mars - how is the power going to be stored? Batteries? How do you get them there? Who plugs it all in? Who maintains if when it fails? Excavating earth and roc
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by Alupis 2y ago
No, you cannot. You are still dramatically underestimating the density of hydrocarbon energy. Solar, electric, batteries, etc do not even remotely come close. This line of thinking also dramatically underestimates the energy requirement to
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by Alupis 2y ago
I don't think this comment fully appreciates the density of hydrocarbon-based energy sources. No, a RTG-powered bulldozer isn't going to be clearing caves and trenches on Mars, ever.
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by Alupis 2y ago
That's not true... what publicity? Some random website blog nobody has ever hear about before? The issue was resolved before it even made its way to HN...
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by Alupis 2y ago
> I picked it up with a 98% charge. > This customer actually returned the car with a 96% charge, the same as they’d picked it up at. 96% is not 98%. Agreed the fee is ridiculous, and it does appear it should have been a max of $35, an
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by Alupis 2y ago
And it appears Hertz did correct the overcharge. The entire article is a huge waste of time... trying to be sensationalist about some sort of one-off billing error.
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by Alupis 2y ago
Except they didn't - TFA says they picked up at 98% and returned at 96%. There is no reality where 0.98 == 0.96... even if the difference is ridiculous - it is a difference.
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by Alupis 2y ago
Read the article... the driver apparently has no idea how rentals work.
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by Alupis 2y ago
> When I rented a Hertz Tesla, it had 50,000 miles on it and I picked it up with a 98% charge. Best practice is charging to 80% for everyday driving and 90% before long drives. > This customer actually returned the car with a 96% char
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by Alupis 2y ago
We need to rub at least two brain cells together to conceive of anything resembling a viable plan. "Buying" some small amount of barrels during a rare market anomaly, then burying them in the ground is supposed to accomplish what
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by Alupis 2y ago
I'm curious of the utility of writing Rust code but wanting to run it on the CLR. If anything, a GraalVM target would make more sense, as it's already gaining traction for this type of thing (although, usually interpreted langs li
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SweetAlert2 – NSFW Sponsors(sweetalert2.github.io)
1 points by Alupis 3y ago|0 comments
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by Alupis 3y ago
> until enough external political pressure was applied This doesn't pass the sniff test. You have been able to purchase porn for decades in various mediums - why would a website suddenly invoke the ire of the "morality police&q
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by Alupis 3y ago
> Hell I'm more annoyed that I had to use giftcards to buy Minecraft for my kids back in the day, before Microsoft became their parent company, because of some weird financial law in my state. I'm curious to know more about thi
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by Alupis 3y ago
That is not due to morality though - that is due to the insane level of chargebacks and fraud revolving around payments within the porn industry.
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by Alupis 3y ago
> The drug war destroys more lives than hard drugs. It's a policy failure. Again, this does not seem as clear as you attempt to present it. In areas with decriminalized hard drugs, drug usage dramatically increased. It has a direct
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by Alupis 3y ago
And... when dealing with humans - policies are often not enacted like we thought they would be in our head's under ideal conditions. Policies are implemented by politicians and government drones, are beholden to budgets and meandering
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by Alupis 3y ago
> Enforcement is not a form of treatment, regardless we've been trying enforcement since the 70s and it's been a disaster. This is often said - but what do you actually mean by disaster? Hard drug usage is objectively lower in

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