Arainach

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by Arainach 4mo ago
There are many kinds of "cash advance". You can't buy lottery tickets on a credit card (or in jurisdictions where you can, it's a cash advance). Credit cards also treat things such as buying dollar coins online from th
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by Arainach 4mo ago
The XBox 360 release is closer to the (US) release of the NES than it is to the current day.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
> Don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by Arainach 4mo ago
There are no guaranteed healthcare benefits in the US. So either the employer or the employee (or both) is on the hook for significant expenses. Apprenticeships are generally low compensation on the understanding that gaining skills is par
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Hard to have apprenticeships when you're dependent on your employer for health care
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by Arainach 4mo ago
That's not obvious at all. The feature sets and tooling are very different. The person you replied to said as much. You (and I) aren't that special. People who are actually irreplaceable are astonishingly rare, and unless you&#x27
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Let's say you earn a million dollars a year (most of us earn far less). At quite a few companies, a 50% decrease in your productivity (and changing browsers is nowhere near that) would cost the company significantly less than dealing w
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Why is that hard to believe? Plenty of systems work that way today. Holding on to that kind of information is a liability.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
ZFS was always good. Linux support for ZFS was not so good for longer than you'd hope, but it's been reliable for some time now.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Your right to swing your fists ends where my face - or my lungs - begin.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
An MOT is a cost to every driver every year - significant in money and in time - plus the cost of running the infrastructure to provide the testing. All so that a few people can tune engines? No thanks.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
I am absolutely certain that more people are rolling coal than are tinkering with their engine timings for benign performance reasons.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
It's far more expensive to run a chemical plant where you just dump your waste products in the river, but that doesn't make it right or legal.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Technically correct, but Piper is API-compatible with Perforce, so while there's presumably no license fee it's still strongly there in spirit. https://graphite.com/blog/google-perforce-to-piper-migration
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Perforce predates Git by a decade (but your overall point is valid)
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by Arainach 4mo ago
You've made a lot of leaps. IF something were declared to be anticompetitive, it would be in the context of the provider of the service. There is no law or moral issue with Volkswagen using it. You may disagree with the concept of Dev
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by Arainach 4mo ago
This is not an architectural issue. The threat isn't a bad OS causing the car to explode. This is a safety issue where the car is required to prohibit certain things - such as video playback.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
My line of argument is "the head unit is responsible for not allowing video playback while in motion". Anything to do with detecting motion came after that.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
The legal definition matters a lot if someone is trying to argue that VW advertising Android features is supposed to include GrapheneOS > Using anticompetitive and monopolistic tools is not the right of application developers. Please tal
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by Arainach 4mo ago
There's no need when OBD does just fine for this purpose. It's also not clear what the purpose of this line of argument is. Some sensor says "car is moving". The operating system in the car/head unit is responsibl
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Graphene is not a kind of Android. It doesn't even advertise itself as such: > GrapheneOS is a privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility [ https://grapheneos.org/ ]
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by Arainach 4mo ago
> also, what scale of harm do you think exists from those people? Serious health complications, particularly to cyclists and pedestrians. Significant pollution surges: > According to government estimates, the practice can increase ni
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by Arainach 4mo ago
In practice, no, you can't. Certainly not without enormous costs such as mandatory regular vehicle inspections.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
"Some people break the law" is not a reason to not have laws. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Not with the necessary precision. GPS doesn't work in tunnels or parking garages and can be wildly inaccurate in city centers with skyscrapers blocking line of sight, for instance.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
"Safety critical" isn't just the drivetrain. I don't work in automotive and won't pretend to understand all the rules, but off the top of my head, some things that my car uses the head unit for: * Backup Camera * T
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by Arainach 4mo ago
One person's "controlling their own engines" is another "spewing nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide, and other pollutants into the air, giving cancer to neighbors and destroying the atmosphere". We tried the "do
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by Arainach 4mo ago
They're not. Use any car's heads up display and you can configure an enormous number of things. Even if there was somehow a pure separation, things such as "playing video while the car is moving" are regulated in many
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by Arainach 4mo ago
That's a non-starter in most countries. Since the car software is tied into a number of important safety features and regulated controls, custom operating systems will never be supported. There are already massive problems with people
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by Arainach 4mo ago
No. You're not required to use the app. You're not even entitled to use the app. If you want to use the app, you have to play by their rules. Plenty of device manufacturers have chosen to only offer iOS apps. No one talked abo

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