CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
> A picture is worth a thousand words: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpUOgrdUYAELoAQ.jpg:large I'm fairly sure that image is rather heavily manipulated.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
How does either of those lead to less cargo volume for the same or larger length?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> However, from my experience, it's not simply due to more careful drivers across the board. Other elements like road design, vehicle safety standards, strict enforcement of traffic laws, and comprehensive driver education systems l
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by CRConrad 2y ago
"I want A and I also want B" has nothing to do with "multiple personalities". GP didn't say they wanted an electric Miata that also is a big station wagon, they said they wanted one and also the other -- two sep
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> But even then I wonder how a family with kids would carry groceries unless you live right next to a supermarket. In bags, duh. (Or a backpack.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The fuck do you think “statistically speaking” actually means? I think it means "The vast majority of trips are taken by foot or bicycle where I am." Which was, from another (very) nearby comment, Tokyo. > Your anecdote of
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Consumers weren't tricked, brainwashed, hoodwinked, scammed, or flabbergasted-- customers did not want them so they didn't buy them so manufacturers stopped selling them Consumers were marketed to -- i.e. tricked, brainwashed
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The specific noun to distinguish "car" from "truck" is "personbil" in Swedish, and "Personenkraftwagen" ("PKW") in German. Guess why.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
FR, FF, RR... WT, TF?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> or the dealer won’t have one in stock or if they do have one in stock it won’t... This bit of American instant-gratification-addiction has always felt weird to me, and I think most Europeans (at least those who even know of this differ
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Bears aren’t healthy. Bears don’t live long. I supose quite a few bears live quite long lives -- for being bears. > Ancient people weren’t healthy, their diets weren’t healthy and they had lots of untreated issues as well. As far as
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Of course we don't, but then again I think bears were just thrown in as an (extreme) example. As I read the thread before that, the point was that most animals' weights vary on an annual cycle, fattened up during summer-autumn and
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I suppose "those" would have worked even better, because the "the" didn't quite register for me before you pointed it out.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Shogun, by James Clavell.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The word "explain" works a bit like "know" (and perhaps "teach", I think). No, you don't "know" that the Earth is flat; you just mistakenly think so. (And no, you don't "teach" kid
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Deep strategic thinker and tactical expert[1] that I am, I agree: As the old maxim goes, "the best defense is a good offense". [1]: Having watched the evolution of a football team's tactics from 5-v-5 (2 min, age 6-7) to 11-v
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by CRConrad 2y ago
What an utterly weird reading; I have a hard time seeing it as literal at all. Maybe you have your own definition of "literal"? It says they have the right to ignore them after hours. After hours is when they do the ignoring. Wh
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Sei kein Arschloch.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
But why the heck do people get work emails to their private phones in the first place? I just don't understand America. And, since this law was apparently necessary in Australia, not that either. They're both just weird.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I'm not sure the triopoly of two advertising companies and a closed-garden cult is all that much better than a duopoly of two advertising companies.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Americans do not care about freight rail and they do absolutely despise it. Yeah, but those Americans are idiots (as so many of them seem to be). Idiots not caring about or despising it doesn't change the factual matter of whether
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Not particularly good either, so on the whole pretty much just an ad.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Being adult is not a property of the user but of the jurisdiction that the user is in. It's a function of both. And I'd argue it's really mainly a function of the person: Independently of jurisdiction, there's a
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Ad-post for yet another AI tool. Ad-posts for AI tools seem (almost?) always to be written by AI tools. Only I don't know what proportion of them are written by computerised AI tools.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Let me guess, some PM wrote this article Nah, judging from the ancillaries (domain name, links to other articles, ads, etc) of the article, it was some guy selling an "AI" code tool of some kind who wrote the article. (Probab
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by CRConrad 2y ago
"Object" and "orient" are ordinary English words; Alan Kay doesn't own either of them. He may have been the first to combine them as a single term, but he doesn't own that either. (Or, did he trademark it or an
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by CRConrad 2y ago
No, we just think "I'll get in the car and drive to the hospital, talk to my sick friend, and then drive home by way of the petrol station". Higher-level, but definitely still procedural / imperative. (Then while we&#x
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Functional code is more readable. All I get out of that is that you like functional code.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> map typically is functional and allocates memory, for does not. But for is more likely to have side-effects. If / when memory is low, allocating memory can itself be a side-effect...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
ETA 2: > All but one of the crew survived. None of the passengers did. ___ I thought some passengers survived too? A nearby comment says, "His wife gave a statement about the storm and capsizing." Isn't that Lynch's w

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