Chaosvex

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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
> There are / were no £40k+ cars available on Motability This is categorically false. > Motability also plays a huge role in priming the used car market in the UK You could also argue that it's distorting the market. Having
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Yeah, Motability buy the cars. Stop trying to come up with gotchas.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
I'm not talking about that. The government waives multiple taxes for the scheme. Off the top of my head, no VAT on the car purchases, no luxury tax on vehicles worth £40k+, no insurance tax, no VED (road tax). The scheme has cost billi
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
The government heavily subsidises it. It's not a government scheme but it walks and talks like one.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Definitely not. That's been a thing for at least as long as mod_rewrite has existed (and I'm sure there's prior art). It was common long before GitHub.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Not old enough to have experienced that era of computing but I do know that Cosmic Bakery slaps.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Yep but you can also bet that they're not going to use a local account. They'll link it all to Microsoft.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
I was completely (well, mostly) serious, too. I think technical people tend to downplay friction because it doesn't really register to them, or they have too much faith in the average person's computer skills. The average non-tech
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Completely backwards. The server is where the real logic happens, with the client mostly just doing what it's told. It's a lot of work to replicate and no, dice rolls and quests are not client-side. Beyond the graphics, pretty muc
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
It runs in open source software. The costs are low.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Crazily misleading comment. It's absolutely profit. One machine can handle over 15,000 players. There's very little to the 'scaling' and the costs are quite low. Low enough that larger projects have managed it without be
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Why take 24 hours when you can spend a month trying to get Nix to work instead? Slightly facetious but...
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Pretty sure it was a joke.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Agreed. I ran some human-authored technical articles through this and most (all?) of the suggestions were just stripping the personality out of the writing. Kind of ironic.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Look up the origin of the name and you'll understand.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Git is a decidedly British insult and that was the definition being used when Linus named it. He jokes that he named it after himself.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Wait until you find out about Git.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
That's quite the thread. It seems like a good chunk of posters didn't even begin to grasp the point.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Pertinent comment from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801845
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
To add to what the other poster said, it's a logical leap to go from 5000 stores to 20% share based on having 1000 users. What does the number of stores have to do with the number of users? It doesn't make any sense and that'
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
I like how that article claims PR firms don't lie and then proceeds to discuss how their best PR campaign was effectively a lie. > We estimated, based on some fairly informal math, that there were about 5000 stores on the Web. We go
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
> Anything you read thats more than 3 months old in this field is obsolete Sigh. I'll see you in another three months when you say the same again.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Why didn't his colleague just handle the new case? What am I missing?
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
I mean, that argument doesn't hold water when you then post it on HN and Reddit.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
The code is really bad, so I'd have a lot to say about it in a review. Couldn't do it in 15 minutes, though.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
YouTube is constantly reencoding videos to save space at the expense of older content looking like mud, so arguably even they're having their struggles.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Then do it in memory, assuming those services allow you to read the files like that. It sounds like they do based on your other comments.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Another take: perhaps they shouldn't have been pricing it at that point if they weren't capable of actually delivering.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
I love how some comments tell you to turn max thinking on and others tell you to turn thinking off entirely. Apparently, they both save tokens! Vibes, indeed.
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by Chaosvex 6mo ago
Thankfully, it makes backups inside the profile folder and has a bookmarks file import option that'll accept them. It does the same for session tabs (minus the import options) but that never seems to actually work.

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