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by CivBase 5y ago
Consider sharing this on repair.wiki.
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The high price added a needed prentense to the technobabble. How is a bomber supposed to know how much you payed for your high-tech dowsing rod?
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by CivBase 5y ago
I'm not sure why you'd think software inefficiency has anything to do with it. It's not a significant factor driving demand for new hardware. Demand for gaming PCs and consoles have nothing to do with inefficient software. De
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by CivBase 5y ago
Well, it is the Wall Street Journal. It shouldn't come as a surprise that an American publication named after an American landmark uses American units. Americans, myself included, generally acknowledge that the metric system is bette
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by CivBase 5y ago
At what point does it become cheaper for manufacturers to officially support alternative, third-party OSes (like LineageOS) than to commit to long-term support for Android?
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by CivBase 5y ago
> Instead of using honey I’d extracted and strained the modern way, however, I crushed some comb taken from a colony that had unfortunately not survived winter—the bees’ lasting legacy would be to provide honey close to what was availabl
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by CivBase 5y ago
Sounds like you've never had mead before.
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by CivBase 5y ago
It's not about there being "enough" gas stations. It's about location. If people are willing to go to a new gas station because it's in a more optimal location for them, then there's a market for it. People
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The operation of the gas pump itself pollutes the air with toxic fumes, to the point where CA already bans their installation 300 ft from sensitive uses (e.g. schools and playgrounds) and even that may not be sufficient to actually pre
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by CivBase 5y ago
It will be several decades before the vast majority of vehicles on the road are EVs. Even if all new vehicles sold were EVs starting tomorrow, the cars currently out there would account for the majority of road vehicles for at least anothe
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by CivBase 5y ago
What does this accomplish? A quick search on Google Maps shows this city (Petaluma, CA) already has at least 18 gas stations. Gas stations don't cause people to consume more gas - they are built because people are already consuming t
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by CivBase 5y ago
Perhaps "borrowed code" and "borrowed server"? That's what they really mean. You're just using someone else's preexisting code/server to solve your problem instead of writing/deploying your own
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by CivBase 5y ago
> For speaking out, Spriestersbach was deemed “problematic” and given antipsychotic medications, including Haldol, which made him despondent and catatonic. > The doctor concluded the amount of psychiatric medications he was on was “we
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by CivBase 5y ago
I can't disagree more. Doesn't it feel a little too convenient to label your opposition as "beyond saving"? And how do you propose we "deal with this movement now" if you've convinced yourself they can&#x
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by CivBase 5y ago
Most people aren't doctors, epidemiologists, or scientists of any sort. Nobody can be experts at everything, so we rely on expert authorities to break things down for us. Since we're not experts ourselves, we cannot independentl
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by CivBase 5y ago
Thank you! That makes sense. A malicious dev would be okay with implementing Google's and Facebook's SSO solution because it allows them to continue accessing the user's email. However, Apple's policy gives malicious dev
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by CivBase 5y ago
I agree with pretty much everything you said. My only concern is that by forcing devs to support Apple ID, Apple has effectively eliminated all incentive they have to make it a compelling experience for users and developers. Whatever Appl
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by CivBase 5y ago
That's my point, though. mikeryan argued that if Apple didn't force devs to support their auth solution, devs would just ignore it. But both Google and Facebook have created similar solutions and have been very successful without
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by CivBase 5y ago
That's evidently not true. Plenty of apps, including the author's, use Google's and Facebook's auth solutions without being coerced into doing so. EDIT: Can someone explain how this is wrong?
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by CivBase 5y ago
This comment is pointlessly accusatory and misses the whole point. The problem wasn't that the author couldn't access your precious email. The problem was that Apple used their power to force their auth solution onto the author,
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by CivBase 5y ago
Clippy: I see you're trying to create a database. Would you like to use Access instead? I'm not sure this is really a problem Microsoft can solve as an Excel feature. I think the better approach would be for MS to identify common
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by CivBase 5y ago
Software engineers who have had to deal with spreadsheets being used inappropriately. Spreadsheets are an extremely powerful tool, but they have limits. Their accessibility is part of what makes them so ubiquitous, but it also means peopl
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by CivBase 5y ago
I wonder how many Python packages have a justifiable reason for using `eval()` to begin with. I've been writing Python professionally for almost a decade and I've never run into a use case where it has been necessary. It's oc
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by CivBase 5y ago
> And yet you've described how "range(n)" is implemented in exquisite details, whereas the caller only cares about its interface. I didn't not say anything about how `range()` is implemented. I only described exactly
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by CivBase 5y ago
That's not fair. `range()` is a function which outputs something and understanding what that something is is imperative to understanding what that Python code does. I didn't start talking about the internals of `range()` or how
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by CivBase 5y ago
> "Python is a programming language that is easy to get started with, good for beginners" I couldn't disagree more. In my experience, Python is a terribly difficult language for anyone who doesn't already have a solid
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by CivBase 5y ago
This is the most unnecessarily expensive and convoluted solution. Every product would have to be updated to support this system and it only works with electrical devices. Here's a better idea. If a product is liable to be stolen, just
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by CivBase 5y ago
Relevant article/thread from a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27984908
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by CivBase 5y ago
It has reached the point where I trust data and studies produced by the CDC, but I have absolutely no trust in the guidance they publish. They just recently updated their guidance on masks for vaccinated people. They say vaccinated people s
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by CivBase 5y ago
> "If we are to make dramatic progress in electrification, it will require overcoming tremendous challenges, including refueling infrastructure, battery availability, consumer acceptance, and affordability," Robert Wimmer, dire

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