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by Delk 4y ago
> Averaging 20 mph over non trivial distances puts you in elite territory. Most people can't sustain that, even experienced cyclists. Probably. I've never owned a road bike so I was leaving room for the possibility that I don&#
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by Delk 4y ago
Well, yes. But the category that allows for higher powered speeds effectively makes them motorized vehicles akin to mopeds, removing ambiguity regarding their status or place in traffic. Motorized vehicles generally aren't allowed on b
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by Delk 4y ago
I don't know if this is because of Snap, but my work Ubuntu desktop sometimes takes ages (relatively speaking) to open a new Firefox window from the context menu of the dock icon, or whatever Ubuntu calls its version of the Gnome favou
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by Delk 4y ago
> he posits that bikes traveling 20-30mph will tempt riders to try and join traffic. who wants to tell him that that’s how fast human-powered bikes already go? Maintaining 20-30 mph on even land takes enough effort, except perhaps on a r
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by Delk 4y ago
I've seen the Teams client get confused about which sound device to use when connecting or disconnecting USB headsets or speakers. That seems to get fixed by switching sound input/output back and forth but it can be a bit of a has
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by Delk 4y ago
That would be pretty much in line with the impression I've got, depending on what "late" means in that context. I wouldn't be surprised if scuba diving were something that were quite commonly picked up when people were a
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by Delk 4y ago
It might have more to do with imagination, suggestibility, or whatever makes people get immersed in fiction.
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by Delk 4y ago
It's quite possible that the main reason he's taking nearly the same time is because he's now more fit. It's also quite possible that the improvements in conditioning only really became visible once he stopped doing it
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by Delk 4y ago
> In terms of comparisons, John Carmack made some decent contributions, but you have zero insight into the costs of it. Perhaps more importantly, John Carmack et al. are massive outliers. Maybe there's some kind of an excessive cost
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by Delk 4y ago
I'm totally guessing here, but apart from just being able to trust professional design and manufacturing more, could there be some kind of a "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" effect there? If it were socially normal and
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by Delk 4y ago
I basically learnt most of my written English from games as a teenager. They didn't directly help as much with speaking, but hanging out in game chats or IRC for a ridiculous number of hours actually helped with that to an extent as we
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by Delk 4y ago
I highly doubt those 50 or 60 watt examples are representative of the power use of those U-series CPUs in a 13" laptop. Perhaps it has been configured differently in a NUC. Anecdotally, my work laptop has a previous-generation Ryzen 7
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by Delk 4y ago
> As far as getting colleagues to act in sketches, I'd ask for help from your boss. I'm not sure I agree with this idea. The coworkers don't seem to be willing to appear or act in the videos. If that isn't close to th
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by Delk 4y ago
> When build times are short, spinning up a debugger is overkill compared to adding a couple of debug statements. I often find it a lot faster to set up breakpoints and fire up the debugger than to write debug statements. At least in som
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by Delk 4y ago
I know nothing about the project apart from the website, but the front page says they aren't a fan of the "ever-closing hardware", so I guess Apple silicon might not be a priority.
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by Delk 4y ago
I'm kind of in between. My main phone is an old feature phone, and I've never had a smartphone as my main personal phone. I still own a smartphone but I don't usually have an active subscription for it, so it's mostly on
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by Delk 4y ago
These kinds of discussions always remind me of a friend who swears by GPS and seems to always choose it even if the route is simple and easy to navigate. Once when travelling with him, we'd have ended up going north instead of south on
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by Delk 4y ago
I don't care about boot times but I do care about keeping state. In addition to the obvious browser I typically have an IDE, a few terminal windows, email, a few communication clients (due to internal and customer choices, not mine), a
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by Delk 4y ago
2003 would have meant a 32-bit single-core CPU with perhaps SSE2. I imagine you'd have encountered quite a lot of software that simply wouldn't run by now. I can't blame you for buying a new one. I used a 2003 (or so) desktop
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by Delk 4y ago
By the time you get into any depth in that rabbit hole, the question really starts being about what money actually is. In the end, money is just some kind of an abstract quantity that we collectively believe and agree can be used for obtain
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by Delk 4y ago
I use mostly Firefox to support tech diversity on the web. (Also because it works for my use. So would Chrome/Chromium. I wouldn't use either if it didn't.) I don't think that makes me an "ideological contrarian&quo
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by Delk 4y ago
> though that feels a bit like a semantic misnomer It does, but then, this is the git command-line interface. :) My understanding is that the stash pop command is simply an apply plus the removal of the successfully applied stash. The ma
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by Delk 4y ago
Yes, you can. If you save, apply or pop with git stash with no arguments, it works like a stack by default, but you can also access the other entries. For example `git stash pop stash@{n}`, where n is the index of the entry in the stash &qu
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by Delk 4y ago
I'm not GP but I'm not sure what you'd need examples for. One meaning of security is similar to that of protection. Protection is directional, so to speak. A company, an organization or an individual can have security guards,
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by Delk 4y ago
I'm not from Sweden but I'd expect homelessness there to be almost never caused purely by financial difficulties or unemployment. The vast majority of homelessness in the Nordic countries is either due to mental health or substanc
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by Delk 4y ago
In Finland, the Greens actively and vocally opposed nuclear power at least up until recent years. They abdicated themselves from a coalition government in the early 2000's over that government's decision to grant a license for con
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by Delk 4y ago
Back when 16:10 and 16:9 displays became common, I remember they weren't received particularly fondly by many of the developers I knew. Non-technical people seemed to like them more. More hardcore developers rather had to somewhat begr
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by Delk 4y ago
> As to playing video games -- yes, they have high mental demand. The only difference between solving problems while playing the game and solving problems in IDE is your will power. This isn't really true. Disregarding the fact that
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by Delk 4y ago
$5k also doesn't sound like a whole lot of money to give a guarantee about the security of your FOSS code. Unless I were already rather confident about it, it would take work for me to convince myself about it to the extent that I wo
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by Delk 4y ago
Interesting. This isn't to argue against that experience, but I still have and regularly use a wireless Logitech mouse that's at least around a decade old. I had my previous one for years in daily use as well, although I can'

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