Flamingoat

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by Flamingoat 1y ago
This tactic is often used to get attention. There was outrage about this in the late 2000s when reality TV/talk show series followed people in a particular poverty stricken area in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
It doesn't do that actually. It concatenates files. From the description on the man page: Concatenate FILE(s) to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input https://man7.org/linux
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
I had a Powercolor 9000 pro "Evil Commando". My friends and I thought it looked like a terrorist out of some old action movies. It kinda looked a bit like Universal Soldier. Later on I bought a Sapphire 9800pro "Atlantis&quot
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
> Almost all ICE cars sold in the last 5+ years have as much or more electronics and software, including massively complex software engine control. It massively depends on the manufacturer, model and country. So it not entirely true. Eve
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
> So, it is the same thing… but people have vibes and perception that it’s not? Data says otherwise, but people have feelings? I don’t really know what to do with that argument. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=456318
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
I didn't see this. Got too caught up back and forth. You explained exactly the issue I was talking about.
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
> Most EVs batteries will outlast the lifetime of the car, with some acceptable loss of capacity. Some small number won’t, and that will be expensive As far as most people are concerned that is just a claim that is made as they have no
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
You example wasn't really what is being discussed. The person was talking about potential cost of replacing the battery that would need to happen sometime in the future. This would most likely be uneconomical. It is something that I do
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
No it wasn't that at all. When browsing Firefox 3.0 would randomly not load a site when say about 10 tabs were in the window and hang for about 30 seconds. It was annoying. There was an obvious issue with how it handled the tab isolati
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
No his point was that there could be a cost to replacement that would be extremely expensive and that put his wife off. It would puts most people off. It doesn't matter what the rates are compared to Petrol/Diesel cars, it is an
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
> What government enforcement are you on about? UK and EU are defacto making Petrol/Diesel cars production uneconomical / illegal. California IIRC are also has a deadline for Petrol/Diesel cars IIRC. > And why a massive
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
> It’s not a random moment, they degrade predictably over time and at a very slow rate. So do traditional vehicles. You need to have them serviced regularly, but otherwise they work fine for literally decades. My uncle has a Volvo 240 GL
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
This happened enough that I think it was partially fixed in 3.5. At the time 3.0 came out I was still in University and every other student I spoke to had the same experience. People also experienced in my first place of work in 2009. This
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
> Chrome dominance is a result of Google wanting to control the web and its dominance in the ads and search areas. Chrome was simply better than Firefox, Internet Explorer, Legacy Edge. I am not a Windows Admin, but Chrome also offered a
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
> Firefox had 30% market share in 2010, I would hardly call that "niche", especially for a browser that didn't come bundled with your operating system or have the marketing power of the world's default search engine.
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
> you're repeating google marketing. No I am not. I remember this clearly and all my friends were complaining about it before chrome was released. I just checked the dates. Firefox 3 was released a whole year before Chrome. I real
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
It was horrendously bad. If you had more than 10 tabs open it was painful. I was using it at the time on a relatively high spec machine for the time (Core 2 Quad) and 8GB of ram. I was so happy when Chrome came out. Over the years I've
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
Yes. I am sure it did contribute, but they are overstating the effect of the banner. I honestly think Win 7 being a good OS and the Intel Macs actually being good is what led to nibbling away of legacy IE. As an aside. IE7 was IMO worse in
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
It was Chrome, Win 7 and Smartphones that killed IE. Firefox was extremely niche and was downright bad browser when 3.0 was released. Chrome when it came out was much faster than Firefox. It was lighter and worked better. Also macs had move
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
I've read this story before on a different site. I was near the start of my career in 2009. I honestly think they are overstating the effect of those banners. The significant shift IMO was when Windows 7 machines replaced the ageing XP
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
Sorry but we weren't talking about Animal Welfare arguments. It was clearly in the scope of how people treat each other. Philosophical discussions similar to Janist/Vegan style argument are like well outside of the scope that bein
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
I don't think that is true either. There have been despots throughout all of human history that have killed huge amounts of people with technology that is considered primitive now. Whereas much of the technology we have today has a mas
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
> It requires tax increases, and the average earner's UBI will typically balance out the tax increase, meaning they don't directly profit. A good portion of my salary is already taken by Tax and the government wastes it. I&#x27
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by Flamingoat 1y ago
No, it is not accurate at all. There are some people that do all of these sure, however the vast majority of people live pretty ordinary lives where they do very little of what is described. I actually think it is very intellectually lazy t