MrRadar

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by MrRadar 7y ago
> I don’t see a reason for people to buy ICU cars really... Yeah, who wants to put up with converting to and from UTF-16 all the time when you're just trying to get to work in the morning?
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Even if you don't have a particular interest in retro computer games, his 9-part series on the history of Microsoft Windows in the 16-bit era (covering the period from the early pre-Windows GUI systems for IBM PCs (and why they all fai
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In case you haven't seen, the latest entry on The Digital Antiquarian blog is about how the Z-Machine was resurrected and ended up underpinning the 90s text adventure renaissance: https://www.filfre.net/2019/10&#x2
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The point the comic is trying to make (from the satirist's perspective, not the fictional Kelly's perspective) is that both of the depicted scenarios only exist in the flawed perspective of highly-priviledged people who don&#x27
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Unfortunately that upload is only in 240p so most of the jokes are hard to read. I have a copy of the original version which I've uploaded here: https://2by2.info/sql_on_rails_screencast2_lq.mov (VLC can play it).
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Your argument is the same one made by this satirical political cartoon from The Onion: https://i.imgur.com/XCPFpnd.jpg Not talking about these issues allows the underlying bigotry to fester unchallenged.
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> Why do you think LGBT rights (first item on your list) is something that should be discussed at work? Because what if you are an LGBT person and such things materially affect you? What happens when you bring your same-sex spouse to a c
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> For example we would likely never see VoLTE interoperability. In the US at least we will have to get there eventually. The major US carriers are all killing 2G and 3G in the early 2020s[1] and due to FCC 911 requirements (you basically
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Same on my Moto G7 Power and Moto E4. I've never had a (regular) problem with FF crashing on any of my Android phones.
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Everyone should be covered for emergency care. Beyond that citizens and permanent residents should receive unlimited care and anyone with a student or work visa should also be covered for the term of their visa.
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Mozilla is only rolling out DoH to users in the US whose ISPs would already be subject to NSLs. Presumably they will wait until non-US DoH providers are available before rolling it out elsewhere.
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To add to all the other replies, CenturyLink does this too. This is a major problem with US ISPs.
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I think that was mainly due to early EVs having low battery capacities in general (because batteries cost a lot more then) so daily commuting would cycle them much more deeply than current high-capacity models. This 2017 article[1] shows ba
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This. I was already planning to buy a PinePhone to check out the "Linux Smartphone" scene and then take a wait and see approach on the (much more expensive) Librem 5 but now I will definitely be waiting until the units with the im
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Why would there be an in-person bank run in a cashless society?
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I think that's more a Germany thing than a European thing. In Sweden cash has almost been completely eliminated from their economy to the point that some retail banks no longer deal in cash.
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The Federal Reserve is finally taking notice too. In addition to modernizing ACH over the past few years (so that payments can be settled on the same business day instead of over 3 business days) it has finally decided to create its own ins
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Have you tried using a Nightly build of Firefox? There's recently been some work to use CoreAnimation on MacOS to reduce power consumption that hasn't made it to the Beta or Release channels yet. (See: https://bugzilla.
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It does on Windows and Mac. On Linux it does not but hopefully WebRender should pave the way to enabling it (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726 ).
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This. The employees participating in the 401k plan don't choose which funds the plan includes, HR people (who are often not very well-versed in investing) do. Those HR people will choose these high-ER funds because the 401k provider us
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They're often buried in the "expense ratio" of the funds offered. My company's 401k plan has exactly 3 funds with an expense ratio lower than 0.50%, all of them US domestic index funds. All of my bond and international o
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To address your points: * Yes, 401k plans usually have high fees, however the tax advantage they provide should more than offset those fees except for the very worst plans. And there are exceptions too: some 401k plans offered by very large
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If the US did start adding 240v circuits they would almost certainly use NEMA 6-15 or 6-20 plugs for compatibility with (the rare) 240v appliances like air conditioners or hotplates which use those plugs today.
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Appliances which use universal power supplies tend to be low power. The highest-power device with a universal PSU that I can think of that the "average" person would have would be a computer, but even high-end gaming computers ten
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XKCD did a "What If" on hydro power from your municipal water[1]. tl;dr: "In either case, for a bathtub faucet, this works out to almost 200 watts, or $25 per month." (And that's in addition to all the other issues
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CGP Grey's "This Video Will Make You Angry"[1] makes this point well. Opposing ideas will generate a lot of discussion/activity but mostly within the opposed groups instead of between them. That further drives polarizati
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The current submission title "Kayfabe (Wikipedia)" implies there is some kind of kayfabe specific to Wikipedia that the article was going to discuss however this is just a general article on the concept.
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It depends on what you mean by "useful life." Say you have a 300-mile EV which averages 3 miles/kWh for a full useful capacity of 100 kWh. If the battery degrades to half that capacity the car would only go 150 miles which I
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by MrRadar 7y ago
> If you are running Firefox on X11 (which most Linux users probably still do), you do not need to escape Docker. You can make screenshot, capture keystrokes, and send keystrokes, all through the X11 socket. Also, this is why Wayland is
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Originally AMD owned their own fabrication plants. In the late 2000s they were forced to spin them off (as GlobalFoundaries) for a quick injection of cash after their merger with ATI went badly. Part of that spin-off was the Wafer Supply Ag

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