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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
Huh, the internet lied to me [1]. Should've checked wikipedia. [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-stop-bi...
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
huh I guess the Internet lied to me https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-stop-bi...
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
California has Idaho stops, so cyclists not stopping at Stop signs IS following the rules of the road (if the Cyclist did yield and just also didn't see the Waymo car). Bicycles starting on the side of the road can ofter get side swipe
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
Cyclists can treat Stop signs as Yield signs in California.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
> I've never met an iPhone customer who complained about not being able to side-load apps Hello, I'm an iPad user and I hate I can't side load apps and that there's no compilers or alternative web engines on the App s
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
Not really, that can still be done without permissions. You WOULD be able to stop them from knowing the files are there if you remove read permissions to others, but I haven't seen this done. The main advantage I see of having them sep
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
Shared computers are still a thing (in computer labs or servers) so that use of .local is still around.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
But the hole in Pi hole does mean hole...
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
> Retina computer displays What's that? It's not a standard I'm familiar with.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
Not really. Mainstream Android phones had high density OLED and LCD displays before iPhones. For example, by the time of the iPhone 8's 326 PPI, LG had the G6 with a 564 PPI LCD.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
Intel's IA-64 supposedly exposed lower levels of the processor to machine code, but I hear it took ages to compile, and compilers never really got to the optimization levels they were expecting (and not being compatible with x86 also d
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
> The main problem is that it's not federated and completely under Facebook's control. Also, identity based on WhatsApp is still vulnerable to simjacking, correct? Yes to both
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
Whatsapp has like 3 billions users. Not exactly tiny.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
1. If the time zone changes (like, as it's happened multiple times in my country, the date for switching to daylight savings changes) you have to make sure all your servers is updated with the change 2. Daylight savings mean that event
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
You could let users use end to end encrypted protocols for it (like signal, telegram or supposedly whatsapp)
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
Suse Tumbleweed made the same change and it doesn't work there (I use it through WSL if it changes anything)
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
> Walking over and talking to someone is still far superior to any online communication. It's a very good way to stop the person you're talking to from being productive too.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
If you want a CA you can just make a CA and add it to your trusted certificates.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
But then I have to get off bed to turn off the ceiling light D:
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
They also make appliances, so it is as simple as buying a home assistant yellow and pairing it to the lights.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
> This file is the public interface of the Linux system to everyone who wants to get information about users on the system No it isn't. PAM is. The password file is only one of the places where users might be defined.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
usb-c to lightning.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
The reason we had to go backwards to mechanical keyboards is that modern keyboards were being built just for lower prices with no regard to feel or longevity. Sometimes things don't need innovation. If you don't want to play with
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
> (though this expression doesn't really make any sense, as slowness is a property of the implementation, not of the language) Yes, which is why this is the way CPython works, but PyPy uses JIT and is faster.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
> it creates a clear separation between frontend and backend devs Yes, and if a single team is doing both it adds another stack to master. This can be a pro or con depending on the size/organization of the team.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
If you're talking about static sites, wordpress definitely isn't it, it renders server side every request. (Google's Blogger.com used to be static, not sure about now). HN is likely not static either.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
Was that over IPX? I don't think I ever configured IPX on Linux. By the time I was using enough Linux to run Starcraft on Wine, it already supported IP.
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
I don't know if the rumor is true, but even if Windows itself doesn't provide an API that looks like that (I also looked around real quick and didn't find anything), it's not unreasonable that there could be libraries th
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
High-mounted wings require the structure holding the wing to be suspended higher in the fuselage, requiring it to be stronger. Their main advantage is to avoid obstacles in the ground, which is desirable when landing in less developed airfi
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by Phrodo_00 3y ago
I use USD as part of my work... in fintec, so this confuses the heck out of my brain

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