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721.
by Pxtl 3y ago
Napoleon said "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake".
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by Pxtl 3y ago
googles Huh. I distinctly remember working with VBA-based systems like 20 years ago where that was a massive difference - like, I'd been writing code on mid-'90s VB4 and it had "on error goto" but VBA didn't like
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Vb6 at least had "on error goto".
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by Pxtl 3y ago
So disappointed that MS hasn't rolled out PowerShell 7 but I guess it's easier to develop a programming language when you don't have to deal with users.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Why outsource that cost to the private sector? Make a point-system for external-risk value on the road to other vehicles, pedestrians, etc. Figure in mass (yes, Teslas are risky too with their mass), bumper compatibility (SUV bumpers don&
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by Pxtl 3y ago
This isn't just CAFE. Even a giant road-tank could still have nice rounded low bumper that is compatible with pedestrians and other vehicles. I mean, an F-150 Lightning has great emissions. It will also crush me into chunky marinar
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yup. Working out helped my back pain and my wrist pain... but gave me tennis elbow. So I stopped working out. Now I have back pain, wrist pain, and tennis elbow.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
You are driving on publicly funded roads in a licensed machine where the police have the legal authority to demand you submit to inspection at any time, and you legally must purchase insurance from a private company to operate it. I would s
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Every GPS I've ever used seems confused by the express/collector system on the 401. Google Maps, the one built into my Toyota, and the old Garmin all had trouble with it.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Right? I just want them to give up. I know the era of the replaceable head unit is over, and probably rightly since modern screens are much larger than you could fit in those days. But please let me swap out the infotainment computer. I
731.
by Pxtl 3y ago
I have a 2020 Prius Prime and the antediluvian infotainment system that reminds me of a mid-oughts GPS is the only real flaw with its software. Like, start the car and then wait because I'm not allowed to touch the GPS when I'm i
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by Pxtl 3y ago
At first I was interested in the premise but this article gets borderline Nietzschean about its obsession with dividing people up into categories of Great Men and Mediocre people and whatnot. It's kinda gross.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Imho, it's because of "engineering". Which is exactly what we don't do. In engineering, there are by-the-book solutions for every established, well-known problem. In software, doing that is boring . So we constantly
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by Pxtl 3y ago
That's my point. Non-profits like WP or even benevolent dictatorships like Valve seem immune to this. It's once you get a pure-profit incentive through VC funding or public trading that you get this kind of "we can't h
735.
by Pxtl 3y ago
But WP isn't a VC company, and it's not publicly traded, is it?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Okay but this layoff process didn't look like a strategic move where they cut the excess services from bandcamp. It sounds like it was an across-the-board 50% slash. Half the blog staff is still around.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
A fire in a parking lot + courtyard where there are many, many people encamped because it's a safe refuge in an active warzone? Even if the building is still standing, that could still mean hundreds dead.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
And if the article had been presented like your post, I think we'd all think that's great! State the known facts , then describe the information provided by extremely biased and known-dishonest interested parties, with the contex
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes, but still the media has a responsibility to note the credibility, or lack thereof, of their sources. When Israeli military officials say "this was certainly a Palistinian attack", the news media should be noting cases where t
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The evidence from reputable OSINT orgs like Bellingcat is pretty-much showing evidence that this was an accident on the part of Palistinian fighters. There are multiple videos showing a volley of rockets were launched from within Gaza (not
741.
by Pxtl 3y ago
People talk about this as if it's a new problem but honestly this has always been a thing: Journalism always craves information, and interesting information from a well-known source will always succeed. Note that I said "interest
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Personally my weapon-of-choice fort his kind of thing is just raw Powershell. It means all your queries will be simple linear-searches, and powershell is a warty-as-hell language, but the ergonomics aren't bad. For example, the "
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Imho the web has done ferocious damage to modularization with its history of "global everything". css classes are global, element ids are global, the root Javascript namespace is global. This made constructing modular web code a
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yeah, that's what kills me with rpis. Yes they're cheap... until you add a chassis, a safe SD card, a 1st party power supply that won't give you the dreaded voltage warning icon, etc. I don't regret owning some since th
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by Pxtl 3y ago
When they have a recommended OS with their brand name on it (Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS), it's a platform feature. Either I'd expect the hardware to provide some minimal battery or something for safe shutdown, or I'd expe
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Honestly, I know that it's far too late to change now, but I think the ability of a web-page to silently request resources from other domains has proven to be a complete misfeature overall. What's it given us? Tracking cookies,
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The Pi 5 looks neat and I hear it's finally got a power button built-in, which was always the sorest point of the rpi series for me - the fact that it had no good story for safely idling was always absurd. The default configuration wa
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Ditto. Also GPM was a bit buggier and more bloated feature-wise than YTM, but the ability to clean your ID3 tags in the web browser was wonderful. And now YTM is getting podcasts so everything old is new again... but worse.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yeah, I got into shopping for weird stuff on Bandcamp when we went remote, started out with postrock and postmetal stuff and then a Twitter thread about the strangest music made by trans women made me a fan of Bousfield.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Hah, it's just the one track "Hazer" that goes full grindcore, the rest of the album is a bit more... hard-mode in a Japanese rhythm game if it was super-distorted hyperpop.

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