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by Pxtl 3y ago
I drive a Prius and while the actual implementation of the touchscreen leaves a lot to be desired (dodgy software and usual issues with obsolescence), I do like the way it splits between touchscreen and buttons. Buttons: all car controls, a
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by Pxtl 3y ago
sigh don't be silly, you know what I mean. Plastics, aromatic hydrocarbons, endocrine disruptors, etc. You know, novel technologically produced chemicals (or natural chemicals in unnatural quantities) that may have negative impact o
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Right but was it that different in the '90s? Also, you've got the wrong window, 40s is Xennials, not young Boomers. Boomers would be the "40 back in the '90s" generation... and I'm pretty sure they were stron
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The problem is that we are exposed to so many chemicals, finding the culprit(s) for this kind of thing will be nigh impossible. The study said "(diet high in red meat, low in fruits, high in sodium and low in milk, etc)" which bas
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Microsoft has always been terrible at naming things. Their word processor is called Word. Their sql server is called Sql Server. Their IM is called MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger/Messenger/Skype/Lync/Skype F
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Most people cut their teeth on Windows, where the system environment bars are just a basically a section of the registry.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> It will probably end up being the most popular things, the most viewed or read. More copies of it, more likely to be archived. So, 10 hours of white noise yes, some person's personal blog where they poured their heart out, no. Be
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by Pxtl 3y ago
This is why I hate SQL. Once an abstraction fails so badly that you must understand minutia of its underlying implementation, it's now a burden instead of a benefit.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Here in Canada, where the cost of medical treatment is absorbed by the government, it is not. And by that logic you're using we don't need fines for speeding, just let the insurance company know.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yeah, I was being a bit hyperbolic (and metric) and the a PHEV is only about 15% difference in curb-weight between comparable full-EVs, but that's not nothing.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
While this is a good step, I'd also like to see more action taken about commuter vehicles that represent a greater threat to other people on the road for non-weight based reasons. Like, a Tesla X weighs more than an F-150 but based on
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Is there no PHEV in the minivan space? I drive a PHEV Prius with a 40k electric-only range and it's great for guilt-free short trips without being a 2-tonne brick of batteries.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
In the article he describes using this for user-provided mathematical expressions. I suppose that makes sense if you're implementing a light DSL in python... But maybe don't? Edit: I don't believe this is any slower, actuall
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by Pxtl 3y ago
werealltryingtofindtheguywhodidthis.gif
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by Pxtl 3y ago
80 years ago vast swaths of the world sent a generation of their young people off to Europe and Asia to die for the sake of political alliances. Killing all those people was extremely expensive. When did we become such losers?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
A magical unicorn that grants wishes would be another solution.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
You don't have to do that explicitly. Tax all products by carbon emissions. Tariff all nations that do not participate in such a program. You don't have to tax beef explicitly when you tax carbon because beef is carbon intensive
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by Pxtl 3y ago
So deduplication didn't see the NULLs because null != null so they had to manually partially remove the index on the nullable column as a workaround. Insert my rant on the stupidity of non-reflexively-equal nulls here.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Chinese naming makes the best puns.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
You've never heard the joke that FORD stands for "Fix It Again, Tony" (and, unrelatedly, FIAT stands for "Found On Roadside, Dead")?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Community Notes are a neat idea but a) Twitter has too many overlapping actions. Community Notes is just "credibility-oriented reply" in the same way that retweet is "quote tweet without comment". When you see a tweet y
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I'd say "co-opted" more than "tainted".
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by Pxtl 3y ago
This is not an unforeseeable occurrence. Hawaii is a tiny island state that is often hit by hurricanes, tsunami, and volcanic freaking eruptions. Any organization that is empowered to close roads needs to have good policies to decide what
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> The workers were motioning for everyone to turn back toward Lahaina. They literally sent people to die, under the color of authority as working under county government. Will anybody face accountability? edit: I'm rate-limited but
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by Pxtl 3y ago
At the risk of reductio ad absurdum: "Title: A Stalin-inspired Look at Webfarm Management Body: Apocryphally, Stalin once said that quantity has a quality all its own. As such, our hosting system involves an absolutely bonkers number
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by Pxtl 3y ago
It is so ridiculous that this doesn't happen by default. Normally I'm against breaking changes, but in this case? The default is dumb and wrong. Inclusivity should always be the starting point, and manual hacks should be the ex
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I mean it's not really as hominem is it? I'm not arguing the point at all. I just mean that invoking a controversial like Thiel for something as reasonable as discussing the merits of server side rendering is a very odd choice.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Not really sure why this person is quoting the weird old vampire just to talk about something as banal as server side rendering.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Iirc Google Assistant has similar.

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