SkeuomorphicBee

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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
I don't get it, Brazil has been using biofuels (sugarcane ethanol) successfully in large scale since the 70s or 80s. Like a third of the car fleet of the country was ethanol fuelled in the 90s, and all cars since the 00s are dual fuel
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
In this kind of discussion people often focus solely on frequent actions, but there is one class of action that should have priority for the limited keys: the infrequent urgent. That is, tasks that don't happen that often, but when the
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
The code examples don't make any sense, the functions may return a error but they are not being checked for in the next function. Using thir own metaphor, their functions may deviate to the red rail, but then the next function just ass
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Exactly, grids are not perfect, but they are much much better than modern non-grid. Modern non-grid is not made for people, it is made for cars, and is incompatible with walking. More specifically, it is the result of optimizing for the wro
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
That reminds me of a blog post where the author managed to run Linux on an HDD, that is, not only using the HDD as the storage media for a Linux install, but instead running the kernel on the HDD's internal IO controller, SOC inside th
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Why it is hard-coded to English? When I try to transcribe a video in any other language it throws the error: > No transcripts were found for any of the requested language codes: ('en',) For this video ([...]) transcripts are av
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
I think this is a very important quote from the author: > And I finally got round to reading the original contract, the one I didn’t sign. > And… Jesus Christ. It was worse than I’d even imagined. It was horrible. > The contract wa
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Some people would disagree with your definition of "grid" that doesn't include internet. I can imagine different people defining "grid" in one of three ways: 1. Physical infrastructure that runs uninterrupted all th
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Being a root CA is a privilege, not a right. A root CA has enormous power over the whole internet, so they must prove that they are absolutely trustworthy beyond any doubt.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
The corporation have the decision making power over the emissions. Knowledge of emissions is abstracted away by this middle man, and the relevant decisions are already made by the time the product is available to the customer, leaving the c
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
That is where point #3 comes in, being that Iphones are/where not very popular in Brazil (due to being prohibitively expensive), it is safe to assume that a significant number of sales are going to be first time Iphone buyers, who don&
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
"Page not found" Apparently the Uber site noticed I'm not in the USA and automatically redirects to a localized version, which doesn't exist. If their web-development capabilities are any indication I'll skip their
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
The point of the original post is that depending on your field (e.g. game engine), maybe all the calculations you need can be done easier in the unit of convenience (e.g. sine of a turn is easier to calculate than sine of radian), so if tha
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
That is easy to explain: because it is easier/cheaper for Cloudflare to build a solution that works for 99.99% of the people and simply throw that extra 0.01% under the bus. So the simplest explanation is "Cloudflare knows random
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
The 5.1 vs 2.0 is a bit of a red herring, it used to be a big problem a decade or two ago, but today it is just a small to insignificant contributor to the problem. The real problem now a days is not technical, it is 100% director's ch
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
My preference towards free-play, and opinion against guided-play (following manuals) used to be similar to yours. But my sister made me realize how much that my earlier guided-play was essential to develop my fundamental building skills tha
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
The USA really needs better consumer protection laws. In my country that would clearly be an illegal bundled sale and illegal bait and switch. If you advertise product A for X amount, then a customer with X amount in their pocket should be
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Exactly, the subsidy is meant as a "no household left behind" type program, so awarded companies need to prove they can cope with the best case scenario of 100% adoption, and StarLink probably wouldn't be able to cope with th
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
It is interesting to note how Climbing and Sailing use different knots because each sport has different priorities or different threat models. When it comes to knot strength (how much the knot reduces the rope's breaking strength), the
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
I'll have to disagree, everywhere I look it seems that authoritarian regimes foster corruption way more than democracies. They tend to weaken institutions, specially those that would provide checks against corruption, in order to conso
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Electric bikes are a new measure that need to be evaluated accordingly, an added complication because it has a motor. But when talking about pedal bikes it is absurd to expect them to follow rules meant to cars. Bicycles are a hybrid betwee
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
You mentioned loops in the output as a requirement for a compiler, but I'm this case all compilers that unroll loops are not compilers. Early shader compilers come to mind.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
It is possible, just not scalable. It is ready for a small city to be a car centric 15 minute city, but once population reaches the 6 digits problems start to arise, and ~500k is the rough upper limit where it becomes impossible.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Those are two different problems that require two different solutions: 1. Displaying current time: for that ideally you need the offset directly from the time server because the system timezone data can be out of date in regards to current
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
> Use 4 colors, fill it up with whitespace and cram everything into squares. For me the worst of those is the prevalence of whitespace, and the loss of the grey background. Grey was the greatest color for UI background, it wasn't ov
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Their website mentions that fusion makes the plasma expand and: > Electricity Recapture > As the plasma expands, it pushes back on the magnetic field. By Faraday's law, the change in field induces current, which is directly recap
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
That seems extremely unsafe, email being what email is, there are many layers of automation that may access that link unprompted: a spam/virus filter on the server or the client may access it to verify it is not some malware, a email c
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
No, it didn't exist (outside Google). Debian testing is not a rolling release because it is not a "release", it lacks internal coherence. As the article mentioned, testing packages are built in unstable and then simply moved
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Nitrogen can come from the air by using nitrogen fixing crops in a rotation, so it can never run out (N2 is the most abundant gas on the atmosphere). The problem is that growing nitrogen fixers take a lot of land time that could otherwise
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
> The largest the universe could have been at the time is 2 billion light-years across if the universe expanded at the speed of light after the Big Bang. That is the first mistake in your train of thought, the universe doesn't expa

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