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by Tade0 10mo ago
Thing is, I couldn't hear anything at all from the turbine and the only noise I could pick up was the road. At approx 256m attenuation is 21dB. Road noise reaches 85dB, which means I was hearing it at 64dB at most. I should have heard
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by Tade0 10mo ago
I didn't read the article, but a quick Ctrl+F confirmed my suspicions. I was raised Roman Catholic and to me it was always a head scratcher why would someone insist on a certain translation which is at least two languages away from the
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by Tade0 10mo ago
One time I drove up to the very base of a ~2MW wind turbine. Couldn't hear anything besides the road several hundred metres away.
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by Tade0 10mo ago
I remember stealing my dad's newspaper to read the included Dilbert strip and it shaped my understanding of corporate life. Fortunately it proved not to be this grotesque, but I have a few stories to share, like anyone who was ever put
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by Tade0 10mo ago
It's a common problem. At some point in time when asked how many Kurdish people live in Poland, Google's AI would say that several million, which was true, but only in a fantasy world conjured by a certain LARP group, who put a wi
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by Tade0 10mo ago
I don't believe that this is going to be the case simply because it's more expensive. Sure, Apple can and will do it, but hardly anyone has an iPhone in, say, India or is willing to shell out this much for a phone. This business m
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by Tade0 10mo ago
I can't get a solid statistic on this, but didn't the obesity rate basically plateau last decade in countries like Italy, France and Germany? https://data.worldobesity.org/country/france-71/#data_trends
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by Tade0 10mo ago
Well, it was actually slightly less than two years: https://www.star-history.com/#theonion/fartscroll.js&reasonm... I remember the hype back when it was released, though. You don't hear much about it any more.
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by Tade0 10mo ago
Yes, amazing language - I recall having a look at it in 2013 when I was scrambling for a replacement for Flash (also amazing platform). Shame it doesn't solve the problem at hand. Hardly anyone cares TypeScript isn't perfect when
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by Tade0 10mo ago
Same could be said about Java Applets or Flash and, in a way, about Elm. We've been there and this approach doesn't work. The creators of TypeScript realized early on that people don't need yet another ecosystem, but a migrat
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by Tade0 10mo ago
How is that different than inline styles?
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by Tade0 10mo ago
That is very in character for him, but I guess he was referring to the case which originally established this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co .
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by Tade0 10mo ago
> make the product smaller for more money because there's no other way that the execs and shareholders get to jerk each other off this year. That's an amusing image but the real reason they're doing it is that often those
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by Tade0 10mo ago
It's bursting as we speak, but certain actors are pulling every lever there is to slow down the process: https://tradingeconomics.com/china/housing-index Unsuccessfully, I might add.
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by Tade0 10mo ago
Are advertisers just really dead set on making our lives harder? It's a minor inconvenience, but I'm amazed anyone would go to such lengths to do it. I understand there's money involved, but surely those who offer products mu
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by Tade0 10mo ago
Makes me wonder what Terry A. Davis would have to say about AI if he was alive today. I imagine he would have a few choice words of the usual sort, but would he recognise that seemingly anyone can write their own OS like he did? Personally
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by Tade0 10mo ago
Ha, explains why AI is at a loss trying to figure out the meaning behind that sentence - to recent. Perhaps that's the ultimate AI detector? Information too recent, too obscure or too useless to have been used to train language model
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by Tade0 10mo ago
More likely people will retain their current devices for longer and wait this whole thing out - there's less reason to upgrade than there was a decade ago. Processing power increases have noticeably plateaued, with e.g. Nvidia GPUs ste
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by Tade0 10mo ago
> Though, I must say that Xi Jinping in a bikini made me laugh. I haven't seen Xi, but I am unfortunate enough to know that such an animated depiction of Maduro also exists. These people are clearly doing it largely for shock value.
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by Tade0 10mo ago
Similar experience here. I'm like those chimps set free after a life of captivity in a roofed enclosure. I just stare at the sky or maybe at the trees in the distance.
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by Tade0 10mo ago
Not to be confused with Tasker for Android: https://tasker.joaoapps.com/index.html
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by Tade0 10mo ago
The man has enviable health.
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by Tade0 10mo ago
This is lovely, but in certain life circumstances I've found it more useful to have a to-dont-list, as in: list of things I would really like to do, but shouldn't because there are more pressing matters to attend to and I need to
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by Tade0 10mo ago
They're more like a compromise. As an outsider, to me the framing that USA is "car-oriented" was always off the mark. Cars are just a tool, which people would rather use as little as possible (I mean, who actually enjoys sitt
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by Tade0 10mo ago
In my region that's just speedrunning getting a fine. The offending vehicle is whisked away at the exit booth by law enforcement.
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by Tade0 10mo ago
Guess my normal usage is more destructive than your trips. The main driver of wear in my case was always commuting with the device and thus also plugging/unplugging things several times a day. Also if you hold a 2kg closed laptop with
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by Tade0 10mo ago
I've settled in a city 60% smaller than the one I grew up in. It's still a full-blown city, but there's way fewer of those competitive types - they all moved to where I came from.
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by Tade0 10mo ago
I don't know about you, but every laptop I've had suffered some sort of malfunction sooner or later and I never bothered to have them serviced because it was too much of a hassle - especially seeing how a friend of mine outright b
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by Tade0 10mo ago
> Maybe I feel the satisfaction of clicking them together as I clean them up. Cleaning becomes a little like playing. My preschooler daughter got Magna Tiles for Christmas and she's cleaning them up herself, which is a first for her
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by Tade0 10mo ago
> repairability in a sense you’ll always find parts (albeit not cheap) and someone to service it I'm sorry but that is just false. Various organisations assessing repairability consistently give MacBooks poor scores for having solde

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