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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
Well you cannot control the trail conditions right? unless you are doing an inspection beforehand But yeah I agree road cycling is extremely dangerous, you are trusting that 100% percent of the drivers on the road will be mindful of cyclist
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
Hard disagree. Argentina is only similar to the UK insofar as they both deindustrialized starting in the 80s. Besides that, I have no idea why it would be a "great analog".
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
I don't like it when the plane arrives 30 minutes - 1 hour early (has happened to me on long flights, I guess due to favorable wind + padding), and they brag about being the most "on time" airline or something like that. Whil
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
This was my first objection as well. However, if most people flip coins like that, then the measurements are valid -- the conclusions are about what average people will do, not a perfect mechanical coin flip. Otherwise you're falling i
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
They have posted great news segment videos again
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
I'm mostly on the same boat as you, but yes, I'd say most people type complete sentences (usually questions) into Google. The results for these types of queries are usually: - An autogenerated info card that usually is regurgitati
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
Since it's pretty much on the Equator it makes a lot of sense to keep time like that -- days and nights have the same duration all year long. Such a system doesn't make sense for places that have wide variations between seasons, u
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
yeah a stem or a handle is necessary to keep your grimy warm hands out of direct contact with the container
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
Brazilians have a lot of techniques for always having the coldest beer. These are all things that are common among the population, even socially expected: - Have a freezer specifically for beer in the home (kept at -2 to -3 celsius). - Beer
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
> Assuming you can get access to someone's workstation when they're not looking Man sometimes I really miss working in an office
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
This is great! It's cool that you can listen to each letter individually
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
I have roller shutters, I like them, they're common where I live. However, they are not great for keeping heat out during the day; yeah if you close them you get protected from the heat of the sun, but also from its light. An awning wi
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
Time to plug SumatraPDF[0] which I love! It's super lightweight and fast. It isn't able to edit the files though. What do you use to edit them? At this point I just use the reader included in Firefox [0] https://www.sum
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
this is great, well done to the author
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
Sometimes an interactive debugger session will make the issue you are researching not happen -- I don't know of a way of tracking down race conditions that isn't logging everything that happens until I find out which thing happene
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
They can afford to. Also, looking at the chart provided by the article, it looks like their power consumption peaked in ~2005? And it's been going down ever since. Compare with India, which is a much, much poorer country per capita, ye
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
> After all, the British Museum, the main example for restitutions, is located in a global city, given completely free access to its huge collection on display and pays for preservation. The global cultural value it adds is much larger t
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
QWERTY proves GPs point, it's a suboptimal interface and basically impossible to get rid of now, even though we've moved the underlying implementation from typewriters to computer keyboards to touchscreens
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
Not surprised you haven't seen EVs for rent, since the charging network, although it exists, is woefully unsufficient for non-expert users. Montevideo is a city of ~1.5M people and there are less than 30 charging stations. It's no
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
No, if a human does it by accident, as is clearly the case here, we call it "hallucination", "misremembering", "mandela effect" or "dementia"
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
This sentence: >We're still there. My 5 state institutions are dangerous hellholes. Homeless are everywhere here. Implies that "Homeless are everywhere here" wouldn't be the case if the institutions were good. I disag
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
I completely agree that mental institutions are important and need more funding/attention. However, your comment implies that all homeless people have mental problems that need treatment. Many are just very poor and most of their probl
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
I use the title because it's what the piece of paper my university gave me when I graduated says. "Programming" is a portion of my job, alongside reviewing other people's work, design, and sitting around in meetings with
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
What is "carbon capture" exactly? How does the mechanism work? Does it take an energy input?
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
All that effort to make a weird "feature" that no user actually wanted. The reason it took them all that work to do is that the assumption that you wouldn't reorder seasons was baked into the architecture. For the engineers t
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
> The best thing he can do is stay, serve his sentence/pay his fine, and improve Telegram to have e2e encryption by default (or better yet, mandatory) That would compromise the feature of open-to-everybody groups right? Right now I
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
I assume that the kremlin has more knowledge of the drug trade in my city than the local police
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
Or maybe it was all the military interventions that punished anybody who ever dared to question that domination
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
Chrome history search has always been very bad compared to Firefox. I don't know why, it's just text search over titles, but on Chrome you can never find squat. I always suspected it is on purpose, they want users to just use Goog
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by TremendousJudge 2y ago
> So... imagine that someone enters a kitchen, because they want to show you how to make a cup of coffee. As you watch carefully, they flick a switch on the wall. The switch looks like a light switch, but none of the lights in the kitche

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