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by admax88q 5y ago
There's a difference between something we can't "win" but can suppress to low levels, and something that makes no difference. This tool makes no difference. If it's deployed in any non-trivial capacity, anybody doi
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by admax88q 5y ago
If the bar is "better than someone talking on cell phone while crossing a railroad crossing without looking," I'll stick to manual driving. Self driving needs to be better than me, not better than average.
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by admax88q 5y ago
Cities are not cash strapped, they just claim to be when they don't want to pay for something. Most cities have tons of cash flow paying for roads, services like garbage/recycling, maintaining existing parks. If they really cant
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by admax88q 5y ago
They're already a suburban blight. Just teat them down. Put a park there instead.
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by admax88q 5y ago
Totally, I definitely intend for my next vehicle to be electric despite my naysaying. I wish that EV vendors would let you "test drive" a vehicle over the course of a week. It's hard to imagine what your day to day charging
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by admax88q 5y ago
> If, OTOH you are able to switch to a mindset where you keep your energy status in the back of your mind (and an EV car helps you with this a great deal) then you might be ready. Honestly that's a huge turn off for me. I have eno
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by admax88q 5y ago
By returning your money you have suffered no damages. You're no worse off than before.
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by admax88q 5y ago
> What do you base AWS storage having "an enormous markup" on? Probably on the basis that backblaze costs an order of magnitude less for the same product.
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by admax88q 6y ago
I'd wager there's vastly different quantity of spam sites for things like gardening than more technical topics.
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by admax88q 6y ago
I also decide by choosing search engines that are more likely to deliver the results I'm looking for. Daily Mail should not be able to litigate their way to my eyeballs.
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by admax88q 6y ago
> Google's "quality" ratings are entirely opaque and the public should be given better access to them. There's only so many top spots in Google search results, I'd rather those not be awarded to parties that are
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by admax88q 6y ago
The fact that web applications are so old indicates the demand for such a delivery platform. > Microsoft was so adamant on having Explorer bundled with their OS in order to establish control over the future evolution of web applications
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by admax88q 6y ago
By COV do you mean Covid? It sounds like you're alluding to the argument that if they'd only let us test potential vaccines on humans right away then we would have had a vaccine faster. I disagree that that's a foregone con
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by admax88q 6y ago
I'm not sure why you think you have to be mean to avoid bad code. Being nice doesn't mean accepting any and all contributions. It just means not being a jerk or _overly_ harsh when rejecting.
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by admax88q 6y ago
Figma, docs, sheets. All great apps I can use for any device with a web browser. No install needed, no updates needed. Easy to collaborate with. No "install this application" just "open this url" Application delivery
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by admax88q 6y ago
Yes? I want them to hold to my messages in am encrypted form for all time. The NSA has probably logged them anyways. I'm done with managing my own backups, my state should be persisted "in the cloud" with no effort from me.
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by admax88q 6y ago
If banking is a utility, are they required to invest in anyone who asks?
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by admax88q 6y ago
Of course anyone here is welcome to dedicate their life to crafting the perfect windows 9x style desktop experience. I would wager that there's actually less interest in such an experience than GNOME complaints would have us believe.
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by admax88q 6y ago
I don't get why classic desktop people feel the need to continually complain the GNOME does not implement the classic desktop paradigm. We get it, you want the classic desktop paradigm. Nothing wrong with that, but that ship has saile
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by admax88q 6y ago
Yeah totally I hear you. If you have to support many external clients using an existing ftp implementation makes lot more sense.
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by admax88q 6y ago
Ban/tax coal. So long as coal is cheap, people will use it for something. There's lots of ways to turn energy into money besides bitcoin mining. Gotta make carbon intensive energy not worth it.
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by admax88q 6y ago
I guess misinformation isn't the right term. It's not _wrong_, it just feels like it gets a disproportionate amount of attention.
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by admax88q 6y ago
That honestly sounds more complicated. FTP isn't that difficult of a protocol, especially if you only need to support one known client, you can take all sort of shortcuts. If you deploy an existing FTP server, and _then_ integrate wit
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by admax88q 6y ago
All this talk about Bitcoin causing global warming is starting to feel like a targetted misinformation campaign. Yes it's wasteful, and yes it's using a fair amount of energy at the moment. But all estimates show it's still
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by admax88q 6y ago
Because Bitcoin is not the sole cause of climate change, carbon is. You can try to play a game of whack a mole by taxing and regulating individual activities hoping to reduce carbon as a second order effect, or you can just target the root
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by admax88q 6y ago
You can still negotiate to what you're worth. If you're no better than the applicants they got without recruiters then good luck, but that's why companies are hiring from recruiters, they can't find the talent on their o
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by admax88q 6y ago
It seems you're defining "human in the loop" as "Google makes what I consider to be the correct decision in this case." I believe the point that thu2111 is trying to make is that there _are_ humans in the loop, and
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by admax88q 6y ago
Actually, fun fact, if you remove the clearing of the body, the HTML approach is faster. At least in firefox here. Benchmarking is difficult.
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by admax88q 6y ago
You are correct, I just did my own benchmark, and the DOM approach is no longer correct. It used to be the case a number of years ago when I last benchmarked.
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by admax88q 6y ago
I whipped up one here with a random comment dump from HN. It appears I'm no longer correct. https://gist.github.com/adamvy/afcace8cbdbe56995626f59f6ea2b... Load this as a script tag in an html file to run. Last t

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