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by bruce511 8mo ago
I'll be honest, I'm not sure why you're aggrieved here. There's absolutely nothing in the "idea of Open Source" that suggests upstream has to accept contributions. Open Source allows you to tinker with the co
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I'll add that for small projects, (and I suppose large ones) it's also a "unwelcome" task. Kinda like docs is. Open Source projects are typically done by people who like coding. Writing docs, reviewing PRs, "managem
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by bruce511 9mo ago
So different colleges have different courses, and focus on different things. So what I say next is very much YMMV. Back when I did college there was a disconnect between what students thought college was for, and what colleges thought colle
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Guns on planes aren't terribly effective. Firstly cause puncturing the hull will end badly. But also because there's a lot of people in a very confined space. A shooter has no space to maneuver and threats on all sides. It's
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I grew up in a time and place when terror bombings were "commonplace". And while actual bombs were rarish, bomb alerts were not. The impact of a bomb at a post office or shopping mall or commuter train was way more impactful tha
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You claim comfort from monitoring, and yet the easiest source of fire on a plane is z lithium battery. Which are expressly allowed. In other words the TSA specifically does not seek yo prevent fires. The reason we don't have people set
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by bruce511 9mo ago
To answer the parent question, no not even close. TSA direct costs, passenger time wasted, flights missed, items confiscated. All so no bombs on planes. But somehow also no bombs at sports events or music concerts, or on trains or subways,
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by bruce511 9mo ago
You gotta love the TSA. They serve no real purpose, but its a monster too big to kill, staffed by people who desperately cling to the notion they're doing something important. They don't stop hijackings (locking the cockpit door d
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by bruce511 9mo ago
I understand that it can feel like you're having to make the same point over and over (I certainly feel like that sometimes) but personally I'm more inclined to give the person the benefit of the doubt when it comes to good faith.
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by bruce511 9mo ago
Please don't downvote comments because you don't agree with the argument. Downvotes should be for comments that add little to the discussion. I agree that discussing weight with regard to EVs, without acknowledging that (in the US
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Both ICE and EV cars require a support infrastructure. As sales trends change, so the emphasis on support infrastructure changes, and that accelerates the trend. For example EVs depend on charging, so we're seeing more public charge po
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by bruce511 9mo ago
Not surprisingly most countries want to be self sufficient with food production, so tarifs on food imports makes sense. Unfortunately though I don't think US tarifs are the solution here. Leaving aside that antagonizing the end-consume
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by bruce511 9mo ago
I buy all this, and I think your analysis is spot on. There's z log of cognitive dissonance going on here. >> One common theme has been that farmers are by necessity highly independent. I think they like to think of themselves as
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by bruce511 9mo ago
I agree. Personally I don't understand the love that agriculture shows to the Republican party, but hey you get what you vote for. It seems like this whole year has been implementing policy after policy that screws over agriculture. US
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by bruce511 9mo ago
This exactly. The fuss made about agricultural subsidies by non-farmers is misguided. Dropping subsidies doesn't make food cheaper, it makes it go away. Consumers are addicted to cheap food, so they pay taxes instead to make up the dif
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by bruce511 9mo ago
There is, as you say a lot of nuance here. Making cattle go away doesn't suddenly make say 55% more wheat suddenly appear on market shelves. Indeed the argument to remove beef production has always struck me as an interesting starting
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The weight I'm referring to is the weight of both systems, which is typically heavier than 1 system. In terms of ev weight overall, it's typically close to ice weight. (Obviously a lot of differences between vehicle class and ra
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>> I have no garage and work from home. So no workplace to charge. So now you’ve added another thing I have to worry about - finding charging somewhere along my 10 minute errand route? Your car lives somewhere when you're not doi
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by bruce511 9mo ago
Sure it can :). Probably not 7 days a week, but a couple days a week, sure. And of course not everyone . Maybe 10%? Not that it matters. What do I care about the needs of some Texans? (I mean that non perjorativly). I mean just because ran
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by bruce511 9mo ago
Sounds like a market opportunity for kerb-side, low speed, charging points. Not to mention parking garages for daytime parking at work. Not to mention mall parking lots. The garage is an obvious starting point, because your car spends a lot
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by bruce511 9mo ago
For foreign (read Chinese) cars a big piece of the price charged to US customers is the tarrifs (taxes) which US customers pay. Elsewhere in the world EV prices are steadily coming down. They're not as low as ICE yet, and maybe never w
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>> I never understood the big push for full EVs over hybrid Weight, space and reliability. Dragging that generator (and fuel) around costs weight and space, reducing range. Exhaust, fuel tank, radiator- all the support systems the ICE
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Rinse and repeat for Korean cars. And now China are deep into their cycle too. They're already producing high quality, at half the price, and I've noticed that the quality narrative is changing. Regardless of where they are percep
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Leaving aside for the moment yesterday advertising and marketing are very different functions (advertising is easy, marketing is hard); If your target customers are "VC funded companies" then sure, getting in bed with as many VCs
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I agree, and I'll supplement with this; >> But from now on, I'm either gonna be a successful founder, or I'm not. And if I'm not, I'll have to deal with having broken with the expectations that people had of m
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I've got solar. We switched things like pool pump, hot water and so on (things already on timers) from night to day. Dishwasher can also gave a programmed start, so that can also shift from after-dinner to after-breakfast. I also work
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by bruce511 9mo ago
>> Not the one from 25 years ago. um yes, that one. updated, yes. added to, yes. But a huge chunk of the code that shipped then is still shipping now. >> Legal requirement would have ensured great care in preservation of said so
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This might be true for games, but its not universally true for software. Clearly the Windows NT kernel is older than 25 years, and is still making money. And it's not alone. My own company is still actively developing and selling a pro
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Linux will run on "anything" and is especially good on old OSS. So I feel like MS is the least affected by this whole proposal. Equally, nothing stops you running XP on the device forever. (There are plenty devices out there that
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by bruce511 9mo ago
No, he means recycling the boxes not the pizza inside the box. The pizza itself can be literally given away (although if not on the premises, then presumably a box would be required.)

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