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by criddell 6mo ago
Linefeed (\n) is a single byte in DOS as well. I think you are talking about carriage return linefeed pair (CRLF or \r\n), These control codes go back to line printers. Linefeed advances the paper one line and carriage return moves the prin
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by criddell 6mo ago
Agentic engineering? That reads to me a little like amateur oncologist. How are you defining engineering ? Can agentic engineers adhere to a similar code of ethics that a professional engineer is sworn to uphold? https://www.nsp
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by criddell 6mo ago
This might be a dumb question, but for a dedicated Linux computer why would Starlabs choose Intel or AMD over an ARM design? For a Windows computer, x64 makes sense because backwards compatibility is a big deal. But a Linux machine doesn&#x
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by criddell 6mo ago
On Windows Notepad++ uses native controls and (IMHO) that alone makes it much more pleasant to use than Zed.
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by criddell 6mo ago
If you're elderly and are able to evacuate for a hurricane every few years, sure.
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by criddell 6mo ago
I've been reading more about New Orleans situation this morning and my thinking is changing. It would be nice if we could preserve it, but I didn't really understand how bad the situation is. I don't think it's possible
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by criddell 6mo ago
Most people in the US think everybody should have access to basic healthcare but we haven't been able to make that happen. Something like saving New Orleans probably doesn't stand a chance.
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by criddell 6mo ago
Probably not a great place to move to right now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015218
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by criddell 6mo ago
Somebody pointed me to the latest version of the act and it does have the 80% after 1000 charges text. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A... This is the text: > the battery endu
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by criddell 6mo ago
Are you sure the loophole exists? AFAIK, this is the regulation: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1542/oj/eng I don't see that exemption listed. The other ones are, but not that one.
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by criddell 6mo ago
I wish the EU would tackle standardization of tool batteries. It's so stupid that every brand has their own battery system.
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by criddell 6mo ago
My iPhone 13 Mini is almost 5 years old and well over 1000 charges and the battery health app reports 81% which I believe.
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by criddell 6mo ago
On the page linked to it mentions the two exceptions that exempt iPhone and other flagship phones - long lifespan (80% after 1000 charges) and waterproof (IP67). The other exemption criteria is for specialized (medical) devices and devices
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by criddell 6mo ago
A while ago I read about Todd Lappin making his personal car look like a work truck as an urban camouflage project. > This urban camouflage guise is very useful for parking in yellow zones, urban/industrial exploration, and crime de
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by criddell 6mo ago
My car has one of those, but I rarely have to acknowledge it because once I put the car into reverse, the display switches to the rear camera. When I put the car back into drive, the normal display comes up and the message has been cleared.
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by criddell 6mo ago
LLMs seem to be great for speeding up the creation of things that aren't all that hard to write in the first place. They don't seem to be helping much with difficult tasks. Text editor? Easy. That used to be a rite of passage. Lot
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by criddell 6mo ago
My backlog is crazy long. As much as I love TV I don't get nearly as much time to watch it as I'd like. From the last couple of years: * Andor * Black Rabbit * Dune * Last of Us * Percy Mason * The Paper * Pluribus
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by criddell 6mo ago
I’m too much of a cheapskate to carry a balance and pay interest. And it’s my cheapskate tendencies that makes me use the credit card for everything for the benefits.
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by criddell 6mo ago
I haven’t really talked about that kind of stuff with people I know. I could be surrounded by people who have big debt and just don’t know. A quick googling says that about half of all credit card holders carry some kind of balance each mon
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by criddell 6mo ago
No, I don’t know of anybody who has a big credit card debt. I don’t think I’ve ever carried a credit card balance past my payment date. I did have a six-figure debt to a bank and if didn’t make my payments they would take the house from my
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by criddell 6mo ago
The downsides aren’t really self-evident to me. I’ve been using credit cards for everything I can for 35 years and I can’t think of any downsides. Even the cards I’ve had that had annual fees I chose to pay that fee because the benefits wer
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by criddell 6mo ago
I agree with some of that, but not with TV. The best TV shows today are as good as or better than TV has ever been and there's usually an ad-free option. Televised sports is an exception- the number of ads is insane and there's no
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by criddell 6mo ago
Reading is an independent activity, but wandering through a magazine store with friends while you were on your school lunch break wasn't.
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by criddell 6mo ago
That was a great time to be a kid and so much of what I did in that era is gone now. Going with friends to Blockbuster? Hanging out at the arcade? Stopping in at the mall because you will probably run into friends there? From age 15 to 25 I
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by criddell 6mo ago
I agree with a lot of that person wrote. I'm a healthy white guy born in 1970 into a very supportive family in a middle-class town in Canada. I basically won the lottery. I was a kid in the 1970s, a teenager through the 80's and t
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by criddell 6mo ago
Yes we were. Looking at the chart for TFC, the wind and solar case looks even worse. Wind and solar supplies 2 million TJ compared to 36 million for coal. All I was really trying to say from the outset is that I'm surprised at how impo
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by criddell 6mo ago
I didn't interpret it that way because of this line from that page: > [Total Final Consumption] shows the energy that is actually used by final consumers – the energy used in homes, transportation and businesses. I'm not buying
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by criddell 6mo ago
The IEA says[1]: > For all energy sources, the IEA clearly defines energy production at the point where the energy source becomes a “marketable product” (and not before). Doesn't that mean if you are burning coal to make electricity
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by criddell 6mo ago
That chart is measuring joules of energy. I'm not sure efficiency comes into play here, does it? Coal provides 175,000,000 TJ of energy. Solar and wind provide 21,000,000 TJ. I was mostly surprised at how critical coal still is. htt
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by criddell 6mo ago
Looking at the chart in the article I was kind of surprised at how small wind and solar are globally and that coal is still ~25%.

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