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by dmitriid 4y ago
> So I think "as far as the 70s" is fairly misleading As far as the 70s refers to efforts to create whiter and more reflective paint.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> EU has just decided that this half billion of consumers will be downgraded to the third world standard of living (google "Fit for 55") "Fit for 55 is a package by the European Union designed to reduce the European Union&
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by dmitriid 4y ago
You'd be surprised. Efficiency is rarely about how many steps it takes to get there. And even taking into account all the steps that you call inefficient, ICE cars are still 20-50% cheaper to buy. And with electricity prices what they
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by dmitriid 4y ago
No. It was just a reflection if what these fines are, and why they come about.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Strange how you don't seem to realize that all these "ideas for fines" come years or decades after the "efficient and self-regulating free market" ends up what it will always end up: entrenched monopolies, moats, li
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You'll end up without any sort of cohesive art style and you'll have random variations in quality level. Oh look: exactly the result with AI tools. Did you miss the point where the author went through multiple variations, had
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Total cost of ownership is reduced significantly with BEVs Is it? With the electricity prices what they are and sparse infrastructure I doubt BEVs have a lower cost of ownership. At least in Europe. > oil infrastructure is obviously
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by dmitriid 4y ago
BEVs are unaffordable pretty much everywhere (if there are no government subsidies). Every single BEV model seems to be 20-50% more expensive than its ICE counterpart. And the "cheap" ones are something like Renault Tweezy, useles
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by dmitriid 4y ago
More than that, Polestar is a Volvo.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I've run into weird situations where either curl or wget wouldn't be installed by default, so I use... whatever :) But usually curl.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Still no name or this mysterious better client. And what happens when I need something more, or something else? I need to find a different "better client"?
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It's just one HTTP client. curl supports 28 transfer protocols [1] > There are better ones. curl has 60 language bindings, runs on 89 operating systems across 24 CPU architectures [1] So what is that mythical better client (tha
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I didn't get why fewer lines of code is better. There have been a few studies showing that bugs-per-line-of-code is pretty consistent from language to language. So, if you can reduce the number of lines needed, you reduce the numb
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Also known as Crossing the Chasm: https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/book-summary-crossing-the-chasm...
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> All of the advice in that article isn't going to bring your server latency for an API call down from 1000ms to 30ms, but rather from 30ms to 25ms. Of course it will. If your backend service is already suboptimal, and running at 10
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by dmitriid 4y ago
You had a trash can/bin/bucket at home and you'd empty it into a dumpster or garbage chute.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Note how you don't have to strain your pinky to hit ctrl for any of these? Note how insanely context-dependent all these are? How it's completely different commands for what is essentially the same operation? Keys can be rema
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Those who relied on anything were decimated in the bubble of 2001. Also, you're pretending that all of those sites were making a profit, or operated under the assumption of making a profit. There was a lot of money thrown at any and
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Ah, so we're arguing in bad faith. Yes and no. My very first reply pointed out exactly what I found incredible in your story. If we're sticking to anecdotal data, over 22 years as a programmer I've never seen those amazi
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> But only some of that was paid by ads. Ah yes. They were paid by altruists who had the foresight to know that 30 years later they will be able to track everyone and collect their dues.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> If you're talking about language integration, I've got no quarrel with that I am. Because we are talking about these mythical Java programmers who couldn't do something that Vim would have done in seconds > I won&#x27
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> But I've had enough of these conversations that I can assure you that this low a bar is needed for some people to skip important jobs. If your doubt applies to the usefulness of knowing the system No. My doubt extends to "omg
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> would involve 10 minutes of drudge work in their simplistic editors, instead opting for "deploy & pray" when the task was totally doable in a couple of seconds with a Vim macro. I really very much doubt this. Sounds like
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It's clearly more conducive to solving problems to be able to move around our environment more quickly. Then vim ain't it. My "vim-empowered" colleagues spend significantly more time trying to find symbols, relate
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Everything is much more fun when it's paid by someone else, that's why the old web was so nice. What are you talking about? The old web was filled with ads. They just weren't tracking you every nanosecond of your life. G
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by dmitriid 4y ago
All of the browser vendors are supportive, all had initial prototypes etc. Speculation: The spec is still a Working Draft aka: comments welcome from anyone, may drastically change. Chrome already intends to ship soon. It's quite possib
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by dmitriid 4y ago
His speech is not worth the paper it was written on. Calling out one obvious lie: "It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force." In September Russia "held"
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by dmitriid 4y ago
So how is it different from Tailwind? Every design system I've come across contains any combination of: - rigid inflexible components that need complex overrides even for the simplest cases - multiple classes with seemingly innocuous n
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> However, if you're using HTML without a JS framework, Tailwind can be superior to BEM and global styles, but still not as much as CSS modules, CSS-in-TS, and the like, due to maintainability concerns. How are you going to maintain
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> we now (almost) have the technology to build personal assistants that actually work That parenthetical "almost" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting.

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