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by drtz 3y ago
Can't speak for California or LA, but in Dallas we had a plastic bag ban for a short period and it was sold as a way to reduce local litter, not reduce greenhouse emissions or protect the climate. I didn't realize how effective it
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by drtz 3y ago
> The market never lies. I suppose you weren't paying much attention in 2008.
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by drtz 3y ago
I once did a lunch and learn at work where I tried to teach coworkers how to use vim efficiently. It turned out to be the absolute worst lunch and learn I ever did. It's just so unintuitive and trying to teach it in a "here are so
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by drtz 3y ago
Your comment is a perfect example of how this kind of data can be misinterpreted and distorted, intentionally or otherwise. There is no information in these charts about the test scores of those admitted.
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by drtz 3y ago
But it is for stability. Try making a straight fence with no posts and see how stable it is.
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by drtz 3y ago
The problem with TypeScript isn't the lack of reflection. The problem is that at runtime its type system is still Javascript in all its glory. Workarounds are just band-aids on the underlying mess at best.
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by drtz 3y ago
Read it and review the change. Just because something is difficult to automate doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
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by drtz 3y ago
I canceled Prime a while back, and I couldn't believe how full of dark patterns Amazon is when you're not a Prime member. "Free" shipping can easily turn into $6-$12 if you're not careful at checkout.
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by drtz 3y ago
This is actually good analogy. OG will definitely throttle your breadsticks if you eat too many by taking their sweet time bringing another basket.
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by drtz 3y ago
Elon publishes commentary and opinions about policy and society to his Twitter account regularly. He probably has a much broader reach than NPR. To say he shouldn't be held to the same standards because he's not a "publisher&
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by drtz 4y ago
While having fewer computer controls in our cars may beneficial in some ways, theft-prevention is certainly not one of them. My dad had an early-80s Ford pickup when I was a kid. The cylinder in its ignition switch was broken in a way that
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by drtz 4y ago
> Most of the time the Gateway module has a static firewall - basically fixed routing tables so only modules that need to will be allowed to talk to each other. This was exactly my thought. If the headlights, and any other easily access
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by drtz 4y ago
Encrypting everything on the CAN would be overkill and probably cost-prohibitive for manufacturers. Not all messages need to be encrypted -- just the ones that allow you to disable the immobilizer.
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by drtz 4y ago
I don't think it's that the charge is "weak," necessarily. This would have been a huge charge for someone in Trump's political position 10 or 20 years ago. Even today, pretty much any other politician would have the
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by drtz 4y ago
My take: If we want to keep electing criminals as president, then we should be willing to keep charging them with crimes. This isn't a parking ticket, it's misusing campaign funds to help get oneself elected president.
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by drtz 4y ago
Ask yourself two questions: 1. What is the ultimate AI are we trying to eventually build? 2. What are the consequences if we eventually succeed in building such an AI? For me, the answers would be 1. A general AI that would equal and surpas
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by drtz 4y ago
After test driving a Model Y, I have to admit the touch screen-only interface wasn't _as_ bad as I thought it was going to be. That being said, mechanical controls are superior for tasks that need to be done while driving: I'm thi
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by drtz 4y ago
This actually looks like a really practical design to me. Maybe I've been driving the wrong cars, but I don't expect to be able to feel around blindly to find the right button to press (although, to be honest, that does seem like
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by drtz 4y ago
This really isn't a big deal if you use credit card policy to your advantage. When I canceled a subscription to a local paper (Dallas Morning News), their policy said I had to call to cancel. Instead, I sent an email informing them I w
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by drtz 4y ago
I first saw this years ago, shortly after starting my first professional Java dev job, and I thought it was hilarious at the time. I have since found that Java itself steers developers in this direction and this type of naming is actually q
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by drtz 4y ago
> CDC estimates Salmonella bacteria cause about 1.35 million infections, 26,500 hospitalizations, and 420 deaths in the United States every year. Food is the source for most of these illnesses. https://www.cdc.gov/salmone
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by drtz 4y ago
Regarding video games > This is objectively a worse experience than I grew up with (and it costs a whole lot more too.) This is objectively wrong. Inflation-adjusted Nintendo console launch prices have been trending downward since the 80
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by drtz 4y ago
> As history shows us, agriculture for profit is far cheaper and more effective than collective farms. I doubt the accuracy of this statement. But I'll make a largely-unsubstantiated claim of my own, nonetheless: for-profit agricult
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by drtz 4y ago
Anecdotally, this type of behavior seemed to be the norm in the late 90s / early 2000s. I remember having a domain my parents' had registered for their business. My parents forgot to pay the bill on it one year, and the registrar
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by drtz 4y ago
> There were people who used to use Google Reader without any of its social network shenanigans. I was even blissfully ignorant to the existence of these social features in Google Reader until this moment.
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by drtz 4y ago
This is the result of optimizing for storage constraints. Storage is expensive on the ETH blockchain, so compiled bytecode is sent to the blockchain instead of raw source.
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by drtz 4y ago
There has been a move toward centralization in the NFT space with Opensea and Magiceden marketplaces completely dominating the space, largely to the detriment of projects and / or users. One recent example: project royalties are now op
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by drtz 4y ago
Someone should build a good, open, web API-based search for OSM data. Not everyone cares about 100% offline capabilities, and improving search would be a massive gain in usability for OsmAnd and other OSM clients.
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by drtz 4y ago
Google Maps has been a really garbage experience for me lately, so much so that I've been actively looking for alternatives. Sadly, there aren't many. Some of problems I've had with Google Maps recently: - Routing gives me we
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by drtz 4y ago
Do you truly see no difference between a lie that leads to someone getting harmed and a truth that leads to the same outcome? Your argument seems disingenuous. > Following the logic you're laying out, I don't think it's th

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