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by foxylad 7y ago
Disagree with maintenance: electric motors are enormously simpler than ICE, and really well understood. Removing high temperatures, fuel, lubrication and exhaust from the system is a huge advantage. Agree on digital scrapheap, although this
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by foxylad 7y ago
Really limiting their demographic though. A little thought and they could have have had all the Candy Crush kids too.
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by foxylad 7y ago
By far the most effective measure is to educate and empower women.
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by foxylad 7y ago
After thirty years of software development, the one principle that keeps recurring is Donald Knuth's "Premature optimization is the root of all evil". It applies on so many levels, including whether to go all in on any softwa
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by foxylad 8y ago
Agree with your main issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code solves this quite nicely, and also the OP's issue of W3W being non-free.
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by foxylad 8y ago
It's actually not that hard, assuming you control your form generation. Bots usually fill in fields using the actual field name - not the label the user sees. So provide a field labelled "Age" but named "email", and
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by foxylad 8y ago
I've often wondered about putting the whole of /etc into a git repository, so any changes (either by software updates, or by myself) were visible and reversible. Does anyone do this, and if not why not?
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by foxylad 8y ago
Thanks for explaining this to us non-USians. So is the current problem is because the president can veto congresses appropriations? In a functioning government this seems sensible so the executive has a symmetric check on congress, but curr
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by foxylad 8y ago
Assange != Wikileaks.
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by foxylad 8y ago
Same for my Cloudflare-fronted Appengine site.
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by foxylad 8y ago
I love OpenSCAD, but can't understand why it's so slow rendering. The viewer does it's own perfect render fast enough to pan/zoom/rotate, but rendering to STL is painfully slow. It would be great to be able to switc
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by foxylad 8y ago
The phone book didn't tell you that someone was an absentee voter.
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by foxylad 8y ago
When I was 18, microcomputer advocates were predicting 3-day working weeks because of all the hum-drum work computers would do for us. I'd like to believe in your dream and I'm not saying it won't come to pass, but we'll
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by foxylad 8y ago
Ah, good point about the air column.
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by foxylad 8y ago
I'm concerned that the test uses a static wing. If you drop a fishing float directly in front of an obstacle in a river, it will be moved with the water around the obstacle, not hitting it. Air is a lot less dense than water, but my in
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by foxylad 8y ago
1. Provide just enough of an argument to allow sympathetic people in their own population to believe they are not monsters. 2. But make the argument weak enough that everyone else knows they are monsters, and can and will kill any opponen
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by foxylad 8y ago
For any kiwi twitter refugees, I'm setting up https://mastodon.nz . Very quiet so far, but fully functional and federation is working well. Come on over!
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by foxylad 8y ago
If it's got USB-C, does it need NFC given most phones have USB-C? Or is the phone USB port incompatible?
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by foxylad 8y ago
Bad ideas certainly can diminish quality of life. Firstly because we can't all agree that they are stupid and move on - the flat earth trolls are actually gaining momentum, and we've been re-litigating creationism for over a hun
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by foxylad 8y ago
r/Javascript/PHP/g # 7 years ago r/Javascript/Visual Basic/g # 14 years ago r/Javascript/Basic/g # 21 years ago Us old/wise/thoughtful folk have denigrated the tools that young/foo
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by foxylad 8y ago
We've been on Appengine for years, and one of the un-intuitive benefits is that when something goes wrong, all you can do is sit back and tell your customers "a team of the best sysadmins in the world are working on it right now&q
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by foxylad 8y ago
Actually "We had a problem, we fixed it, we made sure it won't happen again ." That last bit would be more marketing except that it's true - I've used Google Appengine for years, and the rare outages are always uni
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by foxylad 8y ago
I've become a heavy user of attrs, a small library that makes it easy to replace named tuples with a class that automatically includes initialisation and string representation functions. So I'm very glad to see data classes bringi
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by foxylad 8y ago
Very true, but the federated instances architecture means there will always be small instances. You can choose to migrate from an instance if it gets too big.
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by foxylad 8y ago
This is a huge opportunity for payment services to value-add. Providing automatic sales tax calculation, collection and remittance (including another couple of percent for their trouble) is a no-brainer.
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by foxylad 8y ago
Will foreign companies who sell internet services to US customers have to collect state sales taxes? This would be a serious nightmare. We already limit our sales to Canada because if we go over a relatively low threshold, we'd have t
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by foxylad 8y ago
A good replacement for Twitter. Where "good" means: - Decentralised. Anyone can run their own instance, but instances are federated so everyone on any instance can see your toots (Mastodon's tweets). So if you're paranoi
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by foxylad 8y ago
The "Google abandons everything" meme is getting very tired. Microsoft (and every other tech company) abandon things all the time. For example, Microsoft pulled the plug on an entire eco-system (Windows Phone) after promising deve
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by foxylad 8y ago
You certainly can get responsive support from Google - if you pay for it. we have a silver support contract with Google for Appengine and get good support when we need it. I think the "if you pay for it" is the differentiator. And
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by foxylad 8y ago
What IP address did your request come from? Someone made the point that my request didn't come from Yandex itself, just appeared to be referred from them.

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