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by gernb 4y ago
The society with the most cyclists disagrees with you. I'm confident their bike safety record is better than countries with mandatory helmet laws. https://www.google.com/search?q=dutch+cyclists+don%27t+wear+... Your ar
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by gernb 4y ago
Yes, and In Japan you can eat raw chicken at plenty of restaurants https://www.google.com/search?q=%E9%B3%A5%E5%88%BA%E3%81%97&... it's good.
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by gernb 4y ago
I thought this was going to be about the fact that the traditional way of step 2 > 2. Air is pumped into the crevice between the duck’s skin and meat, allowing the skin to balloon and separate from the meat. Is to blow the duck up like a
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by gernb 4y ago
In markdown My favorite number is probably the number 1. It's the smallest natural number that is > 0. With pencils, though, I prefer a # 2. is a paragraph, a list item, a block quote, and a heading (4 things).
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by gernb 4y ago
The odds of replacing markdown and all it's issues seem nearly impossible given its ubiquity and I've run into many of those problems but, this seems just as arbitrary in many ways, For example: > Block-level elements can'
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by gernb 4y ago
The advice being complained about also seems to leave out things like, there are 2 basic kinds of earwax, wet & dry https://www.google.com/search?q=kinds+of+earwax they require different care Western medicine says &quot
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by gernb 4y ago
Do you wear a helmet when you walk? 800k people a year get injuries from falling while walking. Would you be for a mandatory walking helmet law?
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by gernb 4y ago
I'm already suspicious many posts here on certain topics are (a) bots or (b) plants (as in people paid to promote certain ideas/products)
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by gernb 4y ago
Google uses it. My fiction is someone got a kickback and/or owns stock
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by gernb 4y ago
the artificial bokeh in current phones it good enough for most people. It might not be what you want, but the same is true of every part of a smartphone camera. is night shooting as good on a phone? No, but is the computationally enhanced n
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by gernb 4y ago
I'd be curious to know what other markets have diminished because of smartphones * Flashlights? Sure a smart phone is not a good flash light but it's often enough * paper notebooks? I'm just guessing the majority of people ke
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by gernb 4y ago
beyond meat sucks imo. It tried and it seemed very bean paste like in texture. whereas Impossible Burger was much much closer to burger.
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by gernb 4y ago
Because as visually interesting as his films are they are barely watchable. I love how insane they are and I love the imagery but I've never watched one twice.
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by gernb 4y ago
Can't devs who want to target Vulkan just use MoltenVK? https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
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by gernb 4y ago
There has arguably been no market for Mac games. Until M1, Macs didn't have good enough GPUs for many games. There were no "Gamer macs" (Macs with good enough GPUs to run top end games) And, AFAIK, there's very little ma
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by gernb 4y ago
AFAIK cycle detection does not tell you if a program will halt, only that a program has a cycle. while(random() != 0) { wait(1second); } will this halt? You can use cycle detection to reject programs that have cycles as &quo
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by gernb 4y ago
Slightly different but I find it super confusing when search shows maps. For example https://www.google.com/search?tbs=lf:1,lf_ui:9&tbm=lcl&q=clo... This looks like maps but it's not, it's search, so the U
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by gernb 4y ago
For me, about once a week it's "hey siri?" (no response, no icon), "hey siri?" (no response, no icon), "hey siri?" (louder) (no response, no icon), "hey siri?" (louder and slower) (no response, n
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by gernb 4y ago
Natural language conveys information to other people just fine. So the problem isn't that "Natural language is a fundamentally wrong vehicle to convey information to a computer". The problem is getting the computer to underst
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by gernb 4y ago
> an assistant that's integrated into the OS and can change any setting That sounds like a security nightmare. Someone walks by and starts changing your system settings? No thank you
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by gernb 4y ago
Google used to have Caja https://github.com/googlearchive/caja
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by gernb 4y ago
what do you mean by "pixel exact". svg definitely renders differing amounts of pixels on my different devices. one with dpr 2.0, one with dpr 3.0, one with dpr 1.25
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by gernb 4y ago
I learned to announce my point when complaining as in saying "I'm just kvetching, I'm not looking for a answer" or similar phrase.
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by gernb 4y ago
There is absolutely nothing a website can do that an app can't. Apps can do more to profile you than a website.
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by gernb 4y ago
Phones would be useless if they were not interoperable. It's fine to have a proprietary messaging system but at some point, when it gets large enough, it needs to play nice.
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by gernb 4y ago
Because in the US (except NYC), all public transporation is seen as something for poor people where as in most other countries public transportation is for everyone.
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by gernb 4y ago
maybe zebra skin has a different oder. They said they used pelts.
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by gernb 4y ago
The crazy thing is Google, Microsoft, Amazon (and I'm pretty sure Apple and Meta too) have Web3 stuff https://cloud.google.com/web3 https://mybuild.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/dce02ee4-1c0d-4
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by gernb 4y ago
> > I tend to feel disturbed by how little it presents as reporting, and instead, how much it appears to have an agenda. > If you don't read the news, then you're at risk of lacking important contextual knowledge about so
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by gernb 4y ago
loved Super 8. Have watched it several times. It's his best movie IMO.

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