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by grues-dinner 2y ago
They're not that heat tolerant. They're fantastic heat conductors, but they'll burn away into carbon dioxide (via carbon monoxide). The temperatures needed to do that are high, around 900C, but that's not that high. An
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This is Gary: his job is to give the machine a solid kick once a day and crack the vacuum seal on Fridays. Gary made us 120 million in imperfections last quarter.
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> fun side projects that a multibillion dollar corporation is doing out of the goodness of their hearts Back then it felt like it was actually just possible that they just were that cool. Noughties Google was really something compared to
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I bought that exact set of red-dipped-handled cheapo rifflers 19 years ago (2005, I remember I was still at school, and I think they came from Maplins, possibly Rapid). They were cheap then too, probably about the same numerical price, perh
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by grues-dinner 2y ago
If you could finally stop humans oxidising, you could keep all that carbon in them nice and sequestered, and massively curtail lifetime carbon-intensive emissions. Another great win for antioxidants: nature's miracle cure for humanity!
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It's a different thing entirely. The former style, in which, I must confide to you, my dear fellow, I have always found an inordinate amount of pleasure in reading, risible though you may reasonably find it to be so, written as it ofte
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by grues-dinner 2y ago
I think they write like this partly because most of a generation or more of bad "copywriters" have been educated by teachers, other bad/amateurish writing, SEO BS artists, and even their own clients that this is good writin
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Amazing. As someone who mainlined Stephen Biesty and David Macaulay books, I think this is brilliant (could do with a few mammoths, though).
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There's an entrance to a car park in Twickenham that's similar. Holly Road is one way, and the car park is on the right. So you turn right into a reversed approach road. Then the leaving traffic doesn't cross the incoming tr
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That they did, but they're servicing massive amounts of debt to be in the position to do so (i.e. to own the company). It's obviously a thing you may do, and it's what PE does do. Just as the article said, it's fundame
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by grues-dinner 2y ago
I remember going to Center Parks maybe 25-30 years ago with my parents and another family (all in one lodge). I also remember humping in bags and bags of food and drink and getting the bikes off the car roofs. Perhaps it's just a retur
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They actually will refund the last month if you haven't used it which is surprisingly non-shitty considering the slew of sneaky tricks to get you into it in the first place. And they do at least have the option of "remind before r
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by grues-dinner 2y ago
I mean, you obviously can get them, they just often come out substantially behind the LHD models, and some of the other (many) manufacturers may not ever provide them. Which, to be fair, has been a problem in ICE cars too. For example, it&#
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by grues-dinner 2y ago
One does wonder, if an AI is so untrustworthy that you pre-emptively hypercorrect(1) its output because you assume it's hallucinating, what the point is of using it to write an authoritative-sounding comment in the first place. (1): h
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by grues-dinner 2y ago
The statistics are right, if both China and India drove on the left it would be more like a 50:50 global split. And right-hand-drive (i.e. left-hand traffic) EVs would be a lot easier to come by.
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> Notable countries that drive on the left include China... Only Hong Kong and Macao drive on the left, mainland China drives on the right.
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> The vast majority of people charge at home Another way to read that statistic is "the away from home charging situation is such a hassle that the vast majority of people without chargers at home don't buy EVs". And the a
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by grues-dinner 2y ago
Perhaps, or maybe people will say "you know in the past, charging your car took under 2 minutes and was always done under a roof, no messing about with cables in the rain and waiting 15 minutes. And a full charge lasted over 1000km!&qu
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I'm sure ICE owners would get over it quickly when they drive away after 3 minutes and the EV is still there being fleeced for overpriced vending machine coffee. Don't get me wrong, EVs are good, and if you can charge at home or w
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by grues-dinner 2y ago
One JS file, one HTML file, one CSS file. Perfection.
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Not with the attitude! An ad-scrubbing AR filter is certainly thinkable, though probably not actually practical as long as strapping goggles to your face in public is considered the preserve of terminal dorks. However, if it did happen, the
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The "function" that instantly drops you out of your app into an advertising funnel if you press the wrong button (the obvious one to press, naturally) while the screensaver is on is a real scumbag move. Just takes one dark pattern
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Maybe everything falls under that. It's taken as read that the goal is supposed to be explosive and/or exponential growth, global takeover and multi-billion valuations for everything from software frippery for getting a birthday v
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I've seen a communal machine with a long IT policy compliant password and logout timer with the account avatar set to a QR code of the password and a barcode scanner provided.
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China's social credit system requires actual recorded offenses to trigger penalties, in particular delinquency in paying fines or tax, not some bank's AI inhaling and rating your Facebook account history. The "Social" in
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That link basically say a unified Social Credit system doesn't actually exist as imagined and the heavily covered Zhima Credit system basically just didn't even work. Though I'm sure there's no shortage of AI snake-oil v