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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The kind of facility and services provided are quite expensive. What I think is more frustrating is that they aren't upfront about the costs; although I think many of the residents wouldn't live there if they were upfront about
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Wrong country! (Joke)
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The article doesn't mention which vehicle. The Model S and X have truly retractable door handles. The Model 3 and Y have flush door handles that you need to push in to get the latch to pull out. As far as I know, the 3/Y handles
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> Was there a rash of children jumping out of cars that lead to its creation? No, there was a rash of carjackings in the 1990s. It was where someone would walk up to a car stopped at an intersection and open the door.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The thing that I like about that projection is that it shows just how close North America and Russia really are.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
It's just adding friction: Someone determined will figure out a way to get the text. Sometimes friction is enough.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I started encrypting database IDs and deriving GUIDs from that.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Entry-level jobs are also hard to get when there is a hiring slowdown; and in the US there is a hiring slowdown. Is this a case of "correlation does not imply causation?"
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I follow the motto: "Don't spread yourself thin." What I try to do is get into the core of whatever product I work on, as close to the beginning of the product's creation. Then, I implement "good enough" soluti
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
My first HD TV was a tube. The picture was flat, but it did have overscan. Compared to today's TVs, it was small. (~30") Even though there were some aspects of the tube that were nicer, I'm not going back. I don't want t
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
"Choose boring technologies" For many software projects, you don't want to take technical risk on something like a UI framework. React is now boring. Personally, I want a browser UI framework that's more like desktop&#
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> It is possible that, not too long in the future, every home could also have a 1 MegaWatt-hour battery. They would be able to capture all the excess solar power generated in a year. Seems like we'll get to a point where adding extr
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
No, it means computing has gotten so %$#@ cheap that it's cheaper to just cobble together cheap parts instead of spending the money to design a purposed device.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> The Amish do not live an 1800 lifestyle. For example, if someone is sick and needs to go to the hospital, they use a phone to call an ambulance to take them there. The Amish are very deliberate about what changes they incorporate into
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
They were. Other news reports indicated that some tried to hide in sewer ponds. Some of the workers were on tourist visas. It's very disappointing. I just bought an Ioniq 9 and it's a great car. I'm really bothered, at both
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> I think most childcare is a lot more of a free for all than parents think, rather than some sort of well designed experience. That's important and healthy. Kids need time to play, and part of that is being a "free for all.&qu
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Makes me wonder how easy/hard it is to write a library in Rust and expose it to other languages.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> I believe museums exist to present the real thing for the visitor to experience with their own senses. Here’s the sculpture — the actual piece of stone, two thousand years old, Greek sculptor unknown — now go ahead and form your impres
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> And where it looks like the budget has been going are the screen rooms. They occupy the huge central spaces on the main floor of the museum, and I’m sure a lot of time, money, and passion went into these things. But it’s misguided. It
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> Your largest users eventually stop posting if you don't pay them (because they can go elsewhere after using your platform as a springboard: see Vine) I don't think that's as big as a problem as you do, as long as you don
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I stayed at home with my mom until I was old enough for school. My wife and I sent our kids to daycare. Our kids are fine. Turns out kids need a lot of time with other kids.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Yes, I turned that off immediately.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> As a result, domestic technology firms like Naver and Kakao have cornered the market for mapping services, making navigation harder for foreign visitors unfamiliar with their platforms.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I wonder if some of Youtube's behavior was responsible for inflating the number of views. For example, after searching on my phone, some of the videos in the search results would play silently without me selecting the video. Then, the
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The term in this case is "new old stock:" As in, a product that was manufactured, kept in its original packaging, and "unopened and unused". (Although there's some allowances for the vendor to test because you don&#
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> In the software development / security world, someone reporting a vulnerability to you is one of the greatest things one human can do for another. Depends on context. When it's a knowledgeable user reporting the issue, you&#x
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Gotta give the kids credit for working so hard to learn a skill like that.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> I was concerned kids could harass one another using codes If you even had to think about if a site like this is appropriate for teenagers, the problem isn't kids harassing each other.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I skimmed the article. I'm curious about CPU / RAM overhead tradeoffs. IE, in may cases GC is more CPU efficient than reference counting, but the tradeoff is higher RAM consumption.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Engineering is about tradeoffs. When I write in Rust, the process uses very little RAM. BUT, I often spend a lot of time working through ownership issues and other syntax sugar to prove that memory is cleaned up correctly. When I write in

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