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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
At least once a week. I commute 120 miles round trip one day a week, 180 miles 1-2 times a month, and 300+ miles 6-10 times a year. I also have 3 kids, a dog, and don't live near a city. If I lived in a city dogless and childless somet
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> (only when visiting relatives, when I typically drive and we take a PHEV). But the RA was too great, so we got another PHEV. It has been useful at times to be able to both go 50+ miles in a day without any concern After the Leaf, we en
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(2014 Leaf leaseholder here) At the time we were a 2-car household and used the gas car for longer trips. That being said, there were a few times we had to scramble: Once, when it was very cold my wife and I both needed to drive a long dist
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This is the kind of misleading fact that motivated me to make my post. (Former 2014 Leaf leaseholder.) Americans buy the car for the 1% trips. In my case, most of my car trips are short, but most of my milage is from long-range trips. Wha
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FYI: For "how-tos" like this I try to avoid "adult" content like smoking. (Even though the stuffie holding a joint and lighter is hilarious.) This is the kind of content that young techies and artists gobble up, and it&#
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> It remains to be seen whether the Olinia One will face similar pushback from the U.S. once it goes on sale. > can travel up to 125 kilometers (77 miles) on a single charge The US market generally rejects small-range EVs, except in v
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I lived in Silicon Valley for almost a decade, and stuck my fingers in the startup scene for awhile. One thing I learned is that a some people running startups are "poker players." They run the company to keep up appearances: Thei
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> is clearly managed by too ambitious people and will never succeed I was with a startup for almost a decade. During that time it had four different owners. At one point it was "clearly managed by too ambitious people and will never
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
That really varies significantly depending on the underlying OS. On Windows, you can do threaded (IE, your thread blocks) or async (you have a callback) IO. There isn't a requirement to spin up a background thread to perform non-blocki
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Back when Node was the new kid on the block, the single-threaded async model was justified by pointing out that the major challenge with multithreading was shared memory. It's one of the strong points of the language / environment
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Years ago I did "multithreaded Javascript" by calling into Rhino (Javascript engine) from multiple threads. Granted, I converted Rhino from JVM to CLR, so it wasn't exactly a stable environment, but it did "work".
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
The discussions about the resistance to change are useful to anyone who is trying to bring tech to the marketplace.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I kind of wish there was some kind of way to be licensed as a professional (or amateur) in a way that could be used to block AI-originating PRs. Not that it would be perfect, but if I could set the bar to "only licensed software engine
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I think it's obvious that's not what the poster is looking for.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Did you mean something else? GitHub is based on Git. Git isn't a platform for hosting source code, it's a program / protocol that GitHub and other platforms use.
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What about equipment with more than three primaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth#More_than_three_pr...
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A lot of this comes across similar to describing how the upper range of human hearing is 27khz, not 20khz and commonly believed, and where to hear these. Hint: If you listen to a live orchestra without amplification, and the sound "spa
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
It's not always about profits, it's about the user experience. In the late 1990s, almost everyone was on AOL and spent a lot of time using it. Now Facebook has a lot less usage.
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FYI: The look is more 16-bit than 8-bit. 8-bit platforms like the NES typically showed less colors on screen than their 16-bit successors.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I'm looking at AI in a product as a way to tell it what to do without me needing to look up what I want to do... And it usually doesn't do that. For example: I wanted to make a pie chart in Excel of 5 cells, so I selected them and
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I once got the heebie-jeebies about an API and on instinct ended up protecting an application from the "macOS Keychain Access Control List (ACL) Zero-Day vulnerability". This article just sounds like heebie-jeebies, at best it&#x2
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
I think there is a shift here that a lot of people don't recognize. If you worked in TV in the early days, especially when TV was highly experimental and the standards changed every year, you probably did a lot of hands-on engineering
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Around 2010 I used to point out to Facebook engineers that "Facebook is the new AOL."
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You can sell your house and roll the equity over to another one in a cheaper area. Depending on how you do it, you might even move into one with no loan or a tiny loan.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Uh, no; it's worth skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma to understand. Innovation always disrupts something else. > Initially, the rhetoric was about creating new things, building co
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Space exploration requires significant software development. Take a look at the Apollo 11 movie: There was quite significant computing power for the 1960s putting a person on the moon.
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> The long fix required to use an internal cache to account for these cases That's because the OS does the same thing too. It's the right fix, when I implemented something similar, we implemented caching right away.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
> They are recognizing themselves in their economic policy framework that the lowest level of unemployment potentially caused would be 5% (they also mention 10% and "unprecedented levels of unemployment"). Every tech boom I&#x2
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Hey, think critically about where you are on the internet. You're on a message board run by YCombinator, who's stated goal is to teach people to run startups. Startups are inherently disruptive. When one business disrupts anothe
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
When I was 11 or 12 I powered an incandescent bulb with an exercise bicycle. I think it was 40 or 60 watts. I can totally understand why that guy was exhausted: 60 watts wasn't hard for me, because I used to ride uphill every day after

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