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by headmelted 5y ago
There absolutely are high warranty Diesel engines. That doesn't mean they'll last that long - a lot of those warranties are subsidised by servicing. Even with that said (and as detailed above) there are so many other parts to a
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by headmelted 5y ago
Diesels, in general, are notoriously unreliable. The only very selective myth I still hear repeated is that diesel engines are more durable now than they were, which isn’t saying much, and skirts around just how much else can and regularl
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by headmelted 5y ago
It might. If your office is in your home you may have more flexibility to get things done on an ad hoc basis if that were necessary (like something takes down production or someone needs something urgently). If that were the case when ever
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by headmelted 5y ago
To extend this, more useable time with family. For many people with younger children (and therefore early evening bedtimes), having or not having a commute is not a difference of an hour or two of your day - it's the difference bet
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by headmelted 5y ago
I’m not advocating for surrender, I’m simply pointing out the reason why it’s complicated.
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by headmelted 5y ago
This seems like an incredibly bold assumption to roll the dice on, you know, given you’re talking about almost all life on Earth . I’ve also never heard of a defence system that can pluck that many missiles out of the air. The closest I’ve
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by headmelted 5y ago
They have nukes. They’ve indicated they will use them.
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by headmelted 5y ago
I’m not arguing for or against, I’m just pointing out that trading the possibility of data loss in the few seconds after a power cut for a difference of this magnitude actually makes sense in a lot of use cases. My point above was that the
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by headmelted 5y ago
Honestly I don’t know. The order-of-magnitude performance difference in deferring the flush feels worth it to me if the risk is mitigated to sudden power loss. I would think when the last of Apple’s hardware moves to ARM they’ll ensure ther
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by headmelted 5y ago
Also Europe here, and leaving aside what others have said about how everyone is invested in the stock market whether explicitly or not (which is entirely true), this rings true for me as well - it's also backed up by data. In the US, t
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by headmelted 5y ago
Facts. Your GP isn’t a genius, and they’re more often than not just reading the solution from webmd the same way you might look it up on stackoverflow. I know this because my GP flat out told me this is the case. It’s certainly a job that r
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by headmelted 5y ago
Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to have ICs that aren’t space-constrained be modular in these applications? In a phone or laptop, obviously it would take too much physical space to have such components be changeable, but for vehicles and
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by headmelted 5y ago
Not disagreeing with this (although my understanding is that there have been studies that show vaccination has been more effective), but how would you seperate the unvaccinated / previously-infected-and-recovered cohorts? Even by recon
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by headmelted 5y ago
Increasingly I feel like this is one of those pieces of metadata that we should be moving out of the page. I would suggest moving it into the browser (i.e. read a meta tag or header) but the obvious problem is that they’ll just be forged an
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by headmelted 5y ago
This article is quite frustrating in a few ways because I feel like it misses the point on both sides of the fence: Google’s ethos was clearly to throw a bunch of teams at the problem and see what sticks. From a planning perspective it migh
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by headmelted 5y ago
I get this with regards to Van Gogh, and I assume a thousand Van Gogh’s we never got to hear about or appreciate. I wasn’t suggesting at all that he should’ve given up if he wasn’t making money. I’m just saying that there are easily hundred
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by headmelted 5y ago
I mean, OK, but one could also argue that the reason a given artist is struggling is because their work is not highly valued in the first place. Maybe the artist is making under-appreciated contributions, or maybe their work is just not goo
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Safari 15 bug can leak your recent browsing activity and personal identifiers(theverge.com)
8 points by headmelted 5y ago|1 comments
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by headmelted 5y ago
Because you just picked a randomly favourable date from an escalating speculative asset?
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by headmelted 5y ago
You might as well say that the team that enjoys a beer and meets up to watch the game on a Sunday is ignoring product quality. You’ve no basis to point to social causes or anything else and say “something is causing a stink round here and i
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by headmelted 5y ago
I don’t think conflating inclusivity and/or diversity action with specific product issues is helpful or comes off well here.
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by headmelted 5y ago
There’s so much nuance to it though. Sure, each of the “big three” work well enough these days for most tasks, but there’s more to it than just compatibility. macOS has pretty unobtrusive systems in place for code signing and only running s
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by headmelted 5y ago
So very much this. We’re now at a point where the widespread and rampant destruction that’s been wrought in the name of agile is so bad that it’s not reasonable to say “oh you’re not doing it properly”. That excuse could be used to avoid re
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by headmelted 5y ago
Is it factually incorrect, though? They may not have a legal duty to maximise profits, but investors will expect them to do so - and negative reactions in the stock price would be expected if they were to support unionisation within their b
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by headmelted 5y ago
I love that this was written like 8 years ago, and that if it gets further up the page it will get the HN lovehug. The author won't know why or what's going on, just that there's a lot of news.ycombinator.com referrer traffic
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by headmelted 5y ago
This is downvoted, I assume because people are maybe disagreeing with the principle rather than the validity of what you said. A lot of large companies clearly do look at unions as something that forces them to pay more compensation for l
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Sidney Poitier Has Died (aged 94)(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by headmelted 5y ago|1 comments
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by headmelted 5y ago
I’ll go out on a limb here and just guess that this boss lives to bash the self-confidence of subordinates. I realise there’s not a lot of evidence in what you said, but: 1) This is your first job, you’re not expected to know better. Your
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by headmelted 5y ago
headmelted tried to think of how headmelted would even phrase an answer to this question either way and quickly got very confused.
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by headmelted 5y ago
I’m picturing Richmond from The IT Crowd and it really makes me wonder what happened to Sten. Sten has been through the dotcom bust. And 2008. And the crypto mess. And a pandemic. Sten’s blog would be mesmerizing.

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