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by hnbad 3y ago
There's a difference between user-swappable and battery-as-a-service. There is a company called NIO that seems to be successfully doing battery-as-a-service in China right now and is trying to expand this platform to Europe. They'
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'm a native German speaker and I have very strong feelings about this because it still trips me up when transcribing number groups by ear. If you ask me to write something down, spell out every digit individually so I don't have
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by hnbad 3y ago
Similarly, the names of the months June and July sound similar in German ( Juni and Juli ), both ending in an ee sound, so when talking over the phone (or radio) the latter is often pronounced with an aye sound instead. German also ha
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by hnbad 3y ago
I can only go by what FB people have told me in person and that was "we use MySQL pretty much just as a k/v store". I think all the people I talked to worked on the frontend rather than MySQL directly though, so if you worked
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'm not sure how people forgot this but Web 2.0 wasn't about Facebook etc as they are today. It was about content creation and blogging and social media was just a way to blog and create content. Web 2.0 was all about networks and
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by hnbad 3y ago
Somehow I didn't expect it to be this blatant but yeah, that's pretty blatant. It's not even a throwaway scene, it's the actual intro to the video.
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by hnbad 3y ago
Unless stated otherwise you should assume IP21 at best or IP20 for an open laptop.
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by hnbad 3y ago
From having talked to Facebook engineers (I suspect Instagram/Threads is a very different beast for historical reasons), Facebook is only built on "PHP and MySQL" in the sense that the statement is technically correct but not
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by hnbad 3y ago
Neither of the two are (or were) simply "Marxist" though. The USSR under Stalin was Stalinist and otherwise Marxist-Leninist at best. China was Maoist and is now more recently Dengist. These ideologies all claim to build on Marx t
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by hnbad 3y ago
After driving a Fisker Ocean I think that car has the opposite problem. It's so responsive and sensitive that it's hard to get your bearings as the numbers become a blur unless you're literally looking straight at them. It&#x
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by hnbad 3y ago
The thing many people overlook is that the USSR was less interested in achieving communism than in co-opting any other attempts at achieving communism. This, in part, led to the Sino-Soviet split and the split with Yugoslavia. But even befo
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by hnbad 3y ago
Explain Jordan Peterson then. The only reason he ended up being "expelled" (and it was more of a resignation than an expulsion really) is because he stopped practicing for years and continued identifying himself with the position
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by hnbad 3y ago
Also if you're in the EU make sure to check the actual SEPA/IBAN code. The first two letters are the country code and if this is supposed to be an organization/institution in your country then those should match most transact
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by hnbad 3y ago
I think the common thread with all such scams is creating a sense of urgency and high stakes. I'd generalize what you said though: if something involves a legal process or supposed pre-existing correspondence, anything crucial will hap
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by hnbad 3y ago
This isn't really surprising. Cons are literally "confidence tricks", i.e. betrayals of social trust, which can be disorienting and distressing, even traumatizing. We know that rape victims, to use an extreme example, often t
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by hnbad 3y ago
I recently came across the tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theory that consumerism has reached its endstate in that companies now intentionally design only good-enough-but-unsatisfying products because those make you more likely to continue shop
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by hnbad 3y ago
IIRC the "rib" thing is especially funny to take literally because it might be a translation error. The original Hebrew word did not necessarily refer to an actual rib. I used to be strongly anti-theist and anti-religion in my tee
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by hnbad 3y ago
Zoe Bee did a video essay[0] on her experience as a ghostwriter producing essentially the kind of junk that is now being automated with LLMs. In her case she was (somewhat unknowingly) paid to write unlicensed Minecraft stories. I think t
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by hnbad 3y ago
Neither do most storefront windows and yet they're often made to reduce the transmission of UV light to protect displayed goods from sunlight or intentionally darkened so they're less transparent when the display is not lit up. Yo
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by hnbad 3y ago
FWIW in Germany there's a requirement for buildings with automatic shutters to have one designated emergency exit window where the shutters can be operated manually. But fire-fighters shouldn't really have much of a problem if the
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by hnbad 3y ago
Well, at the very least the answer would be softening copyright to the point where the kind of sampling that kind of media did is permissible again without clearing every single piece sampled. However that would effectively kill copyright b
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by hnbad 3y ago
> The lack of camaraderie among studios in the industry today makes it difficult for Muppet Babies to find a streaming platform home due to copyright royalties and trademark concerns. Or in other words, they now have to follow the same r
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by hnbad 3y ago
Most of the developed world has radar cameras that take a picture of your car and license plate if you go over the speed limit (plus a margin of error). Sometimes even if you pass a red light. No cops having to "fear for their lives&qu
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by hnbad 3y ago
How is that ironic? Neither accepting nor rejecting "the social order" requires one to be smart. As always in politics the question isn't simply "what do you want" but "why do you want that".
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by hnbad 3y ago
Oh, authority is fine. For example, if you're a medical professional, I'll assume you have more knowledge in that domain and defer to your expertise unless I have reason to suspect you're talking out of your ass and hoping I
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by hnbad 3y ago
Sounds all good and fine until you meet someone on a power trip on a bad day and fit in a bucket they don't like. But in those situations at least what you describe can act as damage control. The number one rule of talking to cops is d
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by hnbad 3y ago
The article is literally called "Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason " so that should answer your question.
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by hnbad 3y ago
The title of the article doesn't mention TUIs (or UIs at all) but I was thinking of a GUI. Specifically it seems I was likely thinking of Pharo (which is '00s not '90s so off by a decade).
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by hnbad 3y ago
I was expecting the author to mention Smalltalk because I distinctly remember people praising Smalltalk for its IDE but I think the IDE I was thinking of is from the late 90s or early 00s.
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by hnbad 3y ago
I found it interesting how the article sets up some ideological traps: it mentions a lack of efficiency, trade value, and so on. But then it explains that the lack of efficiency is required for the increased resilience and that trade value

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