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by jwalton 4y ago
> That's theoretical. I would agree, but then I also would have agreed with this sentiment about much of what Snowden revealed. If you want to be paranoid, may as well go all in.
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by jwalton 4y ago
As someone who recently had to do some work on a project running node 0.12, you are not wasting your time. (I can’t even use destructuring assignments, because JS didn’t have them back then. -_-)
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by jwalton 4y ago
What makes you think the top google result wasn’t written by chatgpt? I came across an article on volleyball the other day that was the top hit for what I was searching for - halfway through the article there was a paragraph about a famous
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by jwalton 4y ago
Canadian cars use KPH because they’re required to by law. My Canadian Hyundai showed the temperature in F when it was new off the lot and every time I disconnect the battery, and there’s a crazy secret set of button pushes I have to do in
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by jwalton 4y ago
Back when you needed a carrier to hold the CD-R on the drive.
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by jwalton 4y ago
Yes, but there’s no first amendment in Canada. There’s the Charter of Rights and Freedoms at the federal level, and the Charte des droits et libertés de la personne at the provincial level.
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by jwalton 4y ago
> 99% of the time that someone decries the "death of free speech", it boils down to them not wanting to hear criticism for expressing ignorant or hateful ideas. OP hasn’t made any claims (that I can see) that they wish to avoid
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by jwalton 4y ago
All of The Expanse audiobooks were narrated by Jefferson Mays, except for the third book where they got some other guy to do it. Fans were so upset by this that they basically forced the company making to audiobooks to re-record the whole
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by jwalton 4y ago
My Synology’s host name is “orac”. :)
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by jwalton 4y ago
What makes you think they didn’t predict this? Corel (if you’re old enough to remember Corel Draw) had a bit of a name for hiring a ton of new employees when a project was starting or needed headcount, and then laying them all off when they
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by jwalton 4y ago
Let’s say you owned several dozen music venues all over the country. Let’s say another company sued you. Would you find photos of all the lawyers who work at the law firm representing your legal rival, and distribute those photos to all o
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by jwalton 4y ago
If anyone else is looking for how to opt out: https://account.adobe.com/privacy
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by jwalton 4y ago
I have a number of friends who, a decade ago, jumped down the super woke rabbit hole. They’re quite far from academia - in fact the one thing that ties most of them together is that they didn’t bother going to university and then spent a l
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by jwalton 4y ago
> That 2k cost for electricity you mentioned is for people charging at home This is very true. Although I would point out in the older EVs, they charge just fine from a straight 120V socket, since they don’t have enough range to warrant
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by jwalton 4y ago
> The readership for hacker news skews wealthier, I know, but truly, there are a lot of people who buy cars for 5-10k and drive them for the next 8-10 years, with rarely an incident. This is EXACTLY who should be buying an electric car.
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by jwalton 4y ago
> But.. disability is abnormal and negative? Even if we were to accept that disabilities were not negative, a blind review is a good thing - it’s a review that’s more fair than a non-blind review. So if there’s nothing wrong with being
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by jwalton 4y ago
I’m in Canada, and live on a high traffic street. Not sure how it works in other countries, but here Amazon runs their own courier service called Intelcom. I can guarantee if I bought a $1000 item from Amazon, they’d dump it on my front p
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by jwalton 4y ago
Steam has a whole FAQ about this: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/783F-5E0F-9834-22...
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by jwalton 4y ago
The thing is though, at least in the US and Canada, the law explicitly says you can swap out parts in your car with third party parts, and auto makers are not allowed to void your warranty. A heated seat is really just a coil in the seat yo
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by jwalton 4y ago
With the odds of winning at 1:292201338, the expected value of a single powerball ticket is still very much $0. You would need to buy hundreds of millions of tickets to see a positive expected value.
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by jwalton 4y ago
This is still malware, it’s just malware written by Google.
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by jwalton 4y ago
It is somewhat ironic that this is posted on Twitter, where if I try to read it, once I scroll down too far Twitter demands I create an account to keep reading.
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by jwalton 4y ago
How do your have your outgoing mail configured? Up until recently Gmail would let you send email from another domain, but they seem to have shut this down.
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by jwalton 4y ago
When I bought my 386 sx/16, they were all out of 10mb drives, so I bought a 20mb, and my dad thought I was crazy, because that was more space than anyone could ever need. :)
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by jwalton 4y ago
I posted about this elsewhere in the comments, but my experience with day.js is that if you're concerned with these kinds of corner cases, maybe day.js isn't the library for you.[1][2] [1]: https://github.com/iamku
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by jwalton 4y ago
Welllll… “works right now” is perhaps an overly strong assertion when it comes to day.js. I was working on a library we use for parsing "schedules" (like, alarm turns on at 9:00pm on Thursday, and off again at 7:00am on Friday).
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by jwalton 4y ago
My favourite is the “double tap with three fingers to zoom in the display”. This happened to me by accident while my phone is in my pocket. The first time it happened, I had to borrow someone else’s phone to look up how to undo it.
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by jwalton 4y ago
> If a device expects you to require/want cloud access to the data captured/used with the device, do you feel the same way, that it should be optional? A device should not expect me to want cloud access. I’m ok with a device re
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by jwalton 4y ago
That’s 53C.
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by jwalton 4y ago
Most cars last quite a bit longer than 4 years. If the carbon cost was baked into the initial purchase price of the car, the EV would win by miles. Even if it wasn’t, and you only keep your cars for 4 years, you’d be paying the extra co2 r

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