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by kunai 7y ago
This is a perfect example of how Silicon Valley mentality and technocratic solutions often overcomplicate, to a ridiculous degree, the mostly solved challenge of how to get obtainable and affordable high-speed internet in the United State
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by kunai 7y ago
Congestion charges and upzoning would fix that issue, but people with the same outlook on this problem (aka NIMBYs) that you do seem to hate those things as well. People often forget this fact but the vast majority of cities east of the Mis
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by kunai 7y ago
Ride-hailing apps now make that point moot, as do on-demand car rental services like Zipcar and car2go. Nonetheless I've never had a problem getting groceries on and off the bus.
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by kunai 7y ago
Until Robert Moses came along, after which every borough outside of Manhattan got royally screwed with noisy and polluting elevated freeways, demolishing thousands of housing units in the BX and black and brown neighborhoods in Brooklyn and
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by kunai 7y ago
Publix is a southeastern U.S. exclusive. I pity all the smug Bay Area folk who will never get to experience how wonderful this little grocery chain is.
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by kunai 7y ago
Letting megacorporations decide what you do and do not get to do with your personal property isn't really what I would count as a "good thing" in any circumstance. Apple has gotten away with eliminating user freedoms time and
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by kunai 7y ago
People will mention new libraries requiring 64-bit or to reduce the installed size of macOS but I think both of those explanations are (mostly) BS. Microsoft has an unhealthy obsession with backwards-compatibility due to their enterprise ma
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by kunai 8y ago
> The last sentence is ironically funny now that MS is back on top and Apple is slipping, and the article is about the "death" of MS. Well, yes, I'm assuming the irony is part of the reason this was posted here.
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by kunai 9y ago
Building PCs is plenty of fun IRL too -- at least that was the case before the year began, at least. Yeah, cable management might suck, but for the most part fitting together all of these complicated pieces of silicon to create a working ma
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by kunai 9y ago
> People like Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Nikola Tesla and even Elon Musk One of these is certainly not like the others.
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by kunai 10y ago
> For example, you don't have to have been poor to contribute solve poverty. You DO need a level of understanding and context, though. You don't have to be poor to contribute to solving poverty, but you do need to have experien
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by kunai 10y ago
Why do government contractors refuse to use COTS hardware and software? Is it just a bureaucracy thing, tradition, or is there any significant ACTUAL benefit to not using something like RTLinux or QNX for systems instead of the proprietary
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by kunai 10y ago
> did people complain that they weren't able to fly the plane ...no. Turboprop and commercial jet aircraft complemented general aviation, they didn't supplant it. It's part of why I find the autonomous car argument so absu
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by kunai 10y ago
> Democracy is far too important to be left in the hands of the people, it would seem. Very contradictory, and some would say elitist. Many of the problems with our democratic republic system (we don't live in a democracy) arise due
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by kunai 10y ago
Even though it's been the Willis Tower for several years now everyone I know still calls it the Sears Tower.
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by kunai 10y ago
This is the pitfall of not having manual backups for critical systems. I hope this "do-fast, shiny, fix later" culture hasn't spread to SpaceX too. From what I'm seeing Musk wants to prioritize the look and feel of Drago
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by kunai 11y ago
Neither did I. Is it customary for trainers to be capable of supersonic flight? The T-6 we use in the Navy is a turboprop whose flight envelope is well under transonic speeds, let alone supersonic ones.
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by kunai 11y ago
Jesus Christ, 4MB? Did they write the whole thing in machine code?
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by kunai 11y ago
Criticism is fair game; call a respected public servant a "whore" and your entire argument is up for mockery and disqualification, as it ought to be. Keep it classy, and keep sexist and unsubstantiated schoolyard insults out of po
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by kunai 11y ago
ESA and Roscosmos launches are fairly sedate (almost fell asleep watching an Ariane 5 launch), but since the beginning launches managed by NASA have been pretty heavy with theatrics. Someone else mentioned JPL/Curiosity, which is one g
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by kunai 11y ago
I'm fairly certain the Part 1 reveal was intended to be a media machine/hype generator, while more details about the vehicle itself are coming in Part 2.
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by kunai 11y ago
Alsop is an asshat. But Musk decided to stoop to his level and prove him right. This doesn't really bode well for his reputation, and might call into question his bold assertions (especially for SpaceX) and how much water they might ho
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by kunai 11y ago
When we're talking about computer science, we're not talking about learning algorithm complexity theory or binary search trees or discrete math or anything like that — those ideas will always be there for students who want to find
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by kunai 11y ago
I can assure you that the 9-10 hour estimate for the MBP is optimistic at best, and downright misleading at worst. I'm lucky to get 7 hours if I turn down the brightness and do nothing but browse the web and check email (no video or Ou
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by kunai 11y ago
Nope, this was an SP3 with the newer type cover IIRC. Haven't had the chance to see an SB in person yet, but I've heard good things about it.
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by kunai 11y ago
I tried a friend's Surface the other day and got blown away by how smoothly everything ran and how quick Edge was compared to Safari. No hang-ups, no "This application was forced to quit," no opening iTerm and having to kill
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by kunai 11y ago
They still are very ahead — of course, the Merlin and RS-25 are amazing designs, but they're still more of the brute-force American methodology that made the Saturn V so brutally effective at travelling to the moon. The Russian aerospa
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by kunai 11y ago
Vehicle engineering is on an entirely different scale to a mobile device. Imagine having to engineer all of that for one phone — and then as many times over as it takes to equal the volume of an average car — there you have your engineering
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by kunai 11y ago
<3 I'm so sorry about your mother. My sincerest condolences to you and your family.
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by kunai 11y ago
Bowie on Monday, now Rickman on Thursday. Both were 69. Both were fighting cancer. And both were veritable giants both on and off stage. I feel like someone's gutted me of emotion and left me cold and numb — which is kind of funny cons

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