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by m4x 8y ago
This is a very important part of the problem in my view. Pregnancy and child rearing has a real cost for most businesses, and it is not surprising that discrimination occurs as a result. Trying to ignore those issues and simply make discrim
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by m4x 8y ago
Yes, suspend and resume works flawlessly. I almost never shut my XPS down, I just close the lid and suspend when I'm not using it.
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by m4x 8y ago
Wouldn't a 170 lb runner pose the same risk to an elderly person? In all cases it is the responsibility of everybody using the footpath to ensure they don't put others at risk. Runners should feel free to use the footpath as part
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by m4x 8y ago
Power management seems to be poor on a fresh install of most distros, but all you have to do is install tlp to dramatically improve battery life. On 16.04 all I had to do was install it. I didn't have to configure anything (or even ena
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by m4x 8y ago
I've been running Ubuntu 18.04 on my XPS 15 since release, and was running 16.04 for some time before that. Both work really well. Other distros did not work well out of the box. Ubuntu seems to have the out-of-the-box experience naile
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by m4x 8y ago
The original Reveal article [1] didn't get much discussion here, but it's pretty damning. [1]: https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is...
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by m4x 9y ago
We are discussing the use of Autopilot, so it is a fair comparison. Nobody is worried about the safety of a Tesla with autopilot off.
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by m4x 9y ago
I don't understand why people use Autopilot, or why Tesla has released it. To use it safely and according to Tesla's instructions, you have to remain 100% vigilant at all times - so you might as well just drive yourself. And if yo
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by m4x 9y ago
I'm not a battery expert, but I have quite a bit of practical experience repairing UPSs. Battery failures are a very common problem, but battery fires are not. The most common failure mode for a lead acid battery is it just stops worki
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by m4x 9y ago
Somebody has tried to do this [1]. It would be nice to see this analysis from Tesla themselves. As you say, we can probably guess why we haven't. [1]: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107109_teslas-own-numb...
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by m4x 9y ago
Engineers who are held responsible for their work and can go to jail when they get it wrong don't accept work conditions like you describe. Software engineering might be a better profession to work in if it was regulated the same way o
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by m4x 9y ago
Why does that make it infuriating? Calorie counting is still considered the true way to lose weight by most people, despite the fact that it works for almost nobody. This article will convince a few more people that a healthy diet is more i
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by m4x 9y ago
> So, if one isn't careful, it's possible to write a very clean, very nice Lisp DSL which is totally incomprehensible to anybody but the author, and thus hell to maintain over time. You can't really call it a "very ni
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by m4x 9y ago
If you are going to take the view that the neutral does not carry power, then the phase wire does not either. Ignoring volt drop, both wires have a 0V difference between each end and so no power is dissipated in them. Power is only dissipat
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by m4x 9y ago
They are not "thoughtlessly regurgitating" anything. Depression and suicide rates have risen significantly, and they are putting some effort into identifying the cause. This is stated explicitly in the introduction to the article.
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by m4x 9y ago
Another relevant trade off is transformer size vs. efficiency. AC is used because it's very simple to step up to very high voltage for efficient long distance transmission and then back down to safer low voltages for use, while doing t
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by m4x 9y ago
Which of those terms do you not consider modern? As far as I know all those terms are still in cirulation Edit: sorry, I see you probably mean the content of the patent rather than the passage you quoted
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by m4x 9y ago
Their technique doesn't actually do any image analysis at all, since the video stream from the drone is encrypted and they can't view it. Rather, they monitor the bitrate of the video stream and exploit the fact that static/u
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by m4x 9y ago
This is very insensitive. Driving a car is a practical necessity for most people, and genuine accidents do happen. I don't know how you can possibly think it's appropriate to tell somebody who is suffering through the grief of acc
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by m4x 9y ago
I'm pretty sure just surviving will be the "big short". There's no point buying land or other investments in remote locations. When the shit hits the fan you won't have financial or physical access to them. Better t
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by m4x 9y ago
I don't think there are significant technical limitations, it's really just cost and practicality. Trams and busses and trains have been running off overhead lines for a long time, so it clearly works. The main issues are that it
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by m4x 9y ago
The author actually didn't say "with whom do you complain about your spouse", they said "whom do you complain to your spouse about?", which means something totally different.
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by m4x 9y ago
> you know in NZ it is a frequent but macabe quip: it is easier to kill your wife than divorce her I live in NZ and I've never heard anybody say this. You should think twice before repeating horrible comments on the internet. Partic
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by m4x 9y ago
This has not been my experience at all when contributing to HA. Maybe we interacted with different people. They do have strict code standards, but it's hard to argue that's a bad thing.
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by m4x 9y ago
I have no idea what Subaru's reaction would be, but in general you can certainly be held responsible if you allow a bug in self-driving software to cause an accident. The manufacturer simply has to state that while the software is in c
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by m4x 9y ago
There are already a bunch of open solutions. You can self host OpenHAB or Home Assistant right now and integrate many different devices from many different manufacturers using open protocols like Z-Wave. In such a case neither the devices n
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by m4x 9y ago
That isn't really accurate. An Aeotec Smart Switch 6 for example consumes <0.8W, while a single LED lamp consumes 4-20W depending on brightness. So the lights in a single room could reasonably be consuming 20-100W, vs. a smart switc
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by m4x 9y ago
The biggest road block to building a sustainable society is that we have to make changes to the well and truly entrenched non-sustainable society we already have. If you were starting fresh on a new planet that doesn't have instantaneo
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by m4x 9y ago
I don't disagree with this, but it isn't universally true. Some developers are just writing code to satisfy a spec and really could be replaced by any other developer; others are uniquely valuable and significantly increase their
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by m4x 9y ago
> Maybe there's a difference when you're protecting others? I think the difference is that if you are disobedient in the (current) USA then you will be dragged through an actual justice system and get the chance to make a case

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