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by macintux 7mo ago
Some discussion today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471805 There have been multiple posts on the topic, but none have gained traction.
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by macintux 7mo ago
As a casual observer who has written perhaps a dozen lines of Scala in his life, I feel like Scala approaches any “pick one” decision with “why not both?”. Functional or OO? Yes.
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by macintux 7mo ago
That was a prototype. Update: I guess the final design also used steel. > The pilot is above both the engine and the load, and is surrounded by a steel tube truss for maximum safety.
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by macintux 7mo ago
The Neo is a quality laptop. It's not a cheap laptop with Apple lipstick. Apple made a significant number of tradeoffs to reach $500, but for a budget user, they're reasonable tradeoffs.
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by macintux 7mo ago
I understand modern vehicles are like that, hence my complaint about my current one. But, by definition, most EVs are modern. That's not true of ICE vehicles, hence the tradeoffs.
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by macintux 7mo ago
I'd be more interested in EVs if they didn't come with significant privacy and complexity trade-offs. I don't want a door handle that can't open in an emergency. I don't want my vehicle constantly phoning home to th
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by macintux 7mo ago
Last time gas spiked above $4/gallon nationally people were trading in their huge gas guzzlers at an extreme loss (because no one else wanted them either). I read an article about someone who was contemplating losing $30k on their trad
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by macintux 7mo ago
Extra weight, extra drivetrain complexity, and many owners don't actually charge their hybrids so they're getting worse mileage. Tradeoffs everywhere, so "perfect" is very much not the word I'd apply.
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by macintux 7mo ago
Comment history is suspect.
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by macintux 7mo ago
Very brief discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348502
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by macintux 7mo ago
You'd get 10-20% at best in favor. People are not even paying attention to what's happening in the White House, they're definitely not attuned to the storms brewing around social networks and their negative impacts.
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by macintux 7mo ago
> ...giving parents fines when their children access 18+ content will motivate those parents to parent their children. And, like most such policies, will disproportionately impact the working poor.
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by macintux 7mo ago
> I am so puzzled by everyone who objects so strongly to these operating system based opt in systems The government legislating APIs is an uncomfortable precedent given the culture wars that are raging right now. There seems little reaso
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by macintux 7mo ago
Running as a libertarian, and governing as a libertarian, are two entirely different things.
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by macintux 7mo ago
I think the friction of using a keyboard/pointing device with a touchscreen, or fingers with a desktop interface, is too high to unify them. I know it's been done, I'm unconvinced it's been done well.
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by macintux 7mo ago
> This tracks with the science; according to Scientific American, room-temperature cream turns to butter much faster than cold cream because the molecules move more quickly at higher temperatures. Of course, if the temperature gets too h
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by macintux 7mo ago
There are such efforts. It’s still a bandaid on the systemic problems.
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by macintux 7mo ago
I have to imagine the Canadian ID situation is different. Here, simply obtaining a copy of your birth certificate can be a long trip to a different state.
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by macintux 7mo ago
Voting machines here (Indiana) will print a sheet with your choices, which you can review before feeding it to a counting machine. That way you have a paper trail for recounts, and a sanity check before the vote is cast.
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by macintux 7mo ago
I fear that reference may be too dated for this site's dominant demographics.
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by macintux 7mo ago
Now that I've returned to working on the project tonight, I just remembered another failing of our code. (I'm not in any way claiming these are universal problems, just that they are something to be wary of.) Naming is so incredib
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by macintux 7mo ago
I work with a project that is heavily configuration-driven. It seems promising, but in reality: - Configuration is massively duplicated, across repositories - No one is willing to rip out redundancy, because comprehensive testing is not pra
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by macintux 7mo ago
Sufficiently advanced destructiveness is indistinguishable from malice.
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by macintux 7mo ago
That semantic confusion between daylight saving the switch, and daylight saving the offset, makes it perpetually confusing to argue about whether we should preserve daylight saving at all.
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by macintux 7mo ago
And as others are pointing out, there are zip codes which appear across multiple countries.
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by macintux 7mo ago
I think every organization (hi, Flock) selling something like this should be required to install it on their own premises first.
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by macintux 7mo ago
That's strange. I just tested in a private tab (Safari) and wasn't asked to log in. Hopefully this isn't some A/B testing fiendishness.
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by macintux 7mo ago
Nothing all that exciting, just pleasure from finding a photo in a local newspaper of my great-great-grandfather’s (approximately, I don’t remember the specifics at the moment) car being pulled by horses out of a local river, or researching
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by macintux 7mo ago
I interpreted the fact that he was reviewing multiple copies of the same text as him searching for Galileo’s notes, but I suppose it’s possible that the motivation was the possibility of discrepancies between printings.
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by macintux 7mo ago
Tangential at best, but as a fan of his books I was happy to stumble upon one of W. Richard Stevens’ earlier examples of technical writing: a guide to Forth for Kitt Peak national observatory. Apparently Forth was commonly used in observato

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