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by magduf 7y ago
>Web devs are obsessed with the fancy new frameworks that allow you to use even more JavaScript and somehow convince themselves that it's what users want. Do they really convince themselves of this, or even care about users? Why wo
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>But I also don't need to spend an entire weekend setting up a PC and a printer for my mom anymore either. You still have to waste a lot of time doing this crap. Last time I set up a printer for my mom, it was a PITA: I had to down
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>Clever circumvention technologies such as VPN won't save you when they arrest your for using circumvention technologies. True, but my question here is: given that VPNs are pretty much essential for the way many large corporations w
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One thing that bites me from time to time: if I run VLC from the command line with a media file as the argument, but I screw up and don't enter a valid filename (easy to do with tab-completion, with multiple files matching and then acc
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>The MRZ is an ICAO standard so you’ll need to blame the UN for this. >This passport was issued by a foreign government though. From my 20 seconds of Google research, plus your comment, it looks like the MRZ is something that various
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by magduf 7y ago
>Docker for Windows has had a fundamental Dns[1] bug since April of last year, I've been forced... >Truly a second class platform. Now maybe some Windows users will see how Linux users have felt for over 2 decades.
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I'm wondering if this is a case of idiotic government regulations meeting contractor requirements: The government stupidly decides to only put 2 digits on the passport. They sign a contract with a company to write OCR software for rea
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Was it a small group of humanoids that came from another star system composed of 12 colonies after being pursued by a society of artificial lifeforms that was bent on their extermination?
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It's too bad because it's got to be pretty horrible. If they could just get the data for the amount of diesel/jet fuel consumed, that would tell us a lot. The US military burned a ridiculous amount of diesel fuel in Afghani
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Future: President -> Titanium VP -> Platinum VP -> etc. It's funny how "titanium" is somehow such a big thing with marketing names these days, such as with car trim models. It's a pretty neat metal but it isn&#
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From the article: “A rise of 10 metres by the year 2500 is predicted, according to the bleakest scenarios. This dam is therefore mainly a call to do something about climate change now. If we do nothing, this extreme dam might just be the on
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There was a similar idea for the Mediterranean sea almost 100 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa Edit: some grad student more recently (2014) proposed this as well: https://phys.org/new
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by magduf 7y ago
Sorry to reply twice, but I think there's more here to address. First, the thing about cars doesn't work even for individuals, because it's not comparable. Buying an all-new spacecraft or aircraft isn't anything like bu
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Didn't we see a movie about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)
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Magnetars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar
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No, but it's the inevitable result of these shenanigans.
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Don't forget, there's a LOT more than 3 competitors in the auto market. There's 4 in America now (Ford, GM, Fiat/Chrysler, Tesla), but that doesn't count all the foreign automakers, many of whom have manufacturing
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I don't even have a local branch; I use Ally, which has no branches at all and is 100% online. I have no idea why anyone uses physical banks any more unless they need to deposit cash or get cashiers checks. The online banks offer far
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by magduf 7y ago
The problem with this argument is that Boeing hasn't produced any innovation lately that I can see, while their much smaller competitor, SpaceX, is the one that came up with reusable rockets that can land themselves. Things were really
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This is disingenuous. Social security has multiple components, but the main one people think of is called "OASDI", and is a government-run retirement program, not a social safety net. It's paid for by individuals over their
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>If the government started bidding out smaller real hardware contracts to new companies, we would see a rise in new competitors and an accompanying rise in quality and roi. Do you have any evidence that this would actually work? Small co
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Where are you getting that crazy idea? Why wouldn't the US government trust them going forward? It doesn't matter if they don't deliver or their planes crash and kill hundreds: what's important is that they know all th
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You can't have 100 aerospace companies doing big projects; the economy just isn't that large. For very mature industries, I believe studies have found that the optimal number of competitors is usually 3 large companies. For immat
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They're a government contractor: they're not supposed to deliver a functional product right away. They're supposed to deliver a totally flawed product that's way behind schedule and that doesn't work, and then they
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>I guess linking to the web archive is just carefulness at this point. It's a good idea IMO. Now that the web has been around for literally decades, I can't tell you how many times I've searched for something, found blog&
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I believe that's absolutely true, however the people whining about "emotional labor" never seem to see this, they just blame the husband. Honestly, I'm starting to think that very few married couples are really all that
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>It must be this way because otherwise it'd be that very high earning people help the poor to a vastly greater extent than the average person does, just by turning up to work every day and paying their taxes. This would only make se
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>the trains stop exactly in the same place on the station, so the are markers for each card & door on the platform They do this on Japanese subways too, because many stations have gates that the train has to line up with. This would
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Pricy compared to what? Trains in India? Compared to Amtrak ticket prices in America, Shinkansen is an excellent value. It doesn't seem out-of-line with German ICE train prices either.
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The free snacks help with morale, and cost the company very little. Personally, I'd rather have more money so I can buy my own snacks, but I've never heard of a company offering employees an actual choice between free snacks or a

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