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by ninkendo 10mo ago
I didn't say I live in a place just like Houten, I said I live in a place where you regularly see kids under 10 years old riding bikes together without adults (and like GP said, often with a fishing pole or soccer ball in tow.) You don
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by ninkendo 10mo ago
> For a counterexample, come visit Houten, NL (I live here and it's great) where you literally see kids around 10 years old biking independently Or come to where I live in the midwestern united states and you see the same thing. I s
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by ninkendo 10mo ago
> electricity is super cheap here and gasoline is quite expensive Yeah, not everyone has that arrangement though. I was shocked (shocked!) when I realized that for my plug-in hybrid van, running it on gas can be cheaper than charging it,
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by ninkendo 10mo ago
I guess you’d call my Chrysler Pacifica an “EREV” then. It’s honestly perfect for us. 32 miles on a charge, we barely touch the gas except for the winter when it’s so cold out we need the engine to warm us up. Any other time and the battery
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
It doesn’t even need to be the case that the LLM produces worse code. Software development is like a gas that expands to fill its container. If the schedule allows a fixed amount of time before shipping, and the time to write the code shrin
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
I wish there was a way to use the tailscale app to connect to my own vanilla WireGuard endpoint at home. I don’t want to use and pay for tailscale when I can run WireGuard myself. But there seems to be no good WireGuard app for tvOS (there
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
> Why would a toaster oven (or indeed, just a pop-up toaster) that instead used electronic controls need the bar for safety to be placed at a different height? It wouldn't. It's a thought experiment. I even said: > Would the
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
I for one would be willing to pay a premium for what GP described. I’d honestly pay twice as much for a TV with working HDMI CEC, some simple picture adjustment controls, and a really really good panel. Nothing else, please.
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
Because anti-tivoization doesn’t make sense in a software license. Imagine you make a smart toaster, and you make it entirely out of open source software. You release all the changes you made too, complying fully with the spirit of open sou
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
> What about cases of private abuse? What about it? Your entire point boils down to “fiat has flaws therefore crypto is better”, while completely ignoring that crypto is worse at the very things fiat is flawed at. Fiat sometimes doesn’
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
I honestly couldn’t care less how things (don’t) work in Russia. It’s a complete non-sequitur. Sucks that your country sucks. Maybe work on fixing your country. Sorry you’re too caught up invading your neighbors to fix basic things like you
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
> >The solution to that problem is "the court orders the bank to send the funds back to my account" > I see this as a very naive statement. [words] Ok, you clearly have a lower opinion on the ability of your government to
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
As a random Joe I use a credit card like everyone else. And if the item doesn’t arrive, Amex gives me a refund. Because it can do that, and it has a fraud department. Of course, Amex deals with small instances of fraud all the time and has
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
> > Your fancy blockchain is not going to help you if you order something with Bitcoin and no package arrives. > That problem already has solutions The solution to that problem is "the court orders the bank to send the funds b
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
I've had coworkers in the past that treat code like it needs to be compressed . Like, in the huffman coding sense. Find code that exists in two places, put it in one place, then call it from the original places. Repeat until there&#x2
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
My first thought would be some kind of "security" software (maybe even as simple as windows defender) inspecting the files as they're coming in, which might be done for any process not on some allow-list. And maybe the allow-
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
Care to say why you disagree? Using ..Default::default() means “whatever additional fields are added later, I don’t care”. Which is great until someone needs to add a field to the struct, and they rely on the compiler to tell them all the p
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
Other than the `|var|` syntax in closures, I can't think of a single way Rust looks like Ruby. I mean that seriously, there is almost no other similarities.
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
It's funny because I remember the first time I tried Linux (Debian) nearly 25 years ago, that "NO WARRANTY, EVEN FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE" warning in all caps really did leave a bad taste in my mouth, enough to deter
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
> There should at least be mention that changing this resolution can affect other processes. That sorta is what it’s saying. If you don’t set it yourself, you won’t get any better than the “default system resolution”. But if the default
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
No, it has to do with every time you move the mouse over a window, a hover event is sent to the application, which runs its main event loop. Either the installer only updated its progress bar when an event happened (in which case it would o
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
It’s interesting because Apple actually has a ton of QA people, and they do their job more than well enough. Any bug you file is nearly guaranteed to be a known issue in someone’s backlog or another. But Apple ships on a schedule. A proje
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
So either the new octet is in the least-significant place in an ipv40 address, in which case it does a terrible job of alleviating the IP shortage (everyone who already has IP blocks just gets 256x as much as them) Or, it’s in the most-sign
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
> uptimes of over 3000+ days Oof, that sounds scary. I’ve come to view high uptime as dangerous… it’s a sign you haven’t rebooted the thing enough to know what even happens on reboot (will everything come back up? Is the system currently
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
Unrelated but imgur is basically malware at this point. I had to click through so many layers of nagging popups (including a “don’t support us” button, then a severely low-contrast “view in safari” button on a dialog explicitly designed to
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
The tragic part is how brief the period of time was between “ascii and a mess of code pages” and the problem actually getting solved with Unicode 2.0 and UTF-8. Unicode 1.0 was in 1991, UTF-8 happened a year later, and Unicode 2.0 (wher
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
I’ll take a stab: because twitter isn’t reality, it’s a microcosm. A tempest in a teapot. It’s something that if you step outside of, you realize it’s not the real world. Leaving social media can be thought of as emerging from the cave: you
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
> Is this a US phenomenon? The answer to this question is always “no”. Regardless of the subject. Basically 100% of the time. At my local grocery store everyone returns their carts. In the other place in the US I lived 10 years ago, ther
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
Because it doesn’t solve the problem, it merely works around it. Solving the problem would mean coming up with a battery chemistry that doesn’t suffer in the cold. Instead the answer is “just don’t have it get cold”. It’s not to say a hack&
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by ninkendo 11mo ago
> you just have to do maintenance through manual find-and-replace now Do you? It doesn't seem even remotely like an apples-to-apples comparison to me. If you're the author of a library, you have to cover every possible way in w

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