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by noizejoy 5y ago
Title seems a bit click-baitey HTML is now a living standard without version number
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Block heaters are pretty standard on many new cars sold in the colder parts of Canada. So are all season tires.
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by noizejoy 5y ago
Side note: “40 below” is approximately where C and F intersect. As a result, that temperature being “effing cold” is something US Americans and Canadians readily agree on.
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I don’t have numbers, but intuitively speaking: Wouldn’t the cost differential in saving lives come down over time as the technology and procedures mature and amortize? In other words, wouldn’t the calculation need to be treated much like a
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by noizejoy 5y ago
They remind me of the safety labels on every day items containing often apparently ridiculously obvious warnings. Like electrical shock warnings on extension chords, or warnings to not put a ladder on a slippery surface. For non US based in
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by noizejoy 5y ago
That bigger is always better seems to be a concept culturally possibly most valued in the US. But what if the “bigger is always better” mantra is actually wrong? (Many fallen empires come to mind.) Maybe it’s an overall healthier state of a
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by noizejoy 5y ago
More data concentration makes for a more worthwhile target, thus wiping out at least some of the potential upside. The net effect may very well be negative. Given the regular stream of extremely large data leaks even from providers who shou
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by noizejoy 5y ago
The big programmer in the sky, responsible for the entire simulation is having fun introducing new variables, whenever our science gets close to the edge of having figured out all of the existing variables. It’s like moving the cheese :-)
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by noizejoy 5y ago
I'd say it's a script filled with probabilities rather than absolutes. And isn't that all of life, the universe and everything?
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And that disconnect between economics and what’s environmentally manageable is at the very heart of a lot of modern problems. I often wonder, if there will ever be a way to make that widening chasm disappear, other than going back to living
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by noizejoy 5y ago
“First world problems” is also a related concept. Our priorities and judgements are very much borne from the larger context of our individual and group experiences. Even the very definition of “greatest stuff in the world” is highly depende
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by noizejoy 5y ago
Money wasted leads to money not available for life support.
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Would that be similar to having an iPhone never connected to the Internet?
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I don’t work for Google, but I don’t mind ads for guitars and synthesizers :-)
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Only if you have a foolproof way of knowing Apple IP adresses
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by noizejoy 5y ago
The first sentence in the linked article says it’s a gas pipeline, which is very different than an oil pipeline.
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by noizejoy 5y ago
When playing a software instrument via an external hardware controller (typically via MIDI over USB), even a tiny delay from the musician striking a key or a drum pad to the resulting audio out of the speaker can become very problematic for
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by noizejoy 5y ago
It seems very difficult for many (most?) of us to accept that outlier events in our lives are generally more random good or bad luck, rather than something caused by our actions.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Fundamentalism and tribalism seems to exist in any subject. - I find incredibly annoying, disappointing, saddening and infuriating — yet can’t help but wonder if it’s the necessary evolutionary byproduct of our species to collaborate and ov
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by noizejoy 6y ago
My memory is fuzzy on my slashdot days, but wasn’t there a way to filter the funny suff?
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by noizejoy 6y ago
The argument could be made, that without VisiCalc there would be no iPhone (if you connect enough dots)
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> So much of what happens on the internet is in bad faith ... and I have to admit I’m still not able to easily recognize the difference between bad faith and utter lack of experience and/or intelligence without digging deep into the
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by noizejoy 6y ago
You could volunteer ...
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by noizejoy 6y ago
$technology {web, computing, ...} is a mere reflection of the dynamics in our species.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> Personally, I'd love it if Apple went a step farther and used the network layer and code signing to identify which apps actively use which trackers and tracking networks the same way they currently identify apps that use the micro
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Common argument <> correct argument Killer flaw of overly binary thinking.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
In the US: More banks, less regulation
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by noizejoy 6y ago
If you zoom in/out far enough, the difference between down and slow isn’t always clear
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> ... just an easter-egg .. Not true, according to OP: > Allen Chen revealed that there was a code hidden in the parachute, as well as the markings being useful for camera alignment.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Unfortunately the top of that thread is now pretty much about another project/topic

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