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by nouveaux 5y ago
At least the average Tesla owner disagrees with you. "With historic reliability concerns but an intensely loyal following, Tesla took the top spot for overall owner satisfaction among the 27 brands mentioned in survey responses."[
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by nouveaux 5y ago
You assume incorrectly that people paying for Teslas are buying luxuries "such as sound deadening". They are buying an EV, 0-60 performance, touch screen operations, over the air updates, etc. "I don't think the new mone
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"But Honda know a lot about making cars. Tesla tried to disrupt the entire process. This is where hubris gets you " Can you clarify why disrupting the process is hubris? There has been many historical examples of outsiders coming
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Vim has a concept of an object and actions/motions that can be applied to the object. You can think of it as nouns and verbs. Vim objects can be letter, words, sentences or paragraphs. Say you have the following sentence: "How muc
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"that those who still use Vi/Emacs to code are close minded and unwilling to change." Vi is not just an text editor in the terminal. It's a different way to interact with text. To say that Vi users are close minded is li
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Didn't Guido resign due to politics[0]? I think politics is an issue of organization size more so than structure. [0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-Jul...
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by nouveaux 5y ago
The other shoe is that if they let the core team be above the law, when an incident happens, there will be all sorts of accusations of impropriety.
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"If I've paid $4k for a laptop and click a button, I don't expect to wait for... 1-2 seconds, then see a beach ball," Is this even possible? I don't think a 50k computer can guarantee no wait on software. How would
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by nouveaux 5y ago
This is the Little Snitch[0] problem. If you have ever used Little Snitch, you will soon realize that 1) there is so much crap phoning home and 2) most people do not want to deal with giving permission to each and every one of these service
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Sorry I must have missed something. The quote you're addressing talks about smaller creators. Wouldn't this apply to smaller creators from both parties?
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by nouveaux 5y ago
This attitude is what caused Jony Ive's Apple in 2016. Thinner, lighter and less bezels is what made laptops worse. No thank you. I'd rather have a thicker laptop with ports and longer battery life. I would rather have a higher qu
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"under the guise of security" Security is a tradeoff between freedom/convenience and safety. This is true outside of desktop OS as well. The reason there is a trend to having less rights and more security on the desktop is be
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by nouveaux 5y ago
I posted another comment comparing this to UC Berkeley's new dorm. Munger Hall is cheaper by $360 per sq ft. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29132614
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by nouveaux 5y ago
I posted a comparison to UC Berkeley's new proposed dorm. TLDR; this is cheaper per sq ft by $360. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29132614
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by nouveaux 5y ago
UC Berkeley is building a new dorm at a cost of $388,601 per bed. It will cost $300m for 772 beds. I couldn't find the actual square footage but it did say that it is 14 stories and there is a 17000 sq ft retail/commercial space.
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by nouveaux 5y ago
I understand that you're saying these contractors have better jobs to do than someone's yard. The guys who came out to give bids specialized in residential landscaping work. The fact that they came out to give quotes means that so
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by nouveaux 5y ago
The problem is that labor and material cost continues to go up. As an architect yourself, I suspect you're not working for minimum wage. Given the thoughtful comment you posted originally, you seem like someone who puts in good work. P
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by nouveaux 5y ago
I posted this in another comment: "Given the high construction cost everywhere, this is not surprising. I had a friend with a backyard slopping down a hill. He got some quotes to put in a deck and redo his yard. No one quoted anything
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Given the high construction cost everywhere, this is not surprising. I had a friend with a backyard slopping down a hill. He got some quotes to put in a deck and redo his yard. No one quoted anything less than 200k.
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by nouveaux 5y ago
I know someone who lived out of his car at UC Berkeley because he couldn't afford the rent. He would have loved the option for a room with no windows. I don't care for Munger. With that said, there's a huge disconnect here wi
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by nouveaux 5y ago
https://vim-adventures.com/
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by nouveaux 5y ago
So where are the poor students going to live? Are you suggesting they just rack up more debt or not attend college?
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by nouveaux 5y ago
It's always hard to put a monetary value on these things. With that said, Holocaust survivors were way underpaid. In order for the policy to be a deterrent for the parents, the children need to endure suffering. I do not think that $45
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by nouveaux 5y ago
As far as I know, Polio is similar to Covid. I believe it is far less contagious compared to Covid. Can you help me understand why Polio is worse than Covid?
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Do these articles really mean we can stop vaccinating? If these articles are correct, then why are we still at 70k cases per day? The only reason to not vaccinate kids is because the virus is not spreading anymore. That doesn't seem to
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Yes it hits poor people more. At the same time, gas prices have a very strong correlation to the purchase of gas guzzling cars. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/auto-sales-hit-ne...
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"What someone does in their own house should be up to them" I agree with this. The problem is that smokers smoke in public spaces. This causes direct problems to me and everyone else who does not smoke. It infringes on my freedom.
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"looking at a 10-line hook in the codebase, and we couldn't collectively figure out whether or not it actually did anything without running it to see how it behaved." While hooks do have problems, this could be said about pre
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Fast charging possibly?
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by nouveaux 5y ago
What state did you come from and how is it more competent? Talking about what works would be helpful.

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