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by p1necone 4y ago
> I also wonder whether semis on certain well-defined long-haul routes (I-80 etc) could be partially automated, such that the driver could sleep in the back of the cab much of the time. Not sure if the technology is really there yet, tho
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by p1necone 4y ago
All of this has a capital penalty and requires stuff that doesn't exist yet. We're discussing exactly what stuff might be worth said capital penalty. If the basic running costs of these are really 25% of ICE vehicles then there&#x
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by p1necone 4y ago
> In shipping and logistics, time is money. Fuel can be dispensed in the US at a maximum of 10 gal/minute. Factor that against the largest charger you can find and see why the single cost difference doesn't matter yet. If the t
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by p1necone 4y ago
The person you're replying to is too divorced from reality to reason with (or they're a troll), just downvote and move along. Engaging with climate change deniers is just giving them what they want.
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by p1necone 4y ago
Yep, if you're earning something approaching fuckall no amount of saving is ever going to bring you out of poverty, so why would you not just spend spare income on stuff that's enjoyable now instead. The only way a lot of people
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by p1necone 4y ago
Casey Muratori knows a lot about optimizing performance in game engines. He then assumes that all other software must be slow because of the exact same problems. I think the core problem here is that he assumes that everything is inside
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by p1necone 4y ago
Yeah New Zealand has the same distinction between cage free and free range eggs. The conditions for the "cage-free" ones are not much better than the caged ones - they just tweak the suffering to tick a box, I only buy free range.
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by p1necone 4y ago
You have a point there. Most crypto scams are blatantly obvious Ponzi schemes or pump and dumps being openly discussed in some discord channel. This stuff should be pretty trivial for investigators, but maybe the sheer volume is just too mu
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by p1necone 4y ago
> There are real world use cases for blockchains, including stablecoin, trading, etc. though this has progressed much slower than expected Speculation is not a use case. The normal argument is that trading helps create liquidity, but liq
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by p1necone 4y ago
Yeah but most travel isn't to a fixed, "necessary" destination. About the only place like that for me is work, and I certainly can't fly there. Or to put it another way - comparing two different modes of travel to one sp
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by p1necone 4y ago
Eh, not really. Distance travelled !== quality of destination. I can travel X minutes on a plane for Y cost to one set of destinations, or I can travel A minutes in a car for B cost to a different set of destinations. The actual distance be
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by p1necone 4y ago
The usage of 'per-mile' stats for aircraft safety irks me a little bit. It's certainly not how I think of safety when I hop on a plane - my internal comparison is more based on time - like, I'm about to spend 30 minutes
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by p1necone 4y ago
Wasn't Unity built on top of Gnome 3 because the Ubuntu maintainers didn't like stock Gnome 3? Or have I got my timeline wrong?
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by p1necone 4y ago
Gnome 3 is kind of awesome as a keyboard driven system too. It's only really when you try to navigate with the mouse rather than keyboard shortcuts that it feels worse than more traditional DEs. Laptop trackpads with multi finger gestu
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by p1necone 4y ago
I don't know about clearly not FOSS , but it clearly makes it not licensed under the BSD license that the software claims to be licensed under. Doesn't matter if extra terms are added in the license document itself or in a popup
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by p1necone 4y ago
> Why? Games are easier to develop today than they’ve ever been. The only class of game that can push the $69.99 envelope are those making AAA games. Nobody is selling indie games for $60/$69.99 (except maybe physical releases to co
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by p1necone 4y ago
> PWAs could do significantly more if they had better access to system APIs. Isn't the whole point of PWAs that they're easy because they're just web apps? If you start using system/OS specific APIs you lose all of
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by p1necone 4y ago
> If you didn't want money at some level, you wouldn't make a company, you'd make a social club or other hobbyist group. If you just made a hobbyist group you'd still need to get a job unrelated to your hobby, which t
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by p1necone 4y ago
This makes more sense now. Targeted avoidance of a specific thing being tracked does indeed seem much more likely to have results.
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by p1necone 4y ago
Yeah - this seems ridiculous, and defeats the goal of privacy too. If you pay for everything with cash surely it's much easier to just get a bulk amount of cash out periodically. If you go to the nearest ATM to withdraw just enough t
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by p1necone 4y ago
Disney is just trying to manage their theme park more effectively, and sell you some stuffed animals and t-shirts. 99.99% of people are not going to any lengths to avoid the unsophisticated stuff they're already doing, so they gain n
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by p1necone 4y ago
I mean stuff like bullshitting your way through an english assignment when you're going to study computer science at uni. You can be fairly confident that understanding the intricacies of Catcher in the Rye won't be important in a
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by p1necone 4y ago
I did this accidentally once at uni. Previous years tests were posted online (intentionally, by the person running the class) so I was doing those while studying to make sure I knew the material. I sit down in the actual exam and lo and beh
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by p1necone 4y ago
> The students bullshitting their way through course work are like the lifters using bad form to make the mechanical goal of moving the weight easier in the short term. They completely miss the point. Eh, when your future career prospect
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by p1necone 4y ago
> Discord tries to track which other programs you run by default and shares it. You might not want it, but it's not like this is unexpected behaviour. Tracking the currently running game and sharing that information with your friend
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by p1necone 4y ago
(well written) tests tend to fail (or fail to compile) if they're 'stale' though, so they force you to maintain them just like other code. (I'm not arguing against writing comments though - the 'they'll get sta
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by p1necone 4y ago
> I would rather have nothing. Nothing can't play Halo.
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by p1necone 4y ago
The sweet spot for overclocking ECC ram is still before it starts malfunctioning. If it's clocked higher but is correcting for errors it will still be slower.
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by p1necone 4y ago
This is basically what GDPR does.
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by p1necone 4y ago
In my experience the greycats of the world tend to have pretty high false positive rates. They'll identify people asking X-Y problems and steer them in the right direction, but they'll also be deliberately unhelpful and snarky to

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