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by paledot 6y ago
Is that really any different from leaning a language, tool, framework, library, service, etc.? You learned the new thing, you're excited to try to out, and you should still be judicious in analyzing whether this is or isn't the pl
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by paledot 6y ago
I mean, I'm 32 and I programmed on one of those as a teenager. If you do the math, yes it was 20 years old at the time, but I had a blast anyway.
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by paledot 6y ago
Well, fast chargers not so much. There you're looking at 50+ kW with liquid-cooled cables. But yes, urban and destination charging stations don't need any fancy infrastructure.
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by paledot 6y ago
Even in Canada merchants that accept Amex are more the exception than the rule.
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by paledot 6y ago
I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the decision to have the first steps of the project customization process not require registration let alone payment. It makes for a better sales pitch than a hundred landing pages.
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by paledot 6y ago
Yup. Bear in mind that the gas stations in the US tend towards the mind-bogglingly huge. 12 pumps across the street from 16 pumps is a common sight. (Speaking as a Canadian who used to cross the border a lot when business travel was a thing
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by paledot 6y ago
My former employer's support department uses TeamViewer with customers. A web-based equivalent would be a game changer for them, if you can go real-time.
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by paledot 6y ago
They're not parking spots. Don't park next to a gas pump if you're not putting gas in the car, even if it has an internal combustion engine.
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by paledot 6y ago
Was her name Pygmalion?
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by paledot 6y ago
This is true. My wife paid out of pocket for a procedure that should have been covered, and when she finally made it through the labyrinthine process to seek reimbursement, they only wanted to reimburse her for half of the cost, because tha
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by paledot 6y ago
Indeed. This is why hydro shouldn't be considered green energy. (That, and the methane reduced when hundreds or thousands of hectares of living, breathing land are flooded and decompose in an anoxic environment.)
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by paledot 6y ago
I'd never thought of that. It would be technically feasible in Canada, but I'm not confident that a recipient or the postal service would recognize it as a complete address.
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by paledot 6y ago
No new highways is lucky for all of us. Not maintaining the infrastructure you have is a problem, though.
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by paledot 6y ago
The "http" is the punchline.
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by paledot 6y ago
Related: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/south-shore-nurse-no...
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by paledot 6y ago
I do think "curse" is a valid technical term, but to me a cursed IP address (or number, or edge case, etc.) is one that behaves significantly differently from other addresses for no self-evident reason. None of these examples are
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by paledot 6y ago
Database credentials hopefully not, but the build environment will almost certainly have access to a private git repo somewhere.
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by paledot 6y ago
Yeah, I really don't see a case where large amounts of hydrogen are being transported commercially. Anything you don't need on site makes much more sense to convert to synfuel.
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by paledot 6y ago
University didn't go super well for me, but in retrospect the experiences I treasure the most are the ones I never would've sought out on my own. If you see college as a long form of `#import book`, sure, but that's exactly w
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by paledot 6y ago
That was the life plan the boomers took for granted, except the college part was largely optional. Now it's our fault that we don't live the same magical charmed lives they did.
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by paledot 6y ago
That was my experience with Satisfactory as well. Factorio's greatest gameplay achievement is taking away mundane things once you've mastered them to the point of mind-numbing repetition. It's a sliding window, whereas Satisf
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by paledot 6y ago
"Cars as a service" is called car sharing. It works quite well.
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by paledot 6y ago
That was my reaction as well. That's the point where I decided to stop wasting my time with the article, which is a real pity given that it's the second sentence. I used to respect Popular Mechanics as the more technical and less
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by paledot 6y ago
I mean, being secretive about employee compensation in order to extract the most work for the least cost is exploitative and immoral. It's just something that everyone does, so somehow that makes it okay.
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by paledot 6y ago
A question I was going to ask as well. I love both Erlend's take and your response. You both had the opportunity to be small-minded and snippish about this, and you both took the high road and approached things from a collaborative and
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by paledot 6y ago
First thought: Scary, lucky someone more malicious didn't get there first. Second thought: But then, it's hard to think of something that an attacker could do with Trump's account that's worse than what he already does o
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by paledot 6y ago
I was actually impressed that Zoom's screen sharing works at all in i3.
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by paledot 6y ago
I love the way you think, but I suspect mastering the tyranny of the rocket equation is a lower hurdle than mastering the tyranny of small-minded governments. By the time humans are willing to commit sufficiently to colonization to send sub
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by paledot 6y ago
Only 26 months in the Earth/Mars system, in fact. And that's still the fastest way to go, which is the only thing that's relevant for crewed spaceflight. Doesn't matter how much you're saving on gas if you still nee
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by paledot 6y ago
Bingo. This is a classic case of pop science misunderstanding half of a paper and sensationalizing the other half. > This network can transport objects from Jupiter to Neptune in a matter of decades, rather than the much longer timescale

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