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by pavon 4y ago
I agree that is overkill today, but if we are spending a bunch of money building out new infrastructure it makes sense to future proof it. The ISPs have ten years to complete their rollout, and I'd like to see it provide adequate servi
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by pavon 4y ago
The money (and the areas that were bid on) go back in the pot for Phase II of RDOF. Starlink can bid on that if they demonstrate adequate performance by then. Edit: Actually it looks like it goes back into the Universal Service Fund (which
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by pavon 4y ago
Doesn't seem strange to me. If I am suing a company for false advertising I'll claim that their behavior was aimed at inducing me to purchase the product at an inflated price. Not because I think they were specifically conspirin
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by pavon 4y ago
Depends on the use case. I have a house and garage where I can park and charge my car, and use the car primarily in town, so it makes more sense to put the solar panels on the house (with a battery if needed) than on the car. The car doesn&
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by pavon 4y ago
One section says it averages 1000km per charge based on 50km city driving per day. Another section says the battery itself has a range of 625km (city?) and 560km highway. So that would suggest that just 375km came from the solar, or 18.75km
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by pavon 4y ago
Hah, according to Wikipedia[1] Luhrmann himself got the lyrics from that misattributed Vonnegut chain email, and only when trying to secure rights discovered it was actually from a Mary Schmich article. [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by pavon 4y ago
Early forties, grew up in NM, never heard the song until today. I wasn't personally into hip hop but I seemed to have been exposed to most of the other hip hop songs on the Billboard top 100 in 1999 when the song peaked.
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by pavon 4y ago
Dealership economics also play a big part, at least in the US. If the dealership stocks cars in bright colors, some people will love it, and others will hate it, so selling the car will be hit or miss. If they get lucky they can use the col
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by pavon 4y ago
Even with that aspect, the consensus of what is considered neutral non-offensive household colors has changed from a warm brown palette (off-white walls, brown wood floor or tan carpet, wood or off-white cabinets) to a cool grey palette. Th
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by pavon 4y ago
It's not clear what you mean by that. It is easy to build a city where you can reach everything you need within 15 minutes by car. What is hard is to build a city like that where you can also reach everything you need by foot within 15
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by pavon 4y ago
Before the RDOF auction began there was a controversy about the FCC not having accurate service coverage data to determine what census tracts should be eligible for the program. The result was that something like $16 billion would be paid o
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by pavon 4y ago
It is good for people to have experiences outside of their comfort zone, and to interact with others with different beliefs than their own. It is also important for people to have places and social support structures where they feel safe. A
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by pavon 4y ago
This wasn't about preserving archives, or distributing old works that should have been in the public domain by now, or even "lending" out digital copies backed by physical copies they owned. This was about distributing unlimi
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by pavon 4y ago
> JWST got the photo in hours when Hubble took weeks. For this image, Hubble only had 1.7 hours of exposure while JWST had 12.5 hours. More details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32074989
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by pavon 4y ago
That is incorrect. The famous Hubble Ultra Deep Field image[1] took 11.3 days of imaging spread over four months (because of high demand to use Hubble). However, that is a different part of the sky. The Hubble image shown here was taken as
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by pavon 4y ago
Note that there is a separate project to use the GCC backend with the Rustc frontend. At least in the short-term, that project will be the better approach to providing the benefits of more hardware support, since it will be more complete an
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by pavon 4y ago
Yeah, and banner blindness is about more than just things that look like ads. The top and side bars of webpages traditionally contain information about the website as a whole, and are not relevant to the specific page you are viewing. You l
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by pavon 4y ago
As an American it completely breaks my expectations that district heating not only works can be more efficient that decentralized heating. The amount of heat lost just moving water from the water heater on one side of the house to the showe
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by pavon 4y ago
I don't see a problem with trademarking colors for a particular brand, it can be an integral part of a brands identity, and copycats using the same colors can cause consumer confusion. The problem is that there is no penalty for aggres
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by pavon 4y ago
Yeah, the difference is that total_cmp can handle NaNs, whereas with partial_cmp you either had to add your own handling, or get panics on NaN if you blindly call partial_cmp.unwrap(). I think in most cases, splitting NaNs across the start
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by pavon 4y ago
I like the convention. Even if you pick a word that isn't very common, you are still unlikely to be able to register a domain name for that word, and will have to amend it somehow, and search engines will still have to guess which use
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by pavon 4y ago
> real life common problems and code examples that make life better That is exactly what a case study is. Looking at examples of real world cases.
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by pavon 4y ago
I don't see this as a problem. If someone is creating something new they have a reason, something that is motivating them. Explaining these reasons lets others know if the project is something that interests them or not. This is especi
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by pavon 4y ago
That prevents new laws from being applied retroactively. What would happen if a state law against abortion already existed before Roe vs Wade. It has been unenforceable, but was never repealed by state legislature. Would it be legal to retr
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by pavon 4y ago
I completely agree. I get where they are coming from, but this is a great way to loose the current bipartisan momentum against big tech, and change it into another wedge issue.
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by pavon 4y ago
I was curious about what legal theory they were using to enforce this. It appears that 5/7 of the counts are just false or misleading statements - CafePress claimed to have good security but didn't. Another is just tangentially re
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by pavon 4y ago
Yeah the fired customers had clarity. The confusion was among all the existing and future customers that Brex wants retain, but who now question whether their business is still supported and for how long.
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by pavon 4y ago
On the other hand, the internet has exposed me to people who are highly skilled and blog about it who have taught me lessons I would have been unlikely to learn on my own, and would have never been able to learn from 1-on-1. Folks like Bruc
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by pavon 4y ago
I've not found that to be the case. The first draft might get done faster, but then I spend more time debugging issues in dynamic languages that only show up at runtime that the compiler would find in other languages. And then more tim
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by pavon 4y ago
That ship sailed nearly half a century ago. All of this source code was previously licensed to research universities starting in 1975. The earlier releases weren't under FLOSS license like we know them today, but with the intent that r

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