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by peatmoss 5y ago
I'd argue the nuance of what it means to be L2 self-driving is rather important. I didn't read anything in the Jalopnik essay that mischaracterizes what L2 means: https://www.nhtsa.gov/technology-innovation/au
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I decided a few years ago that Signal was the closest thing to a good cross-platform messaging client that mortals could be expected to use. I sent an email to my most frequently texted contacts asking them to consider installing it and usi
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Oh man, I hope it isn't true that the equipment was sold off and / or junked. I have held out hope that the staff could be hired back. The LCM was a true gem. My first time there, I was continually freaking out "OMG, I'm
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by peatmoss 5y ago
If the crows are expecting a treat, my hunch is they'll defend... or eat the squirrels. A couple years back I watched a small murder of crows encircle, kill, and eat a very large rat. I was amazed, but apparently this is not uncommon a
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Emacs, the lightweight markup format of your choice (org-mode for me), and Pandoc do a pretty good job of creating vanilla Word documents that don't have "weird" formatting embedded. Sadly, it's a one-way trip, and colla
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I keep hoping for something like OpenWRT for smart TVs. I have a Roku TV that I'd love to de-Roku even just so it would switch between inputs more quickly.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Dplyr (and its spin-off dbplyr) is to me a fantastic practical example of the power of lispy metaprogramming. While R gets knocked a lot for not being a "real" programming language, or being weird, or just generally being differ
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I took a sociology class on "alternative religions" from Rob Balch in college—he's one of the recurring experts in that series. I enjoyed the HBO series, as it went more into the various individuals' stories than is real
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Based on your description, I gather you are not in the United States :-) In my opinion the best case is a society where all kids have parents with the care and understanding to send them to school with nutritious, healthy food. And that stu
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I couldn't agree more. I think when people choose their side, they have to pick positions that clearly identify them as belonging to that side. "My bonafides as a republicrat can be succinctly established by espousing a hawkish ki
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It also felt like once we in the US barely caught our breath, everything took on a political valence. Everyone dug in so hard that, when new information or considerations came to light, nobody could budge.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Two reasons for schools to provide food: - Students are generally compelled to be proximate to educational services for long stretches of time. Logistics of not coupling them would be inefficient. - Students don't learn effectively whe
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Mildly OT, but does anyone know of a good source for pen hardware for pen turning that is any good? I have discovered that turning wooden pens on my lathe is a good "easy win" project on days that I don't feel like doing larg
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by peatmoss 5y ago
The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed. Year of the Linux Desktop arrived for me, in earnest, sometime in the mid-nineties. Maybe 2022 will be the year of the Linux desktop for a few more people.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I feel the same way (lack of good alternatives from all sides), and find myself becoming a bit of a one-issue believer in - Open primaries - Ranked choice voting I believe our current system rewards either extremism or outwardly expressed e
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by peatmoss 5y ago
We have to also consider the ethical framing of “success.” Perhaps success is ripping the country apart rather than forgetting the moral blight of slavery. Truthfully, I don’t have a good answer here myself beyond, “uh, something in between
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Not talking about the Tulsa race massacre, is an example of society at large choosing, through inattention or other social forces, to not care about something they should probably choose to care more about. Not being allowed to talk about T
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I wear a Helite Turtle 2 airbag vest when I go motorcycling. I wear it for three reasons: - There is a mechanical tether. It is a reliable mechanism that is not subject to subscriptions or software of any sort. If I’m clipped in, I’m protec
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Technologically speaking, I feel that OS X was a better choice (a more robust and developed platform). Qualitatively speaking, I loved everything about using BeOS—how snappy it was and the way applications felt like they could be thin exten
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Interestingly, I JUST finished reading (many years after it was published) The Player of Games written by Iain M. Banks. In it, there is an orbital habitat named Chiark. I assume that the interest in games and the hostname of his webserver
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Yep, started in ‘96 or ‘97. There are layouts that might be marginally better, but Dvorak hits a sweet spot by being ubiquitous and extremely good.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Hadn’t heard of that, and I also didn’t know that CDs could reference back to a previous track that way. Also interesting music… cheers!
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Apple is also the only service to get gapless playback right, near as I can tell. Since adding lossless (I care less about "high-res" or "spatial"), they are far and away my favorite. EDIT: In case anyone is wondering wh
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I was thinking the failure condition there is that the compounds in the tire were insufficiently grippy to hold the surface of the road in a corner. That’s certainly my biggest worry on a motorcycle. (Edit: it’s also where a great deal of e
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I mean, severe crashes do happen, and Tour riders are also professional vehicle operators.
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Ebikes are in a weird territory between bicycles and motorcycles. I occasionally see ebikes clipping along at a rate that would make me a lot happier with a full face helmet and some degree of abrasion resistance and soft armor. I guess thi
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by peatmoss 5y ago
The file sharing aspect of this seems to be the least difficult portion of the problem. I’d love to see something that passes muster, to a librarian, on the catalog front. Sort of a wikipedia or open street map of library catalogs. The reso
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I saw it as a really fantastic riff on David Brin’s “uplift” series. In fact, Tchaikovsky calls this out explicitly in naming one of the (IIRC) habitat orbiters Brin.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Apart from a few games purchased on GoG, everything I buy is on Steam. It’s been a very consistent experience for a long time. My first Steam “purchase” was me plugging in the CD code from a copy of Half-Life purchased ~1999. Everything I’v
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As a counterpoint, users can get very wrapped up in changes, and it sounds like the Debian project had a mechanism for resolving the conflict that wasn’t “endless flamewar.”

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