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by perardi 3y ago
Because so much of the real deep-down legacy bits of the car assume a 12-volt battery. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a38537243/electric-car... There's a lot of Tier 3 supplier…stuff…in a car that was
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by perardi 3y ago
And SBG sounded like the voice of reason in crypto. Maybe it’s time for us to dial up the cynicism a few more notches.
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by perardi 3y ago
I have worked in graphic design for nearly 20 years, and I doubt anyone will actually miss this at scale. If you're working with EPS, you are working in specific non-Apple applications that work with EPS. You're in InDesign or Ill
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by perardi 3y ago
I’m a big fan of this Substack post. The UFO craze was created by government nepotism and incompetent journalism https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/the-ufo-craze-was-... > To sum up the story as far as I un
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by perardi 3y ago
I was born in the US, and lived in Canada, specifically Toronto, for a while. And contrary Americans’ vague impressions of some snow-swept utopia…yeah, Canada is shockingly lacking in innovation. It’s a place of US-designed and Chinese-made
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Server with Full Hard Drive Shuts Down Every Toyota Plant in Japan(thedrive.com)
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by perardi 3y ago
Hey mate, you watched a documentary about Foxconn a decade ago! Good for you! Read some actual economic data. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01672...
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by perardi 3y ago
Well, people in the PRC aren’t really working for peanuts nowadays either. They’re not making US/EU wages, but they ain’t working for free, either. China has been doing its own outsourcing of cheap labor to places like Vietnam. Labor i
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by perardi 3y ago
“Normal” human beings, as in, the rich scions of super-genius hyper-capitalists who have a functionally unlimited amount of inherited capital to fall back on as they create their own super-hero enterprises.
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by perardi 3y ago
When the iPad first came out, people knocked it as "a big iPod touch". But…maybe that wasn't a bad thing? I feel like the iPad, despite alllll the efforts to seemingly make it a pro device, is an iPhone, but bigger. It's
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by perardi 3y ago
So we are all feeling a little feisty and fighty because it’s really hot outside, right?
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by perardi 3y ago
Living in Chicago (Lakeview) for years while traveling for work made me absolutely hate taxis. Hello from up here in Edgewater. I realize there are huge problems with the finances and liabilities of Uber…but taxis before ride shares were
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by perardi 3y ago
I usually roll my eyes when people claim that CSS is just too hard to learn, or that these new features are just too complex. I am generally of the opinion that once you are a day-to-day practitioner, CSS does broadly make sense once you bu
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by perardi 3y ago
Don’t have a cow, man.
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by perardi 3y ago
I know the tendency to mythologize serial killers and terrorists is disgusting—serial killer TV shows and movies are sure-fire hits, which is a pretty dark insight into human nature. (I mean, Netflix is like half serial killer shows now.)
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by perardi 3y ago
“A Brief History of Time” is a standout here, as it’s dealing with really well-defined, well-studied, well-tested physics theories. (Well, except for Grand Unification stuff.) But Diamond’s work, and other authors that are in this middle-
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by perardi 3y ago
You are vastly overestimating how much the average US citizen thinks about the military at all, except in the vaguest ways related to social signaling about their class. We basically have a caste system for the military, so outside certain
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by perardi 3y ago
I am willing to agree on this one. There is a clear weariness in US for giving military even more money. I am seeing something similar in the old country and that is despite Russian aggression aimed at Ukraine. Is there really? There’s so
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by perardi 3y ago
So this is notable, for some value of notable, because Apple has not provided Figma assets before. They have provided really quite good Sketch UI kits up until now. https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/
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by perardi 3y ago
I don’t believe so—I distinctly remember searching their site last month for an official Figma UI kit, and they only had Sketch and Adobe. The iOS 17 assets for Figma are new. Which, whew, thank you, Apple.
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by perardi 3y ago
So, so many reasons that it can’t simply be summed up, as there is no simple answer, though “big cities have network effects” is close enough. Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, those are the tech and oil and finance centers, and people
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by perardi 3y ago
Yeah, TV news gets less eyeballs when it’s not a Presidential election year. https://www.ft.com/content/85241de6-981c-433a-9ab8-6518021d0... Trump was a bigger bump and a bigger hangover, but it’s a known pattern. Whic
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by perardi 3y ago
Having seen a few references on here to Rust kicking the bucket…is that a risk with Rust? This is a good-faith, non-trolling question. Rust is way out of my wheelhouse, but it’s obviously gained enough momentum that even I’m aware of it. Is
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by perardi 3y ago
As people below have pointed out, arguable it was crappy. Sure, lacked 3G, lacked apps, but the utter ease of connecting to wifi and flicking through Safari… …anyways, arguable. What’s inarguable is that the iPhone 4, which came along only
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by perardi 3y ago
“Cryptocurrencies can work, we’ve just never had a properly decentralized system yet” is becoming the “Communism can work, we just haven’t really tried it yet”. This is yet another example of the crypto boom going bust, which has been a ser
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by perardi 3y ago
I phrased what I wrote purposefully. I did not deny there are some objects out there acting in ways we can’t explain. Now explain why we should immediately jump to aliens.
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by perardi 3y ago
I know it’s fun to jump to aliens… …but c’mon, people. Occam’s Razor time. There are a lot of options to exhaust before to we get to extraterrestrial intelligence. Just because we can’t explain this doesn’t mean its aliens. It’s a hell of
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by perardi 3y ago
Yeah, repurposing Everclear got me through the pandemic. I cut it with Diet Coke, and a splash of lime, and drank it to help sanitize my system of coronavirus particles. Kept me COVID-free. I think. I don’t really remember much of the past
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by perardi 3y ago
Well, you better be ready to pay up. Which is the inherent problem here. Creating a robust, well-tested emergency satellite comms system that nobody uses day to day costs a lot of money to develop and maintain…and nobody wants to pay for
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by perardi 3y ago
Except this still isn’t great with a 16:9 aspect ratio…well I guess 9:16 now…display. It’s still too damn narrow. Yeah, I get plenty of vertical space, but then the Figma chrome gets jammed into teeny little strips along the sidebar. This s

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