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by pkulak 1y ago
“Transport Layer Security” really is a better name though. I also like to say “TLS”. Two Ses in a row makes you sound like a snake.
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by pkulak 1y ago
Bold move using a post about absolute factual correctness in all situations to defend the current US administration.
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by pkulak 1y ago
That's because, I assume, you are adding in state gas tax, then comparing state registration to the proposed federal registration? Or some other combination. Somehow you are mixing and matching. We're all talking about federal tax
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by pkulak 1y ago
> This is basic materials science and the reason why EVs need tougher tires. Exactly. Tires are formulated to the load they are designed to carry. It's why semis don't have to make a pit stop every 2 miles for new tires. But, l
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by pkulak 1y ago
True. There would need to be a registration fee of about 100 bucks. The rest is paid for by everyone, driver or not. Gas taxes don’t even come close.
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by pkulak 1y ago
The new budget that passed the house has registration fees on EVs that will only match gas cars if you drive well over 25,000 miles a year. Though it’s actually about 35,000 miles. I did the math wrong.
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by pkulak 1y ago
The average gas car is an F150, and the average EV is a Model Y. EVs don’t tend to weigh more. And the tire microplastic thing is misinformation with zero evidence. The only evidence we have is the drastically reduced brake wear (and dust)
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by pkulak 1y ago
My point is that there's no reason to tax them more than gas cars. Gas cars create FAR more negative externalities. I'm not saying they shouldn't be taxed at all; sorry if you got that impression.
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by pkulak 1y ago
The new budget that passed the house has registration fees on EVs that will only match gas cars if you drive well over 25,000 miles a year. Maybe "outlaw" was hyperbolic, but you tax what you want less of. I would imagine that the
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by pkulak 1y ago
Most countries will have fast chargers with one gas pump for the remaining ICE cars. That’s already happening in Norway, for example. The US? After a decade plus of authoritarian rule and the near outlaw of EVs, we’ll have exactly the same
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by pkulak 1y ago
No, that's not true at all. Adds aren't free. Adding in the middle involves following pointers into the heap all over the disk n/2 times, making them generally as expensive as reads. The only situation I can imagine a linked
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by pkulak 1y ago
OP mentioned Uber's motivations, and you countered with workers' motivations. Even admitting that, I'd be willing to bet that essentially no single Uber employee is working that job out of care for environment, or interest in
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by pkulak 1y ago
I've literally never seen a linked list be faster than an array list in a real application, so if you're right, this is kinda huge for me.
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by pkulak 1y ago
So, this comment boils down to: “this free software project has too much capability, and there exists hardware that is reliant on cloud servers.”
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by pkulak 1y ago
The garbage collector is what wraps every reference to every object on the heap. But fine, no GC. I wonder why every language in the world doesn’t use reference counting, since it’s not GC AND you don’t have to clean up any memory you alloc
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by pkulak 1y ago
Yes. Garbage collectors also call free. They call functions. They do all kinds of things. They even increment and decrement reference counters on your behalf. When there’s a system that manages your memory for you at runtime, that’s a garba
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by pkulak 1y ago
That reference counting is done at runtime. It’s a runtime garbage collector. It’s different than a generational GC, but it’s GC. Those cycles to increment and decrement a counter attached to every object at ever touch aren’t free. All the
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by pkulak 1y ago
You can't really say a language with a garbage collector (Swift) is an alternative to one without (Rust, C++, etc), because a lot of the time, the reason someone is using a non-GC language is because they don't want a GC. EDIT: Ye
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by pkulak 1y ago
> That mermaid was quite the saucy tart. Really now?
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by pkulak 1y ago
So every time you take the hash of a string you leak 4 bytes of memory??? I assume it's static in the context of it's containing object. So, it will be collected when it's string is collected.
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by pkulak 1y ago
Trump will back down and lift the teriffs the second there are widespread consequences. He’ll give some excuse, and his supporters will eat it up. That or he’ll make so many deals with CEOs for political support and financial contributions
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by pkulak 1y ago
Very true. My first EV went about 80 miles, in the summer. Fast charging was the name of game! It was the difference between the trip being possible or not. Now I have a car that can go 350+ miles in the summer (280-300 in the winter) and I
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by pkulak 2y ago
I don't get it. I've been using `dall-e-3` over the public API for a couple years now. Is this just a new model? EDIT: Oh, yes, that's what it appears to be. Is it better? Why would I switch?
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by pkulak 2y ago
The plan is to make every country and CEO grovel at the feet of the boss to be exempted from the tariffs. I’d say it’s corruption, but it’s more like a protection racket. I wonder what these companies had to offer?
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by pkulak 2y ago
I still have a Thinkpad from 2015 for work that I run NixOS on. Company policy has since changed to Mac only, but I think I’ve got at least another decade on this ol’ gal. I suppose I could use Nix Darwin, but it wouldn’t be the same.
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by pkulak 2y ago
Your p,k,g,s keys must be worn to nubs.
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by pkulak 2y ago
Omega has been doing an "indirect impulse" escapement for decades now. And they actually sell their watches to people.
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by pkulak 2y ago
How much more of this opinion should I read when it’s established in the third paragraph that the author doesn’t realize that AppImage does not bundle a libc? Flatpaks do, and Snaps are a closed system that bundles _Ubuntu_, so really the a
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by pkulak 2y ago
I disagree. Moving stuff to an API with full local control is a UI decision. Moving it to the cloud is a privacy and obsolescence decision. Huge difference.
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by pkulak 2y ago
I switched from Sway to River and have been very happy. However, I noticed Niri when it came out, and was extremely intrigued. Haven't check back in since, but it looks like the project is still humming along, which is awesome. I may h

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