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by psd1 3y ago
The hot urn cannot be more efficient than boiling the correct amount of water each time. The limiting factor is the specific heat capacity of water. If daily consumption is 2l, you have to put in the joules to raise 2l to boiling, either wa
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by psd1 3y ago
Absolutely false. If all the world's grannies used Ubuntu, malware writers would target Ubuntu, and the spam would include links to Ubuntu malware. Same for any arbitrary other OS.
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by psd1 3y ago
That's valid, but the thrust of the top-level comment is that the computers are infected because they were windows (sounds plausible) with the implication that if windows were not the dominant desktop OS, malware would not exist (which
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by psd1 3y ago
Do you mean the .Net Foundation brouhaha a year or two ago around code ownership? Or Visual Studio, the product? Or simply that some people will never forgive Microsoft for embrace-extend-extinguish and as a result won't ever give any
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by psd1 3y ago
In a world without Windows, malware would exist on whatever else the dominant OS is, and you'd still have to replace your MIL's laptop with a more obscure system.
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by psd1 3y ago
Ugh, HN users with axes to grind...
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by psd1 3y ago
You and me and <waves hand airily at 7 billion> both. Don't measure yourself against others, it's a recipe for stress. Instead, understand your core values and measure yourself by how you live up to them. If we could put a n
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by psd1 3y ago
FYI, the idiom is "red herring"
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by psd1 3y ago
For me, acceptance took until 27. I stood before a downlit mirror in a pub toilet and I had to confront the shine. I buzzed my skull the next day. Lean into it. Buzz your skull. It's a good look for an adult and people find it sexy. St
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by psd1 3y ago
%m%e
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by psd1 3y ago
I agree with the improvement in readability but still like the bool/int equivalence: sum(int(age > 17) for age in ages) Every nanosecond is vital!
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by psd1 3y ago
I don't think the privacy angle is strong, because it's on a public road. In general, the idea of being tracked in public makes my skin crawl, but what sets me off is recent cars with GPS units. At least with a smartphone, I can l
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by psd1 3y ago
No, that's not the point at all. Inattentive driving is a risk to others. Risk of death or life-changing injury.
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by psd1 3y ago
> we need You're not wrong, but there are more pressing concerns
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by psd1 3y ago
Always always research ink costs before buying the printer! Last time I bought one, Brother was the only brand I would buy, it wasn't even close. I hope they are still as consumer friendly now, because they made me very happy.
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by psd1 3y ago
Deflect much?
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by psd1 3y ago
Thinkpad x220 checking in, still rocking my Sandy Lake and still enjoying a real keyboard. It's about 12 now. Other laptops have come and gone. I couldn't live with my macbook m1. I hated the keyboard and the desktop - why is ther
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by psd1 3y ago
I'm in favour. I just had a 2-day delivery take over a week. It got scanned onto the truck when expected, then marked "incorrect address" and reworked to Depot, where it got lost. That was with a firm called DX. My theory: I&
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by psd1 3y ago
Powershell is a beacon of light in this regard. It doesn't get much love outside Windows sysadmins, and it's not perfect, but it's phenomenally good for discoverability. Every command has regular naming (verb-noun or verb-qua
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by psd1 3y ago
When watching shooting stars, try to characterise the trails. Since its so fast, you need to train your eye a bit. I had an astonishing display in early July in Aragon. I must have seen several hundred in a week. Most had no trails that I c
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by psd1 3y ago
They are social animals, after all. Having a mind model doesn't seem far-fetched. People who keep chickens have also said their birds are smarter than people credit them for.
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by psd1 3y ago
I do enjoy d4a. Here's another recent video that has me stoked: https://youtu.be/bwGQlf0y6zE It's about a non-boxer opposed flat engine, which is an incredibly compact design. That makes it very flexible to packag
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by psd1 3y ago
My app doesn't offer comment editing, but I asked as a kneejerk before searching (doh). It was for the toolchain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12519729
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by psd1 3y ago
> ... complete rewrite ... with Windows ... Whaaa...? Remind me the timeframe, this would have been very early 2000s, right? Does anyone care to speculate on valid technical or business reasons for doing this? Could they perhaps have bee
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by psd1 3y ago
Deny, deflect. Someone would have to be utterly blind to tone to publish a document like that. Working late, fuelled by stimulants? Undermanaged? Narcissist? Who knows, but I'd prefer not to get medical care there.
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by psd1 3y ago
I'm with you. I already have hard challenges that I sometimes fail at, IRL; gaming is supposed to be an escape.
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by psd1 3y ago
That's a false dichotomy. It is both a good and a bad product, depending on perspective. To a large firm, 1% failure is acceptable. To the affected 1%, it's a disaster. Consider wrongful imprisonment as an example. The penalties f
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by psd1 3y ago
My jellyfin on an old dell will never pay for itself, because I don't pay for video. I had a Netflix account, but the content is thin in the UK, so I ceased it.
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by psd1 3y ago
You can optimise to leave slightly more space on the driver's side, and it also grants more space to your neighbour driver
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by psd1 3y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't fabs need plentiful water? Why Arizona and Texas...?

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