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by pxtail 3y ago
> I'd rather walk a beautiful trail than a paved sidewalk beside 6 lanes of fast traffic. But would you still prefer it if alternative paved sidewalk is 5 times shorter AND you need to walk between same two points of interest multip
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by pxtail 3y ago
> Very few good questions have received the love required to keep them relevant Some questions receive so much of the love that it brings really wild ideas to casual reader's mind - what would happen if software involved in the ques
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by pxtail 3y ago
> Audio books are a transformation function applied to physical books Very true - for me this is source of the problem with difficulty to find good quality technical audiobooks, I think that in order to "work" correctly, to pro
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by pxtail 3y ago
> if they can't stay on the road for more than say 15 years we're just committing to an endless loop of replacing every car on the road more quickly Of course that is the desired outcome by EV manufacturers - it's the drea
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by pxtail 3y ago
> Another, more critical reason is that some weaknesses are escalatory - they encourage escalation by the enemy. Chinese leaders, seeing the US lacks that capacity, are incentivised to escalate peace to conflict, conflict to war, a small
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by pxtail 3y ago
Pendulum seems to be approaching max displacement position with this weird ass convoluted mess - probably sooner or later we'll start to spot sites with names like you-actually-dont-need-css-in-js.com akin to their js-related counterpa
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by pxtail 3y ago
I think that the rise of various AI helper tools puts pressure on generalists and maybe even makes it less viable to advertise oneself as generalist than before - with AI helpers everyone can be generalist to some degree.
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by pxtail 3y ago
Answer is simple and straightforward - nothing like this is going to happen because short abbreviations and any potential short alternatives can be sold and sweet sweet money can be extracted
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by pxtail 3y ago
Is it literally possible to hear sound of anchor being dragged or is it sound of some kind of nav instruments?
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by pxtail 3y ago
I like the name, has nice and badass vibe
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by pxtail 3y ago
> European authorities haven’t yet specified precisely what information a battery passport must contain, but a three-year, £7 million project called the Battery Pass Consortium is defining exactly that. > Led by ‘system changer’ Syste
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by pxtail 3y ago
I'm using 3 monitors currently (one vertical) and I'm used to utilizing keyboard shortcuts for moving windows between screens - for example I can move window onto vertical screen and then into bottom half of it, all using keyboard
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by pxtail 3y ago
> why? Because someone somewhere has decided that I should move on to something newer and more exciting. But I don't want new and exciting... I want rock solid! Well, it also could be because someone else decided to move on to somet
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by pxtail 3y ago
It seems to me that you are putting too much faith in GDPR - if particular service kind of flies under the radar then I'm assuming that nobody who operates it cares about GDPR
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by pxtail 3y ago
I feel like CSS has grown too much and has too broad scope now - I didn't even know that properties like 'text-indent' and this punctuation one even exist and I'm doing web-development related work. The problem with CSS
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by pxtail 3y ago
And now all bicycles with proprietary and locked to the maximum computers, engines, batteries, bms etc. are becoming unserviceable. Components like batteries should be interchangeable, I should be able to buy new ebike battery just like new
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by pxtail 3y ago
6) Offset burned fossil fuels carbon by reusing already produced car instead of buying new 7) Do not care too much about burning fossil fuel just because rich hypocrites are trying to offload environmental responsibility to the most vulnera
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by pxtail 3y ago
Its useless placeholder page - during recent big outage everything was green there.
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by pxtail 3y ago
Thank you for mentioning earlyoom - I'll install and try it because current behavior of total, complete lockup without ability to do anything besides reset with the hardware button infuriates me unbelievably. I really don't compre
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by pxtail 3y ago
I simply don't get it - is this just to show off, to be ostensibly and pretentiously 'green'? Why should I strap big, ugly, bulky, noisy, inconvenient garbage to my bicycle instead of buying and using something actually prac
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by pxtail 3y ago
> With great success regarding the containment of the far right, they poll quite often on second place now. So why is this happening? Isn't it a sign that they are proposing ideas more attractive to more and more people? Or alternat
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by pxtail 3y ago
You don't need to choose, Wordpress is already here and waits for you with open arms.
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by pxtail 3y ago
* Watch politicians/millionaires flying their personal jets to event avenues wasting within hour the equivalent of CO2 you personally can save by choosing to make life difficult and dangerous for yourself and your family for years! Fuc
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by pxtail 3y ago
Better chances for what? Wealthy individuals won't create "dense" city because they don't have need and understanding for it, they have their personal jets, helicopters, chauffeurs to move around, moreover people and thi
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by pxtail 3y ago
> not sure this is going to go well for the simple reason that so far, it seems Taiwan, Korean and China will still be pumping out cheaper chips and more of them which will make this plan financially unviable, which really seems to go ag
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by pxtail 3y ago
It won't work - not because it's bad idea but because people from most of industries/crafts different than IT are not interested and even very hostile to the idea of sharing their knowledge, projects, work for free.
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by pxtail 3y ago
It's UI infuriates me quite frequently, options, menus, projects all the useful things are hidden behind UI elements which requires to click constantly to reveal items. All of that while plenty of unused blank space is available on the
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by pxtail 3y ago
Just wait for Apple dominance, and yes, it's coming. Oh boy, dark times ahead for the web and it's people.
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by pxtail 3y ago
Maybe it's time for you to get involved and render something that you are bothered with, what's more comfortable for you.
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by pxtail 3y ago
But isn't this VR/AR kit going to contribute even more to the loneliness - contribute and feed itself on the trend? Despite positive upbeat music it was kind of sad to watch people alone in their sparsely furnished environments wi

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