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by qball 3y ago
>but still not very affordable, models The 2020 SE is available from a wide variety of sources for 200USD (still new in box); it'll be supported until 2027. The 2022 SE is 400USD, supported until 2029. By comparison the Android pho
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by qball 3y ago
>There's a weird standard established in this post This post is just restating Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy, but in way too many words and with a bit more of a polemic bent that makes it slightly less accurate than
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>I get a weird 'feeling' from the Strong Towns movement, and I can't put my finger on why An organization with a subtly culturally imperialist name ("the cities are all fine, but all small towns are all broken everywh
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by qball 3y ago
>Light background is a must. I never use dark mode on anything. Dark mode is fundamentally a hack around two things. First, shitty screens that can't run light mode anywhere near dim enough once the sun goes down (which is at least
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>would you rather a world with 80% functionality with people you don’t trust doing malicious things, or a world with 100% functionality with people you don’t trust doing malicious things? The latter, obviously. Karen delenda est.
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True- by contrast, Twitter went all in on widespread censorship and surveillance on behest of the US government (to say nothing of the Europeans) and all they got was... the ability to keep functioning. Clearly, they should have asked for m
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>Why don’t children leave the house? Because it's illegal in most of North America (especially when you consider where people actually live) for them to leave the house. That is the beginning and end of it. If this answer isn'
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>Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
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by qball 3y ago
Perhaps the fact that it all of a sudden became acceptable (to put it mildly) to cover the lower half of one's face has some benefits after all. After all, who could object to a safety measure?
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The chemical process that consumes fat is a combustion reaction.
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>I've often remarked (informally) that autistic people seem to operate under the assumption that the explicitly-stated rules are the actual rules. Yes, and the people who believe that this is not how things should work are, in a wor
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by qball 3y ago
>American Exceptionalist Ah yes, because all criticisms of SI's inherently flawed design must be from an American. Lol, lmao even. >I can just as easily use my handspan or the lengths of my fingers to estimate lengths in centim
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by qball 3y ago
>It was objectively better system No, it isn't, and I've already outlined the reasons why. >Reducing SI adoption to “gunpoint” Is what actually happens. The French pushed it through their Revolution, the Soviets did it in &
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>The kilometer was based on 1/10000 the distance between the poles and the equator. And that measurement they got was ultimately off, which is why the meter became (until its later redefinition), for all intents and purposes, "
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>Will government make ice more expensive? Two things are going to happen: Cars in general are going to continue becoming more expensive (it's still functionally illegal for any American automaker to turn a profit on anything smaller
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>One truth in this regard: people will straight up call the cops, or worse, CPS, on unattended children And there will never be any meaningful consequences leveled against those people, empowering bad actors far beyond any meaningful soc
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>You could create the most walkable neighbourhood in the world and not achieve much in this regard. As always, giving into hysteria only leads to more hysteria. The massive expansion of the rights of angry Karens to summon State guns on
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>Of course it just takes a few people to screw this up. The root of the vast majority of modern problems is hysterics/heckler's veto/concern trolling backed by state power.
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>No alert should bypass specific instructions for a phone to be silent. Why? Don't you know that bitter custody disputes qualify as national emergencies on par with the outbreak of a natural disaster or nuclear war? Surely the fac
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by qball 3y ago
>It's a popular taste in gummy-like candies It's also the "salt" in salted licorice. >but it's an acquired taste Yes, because it's objectively unpleasant (if it tasted good there would naturally be no nee
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by qball 3y ago
>but became accustomed used to buying new PCs every six or seven years. Why would they buy any quicker? The average laptop in 2016 was only maybe 10% faster than a laptop in 2010 thanks to that stupid Ultrabook shit (and Intel refusing
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by qball 3y ago
>we do not have an industrial level of excess energy If only there was some turnkey design we could build that produces utterly massive amounts of energy with a few grams of fuel that can also be continually recycled based on physical pr
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One would think they'd just do it by division; it's not that difficult to have a Production division for standard suits and an Open division for the highest of the high-tech fabrics. Other sports that have this kind of division s
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>although it's really just a regressive tax on poor people Same with the effective ban on small cars (and trucks before that); the dominance of SUVs is mainly because that's the one kind of car a company is still allowed to mak
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>It is a very useful metal, and if it is electricity intensive to define, I wonder if it would fit the use of excess renewable electricity. No, absolutely not. Aluminum refining, like all industrial processes at scale, takes a long time
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>Now imagine mouse clicks which are supposed to represent a trigger. Interestingly, some consoles already do this- the PS5 in particular will vary the weight of its shoulder triggers to match what you're doing on screen. >we’d ne
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>we’re going even further backward with the mechanical keyboard obsession Well, not quite; single-stage/two-stage trigger technology, as well as progressive triggers, have some benefits when applied to keyboards. First, single-stage
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>Why pick straws though? Because banning them is highly visible and enshittifies life in general (paper straws are fucking garbage and everyone knows this) without solving the actual problem (pollution should trend downwards). This makes
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A gasoline car can charge from 0% to 100% of its range in 5 minutes. It usually takes longer to take the slight detour and line the car up with the charge port than it does to fully charge the car. Recharging this kind of car does not d
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>had to remove headphone port and home button to make it water resistant. This was an outright lie; some Android manufacturers (I believe it was Samsung and Sony, but maybe others as well) had waterproof phones with headphone jacks and i

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