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by quicklime 2y ago
Even their washing machines have AI!
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by quicklime 2y ago
Pretty sure the Subaru Crosstrek mentioned in the article doesn't have one, but a WRX STI (also marketed as "AWD") has a lockable center diff. I agree with the other comment: if the Parks Service wants locking diffs (or ride
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by quicklime 2y ago
I think what you're saying is true for www, but not fbcode, and the later starts to look a lot like google3. I agree though, Meta's www codebase has the best developer experience in the industry.
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by quicklime 2y ago
You might be right that SWEs have the biggest egos compared to other engineering disciplines. When I've worked with mechanical and electrical engineers, that was the case. But where I work now, the biggest egos are easily the people a
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by quicklime 3y ago
I’ve lived in Japan too and agree that they have a lot of plastic packaging on products. But from what I can tell they still produce far less plastic waste per capita than Americans (about half, before disposal/recycling/incinerat
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by quicklime 3y ago
The Google style guide doesn’t disagree with you, it says to code exclusively for bash where possible (ie mostly everywhere inside Google) and to prefer [[ over [ and test: https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguid
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by quicklime 3y ago
8000 pedestrians killed vs 104,000 emergency visits for non fatal crash related injuries: https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/pedestrian_safety/i... Weight is directly called out as a factor: > SUVs can ca
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by quicklime 3y ago
The vast majority of pedestrians survive getting hit by a car, not all incidents happen at highway speeds. A difference between a mass of 1 and 3 tons would absolutely make a difference in lethality.
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by quicklime 3y ago
I don't mean for this to sound judgemental, I'm also very supportive of full-time parenting for those who want to do it. But I do feel like daycare/preschool brings us closer to the traditional "it takes a village"
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by quicklime 3y ago
But usually there’s a one-way flow of intent from the human to the tool. With a lot of AI the feedback loop gets closed, and people are using it to help them make decisions, and might be taken far from the good outcome they were seeking. Yo
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by quicklime 3y ago
Does anyone else just get stuck in a “I’m not a robot” loop with these links now?
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by quicklime 3y ago
There are some benefits, but it does complicate the transaction significantly. It's no longer between two parties (a consumer and a merchant), there are now at least two more: a lender and a credit bureau. And that's why we'r
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by quicklime 3y ago
Nothing about time is based on degrees of a circle, other than one specific way to visualise it - which many people don't use anymore and consider antiquated :)
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by quicklime 3y ago
If I’m buying a phone 4 years into the cycle, I don’t want to start with a 4-year-old CPU and camera. 5 years later, when I’m ready to get a new phone, that’ll be a 9-year-old CPU and camera. I’d rather have the latest tech when I buy it, a
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by quicklime 3y ago
The article uses the terms "brand" and "prestige" in a way that I personally found confusing. To me a brand is an identity, and prestige is whether that brand/identity is seen in a positive way. But here's how
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by quicklime 3y ago
I remember when Gmail came out, it used JavaScript and XHR to create an experience that was a lot faster than having to go back to the server and re-render a full page. But these days it’s actually the basic HTML mode that feels super fast.
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by quicklime 3y ago
This is more about “Cmd+Tab” on app-oriented desktops like macOS or gnome. In these environments, cmd+tab will switch applications, not just windows, and this person wants neovim to be there alongside whatever other apps they run (eg safari
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by quicklime 3y ago
The Nissan Leaf has an official 0-100km/h sprint time of 7.9 seconds, while the Leaf e+ achieves a sprint time of 6.9 seconds. This is easily achievable by many ICE cars. You can get a Toyota Corolla that matches this (and I’m not talk
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by quicklime 3y ago
> And home values are one thing that governments are most likely to protect through drastic policy changes 100%. Home owners are one of the most selfish voting blocs out there, and will punish politicians for not perpetuating unsustainab
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by quicklime 3y ago
> Here's something you might not realize. The moment you sit in the passenger seat of a Subaru that uses connected services, you've consented to allow them to use -- and maybe even sell -- your personal information. According t
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by quicklime 3y ago
> Taking a 20% cut for a bit of hosting and payment processing work is pretty greedy What would be a reasonable cut? Looking at other content platforms, this doesn't really seem out of line: https://www.theverge.com/
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by quicklime 3y ago
Calendar-based versioning gives a good sense of how old a version is. As an end user of LibreOffice this does a better job of helping me stay up to date, and tells me a lot more than semver - what is even the “public API” of a GUI app?
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by quicklime 3y ago
The “Unix philosophy” is a core part of the user interface to Unix systems. You might not care about this yourself, but I’d bet that most people do care about UI consistency.
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by quicklime 3y ago
If they paid as much money for each photo in the training data as people do for wedding photos, I’m sure the problem would go away.
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by quicklime 3y ago
I also suffer from rheumatism, and I spent years (and many hundreds of dollars) trying out split keyboards before finding out that my problems had nothing to do with wrist positions. I'm now typing comfortably on a rectangular chiclet
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by quicklime 3y ago
It is harder, although people have tried to do it, e.g.: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289373031_Environme...
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by quicklime 3y ago
The only reason I care about Linux market share is because that’s the metric that hardware manufacturers and software vendors use to decide whether to provide Linux support. This is why android and chrome os don’t count. Those operating sys
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by quicklime 3y ago
Of these 10M+ users, are there any good ones to follow for tech related content?
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by quicklime 3y ago
Is it common for people to describe servers as "weak" and "strong"? I haven't heard this before, and when I was reading this initially I thought this example was going to be the example of tailoring words for non-te
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by quicklime 3y ago
I’m not claiming you live in the Midwest, just that the Midwest climate matches the Fahrenheit scale. I believe you when you say you feel that way at those temperatures, but I personally wouldn’t wear just a t-shirt when at any temperature

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