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by rconti 11mo ago
I'm something of a cyclist and I drive on a lot of roads where there are cyclists all the time. I keep meaning to make sure my car is stocked with some helpful bike tools or a spare tube or something. I need to get on that.
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by rconti 11mo ago
Aha. I'm also in California. This explains why the ads stand out more to me when watching the (baseball) World Series and listening to podcasts -- because generally, gambling sites don't waste their time and money advertising to m
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by rconti 11mo ago
We had a deal. The US has to deal with awful prescription drug ads, and the UK has to deal with awful sports gambling adverts. Legalized sports betting has broken the deal! Now we get the worst of both worlds.
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by rconti 11mo ago
Autonomy + insurance is an interesting way to arrive at what the insurers are already trying to push with their tracker dongles, where they encourage you to drive like a mouse by putting bits of carrot in front of you. I had been worried th
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by rconti 11mo ago
That's nothing, we have an initiative called Pink Glove.
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by rconti 11mo ago
FIVETRAN is a weird name for a cat, but I guess it prevents mix-ups at the vet.
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by rconti 11mo ago
Honestly, I'm not sure which interpretation is more concerning.
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by rconti 11mo ago
I've never noticed the "censorship issue", but once it gets a word wrong once, it's game over. Editing is awful. If I'm trying to replace the word entirely, I inevitably do the "wrong thing" and fall victi
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by rconti 11mo ago
I'll give this a try. My typing is better when I use slide to type but I'm still super uncomfortable with it (I feel anxious trying to think of the letters "fast enough" even though I know it doesn't matter). FWIW I
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by rconti 11mo ago
Of course, drivers respond to speed bumps the same way they respond to other poor road surfaces: 3-ton SUVs.
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by rconti 11mo ago
IME they only wear out maybe 15-20% faster than you'd think. On the other hand, over the span of 40,000 miles, a tire loses a LOT more rubber by weight/volume than a brake pad loses pad material. No idea what the PM2.5 breakdown i
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by rconti 11mo ago
It always surprises me when people want stop signs in their neighborhood for traffic calming. The last thing I want is all of the noise and pollution of vehicles stopping and starting over and over again; surely various piece of road furnit
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by rconti 11mo ago
Reference: Rage Against the Machine song "Calm Like a Bomb" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2TLwwrLKbY
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by rconti 11mo ago
Being behind in AI is not the same thing as not spending a lot on AI.
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by rconti 11mo ago
Thanks for the detail -- mine comment was just lazy, from memory, from a friend's car and videos I've seen online.
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by rconti 11mo ago
As they point out, the Tesla pyro fuse (at least on a Model S) is a cheap part. However, in some model years it's on top of the pack, which means you have to drop the pack to get to it. And, from memory, it's a 10 year lifespan
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by rconti 11mo ago
Fair point. I guess elites positioning themselves as downtrodden underdogs ("it's so unfair that everyone's attacking me for committing crimes and bankrupting my companies") is a great way to get support. Everyone loves
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by rconti 11mo ago
Can confirm. I've worked on infra teams for decades, at companies from 80-80,000 people, and I don't think I've _ever_ had a PM on a project I worked on. EDIT: Note, this is not _necessarily_ a complaint, although I think the
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by rconti 11mo ago
Seems to me like social media bot armies have shifted mass preferences _away_ from elites.
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by rconti 11mo ago
> If you haven’t had a mind blown moment with AI yet, you aren’t doing it right or are anchoring in what you know vs discovering new tech. Or your job isn't what AI is good at? AI seems really good at greenfield projects in well kno
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by rconti 11mo ago
I think this is a pretty black and white and simple view of things, fault is not always 100% clear, and CLAIMING fault is different from explaining what happened _from your perspective_, and letting the other driver do the same. But I'
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by rconti 11mo ago
Shrinkflation?
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by rconti 11mo ago
The ADAS systems mandated in Europe are insanely intrusive. I had a few rental cars in Europe this summer and wanted to send them off a cliff. (and I'm not an auto tech luddite, I've had modern cars in the US with autopilot type s
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by rconti 11mo ago
I think it's wild that people spend their own money to surveil themselves every second they're near their car. Maybe I've seen too much lawyering on TV and in movies, but if I'm in a collision with you, I'm definite
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by rconti 11mo ago
Cannot send email to recipients more than 1 light-day away
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by rconti 11mo ago
I love the Mac, but the OS has gone nowhere in ages. I can't think of a new feature since APFS. Have you _seen_ system preferences? Insanely hostile permissions and "untrusted software" behavior. Nobody seems to like Tahoe, b
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by rconti 11mo ago
Yeah, the hardware's been fantastic, but the OS has mostly treaded water with the occasional step backwards.
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by rconti 11mo ago
The web/webapps/mobile helped lead to this era of "desktop PCs" (to include laptops) where the browser mattered more than the OS. It allowed Apple to become resurgent in the desktop market because OS compatibility matter
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by rconti 11mo ago
What theory? That the mount failed? Or the rotation of the engine in the photos going up and over the fuselage? It seems like both are true, but doesn't necessarily prove WHY the mount failed.
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by rconti 11mo ago
What does this have to do with System 7? Operating systems have always used their own filesystems, and it persists to this day. The only obvious exceptions that come to mind are iso9660 as a standard for CDs, and people generally go out of

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