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by rconti 1y ago
One thing I've noticed on iOS is that often app updates seem to reset my preferences. Not every update, of course, but I notice notifications months/years after I am 100% positive I disabled that category previously.
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by rconti 1y ago
Right, but in particularly heavy snowfall, it's not hard to imagine snow encasing the chassis. Once the snow forms a barrier around the body, the exhaust has nowhere to go. Or if the pipe gets blocked (which is a bit harder to imagine,
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by rconti 1y ago
Yeah, I find it pretty silly, too. There used to be extended range fuel tank options on some vehicles, but they've largely gone away. I believe some tests are done with x% of fuel on board, so of course a larger tank will mean a greate
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by rconti 1y ago
I suspect most cars will still be in the 250-400mi range sweet spot, same reason that's where we're at with gas cars.
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by rconti 1y ago
It happens. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00039929.htm https://www.rearviewsafety.com/safety/news/news-release-dead... But it sounds like it's hard to get a handle
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by rconti 1y ago
Hopefully this will allow cheaper cars to get ~400mi of range but I doubt we'll ever see much more in mainstream cars. Batteries are simply too expensive and too heavy. Fuel tanks are cheap to build, but we still see no gasoline passen
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by rconti 1y ago
Is this freeway stat per lane-mile? Rail often has 2 sets of tracks along a corridor, or at most 4. Roads have a lot more. I'm guessing even a busy/congested freeway has a greater throughput per lane than transit; even with automo
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by rconti 1y ago
I don't have FSD, just basic autopilot, but I'm unhappy enough with the lane following/braking/accelerating behavior that I only use it in very limited cases. Unless FSD improves on these -- which I don't think it d
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by rconti 1y ago
Not just SoCal; watch the auction sites. I really only wanted an AP2 in Rio Yellow Pearl, and their values are perilously close to $30k. In fact, a 70k mile example I bid on last year on BaT or C&B (in San Jose) went for over $30k. Ulti
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by rconti 1y ago
I'm about to start paying for YouTube for the first time ever. Of course, they make it complicated because I don't actually want their bundled music service. And the "lite" version says most videos are ad-free. But wha
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by rconti 1y ago
I was just thinking about this the other day -- hotels so badly want me to book directly with them instead of using, say Booking.com. But then to book directly and get the "guaranteed cheapest!" price, I have to sort through even
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by rconti 1y ago
no, there's a part about it later, assuming we can take their word for it: (ugh, HN formatting is the _worst_) ------ Taking a look at the metadata embedded into the disk itself, we can see that track 6 is actually titled "Don&#x2
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by rconti 1y ago
> Aside from some audio tracks and a table of contents over those tracks, very little extra information is included on a disk - you've pretty much only got the artist name, album name and track names actually burned into the disk. H
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by rconti 1y ago
I think this may be overestimating how often people buy tablets. My wife has an iPad Air 1 or 2, so it's close to 10 years old and mostly sits in a drawer. I had a VERY old iPad 2 that I held off on replacing because I wanted to wait f
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by rconti 1y ago
+1 for Infuse. I tried to make Plex work for me, many times over the years, and it's always been so frustrating. From needing a server that can do transcoding, to demanding that I name my files in the way it wants them to be named, it
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by rconti 1y ago
Multi-user iPadOS when?
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by rconti 1y ago
I'm not sure what you call it, but the "unified view" thing where you're supposed to be able to view content across providers is a complete nightmare. I'm not actually sure how I end up there -- I think it happens a
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by rconti 1y ago
This feels like an unnecessarily defensive take. I think these lists are more meant to be humor or thought-provoking. If anything, I think they serve to point out to non-programmers why programming is difficult, not to call programmers stup
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by rconti 1y ago
Not personally, no, though I am surprised to learn in this thread that it's apparently an issue. I do know with cars, replacement parts sometimes have fitment issues that cause body shops hassles, driving up labor costs, and having rep
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by rconti 1y ago
Yeah, this still seems problematic in the case of a device being sold and represented as original. Though I suppose this is always a risk we take buying used.
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by rconti 1y ago
The book's title, "Understanding the Erlang Runtime System", contains 25% of the words represented in the BEAM acronym, "Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine".
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by rconti 1y ago
Sorry, I can't parse the multiple negatives of "hopefully this doesn't mean they can't.." followed by "there's no such restriction". I legitimately share the parent's concern. In a related matter
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by rconti 1y ago
Best guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)
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by rconti 1y ago
yep
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by rconti 1y ago
Reminds me of my first Ibis encounter, in Brisbane. I was at an outdoor dining area in Southbank. There were signs warning people to beware of the ibis, and that the restaurant would not replace your food if it was taken by an ibis. I sat d
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by rconti 1y ago
I'd never say I'm a classic home-rower, but I do use it as a starting point. My left hand mostly conforms, but I really only use my thumb and first two fingers on my right hand, so i get what you're saying about your hand mov
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by rconti 1y ago
But at least the dollars we pay for electricity aren't the dollars they spend to advertise to us constantly about how safe they are. /s
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by rconti 1y ago
Using a time series database would be great here.
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by rconti 1y ago
It seems like move-out day would be the great volume of stuff with the lowest likelihood of bed bugs.
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by rconti 1y ago
Of course it’s more space than I need. My point was that heating 600sqft doesn’t strike me as a trivial task, given my context of heating a house that’s less than double the size in a temperate climate. Not to argue (?) that their house is

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