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4y ago
An alternative is to have a minimal HTML that has basically nothing except a <script> tag that connects to a WebSocket then have all content delivered over that. I've done testing with this in the past and it definitely outperfo
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4y ago
> Robust, comprehensive libraries from reliable vendors Hah! In all my years the biggest, most difficult vulnerabilities/problems to remediate all came from vendor-made (90% of the time closed source) software. With the free, open
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4y ago
> "Instead of developing, manufacturing and keeping physical buttons in stock for years to come, car manufacturers are keen on integrating more functions into a digital screen which can be updated over time." That's lame.
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> They wanted to be super green so lets go with sun and wind This is a complete mischaracterization of why Germany invested so much into renewables. Like... 20 years ago? Germany saw the writing on the wall when it comes to how they we
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4y ago
> The energy cost gap between US and Europe are going to get bigger. Only briefly. The fracking boom is basically over: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/01/1027822/fracking... We're pres
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4y ago
I dunno. I could see it... As long as you access the "iCloud Web Service" from an iDevice or a Mac there will be loads of useful and functional tools and features for you to take advantage of. It'll be 4x more expensive th
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4y ago
Another way to look at it: A ton of gas stations aren't very profitable. Most don't even make any real money on the gas! So what happens when 1/4 of all their customers disappear? Many will close and when that happens th
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4y ago
> There is no way a roof solar panel would enable you to "drive for months". FYI: Solar-powered race cars can go 88km/h: https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-technology/world%C... Having sai
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4y ago
To be fair, the Bar exists because lawyers themselves felt there were too many lawyers.
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4y ago
This is kind of ridiculous: Every subreddit is different. Some allow self-promotion and some don't. The ones that do allow self-promotion just happen to not be as popular as the ones that don't allow it. Hmmm A big reason why R
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4y ago
Just like ending Roe V Wade was mere speculation.
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4y ago
There's also demand for Rust in the world of "embedded devices that must not fail" i.e. medical stuff.
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4y ago
The UK does have state-issued ID cards: Passports. Are you a UK person that wants to operate on the "international internet"? Get yourself a UK passport! :)
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4y ago
A better service would be one that automatically blocks UK politicians with a clear message indicating why
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4y ago
> If the end-result of the law + standard human behavior is that you made web browsing a crappier experience then you made a crappy law. That's not a very good way to figure out if a law is "crappy". Building codes make f
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4y ago
> geo blocking for UK IPs (like 99% of websites will) Nahh, they'll just ignore UK law just like they ignore other countries laws. I mean, do you really expect every website owner to be versed in every single country's laws?
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4y ago
Couldn't you do an experiment where you entangle two particles at different altitudes and measure to see which one drops faster? If they're entangled and influenced by their local gravity then you'd expect both to fall at so
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4y ago
> You lost me at "patent pending". I had the same thought: As soon as I saw, "patent pending" I stopped reading. Not worth my time to learn about something that's going to be locked away. Talk to me in 18 years
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4y ago
> I wish the customization options and custom keycaps, etc. would trickle to down to the non-mechanical market. Just get a 3D printer and all your cheap, completely custom keycap desires will be answered... https://github.com&
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4y ago
Also, their switches aren't hot swappable so if one stops working (or even becomes just a bit finicky) consumers are likely to throw the whole thing out.
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4y ago
I read those two articles: The first one is along the lines of, "I'm here! I exist!" and doesn't make any arguments at all. The second one is much more interesting! However, it isn't making any case at all one
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Yeah I found that first article right away: It's really all that exists. The second article is just speculation (nothing actually happened). There's nothing violent coming from the Left (vandalism isn't violence). There m
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There's no reason why a giant machine can't manage multiple different crops/plants at once. The problem in industrial agriculture isn't the geometric layout of straight rows/columns... It's the monoculture (a
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4y ago
Has anyone tried standing up a cable car-like system where overhead lines pull (and power) the tractor? You could use wind turbines as the poles that keep the wires up in the air (though I suppose you could also use subsurface cables but t
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The problem is the OP's claim of "legal extremism" is (apparently) founded in the Family Research Council's definition of "extreme" which is... Extreme. It'd be like a Confederate citing the reason for t
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> Liberals have extremist wings (like Antifa) just like conservatives do. OK where's the anti-fascist extremism here in the US (which is the relevant region of this discussion) that's shutting down discussions ? If you look at
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4y ago
Again, what are you trying to say here? Some scientists are Catholics? Some of them are even famous? What does that have to do with anything?
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First of all: What a terribly-made PDF... It's so compressed I can't even read the text at the top. Secondly, it's just from an awful source: The Family Research Council (FRC) is designated as a hate group (for good reaso
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> Legalizing abortion implies asserting that life begins after some date. I think you mean, "human life" not just "life". Because as far as we know life began about 4.2 billion years ago. With that out of the way we
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4y ago
> Hard lines being drawn, people unwilling to even talk with others based on ideological labels, economic sanctions against ‘offenders’, propaganda clearly targeted at specific identifiable groups used to raise funds and attack the ‘othe
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