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by rkangel 5y ago
I assume you mean the Teapigs style things? Do they leech microplastics into tea?
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by rkangel 5y ago
In practice, fibres don't just break randomly, they break because someone digs them up or the duct they're in collapses or similar. If any of those happens, the water line is going to be broken and need digging up in exactly the s
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by rkangel 5y ago
The cables are mostly glass fibre, and glass is about as good as you can get in terms of being safe with water. There are obviously coatings too, and for water deployments the coatings will be chosen to be safe to "drink" in case
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by rkangel 5y ago
> this is an idea that should be discarded before you spend money on the trials because in practice it won't work This is an incredibly pessimistic and counter-productive point of view. "You shouldn't even try because it&
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by rkangel 5y ago
The Raspberry Pi was basically only possible because of the Broadcom SoC. It is a capable chip, with approximately the right set of functionality for an SBC and at a good price (because it was already manufactured in volume). It was only av
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by rkangel 5y ago
The irony is that he's arguing more towards individualism, but then ends with the most collectivist urging that there is: "Don't like it - join a union".
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by rkangel 5y ago
As a consumer of desktop environments (and not a GUI application developer) I think that GTK based desktop environments are in the best place they have ever been and Linux as a DE for 'normal' people is a reasonable option in a wa
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by rkangel 5y ago
Git as a system has no objection to having more than one 'initial commit'. It will happily take that branching history and merge it together. With a bit of branch renaming you can add extra remotes to your repo so both 'maste
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by rkangel 5y ago
I think drop-in replacement fuel is the most realistic approach. The lifespan of aircraft and of some aircraft engines mean that your suggestion would require a large number of engine replacements and make it prohibitively expensive for the
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by rkangel 5y ago
The main issue with docker is that you have to start from scratch with your environment. With Nix you can layer it over your existing Linux environment (or you can have it from-scratch by running `nix-shell --pure`). There are advantages to
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by rkangel 5y ago
> LA is massive[1]. If you lived in Manhattan and made plans with people living in Queens or Brooklyn or East Rutherford, you would expect them to flake just as much as people living in LA. If I only make plans with people in Santa Monic
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by rkangel 5y ago
It's completely in the same category as battery technology - interesting advancement, probably not going to actually get to production, even if it does it'll take years. That said, it is still an interesting advancement of inter
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by rkangel 5y ago
I think I've been relatively lucky - I've had one cheap product that wasn't quite what it should have been, but nothing from Anker. My policy is to avoid ordering from Amazon if at all possible. This is both because of the ri
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by rkangel 5y ago
Can you support this claim? Also it seems backwards - the UK got close to increasing its speed limits on motorways recently. The tradeoff was between economic benefits from more efficient travel on motorways and increased risk due to the hi
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by rkangel 5y ago
This is the exact sort of situation that supports the ever increasing importance of brands. This is obviously a cheap chinese product, and therefore there are low expectations of quality in the result. The same is still true but in a less o
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by rkangel 5y ago
I think that terraform etc. are largely the wrong way of doing it. I think NixOS (or just the Nix package manager) is the right way of doing it but the Nix ecosystem has it's own separate set of issues. Mostly these are around (lack
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by rkangel 5y ago
> I'm used to a freedom of agency and independence that I'm afraid would go over badly in a normal place. So I stay. I think you're underselling the rest of the world a bit. Many if not most companies aren't great, b
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by rkangel 5y ago
I agree on most games. I find it interesting that being good at simracing (with one of the proper simulation games like iRacing) does translate to ability on a track.
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by rkangel 5y ago
I love working from home, and I have a very enlightened employer but I do have some sympathy with the companies that have a chunk of employees who just don't work when they're at home. The situation in my company is simple to mana
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by rkangel 5y ago
I think it is indefensible to bring people back to work in any workplace where mask wearing is needed at your desk. If you're admitting in that way that there is a risk in being in the office then you shouldn't be requiring them t
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by rkangel 5y ago
More accurately - freedom of speech means freedom of consequences from the government . It means nothing between private entities.
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by rkangel 5y ago
Yes, the article seemed to be making two different points and got a little directionless as a result: * Half of all women will get false positives - that's a lot, it's not great, people will think they have cancer and we should se
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by rkangel 5y ago
I think that the title is actually a pretty clear and accurate statement. [If you assume that all women have mammograms at the normal cadence, over a period of 10 years then] half of women will get a false positive.
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by rkangel 5y ago
I agree with several siblings that if you're building a desktop the only thing you really need to think about with compatibility is graphics card, because the driver situation is complicated. For best compatibility (and lots of other r
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by rkangel 5y ago
The varying answers to this are effectively political positions. I would suggest that in this case (like in several others) competition is insufficient to guarantee that I have that choice. If I have a GSuite account, but I think that Goo
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by rkangel 5y ago
You're not providing a service though are you? You're providing intellectual property for people to do things with.
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by rkangel 5y ago
I would probably use the word "service" and I specifically don't mean "web based service". If someone is providing a service (for money?) then you should have the right to speak to a human about issues with your ser
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by rkangel 5y ago
> To this day I'm still mystified as to why this bug hadn't caused broken interrupts (+ mysterious behavior) or mass panics before then. There must've been some other change to xnu that exposed the bug somehow, but I'
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by rkangel 5y ago
From my point of view, the actual act of driving is not that difficult (after the first 50k miles or so). The issue is the mental effort required to continually pay attention to what's going on to drive safely. Tesla's system stil
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by rkangel 5y ago
I do agree that there needs to be more personal accountability, although I think the bigger issue here should be people in the finance world. Some of the fines have been quite large and do serve as a deterrent. H&M was fined 35 million

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