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by rob74 10mo ago
...and then he ignores them.
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by rob74 10mo ago
Yeah, I guess that's what I meant with "impractical". Sure, if you had your enemy on the other side of a battlefield, or outside the walls of your castle, muskets were great. If you met them on the streets of Paris, not so mu
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by rob74 10mo ago
I'm no historian, but back then, coins were literally worth their weight in gold (or silver, copper, bronze, whatever), so it was probably easier to pay with foreign currency than we might assume...
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by rob74 10mo ago
When I read the book in my youth, I remember being surprised not only by the lack of muskets, but also that it was more about D'Artagnan than about the titular Three Musketeers. Anyway, if you think about it, it makes sense: muskets we
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by rob74 10mo ago
Pah! Solar and batteries?! Have you been living under a rock for the last 12 months? Any startup that dares to suggest solutions based on solar and batteries (not to mention windmills) is sure to attract the ire of the Trump administration,
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by rob74 10mo ago
So now Times New Roman not only looks uninspired and bland, but also dated? Yeah, I would say that's a good fit...
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by rob74 10mo ago
Yeah, if the suitcase weighs 32 kg, you'd definitely want to have some wheels on it! Or (keeping with the technology available at the time) just go with a foldable bicycle - not as fast, but much lighter and more practical!
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by rob74 11mo ago
Actually, the default font is much more pleasant than that used on this site ( https://lenowo.org/index.php ) which I complained about a few days ago - and that site doesn't have an option to make it more readable as f
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by rob74 11mo ago
> no living thing can get away with making so many mistakes before it's learned anything If you consider that LLMs have already "learned" more than any one human in this world is able to learn, and still make those mista
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by rob74 11mo ago
Ok, those are valid examples (also, how about free roads for everyone? Everyone seems to take that for granted and wouldn't dream about calling it "socialist"), but in your original post you wrote about "a flat benefit f
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by rob74 11mo ago
A flat benefit for everyone that doesn't reduce with income level would be universal basic income, which has many supporters in theory, but has never been implemented in practice so far, not even in the most socialist countries of the
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by rob74 11mo ago
I'm not the OP, but if you ask me, I'll tell you that I think most phone users out there don't even know what a fps is, let alone how many fps their smartphone has...
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by rob74 11mo ago
When Windows replaced DOS in the 1990s, I hoped I'd seen the last of that fugly cursed (to paraphrase the site's motto) IBM VGA text mode font. Little did I know that retrocomputing fans seem to be very much in love with it...
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by rob74 11mo ago
Stories like this regularly make the rounds when movies or shows that the original creators put a lot of love and thought into are "remastered" on the cheap. The last one I saw was the story about the garish colors in digital vers
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by rob74 11mo ago
This clip from an 80s spy comedy is probably too obscure to become a meme, but it deserves to be: https://clip.cafe/gotcha-1985/what-this-strudel/
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by rob74 11mo ago
I for one would say, the later they add the "ads" feature, the better...
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by rob74 11mo ago
Well yeah, and that's actually the point: if you don't like it, you're free to leave! Headcount reduction without severance payment and getting rid of an unmotivated employee, win-win! At least for federal employees they ha
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by rob74 11mo ago
Sure, if you feel lonely and want the company of your co-workers, you're free to come to the office as often as you want. It's being forced to come to the office 3/5/whatever days that is actually decreasing motivati
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by rob74 11mo ago
...and being forced back to the office for first three and then five days (as Elon Musk said years ago, you can work from home all you want, you just have to work 40 hours per week in the office) is not really going to improve your motivati
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by rob74 11mo ago
The RTO decisions are about making changes to prove that you have power over your employees, and also about attrition: if you don't like the soul-crushing routine of having to come to the office three or five days a week when you could
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by rob74 11mo ago
Yeah, with cars of that age, you either become a part-time car mechanic or you get rid of them. The upside is of course that with cars from the eighties and before, you still can repair most of the things yourself...
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by rob74 11mo ago
Do you remember the times when "cargo cult programming" was something negative? Now we're all writing incantations to the great AI, hoping that it will drop a useful nugget of knowledge in our lap...
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by rob74 11mo ago
I don't know about you, but I would rather pay some money for a course written thoughtfully by an actual human than waste my time trying to process AI-generated slop, even if it's free. Of course, programming language courses migh
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by rob74 11mo ago
What has always bothered me about this "interstellar mining" plot device (which is not only used in Alien, but also in e.g. Avatar): is it really somehow plausible to find minerals in other solar systems that can't be found m
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by rob74 11mo ago
Interesting! Since Ansaldo Breda is an Italian company, I would have thought that the signs were European as well. Similar LCD "mosaic" displays were pretty widespread over here until a few years ago (e.g. in some platform signs o
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by rob74 11mo ago
Ironically, AA flight 191 could have been salvageable, because the engine detaching didn't start a fire. However, it led to loss of hydraulic pressure on that wing, which led to the flaps/slats retracting on just the left wing, wh
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by rob74 11mo ago
It was however relevant to the survivability of the accident: if the left engine wouldn't have detached, or would have detached in a more "manageable" way, the other engine (probably the tail engine from how it looks) wouldn&
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by rob74 11mo ago
I'd take PHP instead of JS/TS + framework-of-the-day on the backend anytime. Ok, PHP is usually also paired with a framework ( cough Laravel cough ), but at least there the situation is more stable, not to mention more mature. U
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by rob74 11mo ago
It could become their problem however if you are so blinded that you drive into them head-on. But yeah, I doubt they realize that, otherwise they wouldn't do it in the first place...
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by rob74 11mo ago
#3 ...not to mention situations like fog, heavy rain/water spray etc.

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