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by rob74 2y ago
I'm aware of that, but if your selling point is speed, you'll have to sacrifice the efficiency, CO2 emissions be damned...
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by rob74 2y ago
That makes sense - if someone plans to fly London - New York for an important meeting, arriving there two hours late because the supersonic plane was switched for a subsonic one is not an option. Of course, nowadays they could just jump on
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by rob74 2y ago
> just run it only over the ocean If you look at the Overture's website ( https://boomsupersonic.com/overture ), it sounds like that's exactly what they are planning to do - it's advertised as "MACH 1
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by rob74 2y ago
Ah, that explains a lot! We actually visited Sweden last summer (with a camper van), and the first few days were still in the summer vacation. The first night was no problem, because we had reserved a place, but for the second night we only
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by rob74 2y ago
Yes... spending thousands of $/€ to go somewhere and then focus on sleeping as long as possible instead of sightseeing, sampling the local cuisine and other stuff regular tourists do, sounds like the ultimate luxury indeed! Because
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by rob74 2y ago
Right, a proxy focused on privacy and removing ads. Of course that's "malware" to Facebook, a site recommending devilry such as this must be silenced at all cost...
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by rob74 2y ago
No one says that this is a one-size-fits-all solution, but for some use cases (small tools that are intimately connected to the rest of the codebase, even reuse some internal code/libraries) it's probably helpful...
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by rob74 2y ago
Aside from TB, you could also call this "the tragedy of vaccination": vaccination causes the incidence of a life-threatening disease to become so low that people consider the vaccine to cause more harm than it prevents - until the
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by rob74 2y ago
Moving your HQ, return to office mandates and similar are a bad idea from an employee's point of view, but an excellent idea for a company if it wants to get rid of employees without having to pay severance. Of course, they risk most o
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How the roots of the 'PayPal mafia' extend to apartheid South Africa(theguardian.com)
12 points by rob74 2y ago|3 comments
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, without being a neurologist, I assume at least the part of the brain that connects directly to the optical nerves (which is however not the visual cortex) has more or less an exact representation of what your eyes are seeing. So you&#
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by rob74 2y ago
Ok, so you could spend (at least) €963,95 to buy this chair that turns where you're looking in VR. Or, you could, you know, just stand up and turn around? Or turn the chair using your feet? For able-bodied people, I can maybe see the
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by rob74 2y ago
To put it into perspective: vi was already 15 years old when Bram decided to write vim for the Amiga, which had a GUI - so vim already looked out of place on the Amiga too! - but it was still successful, of course (I think) mostly because
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by rob74 2y ago
It's surprisingly hard to find an answer to this (an FAQ on the Bun site would be a good idea?), but I suspect it has to do with reimplementing some stuff (bundler, package manager, test runner etc.) in a compiled language (Zig) rather
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by rob74 2y ago
Come on, haven't you heard that Trump has declared the start of a new American Golden Age? You gotta have some faith! No seriously, this reminds me of another "Golden Age" which according to the propaganda happened under Ceau
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by rob74 2y ago
If it was left-wing people spreading e.g. vaccine disinformation (which is now on the way of becoming official policy in the US - I hope not too many people will die because of this), I would want those fact-checked as well, but for some re
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by rob74 2y ago
Thanks for posting this! We're planning a trip to Iceland this year, so the full trip description on this site is just what I needed...
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, green roofs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof ) are having a comeback all over the world, so it's quite possible Iceland will pick them up again as well...
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by rob74 2y ago
So, on top of paying for a gym membership and not using it, you're paying an additional $10 for each time you should go but don't, and it's... still a good deal?
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, you can also - shock horror - drive (or bike, if possible) over to the restaurant and pick up your order yourself! That's of course assuming that the restaurant has another means of placing orders than through the delivery apps
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by rob74 2y ago
Sure, I didn't say Garmin had no competitors, just that the Apple Watch is limited to 30% of the smartphone market, while Garmin can address (a part of) the remaining 70% plus some of Apple's 30% as well.
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by rob74 2y ago
Not for America (or rather the US) specifically, but it's for en.wikipedia.org - the non-English-speaking rest of the world is more likely to use their own language versions of Wikipedia.
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by rob74 2y ago
Of course, the unmentioned elephant in the room here is that Apple watches don't work with Android phones (it's possible to use the "cellular" version with limited features without a phone, but you still need an iPhone t
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by rob74 2y ago
> It therefore came as a shock when Warsaw was the most notable European Union victim of the decision by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden last week to cap coveted AI chip exports. The link to the decision ( https:/&#
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by rob74 2y ago
I largely agree with this post except for the reference to "juvenoia". Case in point: the new US administration doesn't contain a lot of terribly young people, but they have also thoroughly lost the respect for complexity. Al
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by rob74 2y ago
BTW, it's written Vandenberg, not Vandenburg as in the article.
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by rob74 2y ago
Of course, there is also this (quote from the site): > If you find this online version useful, please consider buying a copy of the current edition. This helps to support the Lua project.
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by rob74 2y ago
I you are referring to the two Space Shuttle accidents, both of them could have been avoided with just a little bit more care - not launching in freezing temperatures for Challenger, and making sure insulation foam doesn't fall off the
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by rob74 2y ago
> they used CFLs? Nah, the lamps used (I assume) standard fluorescent tubes. Although honestly I don't know how widespread they were. They were (and still are in some areas) all over the place in Munich (and also e.g. here https:
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by rob74 2y ago
Hm, for a site specialized in Nokia phones, it sure has a lot of "unknown models". I assume those are design mockups or prototypes of phones that didn't make it to mass production? At least this N-Gage lookalike https:/

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