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by scrumper 7y ago
Absolutely. Big thick A pillars have increased survivability in crashes (embedded airbags, stronger structure) but that doesn't come for free - they cause some accidents (hiding bikers, also cars when pulling out of junctions). I&#x27
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by scrumper 7y ago
So... I can't say "good" but you can say "beneficial." Reduction of friction is not clearly beneficial! That's exactly the point. Superficially it appears to be, but it absolutely isn't the case. Reducing
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by scrumper 7y ago
> The internet is an amoral force that reduces friction, not an inevitable force for good. This is well said and something everyone in tech should remember. Unintended consequence is a law with teeth.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Seconded. It's just different enough from Illustrator to be unsettling for the first few days, but the core of it is immediately and very obviously excellent. I persevered (it's vastly less money) and I'm very pleased I did.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Emacs is about the only cross-platform environment I can think of that makes Electron look efficient ;)
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by scrumper 7y ago
[Mild spoiler] I would love it if that series ever got finished. We're stuck on Tines world with the blight's remnant fleet approaching...
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by scrumper 7y ago
Diaspora is a particularly good fit.
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by scrumper 7y ago
You're wasting a fair bit. You can get a qualitative sense by feeling how warm the fan exhaust is: I use my cheese grater Mac Pro to stop my uninsulated home office freezing up in the winter. However, despite the savings, you may not b
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by scrumper 7y ago
A dreadful article on a good topic. Repetitious, poorly-worded, unclear (the "how to" for Excel contains no actual instructions).
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by scrumper 7y ago
There's a curiously large connection between 4Chan's audience and the far right if satirical memes are getting co-opted that easily. What an odd demographic they must have; both satire enthusiasts and their targets coexisting in
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by scrumper 7y ago
Ugh no please don't think about it! I'm a diver too and had a lovely time teaching my little blonde haired, blue eyed kids all the various hand signals, including this one. So how about this still means "OK" if you'
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by scrumper 7y ago
Should point out that we're both forgetting that Stallman actually resigned, though who knows under what pressure. So this entire debate is pretty moot. But for the sake of argument, we'll say he was fired. So it seems like we agr
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by scrumper 7y ago
Is that the way it should be? And if not, are you saying that there's no point in arguing for something better?
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by scrumper 7y ago
> The author shows no sign of understanding why it's important that Stallman was fired... Not sure that's fair. In the conclusion he writes: > The goals Selam G. seeks to advance are good ones. Institutions like MIT need to
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by scrumper 7y ago
"Expected to be" is not the same as "will only be", and that's the sort of thing that gets decided by a judge. (The existence of the additional charges language does weaken that argument a bit since if "expecte
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by scrumper 7y ago
Probably the latter in fairness. But presumably the data from those trackers feeds into the hidden backend heuristics the parent commenter mentioned.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Well here's some of it. This is what ublock origin has to say about us.hsbc.com: google.com adsrvr.org amazon-adsystem.com appdynamics.com bing.com demdex.net doubleclick.net facebook.com googleusercontent.com gst
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by scrumper 7y ago
Reminds me a bit of FTL, minus the turns, plus a designer which if it is half as cool as it looks will be amazing fun. Worth a Windows VM.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Ugh I thought that was amusing, at least until I read yesterday about a 10 year old girl in Texas who died from exactly this. The amoeba is called Naegleria Fowleri and nagelerisis is a terrifying way to die: even with treatment there'
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by scrumper 7y ago
Very interesting! So my understanding from this is that "psuedoaddiction" is a name for the concept that a patient agitating for drugs is doing so not because they're addicted, but because they actually need the drug to ease
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by scrumper 7y ago
You might be right. Maybe I got splashed...
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by scrumper 7y ago
Visiting friends in Florida recently, they warned our kids not to go in the landscaped pond in their development (it had a beach). I asked if snakes were a danger. They laughed, not in the least: the real problem was flesh-eating amoebae.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Some good, constructive advice in here amongst some of the usual pablum. Reframing is clever: "We're looking for younger minds." "Well, what you're actually looking for is innovative thinking and here's XYZ tha
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by scrumper 7y ago
Interesting there's no apparent etymological connection between "stool" (meaning "turd") and "Groom of the Stool" - Wikipedia has the meaning being the "close stool": the chair near the king&#x27
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by scrumper 7y ago
The problem was that, with such limited memory available to the computer, it erased all the en-route navigational data to make room for the preflight data. So now you have a spacecraft on its way to the moon with no way to know where it is.
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by scrumper 7y ago
He's an astrophysicist isn't he? So why's this linking to an article in the Journal of Experimental Medicine written by nobody called Brian May? Flag. Edit: Oh I see, the submitter owns scite.ai. Seems like a bad way to plug
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by scrumper 7y ago
This is amazing, I'd vaguely heard of this but not visited before. What a resource!
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by scrumper 7y ago
> option somewhere buried That’s what I did. Made it slide by default (because I hate trying to twist a virtual knob). I briefly had a translucent rectangle popup when the control was in slider mode but it turned out not to be helpful as
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by scrumper 7y ago
Exactly. In practice we spend maybe $150 a year. We have Amazon Prime video as a side effect and our cell company pays for Netflix for us. Without those two we’d maybe spend double, but we’re still so much better off this way - not least be
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by scrumper 7y ago
We use iTunes TV purchases as a la carte dining for specific seasons of stuff we actually want to watch (or the odd episode of something to try it out). Chernobyl just showed up on it, for example, so we'll grab that at some point. We

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