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by sgustard 1y ago
Well the faster you get off the grid, the cheaper it'll be for the rest of us. All PGE's problems are caused by running powerlines for you through fire-prone kindling wilderness.
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by sgustard 1y ago
Quebec has them both beat. Hydro rules! https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/CA-QC/5y/yearly (To be transparent, there's controversy around calling hydroelectric renewable.)
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by sgustard 1y ago
On the other hand, people born in Guam, Puerto Rico, NMI or AVI are US citizens. https://ballotpedia.org/Citizenship_status_in_territories_of...
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by sgustard 1y ago
Can we even determine if what they found is the key, or just the plaintext? The article mentions they recognized bits of plaintext (Berlin clock) in the archives.
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by sgustard 1y ago
The performance of kids in school reflects adult behaviors. Number of books Americans read per year is "a smaller number than Gallup has measured in any prior survey dating back to 1990" per https://news.gallup.com&#x2F
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by sgustard 1y ago
How about "Federal judge rules ICE arrests at Liberty restaurant unlawful"? Does this meet your standard? https://fox4kc.com/news/federal-judge-rules-ice-arrests-at-l...
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by sgustard 1y ago
I'm willing to see a difference in software standards between (say) Waymo and Jeep. One is a software company, the other is a sheet-metal company. If you just tar the whole industry you lose an ability to learn from those doing it bett
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by sgustard 1y ago
But she also claims he "was innocent and falsely accused": https://www.colinmcginn.net/john-searle/
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John Searle has died(nytimes.com)
146 points by sgustard 1y ago|216 comments
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by sgustard 1y ago
Cloudflare's customers are companies that have to send out, say, reset password emails and verify account emails and other crumbs of the modern web. You want me to build my own infrastructure for that? Personally I can't wait for
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by sgustard 1y ago
No FPS or CPU issues on my M3, it's all very smooth. Same slow spreadsheet load as sibling, but that seems like a backend issue.
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by sgustard 1y ago
Also some existing watches will support BP features: As of September 9, 2025, hypertension notifications are currently under FDA review and expected to be cleared this month, with availability on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Wat
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by sgustard 1y ago
Good to know! The fine print: As of September 9, 2025, hypertension notifications are currently under FDA review and expected to be cleared this month, with availability on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. T
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by sgustard 1y ago
He's the most famous rich person on the planet, he was in an Iron Man movie, the president picked him to destroy the government, the list goes on. Of course he gets press coverage. Tesla doesn't even have a PR department.
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by sgustard 1y ago
I save two keystrokes typing "main" these days so I'm happy. Also, words change from time to time, life goes on.
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by sgustard 1y ago
https://archive.ph/CKtWs
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The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History(newyorker.com)
4 points by sgustard 1y ago|1 comments
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Developer gets prison time for sabotaging employer's network with a kill switch(techcrunch.com)
3 points by sgustard 1y ago|1 comments
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by sgustard 1y ago
The increase is almost entirely due to aging population. "The Lancet study indicates that although the total number of dementia cases is expected to increase substantially, the percentage of the global population affected, once age-ad
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by sgustard 1y ago
Do you honestly think a negligent driver who blows through a stop sign at 62 mph would have acted differently in a car marketed to have "SuperCruise" rather than "Autopilot"? I have no strong belief either way, and I she
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by sgustard 1y ago
estimated distance of 2.2 Gpc per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW231123
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by sgustard 1y ago
The early web was full of these links. Over time more actions became buttons with direct labels. This replaced clearly bad link patterns like: - To cancel this purchase [click here]. - To complete this purchase [click here].
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by sgustard 1y ago
I assign only the most nefarious motives to those clowns, but at least her govt profile is intact: https://www.lbl.gov/people/excellence/nobelists/jennifer-dou... The fact that this treatment "built on d
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by sgustard 1y ago
Tesla added a feature via a software update a year ago that lets you change fan speed by holding the left steering wheel button.
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by sgustard 1y ago
You could also have bought $1,000 worth of stock at the time and it would be worth one million today (since 1995 with reinvested dividends, source ChatGPT). Up to you whether the 32 years spent in the office makes the money more worthwhile
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by sgustard 1y ago
Why do some countries cheat in the Olympics? Because it is no longer a contest of human achievement, it's just about the medals as a symbol of national glory. Of course: once all countries are doping, the medals will become meaningless
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by sgustard 1y ago
"Most financial experts attribute he sudden increases that started in the 1970s with an influx of federal funding designed to make college more affordable." https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-year
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by sgustard 1y ago
> How would google maps work in a Web 1.0 world? We had that in the form of MapQuest, and it was agonizingly slow. Click to load the next tile, wait for the page to reload, and repeat. Modern SPAs are a revelation.
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by sgustard 1y ago
Human movers have phones, they could be making some extra bucks doing this now?
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by sgustard 1y ago
Look, everyone on the planet agrees that calling it FSD was over-promising. You are not adding anything to the conversation by pointing that out, or by confusing technology with "magic". The fact remains that software developed by

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