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by sjwright 6y ago
The premium cost part is interesting. When my labour might be worth something in excess of $100k per year to the right corporation, for me to spend an extra $300 per year* on whatever I consider to be higher quality or even just preferred t
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by sjwright 6y ago
> There isn't enough lithium on earth to sustain a full switch to eletric. No serious person claims that. The bogus article you linked to doesn't even claim that. Lithium is as common as copper in the earth's crust; the US
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by sjwright 6y ago
When I said "Public transport emits far less per passenger" I was not making an assertion about specific methods of locomotion. If you can claim to have an electric car, I can claim (with greater warrant, mind you) to have elect
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by sjwright 6y ago
But for the cost of batteries, electric has already won. As soon as we can 10x the manufacturing volume of lithium ion cells, price per cell will plummet and private transport will shift to electric rapidly. (Obviously that isn’t trivial.)
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by sjwright 6y ago
Public transport emits far less per passenger. Public transport and last mile delivery are actually ripe for hybridisation and electrification because they spend a lot of their time stopped. As for long haul delivery—take the Tesla Semi and
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by sjwright 6y ago
The construction and decommissioning of nuclear has an exceedingly negligible carbon footprint relative to its lifetime energy generation. The same criticisms apply to wind and solar as well, they’re also energy intensive to manufacture, tr
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by sjwright 6y ago
I was responding to you saying: > And that is why I will never go back to Mac. It seems like you've changed your perspective.
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by sjwright 6y ago
:facepalm: And their reason is because their code is currently Python 2. To avoid some manual code refactoring to support Python 3, they shall rewrite in an entirely different language. So they'll train their entire programming staff i
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by sjwright 6y ago
If you've spent a decade looking at VGA screens, its font will be intensely legible to you, regardless how objectively terrible they definitely are. Our ability to read is pattern recognition, and if your brain's neural network is
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by sjwright 6y ago
> I linked a tabloid because tabloids are more fun Q.E.D.
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by sjwright 6y ago
If you qualify "running" to mean "I can run that executable somehow" then sure. I can use virtual machines and emulation to run anything anywhere. If you qualify "running" to mean "runs well in an environm
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by sjwright 6y ago
You missed MY point. If you rely on ANY software which is only available on Windows—whether it's published by Microsoft or say BandLab—you are locked into Windows just as surely as Apple software locks you to MacOS. Your rationale is v
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by sjwright 6y ago
There is also awesome software only available for Windows, so I guess you can’t use that either. And there is awesome software only available for Linux, so that’s off the table too.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Your response is a non sequitur. Also I don't understand what your point was. I don't disagree with anything you wrote in that post, nor does anything I wrote previously imply disagreement with any of that—which I suppose is unsur
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by sjwright 6y ago
Moot—I'm not the one making the decision. I was just responding to arguments with other arguments. That's how an internet discussion works. If you say I was "rationalising" Tesla's decision to open the factory, you
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by sjwright 6y ago
That doesn't disprove bavell's point. Grocery stores are orders of magniutde less safe and orders of magnitude more frequented than Tesla factories. Let's be VERY conservative and propose that the factory is a mere 10× less r
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by sjwright 6y ago
You might not care, but look at the COVID-19 statistics coming from New South Wales. I think they're entitled to have their perspective considered. (Disclaimer: I also live in NSW and I wouldn't live anywhere in the USA even if yo
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by sjwright 6y ago
Anyone who has seen footage of a modern car factory and a post-COVID hardware store will know that this is absurd. Car factories like Tesla's are already very clean places. They're already dealing with physical and airborne danger
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by sjwright 6y ago
While it is fallacy of herd mentality, the safest speed nonetheless tends to be the speed of the other vehicles around you. Speed deltas are the real danger—not failure to adhere to a specific, oft-arbitrary number.
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by sjwright 6y ago
It's an incredibly, self-evidently stupid article. It's the accusations of one fired employee immediately disproved by Tesla who supplied photographic evidence. > Musk, apparently, really hates the color yellow. So instead of u
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by sjwright 6y ago
There aren't so many GPL 2.0–only projects out there to adopt.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Nice. In my case, my direct mail load was very low—typically around 3 to 5 emails per day—and anything I was specifically CCed on was just as important for me to read as anything sent to me personally. Whereas stuff sent to group lists (a
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by sjwright 6y ago
> Apple is intensely allergic to the GPL. Their actual marketplace behaviour demonstrates that they're allergic to GPL version 3 specifically, not the GPL or copyleft in general.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Whenever I’ve worked at a company with Exchange/Outlook I always set up my one mail rule I can’t live without: any incoming email that doesn’t have my own email address in the To: or Cc: fields is moved into a different inbox (subfolde
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by sjwright 6y ago
Great story. Ridiculous that MX records were assigned to a defensively held domain name. Just asking for edge cases. Lucky this one didn’t have security consequences.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I agree, traditional virtual screens are a horrible usability nightmare. Wouldn't ever use it on my main screen. But on a secondary monitor that is used for a narrow set of specific tasks, it's a brilliant way to jump between st
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by sjwright 6y ago
Because your browser will enable a compatibility shim to improve rendering of web pages authored 15+ years ago. If you omit DOCTYPE, your HTML is assumed to be very old.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I coveted the minimap until I got a vertical side monitor. It's not a direct replacement for it, but it gives me enough vertical context to do the work I do without feeling blinkered. (Sadly my code editor of choice doesn't offer
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by sjwright 6y ago
My terminal, git and diff tools are all floating windows on my main horizontal monitor, occupying whatever size is suitable for that app.
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by sjwright 6y ago
> I rarely use fullscreen mode. Dude, you're missing out. I love using a four-finger swipe on the magic trackpad to quickly jump my side monitor between various spaces: my full screen code editor, a space with two web browser window

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