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by sjwright 6y ago
There’s no prospect of batteries acting as base load supply anytime in the foreseeable future. Batteries aren’t even great for peak supply yet. Those big grid-scale battery farms installed by Tesla (et al) are used primarily for grid stabil
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by sjwright 6y ago
If you need a cheap economy car OR travel extreme distances every day OR if you routinely drive at speeds in excess of 150km/h (90mph) OR if you are unable to charge at home, then electric is probably not going to be for you any time s
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by sjwright 6y ago
Being Apple-built software, Safari/Webkit will always take advantage of all the hardware accelerated graphics capabilities and optimisations available in Mac laptops. Firefox/Gecko has an excellent rendering engine but Mozilla has
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by sjwright 6y ago
You're mixing up macOS and iOS. The user is referring to Firefox on a MacBook Pro where there are no restrictions on choice of rendering engine. You're also mixing up symptoms. If all browsers were forced to use the same rendering
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by sjwright 6y ago
Maybe not en masse, but the market for households' second vehicles is still pretty big. I think there's a lot to be said for subcompact electric cars appropriately sized for solo commuting and shopping. It's limitations don&#
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by sjwright 6y ago
I suppose the BMW 3 series and Mercedes C-Class aren't products which cater to the U.K. or Euro market either? Obviously Tesla doesn't cater to the entire Euro market. But to suggest that Telsa has to cater to all segments in or
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by sjwright 6y ago
That kind of statement is fairly routine from people whose world view presupposes godly origin. The unspoken inference is that there must be some objective source of mattering. Whereas if we're all just material, we're all just
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by sjwright 6y ago
Matters to whom? Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent
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by sjwright 6y ago
I don't agree. Explicitly permitting Googlebot to continually scour your site for decades—including letting it through the paywalls—also constitutes voluntary sharing of stories. The distinction is really just a technicality of whether
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by sjwright 6y ago
The significant environmental factor is that many planes have been sitting idle for months. This is exceptionally unusual in the life of most airframes. Idle time is an opportunity for parts or fluids to settle in a way they might not other
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by sjwright 6y ago
I’m sure when Bowie acted like the famous person, it subconsciously cued other people to treat him like a famous person. Act like a private person and most people will treat you like one. I’m not saying that this is a universal constant, or
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by sjwright 6y ago
Not at all. Hope and love don’t need to have any meaning in the wider universe in order for them to have meaning to me. Serious question—how does the notion of "hope" become any more concrete in the non-materialist view? Perhaps y
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by sjwright 6y ago
It’s mostly American. We don’t have their kind of credit rating system in Australia.
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by sjwright 6y ago
You make it sound like an economics problem when it's ultimately an engineering problem. Energy companies already do many things to keep the grid stable, but you can't rely entirely on supply side solutions else you are forced t
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by sjwright 6y ago
I do this today. My energy provider bills me based on live fluctuating rates. It’s no big deal, on most days prices fluctuate less than they would on a regular peak/off peak pricing scheme. Some days there are short periods of high de
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by sjwright 6y ago
> No offence to Scott but I think he's got this all wrong. The NYT piece isn't about Scott I'd be willing to entertain that hypothesis—but for how they knowingly and defiantly chose to unmask/dox a practising psychiat
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by sjwright 6y ago
That's still only evidence of correlation, not causation.
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by sjwright 6y ago
7 years old and lives on as promotional material for someone’s design consultancy. Not worthy of Hacker News IMHO.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Louis Rossman is a moderately competent microelectronics repairer who found his calling as a YouTube entertainer and low-grade anti-Apple meme celebrity. He produces entertainment content where Apple features as 'the bad guy' and
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by sjwright 6y ago
Why would you require the article to suggest this? It’s an uncontroversial consequence of subjecting plastic to a continuous barrage of abrasive forces. Similarly, if rain is expected, I don’t need the forecast to tell me that rain makes cl
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by sjwright 6y ago
To imply that adhesives are chosen “just to fuck with” repairers is absurd, paranoid and trivially falsified. The use of adhesives is widespread in the industry and are necessary for effective IP-rated waterproofing of these thin devices. C
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by sjwright 6y ago
It is not the same. John Deere is taking predominantly mechanical devices and embedding technology for the purpose of artificially locking them down. Apple is building devices that are inherently difficult or impossible to service without a
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by sjwright 6y ago
> I don't see how it stands up to scrutiny. That would be premature. Nobody is in a position to know how the "extinguish" portion of the plan will turn out because it hasn't happened yet. All we can say is that the pl
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by sjwright 6y ago
Such mechanisms have already existed and never needed OS-level sanction. It’s pretty clear that Apple is employing the strategy of “embrace, extend, extinguish” against tracking and privacy compromising dark patterns. In other words, force
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by sjwright 6y ago
I just can't get myself worked up over systemd. Every in-principle objection I have to systemd also applies to the Linux kernel itself—but orders of magnitude "worse." Principles aside, in reality, systemd has been a complete
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by sjwright 6y ago
A somewhat disingenuous argument. Debian isn’t physical hardware.
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But probably true. Though the real screw-up was not being more responsive to complaints of faulty hardware. It was unreasonable for developers to expect retail product levels of reliability from the DTK, but it was even more unreasonable
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by sjwright 6y ago
To everyone who dealt with faulty hardware, I think Apple should be quietly offering refunds (not just a store credit). But to everyone else, they received the service promised by Apple in full and should be stoked at this surprise $200 r
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by sjwright 6y ago
They didn't pay $500 to buy them. They paid $500 for a time-limited rental. You can argue that the price was too steep for a loan, or that Apple should be offering a more generous incentive to return the hardware. I wouldn't disag
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by sjwright 6y ago
Why would Apple refund you for a service which you received in full? You got access to the program and a loan of Apple-owned hardware at the agreed price. [2] And now Apple is giving you a surprise bonus as an incentive to return Apple&#x

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