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by techdmn 2y ago
Needlessly gendered, and the last sentence reads as rather condescending.
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by techdmn 2y ago
Also, the defect rate on children is surprisingly high, around 3% if memory serves. As the parent of a child with disabilities, my experience has been one of complete devastation. I'm not in a good enough place to have a conversation
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by techdmn 2y ago
Some days I'm really happy that I kept at least one analog car.
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by techdmn 2y ago
Those were my thoughts. I view the price cap as overwhelmingly positive, but start the countdown until the courts / SCOTUS invalidate this. Exploiting the downtrodden is the American way.
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by techdmn 2y ago
Well shit, I haven't been going to the all-hands either!
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by techdmn 2y ago
I see a lot of those too, and I am confused at the purpose. Clearly congratulations are warranted, but it would be much less wasteful of everyone's time if those were sent directly to the person being congratulated, rather than to the
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by techdmn 2y ago
Trouble is, for people who do realize and care, there isn't much we can actually do. Our two party system is effectively preventing change through the established channels, and I'm not super interested in sustaining a life-alteri
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by techdmn 2y ago
Except taxes are the thing that funds civil society. Letting people work around that by paying $x results in a more regressive tax structure. Overall I would say there are many losers in the above scenario.
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by techdmn 2y ago
My experience generally (in the U.S.) is that our society is built from a collection of systems, that when viewed from a distance, appear to be functional. The closer you get to any one of those systems though, the more it will become clea
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by techdmn 2y ago
This is a fantastic question. In nature, every individual has to fight for survival. The strong eat the weak, there is no justice, only a fight to survive. Civilized society, in my opinion at least, aspires to be something else, something
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by techdmn 2y ago
My first thought is that this is kind of ridiculous. BUT. I bought a cheap pair of tweezers like 15 years ago and they are fantastic. The amount of flex is perfect. They're easy to use, but you can also apply a fair amount of press
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by techdmn 2y ago
I could never begin to count the times I have been grinding away at something, making zero progress, and the right idea comes to me two minutes after I step away from my machine.
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by techdmn 2y ago
As a car-person, gear head / petrol head, etc., this has always been somewhat baffling to me. I've always been in it for the speed, the exciting sensation of your body moving through space. Lots of things end up being kind of co
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by techdmn 2y ago
Fair. How about: "How long Musk continues to be CEO of Tesla, whether because he is replaced or because Tesla goes out of business."
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by techdmn 2y ago
Hmm, time for the over under. Which happens first: Musk is replaced as CEO, or he drives Tesla into the ground? And in the latter case, how long do we think it will take?
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by techdmn 2y ago
AND if people had viable alternatives. (Sorry, I see now that you mentioned blocking, which would also work.)
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by techdmn 2y ago
As a Tesla owner, couldn't agree more. The interface of the car itself is actively hostile to new users. Without instruction, most people cannot get into or out of a Model 3 without significant struggle. Regular door handles and a r
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by techdmn 2y ago
About 20 years ago I was a programmer at a manufacturing company. I worked on a project to automate part of materials requirements planning. The woman who was in charge of it was spending about 20 hours per week wrangling Excel spreadshee
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by techdmn 2y ago
There are definitely dumb TVs out there. I picked up a Sceptre from Amazon. It's not fantastic, but the price was right, has inputs plenty and varied, and zero "smart" features.
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by techdmn 2y ago
I like the left-foot jab jab jab to induce a slide while still on the power. I've read about other mixed input strategies, but that was the only one I was ever able to pull off to my satisfaction.
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by techdmn 2y ago
> pushing both pedals disables the accelerator Much to the frustration of those of us who occasionally engage in some left-foot braking. (Though TBH in my experience it's usually more effective in FWD cars.)
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by techdmn 2y ago
If you start to look at the purpose of government as being to distribute tax dollars to themselves / campaign contributors / friends, rather than to serving the common good and the will of the people, things start to make a lot mo
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by techdmn 2y ago
Maybe not just to its AI: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestini...
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by techdmn 3y ago
I guess I was considering the action of starving the entire region as evidence of intent.
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by techdmn 3y ago
I apologize for lack of a link or hard data, but I read somewhere that statistically speaking it's more dangerous to be married to a police officer than to be police officer. Lines up with numerous articles on domestic violence commit
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by techdmn 3y ago
Climate change -> Previously hospitable places become less so -> Living there becomes more expensive.
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by techdmn 3y ago
The phone cases made by RhinoShield are the aftermarket kind that fit over the phone, not the integrated case.
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by techdmn 3y ago
Maybe it's a personal problem, but I struggle to communicate and investigate at the same time. I'm fine task switching, but it's one or the other. I've been on numerous incidents where an anxious manager is asking for
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by techdmn 3y ago
Stop giving them ideas! The last thing I need is for someone to figure out and monetize the correlation between my Oreo / Johnny Walker consumption rate (not together, obviously) and my job satisfaction.
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by techdmn 3y ago
I drive a Tesla Model 3, a few thoughts: * I'm hard on brakes in general, but have over 70k miles on the original pads. Regen braking reduces brake use a LOT. * Regen does NOT bring the car to a complete stop, the brakes are blended i

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