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by thriftwy 2y ago
There's also the (para)military. I can't imagine an electric Toyota pickup performing in a warzone. Maybe that's why Toyota is not making the leap.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Then you need a part which is only produced in China, or a chemical compound which is only produced in India, or you need a plane ride and it has titanium parts from Russia? I expect a significant change of tone once you need to change your
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by thriftwy 2y ago
The obvious answer is that either you eat it up and build an Iranian community based on the OSS thing, or use a VPN and conceal your connection to Iran. This is the way.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
It seems that most of the world (population- and GDP-wise) is drifting towards authoritarian rule with immutable Dear Leader. Russia, then Turkey, then China, India is arguably getting there too. You're placing Iran in the same bucket.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
But once you have cybernetic eye implants, why stay indoors? You can lie on a grass in a forest and code. We will stop fighting myopia and start fighting ticks and mosquitoes, I guess...
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by thriftwy 2y ago
What I don't like in this is the defeatist attitude of "slowing myopia progression". If you have myopia, your life experience is already ruined, and it's not very much relevant whether it's -2 or -6. You're stu
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by thriftwy 2y ago
You don't need to be moral to not drive your business into the ground. To me the whole Boeing debacle is just hilarious to watch from the outside. Like watching a known drug addict to pretend he's not and then pretend he's qu
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by thriftwy 2y ago
So if you're living in a multi-storey apartment block in a place where there are periods of rain, cold and darkness, naturally your routine will not be conductive of spending lots of time outdoors. What's the plan B? Sure, if you
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Okay that's great, except children get their myopia before they become casual laptop users. I wonder if doing the same to TVs and tablets will do anything.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
So you are sayind I should put chemicql compound in my children eyes for a decade, and when it does not work, you will lash at me for not doing that rigorously enough? That isn't a great proposition. Think better.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I thought that JSR is an RFC for Java - can we please be more creative than reusing TLAs? Call it Genet.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Quite contrary I would say. An American megacorp will always know how much profit from the US sanctions it can do and get away with it. Sometimes a slap on the wrist can happen, but in general... You do want those campaign donations flowing
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by thriftwy 3y ago
All that does not preclude Taiwan from having a car per 3 people, and that includes infants and the elderly, as the saying goes. If you have these cars, stop pretending you don't need to handle the traffic. You do.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
? I was quite certain they have one after all these years.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I woule adjust city density based on surroundings. I remember getting lost in Maps.me while in northern Russia: zooming out will not display any tiny villages of the area whereas zooming in will not place any of those on the screen. So you
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Very often in such projects, The Stuff Not There Anymore is visibly contributing to the overall quality of the installation.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
A lot of high tech around us is 50 years old now. Some of that we would have trouble replacing.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
VLC is great wheb you have 10 mp3s to play. When you have 10,000 you need library scanning functionality, etc. I believe these aren't VLC selling points.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The age of MP3 players ended when streaming became ubiqutous. I know some OSS players that became worse over time. The usablity hero that was amaroK became so bad after an overhaul that it was forked as Clementine. For example, if you had s
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Give me a map and I'll find a way for an off-site carousel. I can see a huge amount of wasted space below freeway interchanges which encircle central Houston. Just build two storey deep FSD offsites below all of these. US is a weird ou
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by thriftwy 3y ago
In the age of analog you could adjust brightness, contrast and color of the image. Still there and there are even presets, but not used much. I imagine in ten years you will be moving AI sliders to adjust brightness and contrast of the movi
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I believe that not many developers really wanted C++ and craved Object Pascal instead. I don't like Pascal but I have to admit that Object Pascal is a succint and successful addition of OO to a manually memalloc language, whereas C++ i
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I 'd expect the lack of anything that it is made to react with.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
How about they being obliged to give you money back if it's been less than five years of rent before they bailed out? Also, being obliged to archive the whole thing properly.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Because people want that? In reality, you can do both. You can also do neither. I live in a dense urban core already where it is often convenient to take a bus. But not always - there are those mysterious poles of unavailability. Upgrading
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It would absolutely decrease the amount of non-residential parking. You will be obliged to direct your car to off-site parking when driving to businesses in urban core. That's the main point. It will be somewhere in the vicinity so it
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Self driving car can drive itself to a remote garage when not needed, and return back to your doorstep when needed - just press a button in your smartphone app five minutes prior. So they will stop taking space as soon they FSD.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I... Don't think so? Soviet Union as a materially poor country will not pour so much money into exploring space if it wasn't so important politically at the moment. The US was much wealthier, but also skipped space spendings the f
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by thriftwy 3y ago
A random attacker will buy a "6 billion real IPv6 addresses" database dump for $15 and then will spam your specific IPs as soon as they will produce any outgoing packets at all. Only a matter of time.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Why won't it? Seriously, it looks like the default state for me: If you have an external, globally visible IP address and a port is open on it, everyone in the world can try and connect to it. With NAT, there's no obvious way to c

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