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by tomxor 3y ago
There really is very little excuse for it, throttling is built right into the dev tools of both Chromium and Firefox, it's a couple of clicks away. It's as important as cross browser testing and easier to do. Another thing I'
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> Meanwhile, let’s look at what happens when you do batteries properly: > > By ten years of age, cars were down to 82.5% of the original capacity. > https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/study-real-life-tesla-battery-d ..
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This isn't some crackpot theory you have the burden of debunking, it's well known that EV batteries do not last. Browse autotrader.co.uk for EVs and you will see almost everything around 10yr has a severely deflated range and limi
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Yeah I think we are talking about different price ranges. I'm in the 90% who buys dirt cheap cars <5k which as a result are often very old already, but with ICE that can still result in a completely usable primary car, even with mor
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> Data can become irrecoverable This seems to be becoming less and less of a drawback when compared to Google where exactly the same things can happen when people seem to get arbitrarily banned from their account with no recourse. Not to
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> You’d have to be mad to buy any of these new. I think the opposite. I've always bought 2nd hand ICE cars in the UK, as the vast majority of people do. Each one between 8 and 20 years old, each perfectly usable reliable cars. I&#x2
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The original Quake ran on a CPU.
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>> unattended LLM do anything for your company at all. It can, and will, fuck up dramatically sooner or later. > So, just like any other random employee? Right, might as well just replace it all with a roll of the dice in that case
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It's also entirely practical for everything that's not twitter-like, i.e almost everything. But the most noise comes from people with the (admittedly more interesting) use case requirements at the data store level. So long as your
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Like it or not bad actors also do not use VPNs, so best to block the internet entirely from your site - There are so many bad actors it will probably be worth blocking the handful of legitimate users don't worry ;) The optimal amount o
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> I've certainly tried: Firefox Focus was my main iOS browser for a few years (I know it's Webkit-based) TL;DR The truth is, no one has ever used Firefox or Chrome on iOS. You say you know it's webkit based... but the enti
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You can also play multiplayer in the browser at webliero.com There is an active community, simple to pick up and play, no login. Although most of the active servers use some more fast paced mods with different weapons, but you can start you
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There is still one place it's guaranteed to work, code. I have occasionally used small ASCII based diagrams inside comment blocks where it felt appropriate and it works very nicely... I'm not a big documentation inside code guy, b
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> How could I reliably tell if I'm behind a CGNAT or not? If I poll one of those "what is my IP" websites, and the IP my router has assigned from the wan matches the what is my IP then I'm fine, I'm not behind on
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> Ward presents it in a sort of "optimal development" context, where what we did last year was the right thing last year, but we know more now/things have changed and we know what the right thing would be today [...] Oh I
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> Technical debt, as originally coined by Ward Cunningham, is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. No! Ward's blog post linked in this ve
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I've abused slock quite a bit, it seems to endure accidentally extremely large input attempts from inanimate or even animate object sitting on the keyboard for extended periods (although it's faster to fail entry than delete).
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> Firefox is like 2% That's because everyone does tracking in the front end these days and it just gets blocked by Firefox users.
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This is really good. "Number of breakdowns per 1,000 registered vehicles per first registration year:" Funny how the order is almost the opposite of the rather opaque consumerreports one. While looking at actual breakdowns is more
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I agree, for melanoma that seems more plausible, and UV imaging of drivers faces commonly reveals large difference in UV skin damage on the driver side, although this doesn't do much to explain the higher occurrence on the "trunk&
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Interesting, is the invidious API limited to 720p? or is youtube the one limiting it? I've no idea how this actually works.
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To all of those arguing spectral distribution doesn't matter: Consider Spectral Reflectance. We use only three wavelengths for LED displays that manage to show us millions of colours, HumOns are trichromats right? So the thinking goes
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They seem to be missing an "is this ethical?" Q&A.
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> You will probably lose a lot of appetite This, probably almost any natural food that is not too sweet will work. Overeating manufactured "food" devoid of nutrition, pumped full of sugar and refined carbs has become the defaul
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I switched to stainless last year after getting fed up of going through so many teflon pans, and decided I wanted to stop ingesting teflon flakes (I know PFOA is not technically in the end result and it's supposed to be inert, but I&#x
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These are all correct and good advice, but I suspect most people misinterpret "avoid premature optimisation" style advice as "don't bother to write efficient code". Caring about basic efficiency, and being thoughtfu
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Ah yes, I almost forgot about the POST bleep bloops, and the clickedy click of the HDD actuator... or if you go back far enough the crunching of a 3.5in floppy - though to be fair that was sometimes more anxiety inducing (not the most relia
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