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by usrusr 2y ago
> I don't think I've ever met a cyclist who's opposed to separated infrastructure for bikes and cars. Then I think you've never met a cyclist. As in actually riding a lot, not as in owning a bike and having occasional
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by usrusr 2y ago
"But even those try not to hit people, and they go around more people than they hit!" - that's how I read GP's post and that's how I think they believe that they are right. They think it's a glass half full&#x2
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by usrusr 2y ago
So it looks as if the cohort buying has stayed roughly the same over the years. The average buyer was born in 1970. Bad enough. But when we consider the bell curve, to compensate for the older tail getting decimated by age it must have gott
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by usrusr 2y ago
Are you suggesting that only people who believe in objects being sacred (whatever that means) should be allowed to use the term? To those who don't, why would the current liveness status of those who do/did matter in their usage o
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by usrusr 2y ago
Well, whoever gets to have an election first, right? But then there's that thing about clones, why not both!
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by usrusr 2y ago
That's why I called it a dystopia. After a year of working fully remote I now have the option of walking to an office and I haven't skipped on that a single day. The WFH had its benefits, but all in all it felt like COVID lockdown
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by usrusr 2y ago
> I'd be inviting all my friends over to eat at my place instead. Ironically, this reads to me like a rather American thing. Simply based on typical dwelling size. There's a lot of nights at a restaurant (or cheaper: some venue
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by usrusr 2y ago
It's a dystopia all right, but one that is already very real. WFH is a reality for many, groceries to the door hasn't become mainstream yet but the supermarket might well be on the trajectory taken by book stores two decades earli
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by usrusr 2y ago
Npm also gets a lot of flak for the low bar it sets for introducing malicious code by impersonating an idling maintainer or presenting yourself as a successor. The friction, the secrets to keep, they are there for a reason.
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by usrusr 2y ago
Multi device is all nice and well, but what if you use products from more than one browser vendor?
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by usrusr 2y ago
I agree: even if the descriptions of Threes (never played it) are only half true, they are completely different genres: one is a deep puzzler that aims for the kind of challenge that some absolutely do require to accept a game as entertainm
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by usrusr 2y ago
> What's the benefit over Typescript? A few less characters? Faster TC39 proposal integrations? Getting hands on experience with those proposals could be an argument, learning how they feel, learning how their availability changes t
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by usrusr 2y ago
Many deaths have been preceded by a large number of premature announcements. We tend to overestimate the predictive value of extrapolating from a series of wrong predictions in the past.
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by usrusr 2y ago
Wind turbine blades is the obvious one. On-shore turbines would be much larger (which btw implies lower rpm, which implies being less annoying) if they were not constrained by land transport.
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by usrusr 2y ago
Some loads simply don't fit on trucks, or rather on the roads that the trucks have to use. Heavy lift airship would operate in a market segment that does not even exist without them.
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by usrusr 2y ago
It absolutely can happen, but not for routine goods where being on schedule is highly important. But for outsize goods, waiting for a favorable weather forecast is a much smaller concern than strengthening roads or perhaps even removing a b
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by usrusr 2y ago
Uncompressed propane would have simply been called Propangas I think. That term had been established well enough in the second half of the century and while the Zeppelin-era was before that, I doubt that the term changed much. But if you ai
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by usrusr 2y ago
I wonder how much of that difference is because the space shuttle was human rated from the start: F9 eventually got there, but only after plenty of "testing in production" with disposable payloads. The other big difference, an ele
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by usrusr 2y ago
And the leg motions we sometimes see in sleeping dogs suggest that this is very much a way how having dreams is useful!
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by usrusr 2y ago
Not sure where you see the "minimal resources" here? But I'd just counter all questions about "why" with the blanket response of "for understanding natural intelligence": the way biology innovates is that
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by usrusr 2y ago
The "scheme inside" might be missing the mark in any number of features, but in the end the resulting effect it had have been profoundly, well, effective . It's there . People have been going all SICP (Abelson/Sussman)
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by usrusr 2y ago
Are they profitable though? Sounds like a painful investment trap, where the company can always declare projections of a happy future once a certain threshold would be reached in terms of installed base of compatible cars with interchangeab
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by usrusr 2y ago
I believe GP might be taking about an add-on, not a substitute for the existing battery. Perhaps a tiny trailer hooked up to a standardized coupling that you rent when you are venturing out on something that's more than an hour of driv
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by usrusr 2y ago
Not just half of it, the central part of it. Javascript did not grow into something huge, it started that way. A prototype based wannabe Java that accidentally (?) shipped with a full scheme included alongside. The latter of which remained
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by usrusr 2y ago
"Look at how much pain we can inflict, you want to be friends with us, that's the only logical conclusion". That seems to be the explicit strategy here, and I've come to believe that they genuinely think that this is how
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by usrusr 2y ago
It can be both at the same time, nothing wrong with that. Win-win is real, not everything is zero sum.
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by usrusr 2y ago
It's not just cost, it's cost x uncertainty of outcome. A settlement is very tempting from cost x uncertainty alone. But it also has other merits: when the rich, powerful incumbent gives in and settles, the fragile thrifty upsta
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by usrusr 2y ago
Could a part of the motivation perhaps be quick, clean liquidation, before any of the companies who settled before cloudflare chose resistance might try to claw back some of the settlement?
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by usrusr 2y ago
The spool can be a long, thin "pipe" of wound cable that goes with one end of the "pipe" pointing to the rear (up). You can put an arbitrary amount of cable in a given hole diameter by making the spool taller. (Google im
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by usrusr 2y ago
Unsurprisingly, Lotus (aka the maker of the car that Tesla converted into their Roadster) did not completely abandon their lightweight sports car identity in the BEV age. The Evija advertised with a range of 315 km.

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