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by vvillena 5y ago
Even if Singapore is the best of all the authoritarian governments out there, it is still kinda fucked up. Even with its nature put aside, Singapore still engages in all sorts of regressive, backwards policies, up to a point where it's
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Maybe we are overlooking the "astronomical expenditure" double entendre.
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That's a moot argument. We can use the Iraq war instead and do that same math, amounting to $11000 per tax payer. Government budgets are well spent when they are used to do things that are impossible, unfeasible or unwise to do by indi
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by vvillena 5y ago
Rust has had this bit of syntax sugar for a while now, it is used for structs. I think it's nice syntax, because it's located in a place where there's no doubt about the meaning. Both Rust structs and Ruby hashes are defined
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IIRC EuroNCAP already evaluates how a car behaves as a "crash partner", but I don't know how much (if any) this affects the final rating.
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At standard speeds, braking is traction-limited: brakes have enough power to block the wheels. Usually, heavier cars also have wider tires and are still traction-limited when braking, and usually braking distances are about the same. SUVs m
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A car that only cares about what happens during a crash is considered to have poor safety by the newest EuroNCAP standards. Cars that want to have good ratings must prevent crashes from happening. This includes things like lane departure as
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It makes sense if you consider that EuroNCAP cares about safety for everyone, not just the people inside the car. I also drive a car lacking all the auto assists common in new cars, I'm confident in my own skills and I have a nice trac
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Even if you were right about that, we're not talking about a common cold. Flu is a serious disease that makes healthy people stay in bed for almost a week. Surely we can "train" with something else.
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Rust uses the semicolon to distinguish between statements and expressions.
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Your Prius is more reliable, needs less maintenance, is easier to drive, has much more grippier tires, is safer if you crash, has more storage and passenger space, and is infinitely more comfortable.
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So, Google is judge, jury, and executioner. How can such an approach justified in this day and age?
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Over the life of my S9, I got one major OS update, a change from a builtin obnoxious "Samsung news" feed to another equally obnoxious feed, and updates to the builtin apps that brought almost no new important features (the only ne
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by vvillena 5y ago
Why would Emacs turn down the possibility of adopting new user interaction concepts? It's not like we have to choose between "point" and "cursor", both concepts can coexist. I find it funny to characterize Emacs as
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Establishing better defaults in an application is never a bad move. Power users can still customize things to make them behave in whatever way they want, and newbies benefit from a better default setup. This doesn't mean dumbing down t
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Discoverability is a key part of larger addons such as Spacemacs and Doom Emacs. They come configured out-of-the-box with nice completion panels for command and function search panels.
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Well, yes, it's Emacs, we can probably do anything we can imagine, but that's beside the point. This particular behavior is stupidly annoying for both newbies and old-timers. Even if Emacs works internally with the concept of a &q
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by vvillena 5y ago
This argument is so old that it's almost endearing to see people arguing about it time and time again. Code isn't law, and it never was. Consensus is. This is true for all blockchain-based cryptos. Miners are free not to upgrade e
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Kclock is a fantastic internal name for that little application. In the associated articles you can see the user-facing name for kclock is "Clock": https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/06/10/plasma-mob
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It is noticeable, but that's not the point. A SSD-only engine can avoid some asset duplication and achieve an effective 4x speedup over a HDD equivalent, but that is still slow in the grand scheme of things: you could have a bigger or
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Consider that people survive in some crashes where the plane structure fails. There are no crashes where the plane looks fine, but people inside are dead. This means lap belts + bracing is actually a good approach. A more involved restrain
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Because the games don't take advantage of the higher bandwidth. In fact, they probably don't even take advantage of the SSD, because games are still built so that they work when installed on spinning drives. The advantage of SSDs
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Well, ain't that it? If you validate a string so that it contains some angle bracket tags at the beginning and the end, ensure that both the tag values contain the same string (except for one extra marker in the end tag), and store the
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by vvillena 5y ago
There's lots of non-english codebases out there, supporting symbols for their languages is a big deal. In a way, it's in part a job for the dev tools. Autocomplete engines should be able to complete these symbols from an ascii-onl
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You don't have to have internet access to have an internet presence.
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In some countries water distribution companies are not the same as the commercial suppliers, and you can freely contract your supply with any company you want. The issue isn't that people are free to choose any email address. The probl
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I own a Kia (a 2nd gen Cee'd, the EU hatchback) and it's awesome. Zero issues.
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After such one experience, I've never played with audio while wearing headphones unless there's a physical volume control in the signal chain.
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It's also a big concept in the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds.
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Blockchains don't have a concept of a "current undisputed state". If you managed to create a longer (and valid) Bitcoin chain on your own than the longest one there is at this very moment, and publish it, all other clients wi

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