weberer

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by weberer 2y ago
People obviously want light weight trucks, but govenment regulations prevent them from being sold in the US. This is a great example of how the market is non-free. Blaming the "free market" is completely backwards.
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by weberer 2y ago
People are fed up, but the price floor for trucks are high due to US federal safety standards. These Kei trucks do not meet these standards, so manufacturers can sell them at a low price with decent margins.
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by weberer 2y ago
Sounds like you want Linux.
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by weberer 2y ago
You can use Fdroid and sideload apps, but Google makes it impossible to run most apps without Google Play Services running in the background.
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by weberer 2y ago
I wish I could just upvote the first half, since you're right about that.
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by weberer 2y ago
I've been in the industry for over 10 years, and I haven't seen anyone use Word since high school.
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by weberer 2y ago
So many people are trained nowadays to self-censor certain words so that "the algorithm" won't shadowban their comment. Thankfully, HN is one of the few websites on the modern internet to not have such censorship algorithm.
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by weberer 2y ago
I live in Finland and have never heard of that. I've only seen standard blinds that let a lot of light through even when fully closed. Most people here use blackout curtains.
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by weberer 2y ago
I haven't noticed any problems with Youtube on Firefox, but I also have some privacy toggles enabled that lie about my user agent.
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by weberer 2y ago
People coming from Photoshop would probably prefer Krita, which is also FOSS.
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by weberer 2y ago
I think too much weight in this discussion is given to the Mercator projection since that's the specific one we use today. People were making 2D maps for much longer than that. Flat maps existed in the medieval era.
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by weberer 2y ago
The amount of rod and cone cells in your eye fill all available space. Introducing an IR sensitive cell type would take away space from existing cells, limiting their usefulness. Having night vision would mean sacrificing something else. IR
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by weberer 2y ago
>these days Twitter has been like this since at least 2016.
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by weberer 2y ago
Does anyone know of a good Twitter/X add-on for Kodi?
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by weberer 2y ago
Why not just click the "hide" button? Why try to prevent other people from seeing it who would be interested?
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by weberer 2y ago
That spike is on week 40. Scroll down to the results by country and see that the spike was just in Israel. Week 40 2023 includes October 7th, so it was due to those attacks.
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by weberer 2y ago
How does this in any way relate to moral relativism?
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by weberer 2y ago
Where's the documentation? I just see pricing and modals trying to get me to sign up.
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by weberer 2y ago
Those look like sufficient sample sizes to me. How many samples would it take to convince you?
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by weberer 2y ago
There's also the likelyhood that the pages you landed on sent your info to their "ad partners"
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by weberer 2y ago
There is no way to map Cmd+Tab to Alt+Tab in MacOS. Which makes for an extremely frustrating experience in muscle memory when alternating between your work Mac and your personal Linux/Windows machines. This was the biggest grievance to
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by weberer 2y ago
My nomination for that would go to AltTab.
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by weberer 2y ago
>No way to turn that off At least you can hide those with a uBlock filter. You can't do shit if its baked into your operating system. (Aside from deleting the whole thing and installing an OS that respects your freedoms)
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by weberer 2y ago
It sounds silly, but I understand where he's coming from. I used to live in Philadelphia. You couldn't leave your bag down on the subway without someone running off with it right before the doors closed.
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by weberer 2y ago
>SARS-CoV-2 was not detected by postmortem swab (reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction assay) in either boy.
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by weberer 2y ago
You don't need to read the full study, just the summary paragraphs at the beginning. >Context They already knew going into the study that the vaccine caused myocarditis. >Objective To do a biopsy and see if they can find anything
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by weberer 2y ago
This is how it works in Japan. I thought it was quite nice when I visited. You just enter the elevator at the ground floor, and every button has a store name next to it. You get some pretty nice views when dining on the 15th floor of a buil
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by weberer 2y ago
They've been doing it in the USA for quite a while as well. Most former factories are now "The Lofts at [name]"
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by weberer 2y ago
A lot of it is about zoning laws. The downtown Helsinki area has 0 skyscrapers, and the closest ones are the Redi buildings about 5km away.
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by weberer 2y ago
You need to subtract the tax rate, not add it.

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