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by wffurr 1y ago
>> a bit as if people went for C++ instead of a JVM language "because the JVM is slow" (spoiler: it is not) The OP is doing game development. It’s possible to write a performant game in Java but you end up fighting the garb
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by wffurr 1y ago
Or even better just measure your actual workload.
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by wffurr 2y ago
Not seeing any argument for allowing the car to exceed 100mph on public roads regardless of what the powertrain is capable of. People who want to go faster can trailer their race cars to a track.
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by wffurr 2y ago
The vetoed California law would have required passive ISA, I.e. a dashboard light that comes on when it detects speeding, on all new vehicles sold in California.
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by wffurr 2y ago
>> At a complex level, you can trust a team of humans to do something without micro-managing every aspect of their work I see you have never managed an outsourced project run by a body shop consultancy. They check the boxes you give
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by wffurr 2y ago
Kinda begs the question why cars can go over 100mph in the first place. Also what the heck is with Newsom vetoing the passive ISA bill?
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by wffurr 2y ago
Solar panels are ten times more efficient than photosynthesis.
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by wffurr 2y ago
Nothing to do with tariffs, which is clear in the first paragraph: Effective April 5, 2025, all shipments to the U.S. with a declared customs value over USD 800 require formal entry processing - down from the previous USD 2,500 threshold du
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by wffurr 2y ago
Minimizing the number of openings, even in favor of longer ones, would reduce the number of times the air in the fridge is cycled. You can probably chart this and calculate an optimum.
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by wffurr 2y ago
>> the people who made the decisions to hire like crazy are not paying the consequences They should have been first out the door, but Sundar is part of the problem.
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by wffurr 2y ago
Compare with the ULEV zone in other cities and control for other differences. You could possibly even publish that as a research paper!
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by wffurr 2y ago
Most EVs have a 12V lead acid battery for standby power and to buffer the 12V accessory system. The solenoids to the traction battery are open when parked and the 12V battery closes them when the car is started. This does mean you might ac
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by wffurr 2y ago
Yikes. First thing I noticed. Distracted me from the price tag of the thing at least.
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by wffurr 2y ago
FTA: “ The first step to winning these folks back, he said, is addressing a rampant drug and homelessness crisis that’s pushed many business leaders out of the city”
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by wffurr 2y ago
Yeah this seems like a fun article but it's buried under way too much adtech crud, and Chrome Android has no "reader view" I can find. Maybe I need a better user agent that actually respects the user.
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by wffurr 2y ago
Does COBOL have undefined behavior and lifetime or aliasing issues like C? I have never heard that it does, but don’t know enough to say for sure it doesn’t. Rewriting in C seems like a dodged bullet. Better for it to stay on older safer
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by wffurr 2y ago
What the heck is “calming” about an animated background?!
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by wffurr 2y ago
>> they'd be forced to work 80 hour weeks for $70K. (average schoolteacher salary). That’s crazy and a terrible reason for the AMA. The correct way to solve this problem, for both schoolteachers and doctors, is with a union.
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by wffurr 2y ago
>> Was Pheidippides barefoot when he purportedly ran from Marathon to Athens? I doubt it. I would think thin soled leather sandals were quite common at the time. Curious what the evidence has to say about this.
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by wffurr 2y ago
That’s a map, not an indexed array, and it’s slower than Vec across the board per its own benchmarks.
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by wffurr 2y ago
In a limited way due to side effects from the require function. Reading that rant, the author did not seem to take much time to understand the rationale behind ES modules: “ yet for some completely unclear reason, ESM proponents decided to
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by wffurr 2y ago
Parking meters in the USA are criminally underpriced.
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by wffurr 2y ago
If only https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2024-08-29-te...
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by wffurr 2y ago
Public posts are public regardless. I don’t see how your choice of network affects this in the slightest.
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by wffurr 2y ago
Delete the app, use the webpage, and use a browser that allows user scripts. I found a good one that turns an Instagram page into just an image tag so you can just see the picture: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts&#x2
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by wffurr 2y ago
The new 13” Air isn’t quite a replacement for the old 11”. It’s just enough bigger and heavier that I notice and it affects the handiness of it. The center of balance isn’t as good either, it was close to the hinge on the old wedge shaped
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by wffurr 2y ago
Why do you feel the need to carry water for “AI” grifters?
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by wffurr 2y ago
I just watched that episode on PBS Kids this week with my 2 and 6 year old.
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by wffurr 2y ago
>> Google is already not allowed to pay Apple to be default The antitrust remedy isn’t set until the September hearings and won’t take effect until after years of appeals hearings.
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by wffurr 2y ago
I think they are called freight trains.

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