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by wffurr 9mo ago
Alas my 2009 condo conversion was wired with coax to every room instead. I've been using the coax drops to pull Ethernet cables.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
>> If you think being tethered to gold was a good thing I wouldn't say that. But the memes about 1971 are striking. >> I wonder if you also believe wealth is a zero-sum proposal I don't know where that comes from. Pr
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by wffurr 9mo ago
>> It was there again in the 90s after the wall fell. Don't forget that connecting everyone to the internet was going to produce world peace, utopia, universal education and understanding. Instead of creating a conduit for memet
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by wffurr 9mo ago
>> But then [post-1970s] some kind of shit seemingly started to poison the country. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ - the oil ran out and the post-war boom ended.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
Exhaustive switch with tail-calling makes for a very fast and readable interpreter.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
Tax carbon and we can ration it out using market prices. But yes, many of those things are also carbon-intensive lifestyle choices, but some are more valuable than others.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
Yeah the Cyber truck is no prize either for emissions. It's not a good alternative.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
You can have all the weird lifestyle preferences you want that don't involve conspicuous waste of natural resources and accelerating anthropogenic climate change.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
Gas doesn't cost enough.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
>> The immune system needs something to train on and fight, otherwise you end up with autoimmune diseases and all sorts of crap. If you want to train your childrens' immune system, get a dog. Don't intentionally expose them
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by wffurr 9mo ago
>> no issues at all Other than all the CO2, CO, and NOx you've emitted over that time period. The government should have started taxing barrels of oil in the 70s.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
But RFID stickers don't have that satisfying ka-chunk and brr-brr whirr-whirr chunka noises.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
>> started crying when we hid it after only a very short time I'd cry too if you showed me a bright colorful shiny fun new thing and then took it away after only two minutes. Part of what you're seeing is the novelty. There
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by wffurr 9mo ago
I love these physical mechanisms for controlling the software that surrounds us. Not enough physical UX out there; all the industrial designers seem to be in love with single button controls or touchscreens or capacitive panels. I presume
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by wffurr 9mo ago
In the US there's Yoto Players that use RFID cards and onboard flash memory: https://us.yotoplay.com/ And Tonies with little figures and games and such: https://us.tonies.com/
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by wffurr 9mo ago
Chevy Bolt is supposed to have seat heaters that come on when remote started, but it doesn't seem to work on mine.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
Wish I could get that ID.Polo hatch in the US.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
>> much maligned touch settings for seat heaters I hate sitting around with a cold butt waiting on the infotainment system to boot...
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by wffurr 9mo ago
I specifically bought the model of induction stove I have (LG Studio) due to physical knobs for the burners.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/contai... mentions that b-tree maps hold multiple values per node, which makes them more cache-friendly than the red-black trees used in std::ma
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by wffurr 10mo ago
Even if you do exit, all the software around you will steadily get worse and worse. Software engineering is already really bad, especially for consumer products, and all this vibe agent crud is only going to accelerate the badness.
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by wffurr 10mo ago
>> some sound issues Is this 1998? Linux is forever having sound issues. Why is sound so hard?
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by wffurr 10mo ago
"Original Commenter" I have not seen that particular jargon before but it rhymes with OP (Original Poster) that I was able to figure it out from context.
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by wffurr 10mo ago
Yes, increase the font weight or contrast. You don't need to go all the way to #000 but a darker shade for body text would improve legibility significantly.
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by wffurr 10mo ago
I am sorry I don't have the precise statement about relative rates of gun deaths and mass shootings in the US vs the rest of the OECD. Here's a data point to ponder, firearms are now the leading cause of death for children and ad
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by wffurr 10mo ago
The rest of the civilized world doesn't seem to have a problem. Their stricter gun control laws seem to work just fine.
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by wffurr 10mo ago
Raw colors are not the whole story. Font weight matters too. Being just on this side of passing the check is also not great, just better than bad. Ambient lighting and display quality matter a lot too.
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by wffurr 10mo ago
I use my left pinky to hold the base of the phone. Lots of people with bigger phones use one of those stick on things on the back and hold it with their index and middle finger.
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by wffurr 10mo ago
How long until Starlink allows luxury ocean liners come back? You can get a lot more space on a boat than a plane.
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by wffurr 10mo ago
You could spend a little time singing the praises of your '57 Chevy and what makes it particularly joyful to you.

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