wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
Perhaps if you accept that freeways function as parking spots during major traffic jams...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
(Ooh, I actually just looked it up - you are actually allowed to take dogs on trains here, though they're supposed to be muzzled. Never seen anyone do so though, and I'm quite sure they wouldn't be allowed on buses).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Why would you need to? I've never worshipped anything in my life as far as I can tell, yet I'm pretty sure I'm a functioning human being.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If the city you live in has been entirely designed around private motor vehicles and lacks any decent transit network (LA being the obvious example), no amount of investment into helping the mentally ill and drug addicts is going to make tr
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sure, there's an element of that. But the idea that government policy has been primarily driven by what would produce the "best" outcome as far as transport options go that the population actually want is a little naive. And
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'd only add "...because they're incredibly useful, AND government policy has consistently favoured such a mode of transport over all other alternatives". The amount spent by governments on maintaining road infrastructu
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I would think having a vehicle be entirely electric must allow more options in terms of car body shape and even tyre shape/material that could possible reduce noise (and particulate) pollution even further. And certainly if we could re
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Losing the camera function would be annoying, as would the ability to use it as a credit/travel card etc. - I'd have to go back to using dedicated devices for that. Whereas you're right - the ability to talk (/communicat
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Very few people in your country perhaps. But I'm pretty sure the % of the world's population with access to credit isn't especially high (apparently there are 2.5 billion credit cards in existence worldwide. But of course man
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It's only not true because once you have money you're instinctively driven to advertise that to other people, meaning you'll spend money on items that say "I can afford these". But I certainly know of people who inc
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But would you say a bicycle has a couple of wheels?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Are those terms used for continuous measurements (e.g. distances/timespans)? Could 110 seconds be "duse" minutes, or always "handu"?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'd allow that "a couple of things" could mean 3, even 4 at a stretch - you're downplaying the size of the task to make it sound like your request isn't unreasonable. But a couple of some specific item (can of coke,
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'd interpret that as "2 days", with the implicit assumption that you can come back after 2 days and we'll still have them. A couple of km shouldn't really mean more than 3km, but obviously we don't expect anyo
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by wizofaus 3y ago
There are several countries with populations over 100 million. 15 in fact.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Just "few" could mean 1 or 2, " a few" is at least 3 in my book.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Huh? 'A few' is not more than 'several'! Several could easily be 10 or more (but almost always more than 3 or 4). A few would rarely be more than 5. I have to say I never thought there'd be that much disagreement am
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"To worship is part of being human." Proof for that? I don't deny is has been a big part of much of human existence over the millennia, but there's zero evidence it's a necessary part of our very being.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The USA already has less than a 3rd of the population of India or China, but I don't think feels seriously threatened by either (in terms of a likely direct attack).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Medical advances too - drugs and procedures that didn't exist 10 or 20 years ago are commonplace along elderly populations now, a trend that will no doubt continue. Attitudes and regulations around euthanasia will inevitably change too
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Economic instability, yes, that seems inevitable as people adjust to new realities. But what would be the trigger for war if there are fewer and fewer of us wanting access to land/natural resources? Sure, access to manmade resources (a
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sounds suspiciously like climate change deniers who think it's clever to point out we can't exactly predict tomorrow's temperature.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sounds like one of those "having no belief system is a still a belief system" type arguments...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
What would a DAW-diff look (sound?!) like though... Though surely any sort of XML (or JSON etc.) based format would be fine for using along with git etc.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Could be the cargo bay area of a huge alien star ship... (Btw from my own bay area of a certain SE Australian state it does feel a little laggy when navigating, but quite usable)
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Soaking is definitely necessary for many sorts of baked-on food remnants. But rinsing is mostly unnecessary unless you're expecting to leave the dishes in the machine long enough before running it that food particles dry out and get st
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'd certainly suggest building an MVP with a low-code platform isn't a good use of resources unless your actual devs are all flat out doing other stuff and there are spare resources on the product team capable of putting something
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sure but if it's just ChatGPT spitting out code that the users don't really understand I can't see it being a workable solution either. What I'm thinking is that low-code implies something like natural language pseudo co
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If ChatGPT is gonna disrupt any technology you'd think it might be low code platforms.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
A city like LA has the perfect weather and geography for being virtually car-free. I don't think that's the issue... (I've also visited cities that would seem to be poorly suited weather/geography-wise for extensive use

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