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by wnissen 3y ago
It is still an interesting question. How can a society that created a 52-pipe musical organ in 228 BC fail to create, even by accident, high-leverage machinery like the steam engine? It reminds me of the Egyptians, who knew of the wheel but
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by wnissen 3y ago
Yes, my Mazda does the same. It will happily report a 450 mile (725 km) range on my 13.2 gallon / 50 L tank, when I have never gotten more than 380 miles. Sometimes much less. To be fair, if you cruised slightly above the speed limit o
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by wnissen 3y ago
He decided to have a child knowing that an average man had decent chance he would be dead before they entered college. Being in remission from one of the more deadly and rapid forms of cancer meant he knew or should have known that the chil
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by wnissen 3y ago
He certainly was an interesting person. It was always amazing the degree to which law enforcement prosecuted his hacking and cracking, when it seems like much more impactful crimes involving computers go uninvestigated. Plenty of people are
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by wnissen 3y ago
Suburban pedestrian infrastructure in all of California is bad. Maybe not Florida bad, but pretty bad. Intersections are set up for vehicles, pedestrians have to wait a long time and cars are going to be zipping around the corner without lo
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by wnissen 3y ago
I highly, highly recommend A History of the World in 100 Objects (particularly the out of print 2011 hardback, which is not available from any non-Amazon sources I could find.) As you can guess from the title, it tells the story of human hi
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by wnissen 3y ago
I think they tend to interpret anything that makes Yelp look bad as a violation. The owner of a wine store I bought thousands of dollars of wine from was arrested for running a $45 million Ponzi scheme (and eventually went to prison for yea
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by wnissen 3y ago
Exactly. I just took a rented Kia Niro EV on a road trip to the eastern Sierra. I was so, so jealous of the Tesla charger network. I had to download apps for Electrify America, EV-Go, and ChargePoint, and had to use them all.
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by wnissen 4y ago
I am more or less in your boat but the average passenger vehicle is now selling for almost $50K. That would be more than twice what I've ever paid for a new vehicle (which is 15 years old, but still!). I'm not sure the EVs are tha
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by wnissen 4y ago
My experience is that people tend to have fairly similar patterns of behavior. If they taught themselves a relevant new skill at their last job, they will probably teach themselves a relevant new skill at the next one. Google themselves adm
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by wnissen 4y ago
Simply, the Twitter algorithm is designed to require you to put in 10x the content to get seen. Since Twitter controls which tweets get seen, they naturally steer them to the tweets that cause users to stick around. On Mastodon, there is no
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by wnissen 4y ago
If you have an interest, the most comprehensive book I'm aware of is "Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation" by Sonia Hirt. Cornell University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8014-5305-2. She&
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by wnissen 4y ago
Truly without snark, what is it about y that makes it easier and dy/dx harder? I wonder if y is easier to fake? You can study the coding problems, there are whole books on that strategy. It seems like that would artificially increase y
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by wnissen 4y ago
Once you get a product, like Camembert, or a wine like Burgundy, with a big AOP apparatus around it, there is little room for experimentation. In Burgundy you can't plant anything except Chardonnay for white wine that's going to b
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by wnissen 4y ago
Exactly! IBM had a number of these that all involved "blockchain" but somehow also required that IBM host the blockchain in their cloud. I am no blockchain expert, but if you have IBM running the show, why not simply let them be t
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by wnissen 4y ago
It doesn't, you're right. But the counterpoint to that is you should be really, really sure you have correctly gotten back on track if you decide to move any significant distance. That is the number one thing wilderness rescue fol
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by wnissen 4y ago
I remember when the iPhone tech remoted into my phone. I knew it had to be technically possible but it is reserved for Apple. Probably a good idea that it's not generally accessible, all my relatives who I recommend use their iPads for
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by wnissen 4y ago
No `tar`? BURN. IT. ALL. DOWN. Dear God, what could they possibly be thinking? People are capable of making changes, I think we've all switched from `more` to `less`, *csh to more modern shells, etc., and if `pax` is really all that I&
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by wnissen 4y ago
Oops, thanks for the correction. I let my poor French bleed into my poor German. I have even stayed in Wehlen at the Gasthaus Prüm so it's especially embarrassing. I think your point is relevant to USB, though! The USB folks know what
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by wnissen 4y ago
The whole concept of "SuperSpeed" made it more difficult to understand what was going on, so I'm very glad to see it go. A rare hiccup in the USB consortium's otherwise unbroken streak of making each generation more diff
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by wnissen 4y ago
I think you underestimate how easy Apple has made it to switch carriers with eSIMs. I can have several stored on my phone and activate them with a few touches. Very consumer friendly, no need to go to the store or even shuffle SIM cards whi
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by wnissen 4y ago
Ooh, I have a good one for this. If you have a C++ `std::string` object passing into a C API that takes a null-terminated `char *`, there's a convenience method `std::string::c_str()` to produce the C string from the C++ one. cha
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by wnissen 4y ago
It is fascinating to get cell service in countries that don't have net neutrality. You can buy a 2GB/unlimited calls and texts plan from the largest Mexican operator for US$15. But after that you can get a plan that only allows so
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by wnissen 4y ago
Does this mean that pages with excessively complicated cookie acceptance/rejection also get ranked higher because they have a longer dwell time? Talk about a dark pattern.
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by wnissen 4y ago
I would strengthen your statement to say that almost everyone can't afford it. Median household income is around $67K in the US, and the median household assets (minus the house) at age 65-69 is $75K. So even if a third of your income
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by wnissen 4y ago
Paging John D. Rockefeller, Mr. Rockefeller, you're wanted on the trading floor.
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by wnissen 4y ago
Rich text is high-entropy, plain text is strictly lower entropy. If you lose the painstakingly applied formatting, you'll be sad, at least sadder than you were if you had to reset the formatting, which is comparatively easy. I get you,
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by wnissen 4y ago
The service is exceedingly stupid. You have to submit two physical photographs, one of which is then scanned in. And the requirements are pretty strict, has to be the exact size and your head has to be in a narrow band of scale and position
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by wnissen 4y ago
Correct, I misspoke. I am only getting the DMARC reports from the domains to which I send email. Ionos doesn't support it and seems to have no plans to.
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by wnissen 4y ago
I have been sending through Ionos (was 1&1) for a decade, with only occasional problems (shared IPs getting on a blacklist). I have SPF working, and in the last few months I am getting routed into Spam 100% of the time. Even when I repl

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