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by xethos 2y ago
Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw always seemed pretty much the same to me anyways
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by xethos 2y ago
This is just bizarre - even the 20-ish year old trolley buses in Vancouver have backup batteries. They have enough charge to go maybe ( maybe ) six blocks, but they're also primarily used for vehicle maintenance, line maintenance, deto
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by xethos 2y ago
This is bizarre - I flew into Alberta from BC with just a carryon, meaning I couldn't carry razor blades. The TSA gave me weird looks for the bladeless shavette, but I could walk into Pharmasave (and I've seen them at Save-On, Sho
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by xethos 2y ago
Author notes some of the shortcomings of Linux-as-a-smartphone-OS, but to say a year-old Reddit post is out of date is an understatement. The biggest advantage of a relatively young ecosystem (6" touchscreen Linux) is just how rapidly
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by xethos 2y ago
Respectfully, this is a trick question. The driver isn't exclusively there to drive, they help tourists that ask "Can I get to X, or do I need another bus?". They help wheelchair users, they know to wait extra time when cycli
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by xethos 2y ago
> On desktop, you can install uBlock Origin in most browsers "Most browsers" includes a hell of a lot of Chrome derivatives, many of which will not work with uBlock Origin's MV2 extension. If you want adblocking that works
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by xethos 2y ago
As someone else reviewed the other day (in the 9590X review thread), Linux gets better worst-case performance, while Windows will likely have higher highs and lower lows https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269996
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by xethos 2y ago
Shooting someone, lethally or otherwise, for laughing at you, is seen as an appropriate response in open-carry states? If it is, maybe the people pushing for such laws should drop the "Snowflake" line and take a look in the mirror
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by xethos 2y ago
Respectfully, your favourite example depresses me. Pre-2013 or so I would have agreed, but North America, when faced with "Too many parents are accidentally running over their children in driveways and parking lots", chose to mand
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by xethos 2y ago
But that's... not the opposite? Ms. Dworak doesn't say Americans are getting dumber , just that recent IQ scores are lower. I.E. there has been a drop in IQ scores. This feels pretty straightforward, to the point it feels like I&
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by xethos 2y ago
AFAIK it is, but I thought I'd stick to claims I was all but certain of when posting from mobile and (because of that) not fact-checking Bit of an ironic one to leave out though, considering my preferences with most of the software I u
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by xethos 2y ago
"Smug" was mostly tongue in cheek. More than anything, it was a breath of fresh air seeing OSM, a product so heavily reliant on it's community, beating out one of the most well-funded corporations on our planet. Google has sa
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by xethos 2y ago
I cannot describe [0] my pleasure and satisfaction when, visiting Germany, we found an icecream shop closed. We'd stopped by with the assumption Google Maps would have the correct hours; they did not, and we carried on without icecream
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by xethos 2y ago
Per the report [0] linked in TFA, your understanding is wrong. More than twice as many hispanics came from natural increases (~2.21 million), compared to net immigration (~0.94 million) [0] https://www.brookings.edu/articles
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by xethos 2y ago
This is what leaves me annoyed about NASA choosing (so far) not to continue with the suggested financial penalties for Boeing. Boeing sought to save a dollar by using less-qualified, less expensive labour, in an area that they clearly shoul
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by xethos 2y ago
To bolster their burgeoning watch-making indistry, the USSR imported a defunct American watch factory... and many of the employees. They were paid to stay for a set amount of time, were given the choice of staying indefinitely, and taught t
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by xethos 2y ago
Per TFA: "The spray, called SmartTag, contains a unique traceable forensic code tied to the bottle..." Even if you cover yourself, all your bikes, and all your gear, the cops only need "...an extremely small amount of liquid
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by xethos 2y ago
Yes, and the advertising everywhere is one reason for that
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by xethos 2y ago
PostMarketOS actually has a list :) The one I see most often touted and used on the Mobile Linux corner of the Fediverse is the Oneplus 6 or 6T, but I'm happier with my Pinephone Pro (even if just for the swappable batteries and easy r
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by xethos 2y ago
Would it have had to be more locked-down? I think letting the web be a first-class citizen would have been enough; economic incentives would have taken care of the rest, because few companies want dramatically more paid devs on staff (for i
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by xethos 2y ago
GN has multiple sources, not all based on L1T. They're reviewed here [0], starting around 9:11 [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTeubeCIwRw
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by xethos 2y ago
Level One Techs' Wendell was saying the same thing after asking companies running server farms independently. Both got some sketchily-high numbers, in the 25-50% range. This is only looking worse for Intel as days go by.
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by xethos 2y ago
"Upon investigation, we do not believe this to be a serious issue" is a thing that affects even software-focused companies [0]. The chief difference, in this case, is that you cannot impersonate the CEO to publicly state that ther
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by xethos 2y ago
That "tiny percentage of the time" is roughly once every 15 minutes when done well, and transports (in my city) roughly 150 people during rush hour. Every bus lane you build is ~800 cars you don't have to deal with in traffic
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by xethos 2y ago
Well, that bug has been squashed. The one I run into more often [0] has not. I own a L5, I daily drive a Pinephone Pro. I agree with you, though - I only switch back to my previous phone because I miss the keyboard every other year or so,
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by xethos 2y ago
This is the "I buy from a local farmer raising their own cows" argument that people use to say eating beef is fine. The local cow that you knew (and will eat half of), and the couples having a good time on video are not the majori
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by xethos 2y ago
A lack of trust in government, a belief all government services should pay for themselves, a lack of anti-trust enforcement, a lack of regulation on abusive and overly-capitalistic companies, I could go on, but the list is basically what th
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by xethos 2y ago
Oh hey, I've heard this joke before -one manager says to another "But what if they leave after we train them?" The other manager asks back "What if we don't train them, and they stay?" Not investing in people (
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by xethos 2y ago
I'm not saying it doesn't happen. Credit card data is too valuable to never be stolen. I am saying that ~37 to >500 is a hell of a difference in how frequently things are stolen [0] You pointed out how there are guidelines for
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by xethos 2y ago
Sure - pretty well every corporation you purchase a service from is required to store your credit card information as well. But there are stiff penalties from the government and credit card processors for unauthorized access to that infor

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