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by yholio 5y ago
> It should be possible to drive it to existing gas stations for refueling, reusing existing infrastructure on that front. Building pipes instead of wires is already 3 times less efficient per unit of energy. Moving around huge bombs tha
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by yholio 5y ago
The train has left that station 10 years ago, and it's all electric. No point staying in the trenches like the apocryphal Japanese soldier, fighting for the resurgence of Hydrogen. It's less efficient, more expensive for vehicles
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by yholio 5y ago
> Again, the impact of this is limited since the entity that you interact with when using the Binance.com website is not based in the UK, and the FCA does not have jurisdiction over it. Why would you say that? Providing services to any B
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by yholio 5y ago
Strongly disagree. If you mimic the established user interface of the car people have been using for generations, then it should behave like people expect it too. If special qualifications are required to drive it, then you should sell it o
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Yes! Bold out the domain and leave the rest of the URL in a slightly lower contrast color.
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> The WMF also has high-flying, global plans to “become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge” by 2030. It says it wants to create “knowledge equity”—a world where people everywhere will have as much access to i
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by yholio 5y ago
Nonetheless, have the plaintiffs proved that Shell is responsible for plastic that is burned or thrown in the ocean, as opposed to those that burn, dispose or produce plastics? Have they proven that there is NO legitimate and lawful use of
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by yholio 5y ago
> trees are a natural resource and their conservation has a similar effect on climate change compared to reducing the burning of fossil fuels. What the hell? Trees grow using CO2 from the air, and then release that same carbon back when
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by yholio 5y ago
I just spent 10 minutes playing with it while my cowworkers were blabbering about. Very relaxing.
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He says "name", then ads "website" in parenthesis so non-technical people can understand. Without name resolution, most internet services will indeed fail.
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by yholio 6y ago
Good one, you almost had me until 'SLS'.
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by yholio 6y ago
> hell bent on developing nuclear weapons despite of non-proliferation treaty signed by the whole world in 1960's I have no ideea why you think this is relevant to your otherwise valid point. Iran and Israel are very similar here, o
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by yholio 6y ago
While that is true to some degree, the primary motivation of advertising is to close the information gap, to make sure customers know about your product.
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by yholio 6y ago
This cannot happen on an individual level. We need to take the internet standards writing process back into the hands of citizenry. The hacker ethos is long dead and all technical bodies have become negotiating tables where giant corporati
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by yholio 6y ago
Instead of more palatable user tracking, how about we tell advertisers and internet companies: fuck off, we don't want any tracking? How about we hunt down and eliminate all features that allow cross-site information sharing? How about
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by yholio 6y ago
It's easy to define 'cheap': relative to the wages market, market prices for driving are relatively low compared to other jobs. 'Underpaid' is a value judgment, you claim that prevailing market wages are unfair so p
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by yholio 6y ago
Underpaid compared to what? If people are willing to do the work to a high professional standard for a certain wage, than that is the right compensation for that job. When you setup arbitrary fair wages above market, you must also somehow
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by yholio 6y ago
What keeps Uber competitive is access to a relatively cheap reservoir of labor force. They mediate this process where drivers compete against each other and extract a good rent in the process. The focus should be getting rid of the rent, no
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by yholio 6y ago
Yes, and unsafe Rust is an unsafe language. It's easy enough to detect it's use in a project so that it can be considered a language on it's own.
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by yholio 6y ago
Can't believe that, in God's year 2021, 3rd millennia, Earth, we're still using security libraries written in what is essentially a portable assembly language, doing silly things like pointer arithmetic, manually allocating m
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by yholio 6y ago
You would go to parallelism precisely on those platforms where simpler performance fixes (changing some data structures or implementing limited sections in a fast language) are insuficient. Eficient parallelization of an existing algorithm
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by yholio 6y ago
The problem with water in the same place with high power equipment is that it instantly turns the room into a death trap for any personnel, now everything is potentially live. Also, in the first part of a lithium battery fire, dropping wate
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by yholio 6y ago
So instead of having a mosquito bite, you now have a zombie mosquito attached to you continuing to suck and spill a large multiple of normal volume.
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by yholio 6y ago
The main takeaway here is exactly this huge risk of gradual deterioration leading to invalid output that appears valid. That a thermometer fails in the hospital or runs out of battery is not a major problem - another one is close by and pro
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by yholio 6y ago
I think the author's argument stands: except for novelty products, there are very few applications where the misinterpretation risk is worth less than $1. Certainly nothing that has to do with safety, medical equipment, professional an
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by yholio 6y ago
Some related discussion by fusor practitioners about the concept. It's a tantalizingly complex field where many have attempted and failed to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: https://fusor.net/board/v
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by yholio 6y ago
Because it sounds perfectly fine for them. Nerds tend to obsess over a narrow field of interest and their field is not audio quality and gear, unlike say, yours.
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Well, of course you can't stop out of bounds array access in C. But at least you can cover the major array operations, such as string and memory copy.
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So the floc is supposed to change one week over the next, but it most likely will remain correlated to previous values. It will provide something like 10-15 bits of entropy. You then have the geolocation from your IP provider, another good
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In the case of C, it's a design decision Denis Ritchie made that came down to the particular instruction set of PDP-11, that could efficiently process zero terminated strings. So a severely memory limited architecture of the 70s led to

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