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I imagine economies of scale are much greater with cars than cargo bikes. If it was possible to charge, say, 50% less for a cargo bike I’m sure someone would be, and they’d be taki…

It clearly is. As the article makes out, the tax code and regulation favours large vehicles. Gas is cheap. Acting alone, there are few reasons to buy a smaller car if you can affor…

Your statement is technically correct, which everyone knows is the best kind of correct.

This is more like it. The Thai rail network is not that extensive so trains probably aren’t part of daily life for that many. India has a huge rail network. In both cases, though, …

If a DB check is needed to see if a sub is private or not it has to happen for every request. You can’t just limit the check to private subs because it’s not known if they are priv…

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Anyone who claims being a parent is "super easy" is immediately outing themselves as either someone who has never done it or so…

Amazon is miserable unless you know what you’re looking for. If I have to search for something it’s almost game over immediately — I’m not going to wade through page after page of …

OTOH the casino in the Nevada side of Tahoe that I went to a few years ago reeked of smoke. I came out smelling like I was 18 and hitting the UK pubs again (which was late 90s for …

> Counterintuitively, the “correct” way to deal with phantom braking is to avoid the accelerator entirely and instead dive right for the brake pedal: this instantly disengages crui…

It’s clearly not intended to compete with a smartphone. It’s 50 times the size and mains powered. It’s intended to be an always-on device with a wide camera and large screen that m…

According to this Stack Exchange post from last year a full IPv4 routing table requires on the order of a few hundred MBs of RAM. This is indeed a tiny fraction of the cost of main…

Units aren't clear from a callsite, though. That's the point she is making: nobody can tell if `credit_account(123)` is crediting $1.23 or $123. In a strongly-typed world if `credi…

Infernally. Not internally. Presumably the author doesn’t like the word.

The assumption is that Meta and its ilk are picky about who they employ and that should be a proxy for an employee's ability or value. Of course, the layoffs will presumably involv…

The registrar could only read email if they also accept mail for the domain in question.

Apparently it is true: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma... It seems .eu domains are more or less only available to people who live in the EU/EEA, hold E…

I doubt this is an unusual situation. I'm not falling on my sword to defend Facebook here, BTW. The company does a lot wrong. I just suspect it's not much worse than anyone else.

> Facebook infamously allows for redundancy in development (each team developing its own solutions instead of trying to solve the problems across multiple teams) Example or sources…

I consider myself quite technically minded and interested in the workings of machines. I had not considered what was inside a steam engine's boiler before, nor what one would look …

(very late reply, only just saw this) I'm not claiming to have never made a similar mistake. I have messed up in production a lot. But I would definitely recognise from this episod…

Most competitive Everesting attempts use a steep and typically short road. 3-5 miles of downhill on a 5-6% gradient is probably too time consuming (i.e. too much time spent not asc…

And then, after you're done hand-rolling queries with Postman, immediately start planning actual, safe, tools to do this kind of thing when the need crops up.

My house (UK), built in 2006, has these plugs for lamps in various rooms. I'm not sure but I assume they're on the lighting circuit (5A) and the plugs don't have a built-in fuse.

One thing I haven’t seen suggested elsewhere, at least from a quick scan through, is that you need to get more help from your boss. Your coworkers need to improve and your manager …

Does a password manager and browser extension not fix this? I use 1password on iOS and almost never have to copy and paste or (worse) type a password in. I just FaceID then pick th…