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I often experience very slow time to fix with cell service off (& having location off beforehand) - I believe this is due to Assisted GNSS/GPS which significantly improves the time…

Python's default arguments are evaluated and stored once. This can cause issues, for example the naive "default to []" program: >>> def function(b, a=[]): ... a.append(b) ... print…

Maybe uh... not like Wikipedia does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CANCER

Would helmets in cars make them safer though? It's a different risk profile; I don't think you tend to fall out of your cars and hit your head? I can't find any stats of prevalence…

Yeah, I'm not quite sure how other countries do it, but for the 2000 Olympics (Sydney) they basically renewed this giant landfill site. There's been a bunch of apartments, etc, bui…

I believe they recently updated the O'Reilly Rust book with a new edition so it's not out of date anymore.

Alternatively, I used zenstates and played around with VID values on different p-states (or is it c-states? I can't remember) which allowed my cores to go from ~400Mhz and then spe…

True, but whether or not it should be or not doesn't change the fact that it is the current state of the US. And it's not really just the phone number, but the combination of perso…

> These bridges are made from lightweight Fibre-Reinforced Polymer > In just 11 months we have developed a prototype bridge that is stunning in design, environmentally friendly and…

I don't think this really works, for a number of reasons: - A user-enabled feature for "Driving Mode" probably won't be enabled, because drivers intend to use their phone. - An aut…

Unfortunately, trains are a different scenario than cars, mainly due to the fact that they are on rails and are generally kept well apart through rail signals. A couple seconds whe…

Not sure how modern you are referring too, but I have 2009-era hard drives which are very sluggish.

> problem is that n-tit-for-tat behavior in humans is moderated by testosterone levels, which have been declining precipitously sorry, what?

Yep, definitely works on Linux as well. Not sure about mac, but it certainly should as well.

As well, I've found Google docs is hardly able to work with 20 page documents with maybe 10 or so images. It slows down rapidly when you add images.

Yeah, it's almost like it got merged with Austria, given it says "Austriaia"

Or really any of the problems Electron attempts to solve; the GUI toolkits are still not (generally) not cross-platform in the way Electron is.

The fact that Telegram is a Qt app that looks nice and is lightweight makes it really good; it's just a shame it's centralised. Almost any other messaging platform is dominated by …

NSW, Aus offers SIX Maps: https://six.maps.nsw.gov.au (this offers very good imagery of the NSW areas, better than google) That's the easy-to-use-maps. There's also the aus-wide ht…

Telegram doesn't require your phone number? It did for me to sign up.

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Just look up the Panopticon, tbh.

Two sentences later: > The command line tools are orders of magnitude faster and from the previous sentence: > Encoding AVIF takes a long time in general, but it's especially bad i…

If you want to save Google Photos, use Google Takeout to download it. It allowed you to download all of your google-related-data, including photos.