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Look at the replies. You’re telling junkies to stop using. It won’t work. This is addiction.

Mistakes aren’t glitches when the environment is so dynamic. I imagine they are making errors constantly, and constantly learning from them. When a robot car makes a mistake, all r…

You’re simply never going to get through to someone who has internalized the idea that AC is perfect and free. They have accommodated to the luxury and will burn the planet to keep…

yup https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

> imagine you develop a product with a number of features with a public API, and telemetry points that a feature goes unused The cost of maintaining a book is much, much less than …

I think the implication is they focussed on the huge efficiency gains, and didn't focus on the small ones?

One very practical reason that comes to mind is waterproofing. Kitchen counters get wet, and office desks do not. Anything with a plug is at greater risk of shorting.

> if that's how you feel, you haven't tuned your setup The withering cry of the software engineer "just tune your setup!" This is simply not a thing that people will do. The defaul…

Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's book-case.

Doing what, getting vaccinated against infectious diseases?

It’s not a crime, it’s an infringement (NZ) or civil infraction (FL), and there’s no criminal record associated. There’s a material difference between an infraction and a crime.

I’m not European. Many countries have speed cameras. It differs how you’re caught. We treat a red light camera or speed camera violation as an infringement offence, like parking. I…

Yes, there is a distinction. But it’s irrelevant in this case because you can be ticketed for either. The speeding ticket goes to the registered owner and there are no demerit poin…

You get a parking ticket regardless of who parked

I was working on an LED project that involved some reasonably-sized lithium batteries, and the guy in the hardware store said "I don't want to hear about you in the news tomorrow".…

Maybe social media is like cigarettes, in that it cures the anxiety it causes. A powerfully addictive cycle.

I'm surprised more people don't know about the Northampton Canal

https://cursor.com/bugbot I didn't see this mentioned, but we've been running bugbot for a while now and it's very good. It catches so many subtle bugs.

Paper, books, and construction documents all use reflected and not refracted light.

Objects not to scale. Not even close, and no mention of it (that I saw). Graphing scale honestly is extremely important. A lot of people are convinced our sky is full of satellites…

> discover that everything I've coded is unnecessary and there is an easier way to achieve the same goal In my experience, there is no good shortcut to this realization. Doing it w…

> I want my So much of the argument for cars, housing, indedpendence, "freedom", boils down to this simple sentence, "I want my".

Moving to the US, the traffic light system was a big culture shock for me. No major/minor dendritic road system laid out like a tree like I was used to — more like right angles eve…

It vibrates and tries to gently guide you. It will absolutely not overpower you if you are swerving in an emergency. You are talking hypothetical nonsense.