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Even if on street parking were metered consistently and priced appropriately that's too divorced from the developer & their incentives to solve this. Parking after the building is …

You’d need to actually support your assertion that higher FPS is objectively better, especially higher FPS via motion interpolation which inherently degrades the image by inserting…

PID loops work best when you have active control for both heating and cooling. PIDs are also best when you have a single optimal point you’re aiming at, there’s a kind of fundament…

Not if total duration was limited to some small number of re-ups (or the fee ramped up at some greater than linear rate)

Sub a $2500 MacBook Pro in for air then for your needs. In several years if that new GPU is actually worth an upgrade it will almost certainly need more cooling or have higher powe…

It could be… but it won’t be. Internals will be outmoded quickly, and I would be shocked if logic boards from ~5 years from now will still be compatible just as needs evolve (espec…

Or you could just buy a MacBook Air for like $900 (or one of the windows snapdragon machines, but it you care about avoiding Intel I’m assuming you want Linux and doubt the support…

Even without selective availability gps is only accurate to within about 30’ in normal urban conditions which is more than enough to punt you over to a side street without heuristi…

Civilian GPS (as in, the DoD’s Navstar) alone isn’t accurate enough to actually place you on a specific road. To compensate, auto navigation systems will snap you to the nearest ro…

These are all riffs on "Powers of 10", a film made in the 70's for IBM by Charles and Ray Eames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

Being a bubble does not mean there is no value in the thing, only that investment is outpacing the intrinsic value of the thing which is inherently unsustainable and will cause a c…

Do Venezuelans _actually_ have much documented usage of crypto, or are they simply using foreign fiat like the USD and Euro?

In what circumstance could the banking system collapse but leave the electric grid and all other infrastructure which supports the internet intact?

Fair use and the 4 criteria for determining if it applies to usage is literally written into the letter of the law, passed by congress in 1976: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/t…

What you describe would almost certainly be considered fair use until point of distribution - it’s non commercial, transformative and has no meaningful impact on the market value o…

“Copying” here refers to distribution and derivation, at least in the US. It is entirely legal to create copies of media for personal usage for instance (so long as you aren’t circ…

Why would that be the case? Copyright (at least in the US) only restricts distribution, performance and derivation.

I think you’re burying the lede there: this hypothetical war would be fought in Asia because China is completely incapable of projecting force to the North American continent. With…

Weird, I have always aligned as the gp showed. I’m reasonably sure tidyverse documentation does the same (which is probably where we both picked it up from).

You could always switch to a better font like Fira Code which has a ligature for this.

That’s more or less my point from a different angle: unlimited spend isn’t reasonable and the justification “but $other_thing is way more expensive!” Is often incorrect.

Not for an enterprise buying (or renting) furniture in bulk it isn’t. The chair will also easily last a decade and be turned over to the next employee if this one leaves… unlike co…

Computer Engineering is its own discipline, typically lumped with Electrical Engineering, which is more about system architecture and design and only touches on programming at a lo…

peak brightness is not contrast. If anything higher peaks mean worse contrast, even for systems with local dimming zones due to bleed between zones / gradients in display content w…