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Easier to haul my luggage on a train designed for that purpose than take a car and spend longer parking it than the entire train journey. I live 10 minutes from Gatwick, have never…

When it comes to fluff/slop/etc, worse can be measured by word count, so there’s your answer.

That’s going a bit far. I’m in the games industry and have used opus regularly, it’s a great codec for games, often the hardware decoding is so restricted that we’re using software…

MRIs are fundamentally expensive. Yes we can bring the price down a bit, and we can set more money aside for them, but they’ll always be limited by their price. Even if this techni…

You’re both imagining different scenarios. Scenario 1: 20% of staff tested failed. Individual targeting is pointless because the issue is systemic. This has happened in aviation, i…

Disagree, though you’re right it’s a little bit similar to the eu flag, but only a little, plenty of countries manage with more similar flags. Flags don’t exist for the period wher…

This is true, but since you always need a bit of hope in all the bad news, worth noting that if you focus solely on electricity generation, the fossil fuels from generation decreas…

They already tried pushing back against c-sections, turns out giving overly opinionated options to women that discourages things that are medically beneficial in a large portion of…

That’s pretty flawed argument on the face of it, very few things win a cost benefit analysis if you disregard the benefit and thus require exactly zero cost. The real question is w…

Yes, and I think that’s actually intentional, they’re rewarding renewables way over the odds without needing to give politically controversial benefits. The rewards are just an inh…

The implied part is “within common conditions” it’s a law limited to a specific regime, much like Newtonian physics. We know it’s not universally true but we can see it’s often tru…

I know the thread is about tvs, but since gaming has come up, worth noting that at computer viewing distances the differences between 1080p/1440p and 4k really are very visible (th…

The obvious use-case for unsafe is to implement alternative memory regimes that don’t exist in rust already, so you can write safe abstractions over them. Rust doesn’t have the kin…

You make a strong case for voice, but that doesn’t necessarily invalidate their argument, they never said voice should be replaced. Here’s some ideas: 1. A data side channel 2. Use…

The article explains the weaknesses of the password-centric approach: > whether by phishing or exploiting the fact the passwords are weak or have been reused 1. Phishing is harder …

Not disputing the obvious advantages, but since you asked: Being forced to maintain compatibility for all previously written apis (and quite a large array of private details or und…

There’s a classic yes minister skit on how dubious polls can be: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks&t=45s

Easy: provide high quality output when being tested for a new task, The moment you are done outperforming the competition in the tests and have hit production you slowly ramp down …

I assume they’re referring to ag-gag laws, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag Gives a reasonable background by the looks.

And yet their statement makes perfect sense to me. Caching and lower level calls are generic solutions that work everywhere, but are also generally the last and worst way to optimi…

Given the web’s much wider remit than pdf, it has support for accessibility tools and much better non-visual handling than pdf, so the comparison isn’t entirely fair I think. If a …

“Newfound”? People have been fighting this debate for decades. I remember having this exact debate at school 20 years ago, except the price arguments back then were bullshit, but p…

Only everyone who goes bankrupt, and their creditors. Rather the opposite for their customers. I’m sure there’s a few cases where this would excessively hurt a company’s prospects …

I’ve met humans who do that too

That argument works pretty well for any bad api design (assuming sufficient documentation somewhere). Yet I assume we can agree that regardless of how you can work around bad apis,…