716dpl

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Canadian content on streaming platforms became a trade issue with the U.S.(cbc.ca)
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by 716dpl 3mo ago
Great time to shoutout the work of Susan Kare: https://kareprints.com/
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by 716dpl 4mo ago
All non-transportation fuel uses account for a total of only 33% of crude oil consumption. Of the other 2/3rd, gasoline accounts for 43%. So yes, switching to EVs would have a massive impact, and probably put unconventional sources of
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by 716dpl 4mo ago
It's not a widely known fact that sales of new combustion engine cars peaked in 2017 and has been on a downward trend since then, while global EV sales have ~10x in the same time period. So it seems like these new investments are in a
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by 716dpl 5mo ago
While this is true, we don't have a good solution for long term energy storage. Even with plummeting costs and new technologies like sodium ion, batteries still only get you maybe ~12 hours of discharge. Pumped hydro give you longer st
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by 716dpl 5mo ago
The EU also released a plan in the past week to accelerate the deployment of both nuclear and renewable energy. This oil shock is going to have lasting impacts. https://energy.ec.europa.eu/publications/accelerateeu-ener
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by 716dpl 6mo ago
I feel that anything that was a brand new thing in its time should rank highly: Hypercard, Apple I, original Macintosh, OS X, PowerBook 100, original iPhone.
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by 716dpl 6mo ago
Watch your mouth, kid!
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by 716dpl 6mo ago
I find it soothing. There is ornamentation in its design, but it's precise and minimal, but also friendly. The icons, in particular, look so good.
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by 716dpl 6mo ago
A simpler solution may be to use an en dash, even though they are not interchangeable and em dashes are the proper punctuation for parenthetical phrases. As a typography pedant, I’m annoyed that LLMs have forced us to talk about this.
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by 716dpl 7mo ago
Apple Computer had a strong focus on the education market back in the day. I wonder if this is a play to re-enter that market.
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by 716dpl 7mo ago
Limited water resource. In recent drought years, gas-fired power plants in California had to make up for reduced hydro generation.
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by 716dpl 7mo ago
As a typography nerd, I’m upset that my pedantism may get me labelled as a bot. (Yes, I just used a typographic apostrophe instead of a straight single quote.)
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by 716dpl 11mo ago
There was a game in the early '80s called Microsurgeon where you piloted a robot probe into a body to cure it of diseases. It was armed with an array of tools, one of which was ultrasound that you could use to destroy cancer. I wonder