DontBreakAlex

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by DontBreakAlex 2mo ago
It's got what plants crave!
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by DontBreakAlex 3mo ago
Not on my phone. Ah the web, such a beautiful place.
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by DontBreakAlex 4mo ago
I think he meant that you'd have the brackets apply to types of consumption instead of income level, so no tax on food, low tax on restaurants, medium tax on high-end electronics, insane tax on planes and yachts. I mean it sounds like
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by DontBreakAlex 4mo ago
My understanding is that after a few minutes without oxygen, the chemistry inside your brain is "fucked up" and even if you get oxygen back it's gone, you're already a vegetable. I like to think that "the state of t
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by DontBreakAlex 4mo ago
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by DontBreakAlex 4mo ago
Everyone upvote this guy more, thanks
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by DontBreakAlex 5mo ago
And I also suspect you did not grow up with kids whose parents clearly would like them to go away and stop bothering them. I also did lots of dumb stuff in my parents' back. The nuance here is that when you know that your parents love
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by DontBreakAlex 5mo ago
I wish I could upvote this comment harder. I started having unsupervised internet access (with the family computer in the living room) when I was 8. I'm a functional and successful adult because I trusted my parents. When my mother for
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by DontBreakAlex 5mo ago
You don't need to incorporate in the US for this to happen to you. You should look up what happened to Marc Lasus after he founded Gemplus (spoiler, he's on social security while the company the CIA stole from him has $3b revenue)
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by DontBreakAlex 5mo ago
This sounds good until you remember that we have all these electronics precisely to avoid the 1955 smog situation and climate change. Going back to 1990-era cars isn't solving anything. What we need is a patent and intellectual propert
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by DontBreakAlex 7mo ago
I can already bring my regular bike in the office. The problem is when you're meeting with friends, going to a restaurant, well anything that's not commuting to work...
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by DontBreakAlex 7mo ago
YES! I moved to SF from Paris (where I spent my whole life before that) a year ago. I exclusively use lime instead of public transit because of how slow it is! Going from Folsom&8th to Mason&Girard takes 50 minutes! And you spend mo
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Did GPT 5.2 make a breakthrough discovery in theoretical physics?(huggingface.co)
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by DontBreakAlex 8mo ago
Radiators can only be made as long as desirable because there's gravity for the fluid inside to go back down once it condenses. Even seen those copper heat pipes in your PC radiator?
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by DontBreakAlex 8mo ago
Can we please just use ipv6? PLEASE
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by DontBreakAlex 8mo ago
Looks cool, I think you should try to target it towards the elderly. My 99 year old grandpa is capable of using a computer and browsing the web, but struggles whenever he gets out of the "usual flow" (accidentally removes the chro
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by DontBreakAlex 8mo ago
Look, non-nonviolent communication is a valid form of protest (I know what I'm talking about, I'm french)
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by DontBreakAlex 11mo ago
I mean if your have a 750kw motor for each wheel, then they're probably always spinning when you floor it, so you also have enough torque to fully use your tires for stopping purposes EDIT: Quick maths show that decelerating at 1g (bas
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by DontBreakAlex 11mo ago
In europe, voting typically happens in one day, where everyone physically goes to their designated voting place and puts papers in a transparent box. You can stay there and wait for the count at the end of the day if you want to. Tom Scott
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by DontBreakAlex 11mo ago
I once visited a fairly large DC in the outskirts of paris (Scaleway DC5) and it was basically dead silent outside. I guess these large DCs are just build with absolutely no concern for noise pollution?
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by DontBreakAlex 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generat... > and even the nuclear decay (due to practical considerations the latter, as well as the atmospheric noise, is not viable except for fairly restricted
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by DontBreakAlex 1y ago
VFR = Vibe Flight Rules
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by DontBreakAlex 1y ago
It tells a lot about echo chambers that the first article google showed me for "man charged for praying abortion" is the adf one and you presumably got the bbc one. Anyway, there's nothing to see here, the UK banned vigils in
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by DontBreakAlex 1y ago
Apparently that is Anti-social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014. Article regarding the claim: https://adfinternational.org/en-gb/news/guilty-army-vet-conv... > In its decision, the court reasoned that his
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by DontBreakAlex 1y ago
I find it quite insulting that you seem to think that non-native english speakers are incapable of reading the outputs of LLMs to asses if it still means what they intended to say.
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by DontBreakAlex 1y ago
Tell me you're american without telling me you're american. > I know what Hip Young Urban Professionals Sipping Coffee On A Sidewalk Next To A Cafe Along The Seine Or Rhine Because Their Apartment Is To Small To Do Anything do
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by DontBreakAlex 2y ago
Reach farther places? Move around heavy loads?
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by DontBreakAlex 2y ago
Well I do value software, I'm paid $86/h to write some! I just find that for $20/year or $50 one time, you can get way more than 12G of hard drive space. I also don't think that this piece of software requires so much ma
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by DontBreakAlex 2y ago
Nice, but I'm not getting a subscription for a filesystem utility. Had it been a one-time $5 license, I would have bought it. At the current price, it's literally cheaper to put files in a S3 bucket or outright buy an SSD.
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by DontBreakAlex 2y ago
If it works, don't fix it

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