WindyMiller

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by WindyMiller 2mo ago
Comaps can display your current speed and (if it's in the data) the speed limit for the road you're on - everything you need to avoid speeding tickets!
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by WindyMiller 5mo ago
[It was also in direct reference to this comic.]( https://www.overyourhead.co.uk/2011/01/rarely-connect.html )
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by WindyMiller 6mo ago
[How confident are you that this writer uses AI?]( https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-con... )
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by WindyMiller 6mo ago
But you can't be on the cutting-edge of everything, and there are opportunity costs.
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by WindyMiller 8mo ago
To be fair it wouldn't really be doing its job if it didn't come with any asterisks
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by WindyMiller 9mo ago
The interface equivalent of ten sad fireworks and a pack of sparklers in a rainy back garden probably wouldn't have the same addictive effects, though.
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by WindyMiller 10mo ago
> 1 car in 3 on the roads in the UK is funded via PIP In 2024 there were about 34 million cars registered in the UK and Motability had a fleet of 815,000. Are you telling me that the 3.5 million PIP recipients are using their payments to
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
> all locations any given individual has been seen This is perhaps another reason people in the UK might be more chill about ANPR: we're smaller and incrementally less carbrained, so to describe ANPR as tracking "all locations
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
Different words mean different things. "Tall people can reach things on high shelves." Change "tall" for any other adjective and you will see how absurd it is.
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
On the other hand, I think short-scale millions and billions are used far more often than the larger numbers, and the starts of words tend to be more salient than the ends, so it's useful to have them distinguished by the first letter
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
You can crowdfund for a project manager!
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
The comment said 'organizing this', not doing the development work. That could mean crowdfunding to fund development of the desired outcome. A faff, of course, but perhaps a better deal than contributing monetarily to Microsoft to
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
I was drawn to this idea but then I realised that the number of phone calls/texts I made/received was so low I would essentially be carrying the phone in case of emergencies. Or, more accurately, because I didn't feel comfort
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
I think projects like this help you develop a felt understanding of the painting as a unique physical artifact that is not fully reproduced by prints or scans.
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
I don't see anything about interstates in your comment. But even roads reserved for motor vehicles have noise and pollution effects on people who don't use them. Plus, passengers exist.
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
> Laws should reflect the values of the democratic consensus, speed limits included. If almost everybody is traveling at a speed other than the posted speed limit, whether that's faster or slower, that is a strong signal that the s
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
What about the half of the remaining artists that are below the new median?
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
That could only obsolete fiction-writing if you take a very narrow, essentially commercial view of what fiction-writing is for. I could build a machine that phones my mother and tells her I love her, but it wouldn't obsolete me doing i
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
Of course, train drivers aren't the only rail workers, and pay isn't the only reason for strikes.
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by WindyMiller 1y ago
I think you really undervalue the pleasure of getting one over on our awful train system, and also overestimate how much money the young people of the UK have access to.
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by WindyMiller 2y ago
...IN MICE
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by WindyMiller 2y ago
Do you think kids who hang out at the mall really love the management of the mall?
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by WindyMiller 2y ago
That doesn't explain why the Cybertruck bothers people more than other expensive things. And the rich have always been ready to express horror at the tastes of the poor (and even more so, the tastes of the slightly less rich). It can&#
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by WindyMiller 2y ago
> They’re articles of fashion. Hard to square this with: > There are legitimate criticisms of Musk and Tesla. "I don't like how someone else's car looks" is not one of them. Whether or not other people like your lo
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by WindyMiller 2y ago
> Similarly, we’ll see the rise of junk personalities – fawning and two-dimensional, without presenting the same challenges as flawed real people. I believe the term is "Genuine People Personalities".
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by WindyMiller 2y ago
The experience of going car-free in a place designed around cars doesn't tell you much about what it would be like to live in a car-free city.
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by WindyMiller 3y ago
Still, if that's your worst fear, at least you must have a pretty good government.
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by WindyMiller 3y ago
It doesn't have to withold citizenship from anyone. In some ways it's more reasonable that I lost my EU citizenship through a democratic process in my country than that, say, a Turkish person doesn't have EU citizenship becau
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by WindyMiller 3y ago
> I don't buy that argument. A UK citizen can still register .eu TLD through a company they control in the EU, if they have the resources to do so. The EU's decision to rescind registrations for former EU citizens only really a
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by WindyMiller 3y ago
I think it's perfectly reasonable not to offer the UK special treatment over other nations. It would certainly have been more generous to allow UK registrants to retain their domains, but it doesn't seem to me more reasonable. T

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