chubs

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by chubs 2mo ago
I have a theory: Japanese car's have excellent reliability, their interiors and design are lacking. If every car in the world is an EV, which due to their relative simplicity tend to be reliable, what remaining unique selling points do
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by chubs 3mo ago
Layman, so bear with me. I'm wondering where they got the amino acids and proteins from? I was under the impressino that cells needed them to be "homochiral" to function, and the artificial 'built from scratch' amin
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by chubs 3mo ago
I go to church. Everyone has 3 kids. Thanks for bringing it up!
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by chubs 3mo ago
I remember reading that in certain areas/communities in the USA, it's pretty close to 50:50.
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by chubs 4mo ago
What if computers simply rendered 300dpi PNG files and sent that to the printer?
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by chubs 4mo ago
Oh good point, I didn't think of transitive dependencies. A lot of languages i've worked with unfortunately have a 'do not check in the lockfile' culture, and a common 'blow away the lockfile when the package manag
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by chubs 4mo ago
I recently ported an old brickout clone I made to Sokol (a C header-based game library). The whole executable is 500kb (macos), surely could be smaller with eg symbols stripped, and it has a whole 3d engine (not that i'm using much mor
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by chubs 4mo ago
To mitigate supply chain attacks like this, I've taken to specifying exact versions in my Rust cargo.toml, and when importing new crates, select the previous-to-latest version. Is this a reasonable mitigation? It bugs me that Swift dep
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by chubs 5mo ago
"All I could think about was how bored I would eventually get" I used to wonder this. I read the religious answer to this relies on the concept of infinitude: what if an infinite god can invent an infinite number of exciting new..
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by chubs 5mo ago
The traditional concept of an 'embodied' resurrection (as opposed to ghosts playing harps) makes me lean towards: yes (eg the gut is part of the body). Who knows though, it's a fun question!
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by chubs 5mo ago
I believe you resolve it by the concept of spirit/body dualism, where your body/soul degenerates but the spirit is still fine.
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by chubs 5mo ago
Holy moly, that guy in the reddit post needs to see a dermatologist asap and figure out why their skin is emitting acid.
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by chubs 6mo ago
I don't understand: Who's lending the $2B in situations like this? Wouldn't they be worried that the above situation (company gutted, then going down the drain) is going to play out and they won't get their $2B back? Or
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by chubs 7mo ago
BMW resale values make it very clear: these cars are actively hostile (in many many ways) to their owners the second they go out of warranty. Pity, their interiors are lovely. In the long term, is this strategy going to work out for them? I
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by chubs 10mo ago
I believe this is already what happens with Volkswagen - recently I had my brakes replaced by an independent mechanic, and they had to charge me $50ish for some software lock as part of the process.
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by chubs 10mo ago
Is it worth mentioning that there are almost countless Chinese EV brands nowadays? I wonder if Apple was really trying. I’m sure it’s difficult, of course, but it seems like every week there’s a new car manufacturer. To quote Clarkson ‘how
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by chubs 11mo ago
Also reminded me a lot of simcity 2000. Congrats, it's very neat!
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by chubs 1y ago
I wonder if this would be suitable for drone delivery of small groceries, to keep the drone high enough that people don’t have to hear the noise.
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by chubs 1y ago
Anyone know if this or similar devices can display information sent from some code I write in, say, rust without drivers or libraries (eg should not be too complicated to write to) on macOS? Could be a lot of fun to be had!
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by chubs 1y ago
I largely agree with you. I used to work at Cochlear (hearing aid implants) - their "headphone" equivalents actually had neatly replaceable batteries 10 years ago, it's doable! Larger than airpods, to be sure, however i'
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by chubs 1y ago
I have a bee in my bonnet about this software complexity issue. Perhaps it takes large amounts of humility to accept that your job is fairly mundane, and only needs simple code to get the job done? I mean: who wants to turn spanners on a To
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by chubs 1y ago
This is really disappointing. I used to have a fertility tracking app on the iOS App Store, zero data sharing, all local thus private. But, people don’t want to pay $1 for an app, and I can’t afford the marketing drive that an investor-back
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by chubs 1y ago
You say that hamas is no "credible military threat" - may I beg you please reconsider this in light of the 1195 killed when they attacked on October 7? They're no world-class army, to be sure, but it's not like they have
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by chubs 1y ago
Anecdata: Recently spoke with a friend's son who graduated compsci a year-ish ago, he reckons none of his year got jobs, now working in a kitchen. (in australia for context). Very sad. For comparison, I graduated just after the dot-com
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by chubs 1y ago
I printed a few for a friend. They seem to work just fine, but if you look close you can see the ‘terraced’ steps in the printing. Probably feels a bit rough. I guess you could smooth that with acetone vapour and ABS filament if so inclined
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by chubs 1y ago
The article does talk of it being a relatively simple proposition to embiggen the range with an bigger battery kit if that helps. But yeah, it's not a ton of range.
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by chubs 1y ago
I'm very positive, however note that when they mention "injection molded polypropylene composite material" - this (i think) is the same material used for Seadoo Spark jetskis. I owned one and had a minor crash, and because th
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by chubs 2y ago
Speculation: Perhaps Google accelerated the Manifest V3 change to get anti-adblocking 'baked in' and benefitting their interests, before they're forced to sell off Chrome?
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by chubs 2y ago
Ok this is beautiful, I love it, I was looking for something exactly like this earlier today. Nice one.
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by chubs 2y ago
As a developer I always found these maths-first approaches to Kalman filters impenetrable (I guess that betrays my lack of knowledge, I dare cast no aspersions on the quality of these explanations!). However, if like me, it helps with the l

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