cranekam

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by cranekam 2y ago
I imagine economies of scale are much greater with cars than cargo bikes. If it was possible to charge, say, 50% less for a cargo bike I’m sure someone would be, and they’d be taking the entire market with them.
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by cranekam 2y ago
It clearly is. As the article makes out, the tax code and regulation favours large vehicles. Gas is cheap. Acting alone, there are few reasons to buy a smaller car if you can afford a bigger one. This is exactly the market “working” and why
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by cranekam 2y ago
Your statement is technically correct, which everyone knows is the best kind of correct.
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by cranekam 3y ago
This is more like it. The Thai rail network is not that extensive so trains probably aren’t part of daily life for that many. India has a huge rail network. In both cases, though, train tracks are much more accessible than in developed coun
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by cranekam 3y ago
If a DB check is needed to see if a sub is private or not it has to happen for every request. You can’t just limit the check to private subs because it’s not known if they are private or not at the time. Reddit goes wrong often so I expect
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by cranekam 3y ago
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Anyone who claims being a parent is "super easy" is immediately outing themselves as either someone who has never done it or someone who is really bad at it. It is incredibly
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by cranekam 4y ago
Amazon is miserable unless you know what you’re looking for. If I have to search for something it’s almost game over immediately — I’m not going to wade through page after page of cheap junk with no sensible way to filter the results.
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by cranekam 4y ago
OTOH the casino in the Nevada side of Tahoe that I went to a few years ago reeked of smoke. I came out smelling like I was 18 and hitting the UK pubs again (which was late 90s for me).
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by cranekam 4y ago
> Counterintuitively, the “correct” way to deal with phantom braking is to avoid the accelerator entirely and instead dive right for the brake pedal: this instantly disengages cruise control. But this is not an intuitive response, you ha
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by cranekam 4y ago
It’s clearly not intended to compete with a smartphone. It’s 50 times the size and mains powered. It’s intended to be an always-on device with a wide camera and large screen that makes it easy for a few people to talk on video. Like video c
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by cranekam 4y ago
According to this Stack Exchange post from last year a full IPv4 routing table requires on the order of a few hundred MBs of RAM. This is indeed a tiny fraction of the cost of maintaining the global internet infrastructure. https:/&#x
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by cranekam 4y ago
Units aren't clear from a callsite, though. That's the point she is making: nobody can tell if `credit_account(123)` is crediting $1.23 or $123. In a strongly-typed world if `credit_account` took cents and the called passed dollar
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by cranekam 4y ago
Infernally. Not internally. Presumably the author doesn’t like the word.
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by cranekam 4y ago
The assumption is that Meta and its ilk are picky about who they employ and that should be a proxy for an employee's ability or value. Of course, the layoffs will presumably involve those who perform worst so it's not clear if the
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by cranekam 4y ago
The registrar could only read email if they also accept mail for the domain in question.
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by cranekam 4y ago
Apparently it is true: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma... It seems .eu domains are more or less only available to people who live in the EU/EEA, hold EU/EEA citizenship or busines
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by cranekam 4y ago
I doubt this is an unusual situation. I'm not falling on my sword to defend Facebook here, BTW. The company does a lot wrong. I just suspect it's not much worse than anyone else.
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by cranekam 4y ago
> Facebook infamously allows for redundancy in development (each team developing its own solutions instead of trying to solve the problems across multiple teams) Example or sources for this claim? I spent close to a decade working there
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by cranekam 4y ago
I consider myself quite technically minded and interested in the workings of machines. I had not considered what was inside a steam engine's boiler before, nor what one would look like after an explosion. The pictures are indeed bizarr
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by cranekam 4y ago
(very late reply, only just saw this) I'm not claiming to have never made a similar mistake. I have messed up in production a lot. But I would definitely recognise from this episode that the lack of good tooling led to risky, rushed, m
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by cranekam 4y ago
Most competitive Everesting attempts use a steep and typically short road. 3-5 miles of downhill on a 5-6% gradient is probably too time consuming (i.e. too much time spent not ascending). Ronan McLaughlin, the current mens' Everesting
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by cranekam 4y ago
And then, after you're done hand-rolling queries with Postman, immediately start planning actual, safe, tools to do this kind of thing when the need crops up.
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by cranekam 4y ago
My house (UK), built in 2006, has these plugs for lamps in various rooms. I'm not sure but I assume they're on the lighting circuit (5A) and the plugs don't have a built-in fuse.
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by cranekam 4y ago
One thing I haven’t seen suggested elsewhere, at least from a quick scan through, is that you need to get more help from your boss. Your coworkers need to improve and your manager needs to help you with that by holding your coworkers accoun
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by cranekam 4y ago
Does a password manager and browser extension not fix this? I use 1password on iOS and almost never have to copy and paste or (worse) type a password in. I just FaceID then pick the credentials I want to use to log in and the extension fill
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by cranekam 4y ago
I flew out of LHR a couple of weeks ago. The security lines were longer than I have ever seen (took ~45m to an hour total, but I forgot some sunblock in my bag and had to wait quite a while for them to search it) but it was hardly stressful
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by cranekam 4y ago
Isn’t choosing not to interact when you were able to still a form of interaction? I feel like once you’re exposed to the system and what it does depends on what you do (even if “doing” is nothing) you’re involved.
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by cranekam 4y ago
The “breakage” is happening. It’s just in the form of crappy solutions like CGNAT and DS-lite to work around the shortage rather than the internet just not working at all.
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by cranekam 4y ago
> Not everyone deeply cares about their carbon footprint when by far the largest amount of CO2 generated is industrial. Industry makes stuff that consumers demand, either directly or indirectly. It’s a bit of a meme to suggest that globa
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by cranekam 4y ago
This indeed. I have crossed the Pyrenees twice and the Alps from north to south by bike. We chose the fast and light options, riding road bikes and staying in hotels, but still the feeling of crossing a large map entirely under one's o

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