highwaylights

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by highwaylights 4mo ago
This matches my experience. I've had to put a fair chunk of effort in to skills that will run deterministic mechanisms to unslop a codebase (cyclomatic complexity grading has been really helpful here) as invariably some amount of guida
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by highwaylights 4mo ago
Am I allowed to say that pelican's little helmet is adorable? I can't provide a strong computational proof, or even a shred of anecdata... ...but that pelican's little helmet is adorable.
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by highwaylights 4mo ago
Coming up on 3 years here. I felt this. Can also confirm this is based advice.
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by highwaylights 7mo ago
You had me until Proton. I bang this drum every so often when it comes up but I’ve had terrible experiences with Proton locking me out of email permanently without warning or explanation in a way that made not just the email address but the
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by highwaylights 7mo ago
Again!?!!
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by highwaylights 9mo ago
YOU DESTROYED THE FABRIC OF SPACETIME.
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by highwaylights 10mo ago
I think the retail market is maybe dead but datacenters are still a fairly large customer I’d think. HDDs really shine at scale where they can be fronted by flash and DRAM cache layers.
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by highwaylights 10mo ago
I get this pain with Apple in a bunch of different areas. The things they do well, they do better than anyone, but part of the design language is to never admit defeat so very few of the interfaces will ever show you an error message of any
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
It’s clearly for commercial reasons. It still doesn’t change the fact that it would be clunky, like Windows and Android tablets are today. The surface is a poor tablet and Android is a poor desktop OS. The metaphors are oil and water. Sure,
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
Daddy chill. I was continuing the thread. If you have a look around on the interwebs there are longstanding criticisms of how overpowered the iPad is relative to what you're actually empowered to do with it, and by extension the quest
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
The budget offering is a used MacBook from the massive aftermarket stock, but I take your point - it doesn't scale and some people are averse to buying used goods.
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
Having just switched up to the M4 air you're not wrong. Unless you have the 8GB version and it's causing you memory pressure (which it may not be), or you really need that extra display output (I did), it's a wonder mach
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
Having just moved from my M1 Air to a M4 Air for the extra screen output and more ram, $330 for a M1 Air with a warranty is the deal of the century.
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
Fairly confident the CPU has never been the reason you can't install whatever you want on an iOS/iPadOS device. Also not the reason you can't install macOS on it either. If you want macOS, you buy a Mac. You want iPadOS, yo
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
I sort of agree. If you look at the UK through the MAGA lens you see that there’s a grain of truth in some of the comments about free speech. Likewise terminology in the US is sometimes a little turned on its head - in the US “liberalism” m
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
It’s not that the UK government believes censoring porn is a vote winner so much as they really want to use “think of the kids” as a cudgel to widespread surveillance. In other countries (not least the US) there’s an expectation of privacy
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
Why would that only apply to abandoned wallets? In a scenario where you have a powerful enough quantum computer and are able to break the encryption you can access any wallet (I.e. the system would be done, and the value would be zero).
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
I'm surprised this isn't a bigger concern given that: For over a year now we've been at the point whereby a video of anyone saying or doing anything can be generated by anyone and put on the Internet, and it's only becom
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
This. Surprisingly few ER docs anywhere in the world have even a rudimentary understanding of the risks of CT scanning patients. There's a lot of information around about this, but my own first hand (anecdotal) experience is that I&#x
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
It depends on the original range surely? Losing 30% of 120 miles is a lot more significant to most people than losing 30% of 300 miles (which >99% won’t within the life of the car).
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
In the UK the price of gas is currently around the equivalent of $7/gal at the cheapest due to how it’s taxed here and the absence of a subsidy. Electricity is around 18c/kwh overnight. I can’t understand how gas cars get sold her
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
Not really convinced the logic is right here. If the battery dies there’s still options before replacing it with a new one from the manufacturer at retail price. Even then, batteries in EVs don’t have a 100% failure rate. There are still
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
Being new to Datastar and having seen some of the hype recently, I'm really not sold on it. The patch statements on the server injecting HTML seems absolutely awful in terms of separation of concerns, and it would undoubtedly be an unw
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by highwaylights 11mo ago
CarPlay/Android Auto too!
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by highwaylights 1y ago
Very mixed feelings about this as there’s a strong case for the decisions made here but it also moves .NET further away from WASMGC, which makes using it in the client a complete non-starter for whole categories of web apps. It’s a missed o
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by highwaylights 1y ago
The author needn't regret not publishing this two years ago, it's a thought that had occurred to pretty much everyone long before then. It's just not clear that anything can be done to stop the snowball from gathering speed.
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by highwaylights 1y ago
What good deeds? Isn’t this the guy that gives out cars to one random person on YouTube while their friends get nothing then films the reactions for megabucks?
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by highwaylights 1y ago
If you haven’t tried openSUSE Aeon, I’ve been really impressed with it. BTRFS I find is a more elegant solution than OSTree for this use case, and it’s got a very minimal and polished happy path. Silverblue covers way more use cases (not le
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by highwaylights 1y ago
Same. I often need to use private windows (calm down, I need to sign in to multiple accounts for work on an app that doesn’t support them) and I immediately hate this experience. It was kind of bad before where safari would just open the ne
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by highwaylights 1y ago
Which is a bit sad. There were some choices that didn’t pan out in the last Intel era (butterfly, touchbar), but part of me loved those changes (the keyboard and the touchbar felt super premium, until you tried to work with them for any a

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