[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

...in Chicago ... pre-heating the car is a must 3 months of the year.

I don't believe you've lived anywhere cold for very long. Cold places existed long before remote start. The car warms up while you finish shoveling and brushing off the car. You're warm from shoveling, and the car is ready to go. If it's just cold and you're late to whatever, you sit your shivering ass down behind the wheel and drive away anyways...

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

I hate headlines like these. It feels like they're intentionally ambiguous.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago

Didn't they give out refunds? That seems like the right thing to do when a massively multiplayer game is dead on arrival.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

We are!

Organisers of the Army of Drones campaign say they have built or purchased an extra 3,300 drones. Some 400 people have even sent their own hobby drones in the mail.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65389215

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago

This seems like misinformation... The House is in recess until September.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago

Like, I know the "no ragerts" thing is funny and all ... but this is legit a great take. I wish more people took this approach. Take the small failures in stride.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

Both kinds of trees have blossoms. Granted, people do call ornamental cherry trees "cherry blossom trees" ... but, technically speaking, a "blossom" is literally the flower of any stonefruit tree.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 27 points 7 months ago

cherry trees and cherry blossoms are two different trees

Do you mean "ornamental" cherry trees and "fruiting" cherry trees? A "cherry blossom" (or "sakura") refers to the flower of a cherry tree, usually of the "ornamental" variety. The article seemed fine to me.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

This reads a lot like the Indiana Pi Bill. Granted, that one never passed, but it's a pretty old story: politicians think they know better than experts.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery.

Martin Fowler has a pretty good collection of these.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago

Momentum. And it's likely most people won't be about to tell, or regularly run comparisons to find out for themselves. Theres enough value added to Chrome that people kind of assume it's "the best" ... It took me years to convince my boss to switch, but the one thing that did it for him was just that the PDF viewer is better in Firefox.

People have weird preferences that don't always line up with what software developers expect.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

I switched to Duck Duck Go and Firefox and have never looked back.

Brave always seemed kinda scummy to me, like they're robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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