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cobalt··on Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain
the big issue is not in urban areas. + superchargers usually have 10+ stations, bigger ones in nowhere having 20+. Most of the non tesla chargers I've seen in the wild are 3 max
cobalt··on PFC bans are going to change waterproof garments
it's a little more complicated actually: http://www.no8rewired.kiwi/nz-inventions/eptfe-aka-goretex/
cobalt··on Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of PTFE
dwr != gore-tex wash. DWR is the cheaper/non-permanent waterproofing solution (likely containing PTFE) to add waterproofing to an otherwise non-waterproof jacket (or to make the outer layer waterproof)
cobalt··on Build the Modular Monolith First
what is the upside of separating them?
cobalt··on Oxford University Press’s new logo is unfathomably bad
they had a monochrome version of the logo... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/SGI-indi...
cobalt··on In defense of linked lists
also what a deque (C++) does
cobalt··on Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
old edge was trident (which came from IE) new edge is based on chromium
cobalt··on Automated testing in Bevy
it's more to avoid god classes and inheritance messes.
cobalt··on Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
I assume 1 is pulling only from github.com public projects. Many companies A: don't make their code public, B: probably use github enterprise/other hosted solutions (esp including not git based)

2: Also skews towards a certain demographic

cobalt··on I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)
depends on how its referenced I suppose
cobalt··on I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)
top tier companies are also at the top. What they do doesn't necessarily make sense for everyone else
cobalt··on I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)
I highly doubt anyone will learn every bit of information in the book. I highly doubt anyone will remember every bit of information in the book. Which parts of it will be necessary are very dependent on one's future.
cobalt··on Lucid recalls all of its 2022 Air EVs
blow tesla out of the water how? also telsas have the same (similar?) keyless/buttonless system as the VW (though it just parks, doesn't shut off the car)
cobalt··on Why is a registry file called a “hive”? (2003)
you can sort of do it in powershell you can browse it, e.g. ls HKLM:\
cobalt··on Settings are not a design failure
JetBrains products have searchable settings
cobalt··on Foobar2000
there was an entire website (picwin.tk) devoted to demos (demoscene) and games doing some really wild shit
cobalt··on Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
powershell (core) is on linux btw
cobalt··on The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company
the entire western seaboard from like sonoma down is that way (into central america)
cobalt··on The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077
was probably that they didn't have time after scrapping everything else and trying to hit deadlines
cobalt··on Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?
it's definitely gotten worse in the last couple years with the mainstreamification of MK b/c of things like gaming keyboards, massdrop, etc
cobalt··on Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
regardless of anything else, windows is older than posix... so posix should arguably be windows compliant :P
cobalt··on Science of Slow Cooking
pasteurization is a ratio of time and temperature (and other factors), so you can actually pasteurize things like chicken/eggs at lower temperatures, as long as you hold them at that temperature for long enough -- see https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-complete-guide-to-s... for some graphs
cobalt··on Self Destructing Plastics via Embedded Enzymes
dumb
cobalt··on Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)
supposedly most anodized alum pans are coated with a a nonstick coating (probably teflon/derivatives)
cobalt··on Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)
I've seen them at marshalls (US) before
cobalt··on Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer
i have partial aphantasia (I think) and I am quite good at recognizing faces, but I couldn't necessarily visualize one to describe it if not looking at the face
cobalt··on Lyft, Uber lash out at legal threat from strict Texas abortion law
what about the billions of people already on this planet who are not in such a lucky position?
cobalt··on Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI
here's windows's docs on it https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/ctrl-...
cobalt··on Overkill objects for everyday life
roofing torch works better and is cheaper :P
cobalt··on Overkill objects for everyday life
the one you'd want to get is the kitchenaid commercial, which is a reasonable size and NSF rated
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